Steele rewrites the classics

RNC Chairman Michael Steele needs to brush up on the literary classics.

Toward the close of a five-way debate held Monday at the National Press Club between candidates vying to head the committee for the next two years, moderators Tucker Carlson and Grover Norquist asked the candidates to name their favorite book. Steele named “War and Peace” and then recited what he thought were the opening lines: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” But those lines begin the Charles Dickens classic, “A Tale of Two Cities.” Several people in the room called out to correct him.