A week after visiting Charleston, S.C. and waxing eloquent about the importance of more women running for elected office, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley dissed the female reporter who exposed her recent “European Vacation” as a “little girl.”
Haley made the remark about reporter Renee Dudley in an interview on Thursday with nationally-syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham (the same interview in which she also made news for “flip-flopping” on her opinion of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman).
On Sunday, Dudley published an exhaustive report that questioned the lavish expenditures of Haley and her entourage during an “economic development” trip to Paris in June.
“God bless that little girl at the Post and Courier,” Haley said of Dudley. “I mean, her job is to try and create conflict, my job is to create jobs and in the end I’m going to have jobs to show for it.”
Yeah … better get on that.
Haley released the interview on her official YouTube page (the remark about Dudley can be found around the 11:00 minute mark):
FITS reached Dudley via telephone on Thursday afternoon. She declined to respond to Haley’s comments, referring all questions to her editors.
Post and Courier metro desk editor Andy Lyons told FITS that Dudley is a “seasoned, experienced” reporter – but declined to offer his thoughts on Haley’s remark. He did, however, say that an article in the Post and Courier’s metro section on Friday written by columnist Melanie Balog would “address what the governor said.”
“We will have something definitive to say,” Lyons told FITS.
Renee Dudley
Prior to working for the Post and Courier, Dudley – who is 25, by the way – was a reporter for The Boston Herald. In 2010, she won the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Republicans and Democrats alike expressed shock at Haley’s comment – with one former female GOP lawmaker calling Haley’s remarks “a disservice to professional journalists no matter their age, race or sex.”
“She can’t, can’t, can’t stop blaming other people,” the lawmaker said. “She really just can’t stop. It’s sad. It’s almost phobic.”
Meanwhile, Democrats ripped Haley for attacking a youthful reporter – particularly in light of the exorbitant taxpayer-funded salaries she’s been doling out to inexperienced former campaign staffers.
“I think it is shameful that the Governor is referring to a professional reporter at the Post and Courier as a ‘little girl,”” S.C. Democratic Party spokeswoman Amanda Loveday said. “Renee happens to be older than one of the staffers in the Governor’s office that traveled to Paris with her. So, if she is going to start berating hardworking taxpayers in South Carolina, maybe the Governor should look in the mirror and around her office. Renee was doing her job; nothing more, nothing less.”
Our founding editor? He was even more blunt.
“Gotta love it when a female governor who sucked d*ck to get to the top makes a sexist comment about a female reporter,” Will Folks (a.k.a. Sic Willie) said on our Twitter page.
Folks – who engaged in an extramarital affair with Haley back in 2007 – later referred to Haley as a “(smeared) lipstick feminist.”
The “little girl” comment about Dudley isn’t the first time Haley has bashed the press. Back in February, she slammed a local FOX affiliate for reporting on a story involving Sic Willie.
“WACH FOX 57 is a tabloid news station and has no concept of journalism,” Haley wrote on her Facebook page.
The station responded by calling Haley’s claim “patently false” and “a willful attempt” to harm the station in response to its “fair coverage of a relevant news story the governor apparently wants ignored.”
More recently, Haley attacked the press after she was busted using inflated employment data in numerous interviews.
“To my friends in the press: try to be positive. Just once. You might like it and the people of our state will appreciate it,” Haley wrote on her Facebook page.
Last week, Haley blackballed a reporter following up on a sex scandal involving her former head of security and her appointment to lead the state’s Department of Public Safety.
Needless to say, we’ll be bringing you the Post and Courier‘s response just as soon as it is published.
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By Cid September 8, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Typical Republican reaction
When caught screwing up
Lash out at the one exposing you
The only thing more pathetic than the fraud that is Haley
Are the IDIOTS who voted for her
By bogart September 8, 2011 at 4:42 pm
It’s her fault Mommie,I didn’t do anything…..Put your big girl panties on Gov Haley and do your job.
By cash September 8, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Nikki, try to be classy. Just once. You might like it and the people of our state will appreciate it. Try to be honest. Just once. You might like it and the people of our state will appreciate it.
By rick September 8, 2011 at 4:48 pm
If you voted for Haley, please have the courage to admit so. The over and under on hands raised – 11.
By Andrew September 8, 2011 at 4:49 pm
So much for embracing transparency … just one more slogan that folks fell for.
By Cid September 8, 2011 at 4:49 pm
I’m waiting for T to show up
With his signature opening
“Not that I’m for Haley…”
Then proceed to defend her latest silliness
By jimlewis,owb September 8, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Little Renee Riding Hood skipped into Grandma’s Bedroom overlooking Charleston’s Vacant Harbor.
