Archive for July, 2007


Is Anybody Left On McCain’s Campaign?

JANITOR, BUS DRIVER TO SUBMIT LETTERS OF RESIGNATION NEXT? FITSNews - July 11, 2007 - Every time we opened our mailbox yesterday it seemed there was a fresh announcement about people resigning from Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. Campaign manager? Gone. Chief Strategist? Gone. Finance Director?

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Louisiana Senator Fortunate To Still Have Penis

VITTER'S WIFE YET TO MAKE GOOD ON BOBBITT THREAT FITSNews - July 10, 2007 - The luckiest man in Washington D.C. right now is Louisiana Senator David Vitter. Sure, he got busted for being on the client list of the notorious D.C. Madam, but as of now his wife Wendy hasn't made good on her threat to chop

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Business Unfriendly

COOPER, LEATHERMAN GET LOW MARKS ON PRO-BUSINESS LEGISLATIVE SCORECARD FITSNews - July 10, 2007 - The two Republicans most responsible for setting South Carolina's fiscal policy earned abysmal rankings from a prominent pro-business group for their performance in the recently-concluded legislative session.

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Gubernatorial Ga Ga – The Republicans

HARRELL IN, WILKINS OUT AS FIELD FOR 2010 RACE BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE FITSNews - July 9, 2007 - Replacing S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford won't be an easy task. Except when you stop and think about it, no ... it will actually be an incredibly easy task. Frankly, all you've got to do is bend over and tie your shoelaces

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Julian Bond Is Making Progress

NAACP BURIES THE "N" WORD IN DETROIT FITSNews - July 9, 2007 - You know, we're looking forward to the day when the NAACP holds a press conference to support a broad-based income tax cut that would create thousands of African-American jobs, or a universal school choice plan that would rescue thousands

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Targeting Pelosi

DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER NOT LIBERAL ENOUGH FOR SOME FITSNews - July 9, 2007 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will find herself on the receiving end of an electoral challenge from anti-war mom Cindy Sheehan if she doesn't move to impeach President George Bush within the next two weeks, reports say. Apparently

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Denzel Vu

DENZEL WASHINGTON'S NEWEST CRIME THRILLER SUBJECT OF OUR FIRST FITS' FLIC RATING FITSNews - July 9, 2007 - Sure, the concept of Denzel Washington playing an emotionally-conflicted investigator attempting to exorcize his demons by solving an inexplicably confounding mystery isn't exactly an original

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Former Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Resigns Senate Seat

AFTER THREE DECADES IN STATE SENATE, TOMMY MOORE RESIGNS TO PURSUE OUT-OF-STATE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FITSNews - July 8, 2007 - Longtime S.C. State Senator and 2006 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tommy Moore has resigned his seat in the State Senate effective immediately to pursue an out-of-state business

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Some Kind Of Wonderful

IT'S NOT EASY BEING ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD FITSNews - July 7, 2007 - It's one thing to vote on a President, the Major League All-Star team or the next American Idol, but we thought once you made the "Seven Wonders of the World" list it was pretty much set in stone until either Armageddon

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T-Rav’s Not Guilty Plea

HIGH-PROFILE DRAMA ONLY GOING TO EXPAND IN INTENSITY FITSNews - July 7, 2007 - A few weeks ago, a friend of ours from Missouri called wondering why there was nothing on our website about the ongoing saga of State Treasurer Thomas Ravenel. Well, we reported on Ravenel's indictment as soon as it happened

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Limping Into The All-Star Break

FARTKNOCKERS' SLIDE NOW JEOPARDIZING PLAYOFF ASPIRATIONS FITSNews - July 7, 2007 - A month and a half ago, the FITS' Fartknockers were sitting on a 16-point lead atop the Great Santini League standings, literally devouring opposing pitching and shutting down rival hitters with a ridiculously-low 2.14

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“A (Expletive-Deleted) Steamroller”

AND WE THOUGHT S.C. POLITICS WAS BLOODSPORT FITSNews - July 6, 2007 - Let's face it, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer looks like a mobster. And the fact that he's apparently telling his opponents he's a "f*cking steamroller" and allegedly threatening to knock them out "so that (they) will never get up" doesn't

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