Everyone in the media and blogosphere following the piece of red meat that Michael Steele grabbed and flung ahead of the pack of wolves that was pursuing him has fallen for the trick that Steele used to distract attention from his own problems.
Give it up already and return to the hunt. Steele may be clumsy, prone to overstatement and to tripping over his own statements, and flippant in the extreme, but he has outmastered all of you who thought you were paying attention by cleverly deflecting the conversation within a single news cycle from his own problems to a two-year-old comment by Reid.
This was politics at its worst. Don't let him get away with it! One moment he is calling on critics within his own party to fire him, and they are about to do it, and the next he has flicked the bait somewhere else. Call Michael Steele on this tactic, and return the attention to his serious misadventures within his own highly fractured party.