Grandma
What big eyes you have! Why do you have such big eyes?
What a bushy body you have. Why are you so hairy?
What big feet and hands you have! Why do you have big hands and feet?
What big teeth, such a big mouth you have!
Why, you are not my Sweet Grandma. You are that Bitchy SheWolf from Columbia.
By Media Whiz September 8, 2011 at 4:52 pm
What? Nikki stocked her administration with children, and she called Dudley a little girl? And this after Godrey blacklisted Jody Barr for the Lancaster sex scandal piece? Well, Huffpost linked to that story and received over 800 comments roasting Nikki. Especially the Tea Party folks. So….. guess where the Huffpost is going to continue to look for SC news, Tea Party news, Nookie Nikki news…. they will look at the Post & Courier to see what Dudley has offerred. I tell you, Renee Dudley and Jody Barr have exploded onto the SC media scene. For too long, Sic Willie had to beg people to look at the dark underbelly of this political nightmare, glad to see he finally has some help.
By Rijiv September 8, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Oh, my, that OWB, oh…very disrespectful, very disrespectful indeed to say that about Coconut Nikki, our Curry Queen of Mubai.
By Stupid Cunt September 8, 2011 at 4:57 pm
I wonder if Nikki knows that piece caught fire on Huffpost?
By Jack September 8, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Kudos to Dudley and Barr for being professionals and doing their jobs.
By Scott September 8, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Bogart – Right, exactly. It was an exceptional article, chock full of detail, concise, direct….. and spot on. For Nikki to criticize the reporter, really lame move. And to do it on TV. Well, Nikki has been having a love fest with Wenger all this time, but it was Dudley who brought the paper to national attention.
By Sawyer September 8, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Good job, Haley. Nixon tried the same crap and look where that got him.
By Charlie September 8, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Hey, when it comes to Haley, I’m going straight to Dudley or Barr.
By lol...Haley's done September 8, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Good one OWB! I love bedtime stories, especially when they have a bedtime whore in them…and I’m not referring to the “little girl” of course.
There is no way on God’s green earth Haly is getting re-elected…she might as well ride out the rest of her term living high on the hog because even our low IQ electorate isn’t gonna put her big ass back in office again.
If I was her I’d take limos everywhere, make Bobby Hitt suck my pussy-and then fire him, fire off a few more European vacations, then quit before my next indictment or election and tell everyone to kiss my ass.
I’m sure she’ll become another highly paid “consultant” for some rent seeking corporation like Wilbur Smith Associates again regardless.
It’s good to be Queen.
By scmajor September 8, 2011 at 5:13 pm
The fact that she only goes on Faux News and only gives interviews to fellow ignorant wingnut fucktards shows what she is up to.
She’s just to fucking ignorant to pull it off. For some reason “god blessin” someone coming out of her little foreign mouth doesn’t carry the weight of a true southern belle.
Laura Ingram, give me a fuckin break. Mark my words, her teatarditude will be her undoing. The tea party people hate brown perople like her she is just to fucking stupid to get it, bless her heart. Pfft….
By Andy September 8, 2011 at 5:15 pm
I was in the 48.7% Those of us in that group did not need a crystal ball to know this woman was unsuited to be Governor.
Jesus Christ, this is a stupid fucking state.
By Frankly My Dear September 8, 2011 at 5:25 pm
How ironic that someone who was hailed as an example for women in politics and who blamed everything on good old boys now uses the same condescending references and behavior she claimed those good old boys and bureaucrats used against her.
Rather than address the issue, she deflects and blames. Classic narcissism.
Only 1153 days left in her term, bless her heart.
By Perry Mason September 8, 2011 at 5:32 pm
No, don’t think she is gonna last that long. Too many uncontrolled fires on her flanks. It might be Lancaster’s sex scandal that does her in.
By Wacko September 8, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Wild trooper sex instead of her own wild politico sex. Lovely.
By Popeye September 8, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Finally, I can read Dudley and Barr, instead of just Folks.
By Tunes'n'news September 8, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Arrogance. Pure arrogance.
By Tea Party Donors September 8, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Nikki, what the fuck is wrong with you?
By SCDOT Contractors September 8, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Sorry Ms Haley. Boss says the check bounced, we can’t refill your mansion pool with chilled, bottled Pierre until some real money comes. They want cash. Something about pissing away our money in France?
By Bollywood September 8, 2011 at 6:03 pm
Well, Dudley is in good company. Haley has blacklisted all the good ones, while surrounding herself with Godfrey.
