What “On Like Donkey Kong” Means

Let’s face it, our relationship with S.C. Chief Justice Jean Toal has gone steadily downhill from the good ol’ days when we used to knock back highballs and share high fives with her and her infamous “Butch Brigade” at Snow Caps bar.

Ah, those were the days.

So what happened?

Well, maybe it has something to do with the fact that over the last two years, we’ve exposed the Supreme Court for being the “cheap robes” that they are, and brought their “Nil Ultra” bench one mainstream media headache after another.

First we blew up Beattygate.

Then we nailed the bar exam scandal.

Then we pulled the curtain back on the Court’s corrupt, Inquisition-style attorney discipline methods … as well as Queen Jean’s pay raise scheme and the Court’s ongoing efforts to manipulate its review by the American Bar Association.

Hell, we even helped shoot down Toal’s hand-picked Associate Justice last year.

All of these stories earned the Court forests worth of unfavorable newspaper coverage, and made life incredibly difficult for Toal and her cronies.

Of course, the Sno Caps bartenders didn’t mind it a bit …

Anyway, up until this week Toal’s forces have taken their licks pretty well (no pun intended), and refrained from engaging in any petty, pointless attempts to retaliate or censor us for simply telling the truth.

Ironically, now that they have finally chosen to fight back, it isn’t over anything we said – but rather something the Chief Justice herself said.

Another irony? When the S.C. Bar did Queen Jean’s bidding yesterday and removed a clip of her blasting S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster from the internet, they attempted to destroy the evidence of one of the few times Toal got something right.

Basically, she called McMaster out for being an incompetent grandstander, which let’s face it … is pretty much dead-on.

So why – other than not wanting to pick a high profile fight in public – did Toal’s minions act so quickly to squelch the contents of this tape?

Well, as one of our sources has repeatedly suggested, Toal may have broken her own rules regarding attorney discipline and judges conducting independent investigations with her public comments on the tape.

We weren’t initally sold on that claim, but the fact that it was so quickly yanked off of our YouTube page certainly adds some merit to that complaint.

But did Toal’s syocphants at the S.C. Bar have a legal basis for their censorship of this video?

We’re about to find out.

It’s too early to discuss all the details of our impending motion, but let’s just say our first conference with our attorneys on this matter went swimmingly.

Oh, and we hope that the S.C. Bar’s counsel, Toal’s attorney (editor’s note: rrrrawww, tiger) and the lawyers at YouTube fare better against us than the clowns at FOX did. Or that judge who tried to keep us from publishing former Senator Randy Scott’s jailhouse tapes. Or for that matter, anybody who’s ever so much as pondered going up against us in a court of law.

Our attorneys not only have a reptuation for winning, but for keeping our pockets lined with the riches of folks who try and pull precisely this sort of crap.

What can we say? Freedom of the press is a b*tch … and if somebody’s trying to take it away from us, well, we hope they’ve got their chinstraps buckled.

Like our founding editor Sic Willie said yesterday, it’s “on like Donkey Kong,” people.

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