The S.C. Republican Party finds itself embroiled in controversy after one of its county co-chairman "liked" an article on Facebook that outlined situations in which its author believes it to be permissible to "shoot a cop." We don't expect the scandal to blow up quite like "Rusty-gate" or Glenn McConnell's
Read story »By FITSNews || From the "It Wasn't Even Funny The First Time" file, another white Southern male in a pseudo-prominent position is in hot water for comparing U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama to a primate. Walt Baker, a the CEO for the Tennessee Hospitality Association, forwarded an email Thursday evening
Read story »What members of South Carolina's rotting political kleptocracy do after we ruin their careers (always righteously, we might add) is completely up to them. Some take it in stride, others flee to Canada. It's a personal thing, we suppose. For example, after our careers were ruined (the first time)
Read story »In the event we haven't made it abundantly clear, we're big fans of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama. We get that she's a socialist (or at least a socialist groupie), but that doesn't mean she's not classy. Plus, she's hot - something which knows no ideology. Of course not everybody agrees with
Read story »A GOP activist who earlier this year compared U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla at a Columbia S.C. zoo is back in the news - this time for an August run-in with the University of South Carolina police department. Like S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, DePass apparently doesn't like
Read story »Before anyone accuses us of "beating a dead horse" again, we'd like to point out that we're simply drawing attention today to a national column, one that - in part, at least - focuses on the overreaction of the media to the saga of SCGOP activist Rusty DePass. Who again? Exactly ... in case you've
Read story »The seemingly interminable drama of S.C. Republican activist Rusty DePass rolled on yesterday as a source at his former real estate brokerage accused Columbia S.C. Mayor Bob Coble of pressuring the firm to fire DePass' for making racist comments on a social networking website last week. One of DePass'
Read story »"Rusty DePass is an insufferable piece of garbage ..." That's what over 400 members of a new Facebook group think about the S.C. Republican activist who compared U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama to a gorilla that escaped last week from a Columbia, S.C. zoo. The social networking website that served
Read story »The story that broke here on FITS last Friday about a racist comment made by S.C. Republican activist Rusty DePass continues to spiral out of control ... Yesterday, over fifty South Carolina lawmakers filed a resolution expressing their "dismay and regret" at DePass' remark, which jokingly compared
Read story »Check it out! We've found a license plate that's perfect for S.C. Republican activist Rusty DePass - what with his love of black people and New Yorkers ... Honestly, this post should probably go on the website of our satirist friends over at The Discust, but like everything else in Palmetto politics
Read story »Add the Huffington Post and ABC News to the growing list of national media outlets picking up the story about S.C. Republican activist Rusty DePass and his comparison of U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo. Here's the Huff Po piece, and here's ABC. And seriously,
Read story »Unlike the comment itself, the furor that ensued when a prominent S.C. Republican activist referred to U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama as being descended from apes is completely understandable - which is why the people who have called us questioning our decision to break the story have all gotten the
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