By Bollywood September 8, 2011 at 6:04 pm
No, really… Godfrey is so fat, he wraps around Nikki’s fat ass twice.
By AB September 8, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Renee is so hot, ohhh, she is hot. Hey Renee, shoot me an email!
By Tea Party Donors September 8, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Nikki, we said fiscal responsibility and media savy. That means save money and love reporters, not piss away bundles on foreign countries and scare away our press. How can you be worse than Christine? Hell, she’s a witch.
By Media Whiz September 8, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Damn Godfrey, does that bitch ever listen to you?
By Media Whiz September 8, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Now, not only is Dudley going to work extra hard on Haley stuff, but Dudley’s editor is pressed for a response, and Melanie has to produce something for tomorrow which will be drawing an extra audience. Wenger’s been Nikki’s lap dog for months. Think that’s gonna change?
By Raymond September 8, 2011 at 6:14 pm
AP – You know, Renee is prettier, smarter, and has a better caboose. It’s that catty hormone stuff on Nikki’s part…. bitch.
By Mrs. Ethel Krabitz September 8, 2011 at 6:19 pm
I’m sure Nimrod-a is referring to Ariana Huffington as a “little girl” too. HAHAHA what a character and class deprived mound of dog turds the Gov. of SC is!! She is laughable!! Well, God bless YOU, Nikki, I had a rough day at work and one more article reaming you a new asshole made my day!
By Tunes'n'news September 8, 2011 at 6:37 pm
She an Obama have a similar outlook. Neither can believe that the world hs not fallen at their feet, and both think very little of most others. Stronge, instictive, reflexive attacks.
By Michael Dube September 8, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Renee is a very nice professional woman.
Rockfish
By BD01 September 8, 2011 at 6:54 pm
If all journalists had people celebrating their victories like this and poking it to the eye of the tyrant, maybe they would remember that together, we still outnumber the tyrants.
And maybe we would think twice about attacking the messenger, and maybe even the messenger’s employer (nah).
By Tango September 8, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Hate to tell money obsessive Nikki, but Dudley is an upgrade over Wally Godfrey.
By thunderchicken September 8, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Rule #1 don’t piss off the media, especially newspapers who buy ink by the trainload. She’s gonna turn that “little girl” into a linebacker. Game ON!
By Pearson September 8, 2011 at 6:59 pm
BD01 – Right, huh? Bet you never read – Tea Party darling Nikki – on Post & Courier or Wistv anymore. If they really get pissed, and go over to the Dark Lord Sic . . . wicked.
By Sick of Pandering September 8, 2011 at 6:59 pm
This is the way Haley handles everything. She is the least responsbile adult that I have ever seen much less the governor. She “won’t talk about that anymore” if she can’t answer the question and she uses the “I am here to create jobs” when someone has her dead to rights. All she is doing is creating is a mess in SC. She is taking a free ride on the state and doing every thing she can to destroy it. No transparenacy for her. Just cover it up and enjoy all the lavish living. And by the way, in three more years, she will leave SC in the ditch. How’s that working for all of the people who voted for this joke?
By eggaday September 8, 2011 at 7:00 pm
she learned from the best right?
she’s Sanfraud in a skirt
By Yesterday September 8, 2011 at 7:03 pm
Ethel – I mean, I think that is the first time I have ever seen Huffpost link to a SC paper, and they received over 800 comments blasting Haley out of the water. That doesn’t even count the super user groups within it. Not one comment criticized the author, article or paper, just all Haley based.
By Guard September 8, 2011 at 7:07 pm
If Nikki asked Wenger to suck her toes, Wenger would ask how many. I bet that relationship just took a header. I really hated Wenger’s bias towards Nikki, but we shall see what comes out now.
By Apple September 8, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I bet Nikki has no idea who Arianna is? Wouldn’t it be a gas if Nikki spewed some demeaning dribble against her. Arianna would wipe down the table tops with Nikki’s ass.
By Victor September 8, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Hey Godfrey, been a good couple weeks for Post & Courier and Wistv, eh?
By jimlewis,owb September 8, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Got bored with TV News, also too damn lazy to go down to the Shed to get another case of Ying Ling, so took a look at Laura’s site.
If there was ever a woman who could bone cold chill a Ying Ling by slapping it to her chest, she is one.
Did find one interesting item on her site, the “Separated at Birth?” clips. Tried with no success to send her a couple.
One would be a picture of Laura on the left and on the right would be a picture of a Pile of Buffalo Shit.
The second would have a picture of Gypsy Queen Nikki in her royal blue skirt on the left and on the right would be a picture of Linda Lovelace polishing the knob of Harry “Willie” Reems.
Damn, I do love waking up in Carolina in the morning!
