Speaker No Tweety Tweet

It’s been eleven days since dozens of breathless S.C. lawmakers learned that their boss, S.C. Speaker Bobby Harrell, had created his own Twitter page.
Almost reflexively, they took to their own Tweety pages and Facebook sites to excitedly trumpet this major news, remarking how they “couldn’t wait” to see what “the Speaker” would Tweet about first.
Ooooh!
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The Speaker Is Tweeting …

S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell – or rather someone who works for him – will be filling the air with status quo “Tweets” any moment now.
That’s right, having mastered Wikipedia (well, not really), the Speaker’s minions have set up a Twitter page for their boss, who they describe as “Speaker of the SC House of [...]

Tweetering Twits

Ever since he was hired by S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell a few years ago, no one has ever mistook “Speaker’s Speaker” Greg Foster for an intellectual giant (or a communications maestro, for that matter) …
Sure, he can fluff his boss’s Wikipedia page with the best of ‘em, but aside from that, since Foster came [...]

FMN Interview: The Speaker’s Speaker

Ready for more “ba-doom-chings” and cheap laughs at the expense of South Carolina politicos?
Good.  We’ve got you covered with our latest installment of “FITS Makes News,” the popular series featuring a cartoon version of our founding editor administering torrential tongue-lashings to his unsuspecting “guests.”
In this episode, Sic Willie rudely denies “Dum Spiro Spero” to Greg [...]

Coming This Afternoon …

A quick program note … later this afternoon we’ll be bringing you another in our series of riotously funny “FITS Makes News” interviews.
Today’s victim will be Greg Foster, spokesman for S.C. Speaker of the House Bobby Harrell.
Stay tuned to see whether Foster gets “a nice bottle of Dum Spiro Spero” from Sic.
Or just click right [...]

The SC House Is Talking Trash

REPUBLICAN SPIN DOCTORS GLOAT OVER IMMIGRATION REFORM “COMPROMISE”
FITSNews – June 3, 2008 – In the juvenile back and forth over an election year “Immigration Panderfest,” it’s always fun to watch South Carolina’s Republican spin doctors go at it.
Like this flier posted on the S.C. House Republican Caucus message board, for example, which [...]