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The Obligatory Elizabeth Landers Post

MEET CNN’S NEW SOUTH CAROLINA SCRIBE …  || By FITSNEWS || Elizabeth Landers is a CNN video producer currently covering South Carolina – or more specifically the quadrennial “First in the South” presidential goat rodeo that’s rolling through our fair state with increasing frequency of late. Landers went to Tufts, dabbles in…

MEET CNN’S NEW SOUTH CAROLINA SCRIBE … 

|| By FITSNEWS || Elizabeth Landers is a CNN video producer currently covering South Carolina – or more specifically the quadrennial “First in the South” presidential goat rodeo that’s rolling through our fair state with increasing frequency of late.

Landers went to Tufts, dabbles in fashion and is a “Tallahassee Lassie,” according to her Twitter page … which you should probably follow if you’re going to follow the 2016 presidential election.

Why are we writing about her?  Well, apparently Landers was out and about in downtown Columbia, S.C. last week when Mark Plowden – a staffer for S.C. lieutenant governor Henry McMaster – informed her she would soon be appearing on this website because she was “hot.”

Hmmmm … was this what our sources meant when they told us Landers had been “warned” about FITS’ founding editor Will Folks?

It’s true that in years past the presence of an attractive presidential reporter on the Palmetto political scene would have resulted in us immediately objectifying Landers – resulting in extensive web leering on the part of our founding editor and his (army of) less gentlemanly commenters.

But now?  Eh …

That sort of thing just feels so … obligatory.

So in lieu of that we’ll simply welcome Landers to the Palmetto State, give her a social media plug and promise to bring you any stories she publishes which we find instructive as it relates to the presidential candidates, the issues they’re debating or the media marketplace in which they’re operating.

Gosh its no fun being a grown up website …

(Pic: CNN)

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55 comments

shifty henry June 7, 2015 at 1:48 pm

saving my comment(s) for later, thank you ……

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Soft Sigh from Hell June 7, 2015 at 1:56 pm

Welcome m’lady, and best wishes.

SC politics . . . you’re jumping in the deep end.

And it’s dirty and smells. Should be some great experience though.

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euwe max June 7, 2015 at 9:37 pm

She’s probably never seen a rotting corpse up close.

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The Buzzman June 8, 2015 at 12:56 am

Will she poke it with a stick, or recoil and run away?

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 2:13 pm

Buzz, let’s wait to see if she replies to Max (if she can get past his picture) — then we’ll know the answer!

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Teho June 7, 2015 at 2:06 pm

What counts is what’s inside. Youth counts for alot apoearance-wise. She’s hot in a Maria Belen Chapur kinda way. You like how that turned out?

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Victorious Secret June 7, 2015 at 2:38 pm

Something is a little weird about her eyebrows.

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 7:47 am

… do ya’ worry that they might meet each other?

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TroubleBaby June 8, 2015 at 10:00 am

Maybe a bit of the Elizabeth Taylor double eyebrow mutation? It shows it can work in a weird way.

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 1:23 pm

But you’d still offer to buy her a Tanqueray and tonic, wouldn’t you? —-CONFESS..!!

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TroubleBaby June 8, 2015 at 3:37 pm

*Bombay Sapphire

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 3:38 pm

just happened to have the Tanqueray on my desk when posting…

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SYNTwist June 8, 2015 at 2:57 pm

Ever since you posted this comment, I can’t help but look at her eyebrows. It’s like a song you just can’t get out of your head LOL

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Victorious Secret June 8, 2015 at 5:09 pm

I know, right?

Sorry for taking you to that place.

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shifty henry June 7, 2015 at 3:51 pm

Now that she’s been exposed and introduced state-wide, we should expect some bikini photos pretty damn soon because this lovely lass is not going to avoid the beaches and resort areas. Will’s stringers will FIND, FOTO, and FORWARD those glorious works of art to us “gentlemanly commenters” ….

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SYNTwist June 7, 2015 at 4:29 pm

LMAO!

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Superfly June 7, 2015 at 5:54 pm

Plowden should have warned her not to get in the car with him.

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MashPotato June 7, 2015 at 7:13 pm

She was warned about FITS because she’s hot? Yeah, she totally got her job based on her merits. All the 24/7 news channels hire based on looks. CNN’s Candy Crowley is probably the most notable exception. Jeez, this generation….

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News Babes June 7, 2015 at 7:32 pm

This is true. I went to High School with Ainsley Earhardt and she’s was pretty damn smart, but she and everyone else knows why she was hired by Fox News.

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RogueElephant June 7, 2015 at 7:36 pm

To get on at FNC the women have to be smart and good to look at. The liberal networks take the dumb , ugly ones. Dose Rachel Madcow ring a bell ?

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flip/pogo June 7, 2015 at 8:02 pm

Nice.Keep focused on the ‘key’ to this election-TURNOUT. Networks and MSM are trying too keep Christians from voting in 2016.

Obama got 3 MILLION fewer votes in 2012 than 2008. Hillary will do worse.

All about getting the vote out and turning ‘off’ the MSM.

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tomstickler June 7, 2015 at 8:26 pm

Were any of those smart and good-looking women on FNC awarded a Rhodes Scholarship or did any of them earn a PhD at Oxford?

Thought not.

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Mike at the Beach June 8, 2015 at 1:00 am

True indeed. She’s obviously very academically talented, but she still acts like a shrill, angry boy on TV and makes me want to poke myself in the eyes with sharp objects to distract myself… ;-)

News Babes June 7, 2015 at 8:42 pm

I really like Ainsley, she’s a sweetheart and she’s smart as a whip. She is a good reporter and the camera doesn’t do her justice. She’s prettier in person.

