SC gov. calls reporter 'little girl' over story

[Beaverhausen]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's first woman governor called a female reporter a "little girl" over an article detailing at least $127,000 in taxpayer dollars the governor and other state officials spent on a European economic development trip.

In a syndicated radio talk show interview Thursday, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley was asked about last Sunday's article by 25-year-old Renee Dudley in The Post and Courier of Charleston: (http://bit.ly/oMjHxE).

"And all I will tell you is: God bless that little girl at The Post and Courier. I mean her job is to try and create conflict. My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it," Haley said on "The Laura Ingraham Show."

The story detailed a weeklong trip in June by Haley and two dozen others. It included stays at five-star hotels, drinks at the Ritz Paris and an upgraded "chalet" at the Paris Air Show, where the state had previously rented a booth. With a Boeing Co. manufacturing plant in North Charleston and BMW Manufacturing in Greer, Haley said she needed to court aerospace companies at the Paris event and manufacturers in Munich.

On Friday, Haley still blasted the story, but said she shouldn't have used the personal remark.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Normally, I would never use a gender-specific term

but in this case, the female Governor's demeaning use of this term toward another female professional brands her with no doubt as that deserving of that B word. Damn...!

Unbelievable that she would think that appropriate. I only wish the SC media would come down on that Governor like a ton of bricks for such tactics. And yes, it actually IS a big deal.

[saras]

2. You're one letter too nice.

[TalkingDog]

4. South Carolina is the Texas of the East Coast....

You see billboards on the interstate with Rush Slimebag's face touting him as the light of the world or some such bullshit.

This is in no way surprising.

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. So say it then.

Come out and say it.

[hlthe2b]

10. I certainly will, if/when I see her...

but since you are undoubtedly so sheltered as to not know the word, I won't disrupt your sense of innocence. ;)

[Shagbark Hickory]

12. Either you're going to call the woman a bitch or you aren't. Calling her a "B word" isn't

really the same.

Someone could think you mean she's brilliant.

[hlthe2b]

13. LOL... "someone could think I meant she was brilliant"

Ok, Shag..... she's a friggin BITCH.... Can't be having any of those misunderstandings, now can we?

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. +! Now , That's more like it!

:thumbsup:
Clears up any confusion that I had.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Bitchy put-down aside, she sounds like Grifter 2. Or Grifter of the South.

[humankarenball]

5. Oh grifter, no doubt

But Haley is, IMO, far worse, since Haley actually holds office and can directly impact my life here in SC. Palin, I can ignore.

[GoCubsGo]

15. I call her "Sarah, Jr."

And, for the sake of my state, I hope she quits mid-term, just like her BFFE. Unfortunately, the Lt. Gov. is equally corrupt. This place is so screwed up. I wish I could get the hell out of here.

[livetohike]

6. Haley has much in common with Bachmann and Palin

They can't even speak the Queen's English properly. Final sentence of the article "We prove results". She probably meant we provide results. Just another illiterate grifter and hypocrite.

[blogslut]

7. I'm of the age where I could have been Nikki's Haley's babysitter

Does that mean I get to call her a "little girl"?

[AsahinaKimi]

9. Just by saying that shows where her head is at...

The more people know this, the worst she starts to look to voters.

[JI7]

11. nice to see she included the "God Bless"