Palmetto Scoop in Hot Water over DeMint Articles
June 28, 2007 | Filed Under The Chaser, Top Shelf News
Written by The Shot
A recent smear campaign against Sen. Jim DeMint conducted by the anonymous blog Palmetto Scoop, which is operated out of the RQ&A/McCain S.C. Headquarters, has infuriated one of the nation’s most widely read bloggers. Erick Erickson, owner and operator of Redstate.com, is outraged over the Scoop’s attempts to cast Sen. DeMint in negative light. Erickson believes this smear campaign was executed in order to damage DeMint’s credibility on the issue of immigration. Sen. DeMint has been opposed to the Senate immigration bill since its introduction, which failed today by a vote of 43-56.
Erickson had this to say about the attacks:
By the way, it should be noted that Senator DeMint has been repeated attacked by anonymous folks lately. These folks, we can tell, have close connections to both Lindsey Graham and John McCain. That’s troubling and we should rally behind Senator DeMint.
In another post Erickson added:
Villains have to include John McCain and Lindsey Graham for their tag team efforts in South Carolina to personally smear Jim DeMint. They can deny it, but lots of us know what happened and shame on them.
The attacks Erickson is referring to comes in the form of a several blog entries on the Palmetto Scoop, and one in particular that was posted yesterday. The piece was titled “DeMint has gone too far: Senator seeks to undercut President Bush”
In the article the Scoop compares Sen. DeMint to Rev. Al Sharpton (Editor’s Note: In the original post it was spelled Shapton). The Scoop then proceeds to use backwards logic to claim that DeMint’s criticism of President Bush on the issue of immigration will endanger our troops overseas, and then calls our Senator’s actions “DeMinted” He also says that DeMint “ought to be ashamed of himself” and “He owes a lot of people, including President Bush, an apology.” In the comment section of the piece “the Editor” had this to say “This isn’t about DeMint being ‘pro’ or ‘anti’ anything. This is about a REPUBLICAN Senator acting like a spoiled, whiny DEMOCRAT”
Others are outraged as well. At the time of this posting, Palmetto Scoop’s “DeMint has gone to far” has received fifty-one comments. Most of the comments chastise the Scoop’s accusations against our state’s conservative Senator Jim DeMint.
Here are some excerpts from the comment section:
To the Editor:
You say that Jim DeMint is “acting like a spoiled, whiny DEMOCRAT”. Why, because he’s not rubber stamping this POS AMNESTY bill? I’m happy that we have at least 1 Senator here in SC that is looking out for the will of the people.Obviously you need to go back to school for reading comprehension….DeMint didn’t ever talk about cutting anything off of the President…..he said that the Pres. went out on a limb with this legislation and that they were going to cut off that limb. In other words, for those of you who are semantically challenged, it’s like cutting out the rotten piece of an apple - get rid of the rotten legislation before it becomes law and kills us all.
-L. Tarducci
The author of this article has been out of touch with the majority of South Carolinians. We have been supportive of the decision Bush made on Iraq Pakistan and Afghanistan and South Carolinians support our troops. After these items, Bush goes down hill real fast in popularity. Senator Demint is voicing the sentiments of his constituency unlike his fellow Senator who is controlled by those politicians who are buttering their own agenda.
-Gordo
Kudos to Jim Demint. Unlike Lindsey Graham, he gets it.
-George Zimmer
How DARE the editor of this paper compare Senator DeMint to Al Sharpton? Senator DeMint, in my opinion, didn’t go far enough. This paper has no idea just how incensed a majority (yes, I’d go so far as to declare a majority) of the people in this state are with regard to President Bush and Senator Graham’s LACK of regard with respect to ‘comprehensive immigration reform’….As far as a ‘nation at war’, DeMint does no harm here. His comments are to SECURE this country’s national security, not to weaken it as the President’s (and Senator Graham’s) bill does.-Mickgrindstone
Senator Demint is correct and should be applauded for his efforts. President Bush put himself out on that limb - a limb that should be sawed off in an effort to protect our Democracy. Proud to call Senator DeMint my Senator, ashamed to admit that Lindsey Graham is from South Carolina
-Jim Hicks
Jim DeMint is South Carolina’s only conservative Senator. Whoever wrote this post is a clueless bozo.
I’m glad to see all these folks point out that The Editor is a raving moron. Go back to your little McCain headquarters and take a chill pill. The guys over at The Shot may get annoying at times with their anti-McCain ramblings, but they are dead on about The Editor.
He is a paid McCain staffer.
GOD BLESS JIM DEMINT!!!
-Ready to rumbleFirst, he said that the President was out on a limb and that they would cut the tree limb. You morphed it into some threat of physical violence by cutting off the President’s leg or arm. Come on…such hyperbole. You really are stretching it. The faux moral outrage is palpable. You guys are smarter than this. You over played your hand by trying to sound like you had one foot on the ledge.
Or are you morally outraged by my suggesting that you might be thinking about suicide?
-Dane
I personally believe that the Palmetto Scoop owes a lot of people an apology, including Senator DeMint, and I think a lot of people would agree.
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Didn’t Adam Temple work for DeMint?
Were there other posts there, one post is hardly a smear campaign? It happens a lot though, a blog purporting to be set up for one reason or another, but is in reality just a shallow cover up to support one candidate or another.
All of this jubilation over DeMint is disgusting. Why isn’t Ron Paul getting more attention? If not him, then why not Tancredo? At least they really mean it when they say something about making a difference on immigration. What good is a guy who simply stops Lindsey, but leaves the borders for another 12 million to flow across as soon as they can? Yes, this bill was a deal with the dark side—purely wrong-headed. But it’s sick to champion someone whose only action was to take no action. Why don’t DeMint, Sessions, and Vitter go ahead and propose a bill (as I’m sure Tancredo and Paul have done) to go ahead and shut down the border. I’ll bet Lindsey and McCain would support it. That was the pork they proposed to deliver, in exchange for a piece of our souls. In other words, go ahead and pass that bill, just remove the amnesty stuff that Kennedy wanted. After all, the real reason this bill failed is that the Lib base of the Dem party was pretty fired up, right alongside us normal Americans.
The real issue to watch… Bush is going to invade Iran, as indicated by today’s movements. Islam will strike back, and it could be as bad or worse than 9/11. If the best that McCain’s opposition can do is to poo-foo the immigration stuff, he’s going to look pretty dang good with all that military experience.
My advice: Go for the jugular. Why does McCain have such a really good handle on the pro-war lobby? Pat Buchanan knows the answer, and hopefully Ron Paul will let us know. The GOP is full of Trotskyites!
Just watch. I’ll bet DeMint, Sessions, and Vitter do nothing about immigration, and then they’ll all endorse Fred Thompson. Thompson had the worst immigration voting record in the Senate.
Truth be told, Thompson is running for VP. As everyone knows, he was McCain’s Lindsey, before there was a Lindsey.
And, no, don’t believe that Massachusetts fraud, either. The immigration problem isn’t the lack of a wall. It’s imperial decline: http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=157.
-Tim
Who cares who Adam Temple worked for? These political consultants are the whores of politics, jumping from campaign to campaign and camping out in Congressional and Senate staffs between elections. There isn’t an honorable soul among them.
The Palmetto Scoop is the mouthpiece of McCain and McGrahamnesty. No wonder they went after our honorable and principled REPUBLICAN Senator, Jim DeMint. Now if we could just elect a second Republican Senator from South Carolina…
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