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E Norma Scok June 8, 2015 at 11:15 am

She ended up marrying a Clemson boy, so she finally wised up in that area.

euwe max June 7, 2015 at 9:36 pm

Rachel Madcow may not be a stunning beauty, but she’s damned smart!

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The Buzzman June 8, 2015 at 12:55 am

She’s not hard-down ugly either. Nor is she “bull-dyke” butch. She’s more androgynous than anyone else. And extremely intelligent.

Fecal Matter June 8, 2015 at 12:37 pm

I just recently realized that Rachel Maddow and Mo Rocca were not the same person.

FastEddy23 June 8, 2015 at 11:45 am

Aside: speaking of powerful, good looking women, one might look into the Chief Fire Control Petty Officers list on the USS “Amazing” Grace Hopper … arguably the most powerful warship afloat, ever. (If the president were to push “the red button”, it would ring onboard this ship.)

Now, I dare anyone to tell me those girls ain’t good lookin’.

sparklecity June 8, 2015 at 12:40 pm

And she has a GREAT sense of humor!!!!

Plus she takes making the perfect “Old Fashioned” seriously!!!!

sparklecity June 7, 2015 at 10:25 pm

Rachel Maddow has a great sense of humor. No doubt she is a lez but ugly she ain’t and Mika Brezinski is looks,class and smarts all rolled into one package.
That being said, I’m pissed at Fox Business News allowing Imus to go off cable/satellite TV but stay on radio. The shit they have on there now is just about as exciting as watching paint dry. SiriusFM (oops, I MEANT Sirius XM….) dropped Fox Business News till Imus switched to Fox. Now that he is gone I look for SiriusFM(there I go again…) to drop them again and I wouldn’t blame them if they did.
Fox News itself ain’t nothing but right-wing propaganda
For big time news CNN is still the one I go to. You know what your are getting with MSNBC but Fox is nothing but hypocritical BS

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Superfly June 8, 2015 at 12:35 am

Raymond Madcow rings a cowbell.

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mamatiger92 June 8, 2015 at 8:46 am

Unless you’re Gretchen Carlson. What a moron.

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TroubleBaby June 8, 2015 at 8:42 am

“Russia Today” gets some hot presenters as well.

There’s nothing wrong with finding women that have some smarts to go with decent speaking skills that are easy on the eyes.

It’s not like ugly chicks have a lock on brains.

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FastEddy23 June 8, 2015 at 9:17 am

A reason the left has always had difficulties finding smart and good lookers is those embroiled deeply in left leaning politics usually are plug ugly losers.

Me? I’m the handsome one on the right in my HS year book.

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 1:03 pm

Hmmmm, only two students graduated that year? Eddy, that explains a lot (or nothing) …..

FastEddy23 June 9, 2015 at 1:37 pm

We had almost 100 students in our HS class … 98 of them were not photogenic.

shifty henry June 9, 2015 at 1:44 pm

that’s funny!

FastEddy23 June 8, 2015 at 9:23 am

Candy … Looking like a cross between a UPS Teamster and Chairman Mao interviewing three republicrat senators about ten years ago. What a hoot!

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ravenhaired vixen June 7, 2015 at 8:32 pm

Maybe she should have interviewed Plowden on his recent DUI and how he managed to get out of it.

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sparklecity June 7, 2015 at 10:33 pm

Ms. Landers:
Welcome to the Great State of South Carolina!!!
Just remember that old (but VERY true) saying…..
“South Carolina: Too small to be a nation, too big to be an insane asylum”
And that “unofficial” slogan (again so very true…): “We can be bought if the price is right”

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Buddy Miles June 7, 2015 at 10:54 pm

Will Elizabeth ask those burning questions like, “Are you in an open marriage?”.
Maybe, maybe newt.

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Little Lady Lindsey June 8, 2015 at 12:08 am

Will she ask Senator Graham if he’s a closeted homosexual?

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 12:59 pm

Does she dare ask Will Folks if he is really “imbalanced”?

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shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 2:15 pm

Will she be brazen enough to ask me just exactly how “shifty” are you?

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SYNTwist June 8, 2015 at 2:33 pm

Just exactly how “shifty” are you????

shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 2:40 pm

“Shifty” was for the benefit of Nikki Haley from her days at Clemson — she won’t take the bait on Fitsnews to respond — maybe that one, isolated escapade has evaporated from her youthful memories …

SYNTwist June 8, 2015 at 2:50 pm

you are shifty ;)

shifty henry June 8, 2015 at 3:41 pm

Gee, I didn’t mean to be….

E Norma Scok June 8, 2015 at 11:13 am

WTF is a “Tallahassee lassie”?

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Tazmaniac June 8, 2015 at 1:57 pm

A homely Florida State co-ed. GO GATORS!!!!!

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E Norma Scok June 8, 2015 at 11:21 am

Haaa..looked at her twitter page, and the first thing she does when she moves to Columbia? GOES TO CHARLESTON FOR THE WEEKEND.
Columbia is a such a shithole.

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Alex DeLarge June 8, 2015 at 12:47 pm

Hot? Man, standards are pretty baseline around here.

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E Norma Scok June 9, 2015 at 3:12 pm

Fits is still swearing how hot T-rav’s baby mama is–that should tell you something right there.

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Oh Yeah June 11, 2015 at 12:37 pm

Total Butterface.

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