What Is Pippi Talking About?
We’ve always felt that South Carolina football coverage is the only reason anybody in this state buys or reads La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) anymore.
And not surprisingly, a quick check of the commie bastards’ website today confirms that each one of their top five “most-viewed” stories are all somehow related to last night’s crappy Gamecock gridiron performance against Wofford.
Aside from the fact that we also cover Gamecock football (here and here, for example, but especially here) what this means is that absolutely nobody – and we mean nobody – is reading the latest editorial musings of La Socialista “opinion-maker” Pippi Wrongstockings (a.k.a. Cindi Ross Scoppe).
Nestled up in her corporate media whoredom … err, headquarters along with Unabomber look-alike Brad Warthen (who nobody reads, either), Pippi has become completely marginalized by her increasingly irrelevant, uninteresting pen.
Sure, a handful of liberal educrats and rabid tax-and-spenders still cling to every incomprehensible phrase she writes, but you can literally count the number of people who read the drivel she passes off as “opinion” on your own two hands – and all of them are political insiders who are just as hopelessly lost to the incestuous government echo chamber as she is.
This morning, for example, Wrongstockings waxed incoherent for 936 words about something a topic we can sum up using less than 1/100th of the verbage:
“The governor and lawmakers are bickering about the budget … again.”
See how easy that was?
Seriously, that’s 927 words the paper could now devote to elaborating on how South Carolina’s football team sucks donkey balls this year.
Yet for Pippi, the ongoing dispute between Sanford and legislative leaders has to be more complicated than nine words … it just has to.
After all, the two branches of government have been firing letters back and forth at each other all week, and by God somebody’s got to publish quotes from those letters, you know?
Which Pippi does … liberally, of course … which is probably why Gov. Mark Sanford and Senate President Glenn McConnell were no doubt among the seven people who bothered to wade into her latest indecipherable installment of insider-ese this morning.
Some people must have nothing better to do on a Sunday morning, we guess.
Fortunately for you, we downed a couple of Vault energy drinks, snorted a few lines of Ritalin and managed to trudge through Pippi’s article on your behalf this afternoon.
Basically the whole thing was a lengthy attempt to ascertain who was right (and who was wrong) in interpreting the General Assembly’s June sine die resolution as it pertains to the precise percentage of revenue shortfall needed to authorize a reconvening of the legislature for the specific purpose of approving targeted budget cuts as opposed to the across-the-board cuts implemented earlier this summer by the Budget and Control Board.
Whew … and Pippi wonders why nobody reads her stuff anymore? Seriously, just recapping the premise of this ridiculous article is enough to make us drop to our knees and beg for a lobotomy.
Nothing happened, people. Nor is anything going to happen.
Like we said, “the governor and lawmakers are bickering about the budget.”
Oh, “again.”
Comments
By Frank on September 21st, 2008 at 6:51 pm
She is the original broken record. With a bit of OCD thrown in for good measure.
By BIN News on September 21st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Keep it up Cindi! If you can make sic(k) willie write this much vile, then you are clearly doing the right think. Keep it up, girl! You rock!
BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balanced – Always
P.S. The above post contains no typos. It does contain a small play that may confuse sic(k) willie and his minions who can’t think right, left or center.
By Married Man on September 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
The only edition of The SNAKE that I ever purchase is the Sunday paper, and that is only because my wife INSISTS on it for the sales papers. We always throw out the rest of it, since The SNAKE is worthless to anyone who does not possess a birdcage in need of lining.
Personally I hate most sports. I watch the news (and listen to radio) for the politics alone and I always mute it or change the channel when sports comes on.
The SNAKE has been a thoroughly dishonest leftist propaganda rag for many years now, and everyone knows it. For confirmation of this, all one need do is check out the overwhelming number of yankee license plates in The SNAKE parking lot.
By HP on September 22nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Where’s our Tuneage for Today is all I want to know!
By well on September 22nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Married Man — yikes. You should think about changing your handle to Angry Man.
By BIN News on September 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 am
married man’s comment “thoroughly dishonest leftist propaganda” shows him to either be a totally brainless “wacko” or more likely a sic(k) willie clone fluffing up fits’ hit count. sic(k) willie will inflate his hit count! :)
By StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM) on September 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
So sorry BIN News.
The State/SNAKE/La Socialista has been useless as a newspaper ever since Knight Ridder bought and re-programed The State in 1986. For those with shallow math skills at BIN, that would be twenty-two (22) years ago. The State DID briefly rise to the occasion with its reporting on Hurricane Hugo in 1989 (garnering a finalist distinction for the Pulitzer Prize in general news reporting as apart of said coverage).
Otherwise, the City of Columbia has not had a decent newspaper since the days of The Columbia Record – and that’s a fact.
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