Back in January when former RNC chairman Chip Saltsman released a CD including a parody song “Barack The Magic Negro,” Steele came forward and said that, yo, it “doesn’t help at all … it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party.”

Today he changed his tune. A transcript via Huffington Post of Steele on today’s Bill Bennett radio show:

CALLER: It’s just like the LA Times said last year, or two years ago — he is the magic Negro.

STEELE: Yeah he is — [laughter]. You read that too, huh?

CALLER: Oh yeah. I read that too. And even when things go wrong, he still manages to come out smelling like a rose.

STEELE: Well, yeah. And it’s because he’s getting unprecedented coverage — cover — by the media.

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