More Details On USC’s Warthen Hire
Former La Socialista (a.k.a. The State) editorial page editor Brad Warthen’s three-month contract with the University of South Carolina will pay him more than $6,000 a month, FITS has learned.
And in what we consider to be a funny twist, it’s absolutely impossible for him to write any more favorably about the school than he did back when he was a “journalist.”
“He has been asked to help with communications and special projects and has assisted in some writing for initiatives under way in some of the colleges,” USC spokeswoman Margaret Lamb said of Warthen’s deal with the school.
Lamb also confirmed Warthen’s compensation for his three-month stint would be $18,750 – or $6,250 per month.
FITS first broke the news of Warthen’s hiring yesterday – a story that actually began in the comment section of one of our blog posts.
Since publishing our report, we’ve received unconfirmed reports that Warthen is actually working directly under USC President Harris Pastides – and that the decision to award him the short-term contract was made by Pastides himself.
Of course we couldn’t confirm those reports, hence the “unconfirmed” tag.
Clever, aren’t we?
We’re gonna go out on a limb and guess that like any “temporary” new government program, USC is going to find a permanent home for this rabid left-winger.
The “temporary” and “short-term” labels being bandied about are words meant to soften the blow, which reminds us – we heard news of Warthen’s hire was greeted by lawmakers like a fart in the State House.
Or two pooping piglets.
We’re also gonna go out on a limb and guess that Warthen’s eventual salary – while exorbitant – will be much less than the $300,000-plus that President Pastides is getting ready to shell out for two new VP’s.
Each.
Whoops … that’s tomorrow’s story.
We’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Comments
By GGIH on April 21st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Fits. You’re the “journalist.” Brad is a journalist.
By fitsnews on April 21st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
GGIH,
Not anymore he’s not.
:)
-FITS
P.S. – We’ve never claimed that mantle. We’ve always been much more comfortable with “b*tch slappers,” you know.
By BIN News Editorial Staff on April 21st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
sic(k) willie, our Editorial Staff is becoming increasingly concerned by your strange love-hate relationship with all things related to The State and Mr. Warthen. It’s not healthy. You really need more counseling.
By Bill Floyd on April 21st, 2009 at 9:28 pm
You confuse sanity with Liberalism. He was generally balanced but I am fearful for the future of our country when there are people that label a right of center person like Warthern as a liberal.
By Mike on April 21st, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Man, y’all beat me to it. Doesn’t anyone notice the whole “Unfair- Imbalanced” tag so prominently displayed across the top of very page on your site? How can they continually get their jollies attacking your “journalistic integrity” (which is practically an oxymoron these days anyway) when you’ve never claimed to be a journalist?
By Bob on April 21st, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Slice it any way u want, the State newspaper sucks. He was a big part of it…therefore, he sucks.
By Nyet on April 21st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Bin, what about your squalid love-hate tryst with Sic Willie?
You emote about it right regularly.
By Cooter Brown on April 21st, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Dat makes a whole heap of sense– get the feller who’s a’ expendable an’ unemployed jurnalist an’ pay him to teach th’ young’uns how t’be expendable an’ unemployed too! Sho’ pays t’ be a scalawag in Columbia! REEEEE-DICK-U-LUS!!!
By James the Foot Soldier on April 21st, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Brad is prepping communications on the upcoming tuition and fee increases at USC – you know the drill: “to stave off cutting programs critical to the USC mission…blah blah blah….armagedon is here…blah blah blah….we feel your pain….blah blah blah…..”
On the more itonic side – oh this is grand – Brad will actually have an income stream whereas La Socialista will not – only fukin inbred morons would now spend 75 cents to buy that worthless paper.
By Dave T. on April 21st, 2009 at 11:42 pm
What’s the story here? FITS you been writing about Warthen like you have penis envy. So, let’s say the guy makes the 300K you “…go out on a limb and guess…” he’ll make? What’s the rub? If he can get it, isn’t that the way the free market works? Or is FITS the new La Socialista? “Unfair. Imbalanced,” is a convenient cover for “We can say whatever we want to say,” because like the used car commercials, so long as we disclose the fine print, we’re covered.
By hammerheadSC on April 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
James, I loved my a** off the other morning at a gas station, I was checking out and a guy walked up behind me, put down 50 cents for a paper and started to walk off until the clerk told him it was 75 cents. he stated ” screw that, the state is not worth that much”, took his 50 cents back and left.
By Workin' Tommy C on April 22nd, 2009 at 8:56 am
The politically inbred public college system is hardly a “free market.”
You’ve named the paper wrong: it’s “DER STAAT!” Brad Warthen is the “brave liberal” who, for years, has stuck up for Lindsey Graham and the omnipotent corporate fascism that has driven a stake into the economy. Instead of speaking “truth to power” Warthen has spoken “pragmatism to fascism.” Essentially, Brad thinks that if the government and their corporate whoremongers want it, it must be okey-dokey.
Warthen’s about as socialist as the “National Socialists” of 1930s Germany, that is to say, he is indeed socialist as the progressives and such were in early 20th century America.
These socialists are the vampires that can’t give up capitalist blood so they’ll keep the half dead corporations chained near their coffins and bleed them dry to fund their pet projects and their campaigns to keep themselves in power. The zombie corporations don’t mind since the elites at the top of the financial food chain are themselves rewarded with money and power (including the political type of power).
Unfortunately, both the vampires and zombies are going to feed off the taxpayers’ sweat in the end. Our sweat in the form of money and property is going to be confiscated through inflation and taxes to feed these beasts who love us about as much and for the same reasons as a farmer loves his mules–for as long as they stay in harness and keep working.
You’re right, Sic Willie: the South Carolina Elitists’ Employment Service finding a job for Warthen is clearly a payoff. I’m glad that, while at USC, Warthen won’t have a newspaper to propagandize with. Thankfully, we won’t have to hear that giant sucking sound in the air over Columbia every time Lindsey Graham or some other moderate fascist gets in trouble with the electorate and Warthen writes an editorial defending the buffoon.