South Carolina: The Fox News of States

It’s no secret that President Obama and his administration have attempted to sideline Fox News, openly punishing the highly rated cable news channel for failing to promote the White House agenda.  Fox was conspicuously shut out of Obama’s five-network Sunday talk show blitz in September, and the White House has already determined that the president will not grant any interviews to Fox anchors during the remainder of 2009.

Alienating the millions of Americans who watch Fox is strategic buffoonery of the highest degree. But why focus on solid strategy when you can engage in some good ol’ fashioned spite?  And why settle for popular news networks when you can make your petty resentments known to an entire state, like say, South Carolina?

U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Friday that a conversation with White House staff left him with the sense that a hostile environment in South Carolina is keeping the first lady from visiting.

The high-ranking South Carolina Democrat said he has received more than 100 invitations for Michelle Obama. But this summer when he brought one of those requests to her staff on behalf of his alma mater, South Carolina State University, Clyburn said her security was an issue.

The conversation came after former Richland County GOP activist Rusty DePass suggested on Facebook in June that an escaped zoo gorilla was not harmful because it was probably one of Mrs. Obama’s ancestors. DePass’ comment was coupled with a remark in July from U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican. DeMint said that beating the president’s health care plan would be a ‘Waterloo’ moment for Obama.

Congressman Joe Wilson’s ‘You lie!’ outburst during Obama’s joint address on health care reform last month didn’t help either, Clyburn said.

‘A lot of it has to do with the fact that the climate in South Carolina just is not good, and that’s a shame,’ Clyburn said at a roundtable discussion at his Columbia office.

‘I do believe it is keeping her away from this state,’ he said.

Emphases mine.

Yes, a moronic South Carolina GOP grunt wrote something shameful about the first lady and a couple of politicians made bold statements about the president and his policies.  How do those comments indicate a statewide climate hostile enough to jeopardize Mrs. Obama’s security?

Simple answer: they don’t.

The White House isn’t keeping Michelle Obama out of South Carolina to protect her from assassins in white hoods.  South Carolina is being kept off her itinerary to send a message: embarrassing the president will not be tolerated.  (Are you listening Joe Wilson?) Dissent will be contorted into proof that racist backwater bumpkins in the south are undermining Obama’s presidency and endangering the very life of the first lady with their dangerous coded rhetoric.

Who cares about smearing the people of South Carolina?  After all, it’s just a red state.

Update: Michelle Malkin links.  Thanks, Michelle!

Update 2: My very first Instalanche. Thanks, Glenn!

Published by Jenn Q. Public on October 13, 2009 at 7:30 am

Filed Under Barack Obama, South Carolina

Comments

62 Responses to “South Carolina: The Fox News of States”

  1. krusher on October 15th, 2009 7:16 am

    To Jack H who said:
    (A few made “bold statements”? Yelling “You Lie!” is not bold, and it’s not a statement. It’s just embarrassing.)

    Might be enbarrassing to you but he spoke the truth. As they say, if Hussein Obama’s mouth is moving, then he’s not speaking the truth.

  2. bandit on October 15th, 2009 8:58 am

    Now the Obamas only have to go to 56 states. After all they can always take their ball and go home like the little crybabies they are.

  3. Bart on October 15th, 2009 2:11 pm

    Clyburn is an embarrassment, period. A black racist who has no use or need for whites since the district was gerrymandered in agreement with the political machine in SC so a black representative would always be elected from the district.

    One poster hit the nail on the head. The Obama’s will not come back to SC over safety concerns but to punish Joe Wilson and Jim DeMint. It is nothing but political payback but Clyburn is too wrapped up in his racism to acknowledge anything else. He alluded to Wilson as racist, everything he makes a public comment on is related to race. He is truly a “one trick pony”.

  4. Wakefield Tolbert on October 16th, 2009 7:48 pm

    If only we in South Carolina could return the favor. Too bad we can’t just ban Michelle Ma Belle from the Palmetto State entirely, much in the same way the practitioners of another kind of PC balance their terror ledgers by banning Dr. Michael Savage.

    Yes, I know, we can’t do that.

    It’s not that we should not be vindictive. The Obama administration certainly is, and I feel the people of this fine state should be able to return the pleasure.

    Of course the Prez’s wife has the legal right to go anywhere she pleases, for being an American citizen if nothing else.

    But still, the notion is rapturously enticing, especially in light of the fact that Wilson turned out to be technically correct after all.

    And we all know it.

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