Michael Steele on Kaepernick: Taking a Knee Is a ‘Reverent Posture’

RUSH EXCERPT:

STEELE: "I want to pick up on that last point about what this is and what it isn't. This is not a protest about the flag and never has been. Colin Kaepernick when he first raised the subject raised it around a particular issue. Colin Kaepernick never said, oh, I don't like the flag. What he said was I'm concerned about the violence that's occurring in the black community, the tension between police and the black community, and his only way to really bring that to the nation's attention was to do something symbolic. It was not anti-flag, it was about the symbol that he could create around this issue. And that symbol was one of a prayerful symbol. I mean of all things. If you want to be disrespectful to the flag, the last thing you do is take a knee, to take a genuflection an rev rent posture. We've seen militancy toward the flag in the past."
MATTHEWS: "How do you defend your Republican Party --"
STEELE: "I don't."