By Charlie September 8, 2011 at 7:49 pm
What was Nikki talking about? …..”there’s the Republican party, and the Tea party”….and other parties> What? What a self serving twit. She’s oblivious to the controversy. She talked about bring home a couple trinkets for the kids, but hell…that was her money. The FIVE STAR restuarants, hotels, clubs were all paid by the state. And there were over TWO DOZEN tag alongs. She is an idiot.
By Wacko September 8, 2011 at 7:50 pm
I wonder if Nikki knows who Linda Lovelace is?
By Jamerson September 8, 2011 at 8:00 pm
God bless that dimwitted Governor. What a pathological liar. She said her husband went to business meetings all day long…. different from hers. WTF is he, a technician? Bat shit crazy, fully certified.
By Sam September 8, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Wow. She is totally out of hand. Meow.
By lecherous old man September 8, 2011 at 8:25 pm
What a dumbass I was. Voted for the bitch, I did. But I keep asking myself, would shehe be better? Probably not. It would only be a different set of problems. We are, indeed, dumbasses and fucked.
By Billy Bob September 8, 2011 at 8:35 pm
You just can’t make this shit up!! LMAO!! Haley is certifiable!!
By Raymond September 8, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Thing is she was a very mediocre representative, didn’t do shit. Got fired from Wilbur Mills, got fired from LMC, was running fourth in the primary till Sarah Palin gave her that tea party hug. So, instead of really trying hard her first year… she invites half of Columbia to France for five star digs, and alienates the media. Sic is so right, she’s a loser.
By Old Bike Dude September 8, 2011 at 8:59 pm
Nim, you ignorant slut. In the end Renee will still have a job and you will be giving blow jobs in the green room at Fox. Don’t blame me, I voted American.
By Simpsonville September 8, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Hilarious.
Right off the cliff she goes, in slow motion, 60 frames per second.
Solid gone.
By Media Whiz September 8, 2011 at 9:14 pm
So, Nikki, quite the week. New enemies include Jody Barr? Renee Dudley? The Boston Herald? Huffingtonpost? Oh, that Laura radio gig was an epic disaster. Softballs, hell…she didn’t throw anything at you and you still struck out. You even told Laura you made deals…., girl you have got to stop lying to people.
By Popeye September 8, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Well Nikki, you might as well invite Lancaster over for the night. You are both flushed down the toilet.
By Smallpecker September 8, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Q. What’s the difference between Nikki and community college?
A. Community college is harder to get into.
By Scooter September 8, 2011 at 9:55 pm
Wonder what those that voted for her think these days? What a bitch. She needs a good scolding. Then, sent to her room for the rest of her term. Who does she really think she is. She was elected because the whole country was in a wacky place. W/O the teaparty loud screams about taking down all government, she would not be anything but a good memory for many gentlemen who knew her well.
By alaindelon September 8, 2011 at 11:30 pm
agree with you Perry Mason
By 5 + 1 = 6 September 9, 2011 at 12:07 am
From the 10/31/10 P & C endorsement of Trikki:
Rep. Haley’s views on government spending, accountability and reform should encourage support from South Carolina’s voters. She sees the current budget disaster as a way to begin reordering the state’s fiscal priorities.
“The best decisions are made during the hardest times,” she said.
For South Carolina’s voters, that time is now.
By dumb&dumber69 September 9, 2011 at 4:08 am
Good morning Captain America…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvicYbnr1yA
By costcutter September 9, 2011 at 4:43 am
Why was she the last to know about Colonel Lancaster? Didn’t her Chief of Staff and now SLED Chief keep her informed about the affair? Why didn’t she know Earl Hunter was about to retire? Didn’t her DHEC Board appointee keep her informed? Why was she the last to know about the problems at SCDOT? Didn’t her appointees keep her informed? She is totally uninformed about what is really going on in South Carolina?
By Frankly My Dear September 9, 2011 at 5:15 am
Costcutter: all good questions…if she had hired a mature, experienced cabinet liaison she would have known!
By Jubal Early September 9, 2011 at 8:19 am
You ever notice that when Jim Lewis,OWB posts his derogatory remarks about Haley there is always a congratulatory comment from Rijiv with additional jabs at haley? The mathematical chances of another poster intersecting with another poster time after time diminishes after three.
The OWB has now joined that exclusive sockpuppet club that persists here at FitsNews. Never could figure out why comedians feel the need to pat themselves on the back. Jim is now a *certified* legend in his own mind.
By noname September 9, 2011 at 8:22 am
On the Laura Ingram show about 11:00 in to it, Our Gov. made the comment thst she had her meetings to go to and her husband had hisother set of meetings with companies and she had her meeting to go to. What the Hell is he doing going to meetings??????
Who elected or appointed him??????????
By Little T September 9, 2011 at 8:23 am
Where is my master, Big T??
By Rijiv September 9, 2011 at 8:32 am
Jubal – Ah, too much Coconut Nikki juice in your cornflakes this morning?
By Rijiv September 9, 2011 at 8:36 am
Get real, I work in a call center, with many, many others. This site is the only one in America with news of our beloved Coconut Nikki, Queen of Mubai. We all praise the OWB, so very funny. The Great Balsac was our favorite, but alas, he is missing. So, sorry to piss on your conspiracy theory…we shall now monitor you as well, over 60 computers, speak as you will. We will respond.
By Rascal September 9, 2011 at 8:41 am
noname – Hubby is a technician, failed at a SC business, and was simply a tag along. Nikki is such a relentless bullshit artist, she can’t keep her lies straight. If the brainless wonder actually went to a real business meeting, then why is tight wad Nikki saying he paid personally, when the state paid for 25 other worthless tags who didn’t do shit. Nikki’s whole radio interview was a lie.
By Rijiv September 9, 2011 at 8:44 am
Jubal – We are waiting. Over 100 reps at 62 computers, please do not disappoint us, you toe sucking coconut lover you.
By Observer September 9, 2011 at 8:50 am
Funny yet, Nikki was knob bobbing Huntsman for months, before Rainey started to help him, now Nikki says “she can’t feel it.” Well, she felt it plenty before…………
By Jubal Early September 9, 2011 at 9:20 am
Last year, on Ebay, I bought the “Truth Machine” from “Meet the Fockers.” I hooked it up to your post Rijiv and you pegged the needle!
So, you expect me to believe that you are a Punjab, with a choppy American accent, working at a call center? LOL. I never met a Hindu or a Sikh with a sense of humor. Any why bring up Ballsack? What does he have to do with anything? (Hmmm, my warning light just flashed on the box when you mentioned him)
Thanks for allowing me to hook you up. The printout reveals all. As Bernie Focker says: “When its yellow let it mellow, if its brown flush it down. Oops, looks like I forgot to adhere to his rule. So, I’m flushing you down — you brown turd. Swish………….. (love a tidy clean bowl!)
By Rijiv September 9, 2011 at 9:34 am
Jubal – We must focus on poor Coconut Nikki Queen of Mubai. This paper once called her a Tea Pary Darling…..but now. This is bad. Very, very bad.
By jimlewis,owb September 9, 2011 at 9:47 am
Jubal Early
I post under my name and only my name. I live in Chapin, SC. On most Friday’s around 5 PM I eat at Fat Buddies Two in Chapin, SC. with other old white bastards.
Now, you are welcome to stop by and have a Certifiable Pitcher of Amber Bock shoved down you fucking weasel throat.
Jubal Early was a Honorable Gentlemen and for you to blog under his name is most regrettable.
However since you know who your mommy’s husband is but have no idea who your daddy is explains a lot.
Bite me, Bastard
By cash September 9, 2011 at 10:20 am
Funny, don’t think Exotica had a men’s wear department. Funny.
By Rijiv September 9, 2011 at 10:21 am
Oh, the poor Jubal….never had a chance. We do not have new computers, but at this call center we can pull many windows at once. Very easy to follow Jubal, we are waiting yet again, you loser.
By Manmeet September 9, 2011 at 10:23 am
Ah, Rijiv, Jubal is not Coconut Nikki’s fourth cousin, twice removed. We have made a mistake. He is a poster, a troll, a fraud.
Pingback: Dudley A Taxpayer Hero, Haley Anything But!
By Sock seeker September 9, 2011 at 11:29 am
I love watching the Indians fight amongst themselves, but this particular comment was so ripe:
“now Nikki says “she can’t feel it.” Well, she felt it plenty before…………”
Mr. Observer, you can only take so many penises consequtively before the vaginal walls start to lose their ability to transmit that special “feeling”.
I have a specially modified version of an old idiom to better describe Ms. Haley’s problem:
“Too many cocks spoil the sock.”
By Jubal Early September 9, 2011 at 11:52 am
I accept the challenge OWB. I have called ahead for directions. 803-345-9696. The address they gave me is 1160 Chapin Road. Is that correct? And which drunk should I look for? Do you have a favorite stool that you like to fall off of? Will you be sitting between Manmeet and Rijiv, your siamese twins fat buddies II? I am an honorable gentleman that is why I accept your challenge to partake a mug of your favorite beverage, glass and all.