We knew times were tight for the uber-liberal mainstream media these days (oh, that crazy marketplace of ideas) but sending a food critic to cover a U.S. Senate race? Has it really gotten that bad?
For The New York Times, apparently so …
Food critic Kim Severson does her best with the Palmetto State’s U.S. Senate race – in which incumbent “Republican in Name Only” Lindsey Graham has drawn a trio of challengers, S.C. Sen. Lee Bright, social conservative attorney Richard Cash and Lowcountry businesswoman Nancy Mace.
According to Severson, Mace is “the challenger whose political star is rising the fastest.”
Mmmmm … rising.
“Mace is also the biggest target so far, in part because of her connection to a political gossip Web site called FitsNews, which she helped create in her role as a Web designer and media manager,” Severson reports.
She adds …
Will Folks, once a press secretary for Representative Mark Sanford and a former political consultant for Governor Haley, runs the site, which consistently attacks the governor. In 2010, Mr. Folks claimed to have had an “inappropriate physical relationship” with Ms. Haley two weeks before the election in her highly competitive bid for governor.
The claims were never proved, and Ms. Haley, who is heading into a campaign for her second term next year, has long said it was just another example of underhanded South Carolina politics.
Oh really?
Our founding editor’s official response to Severson’s story?
.@kimseverson make me a bundt cake
— Will Folks aka Sic (@fitsnews) August 26, 2013
Yeah …
Oh, we hope Severson remembers to refrigerate the batter and use solid vegetable shortening to coat the inside of the pan (preferably using a pastry brush). Oh, we hope she doesn’t use one of those brightly colored silicone bundt pans either. They tend to buckle – and there is nothing in the world our founding editor hates more than “lopsided bundt.”
But who are we to tell a food critic such things?
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Can’t wait for the food metaphors because I’m tired of the standard violent metaphors. Instead of “Mace attacks Graham” we can have “Mace slings hash at Graham record”.
A traveling salesman never ate hash in restaurants because he didn’t know what was in it. He never ate hash at home – because he did know!
Will the post primary story food metaphor include “a lamb led to slaughter”?
“make me a bundt cake”
lol….funny!
Can’t wait for the shrill screams of “misogynist” and “wife beater” to naturally come as a result.
It seems to me to make sense to have a food reporter covering what is in essence a food fight.
Anybody remember the hilarious scene in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” ..
Go SHifty …..go….!!!
So….how would YOU use the picture of a Bundt Cake to send a message to both Lindsey Graham and this reporter at the same time to tell them that Wil Folks said…….”up yours”…?
How would you get Nancy Mace to smile about a campaign sign that said “Lindsey Graham……..you can kiss my big fat illegal immigrant”…!?
Shifty…..how would make money off of your “Greek” comment…?
Apparently you can’t write about food AND news.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/kim_severson/index.html
Here’s a link to a page about her on NYT’s website, you can even see articles she has written or co-written from there. Sure, a lot of them are food-based articles, but many are not. You could also check her Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Severson
Since October 2010, she has been a national correspondent, based in Atlanta, covering the Southeast. Previously, she worked as a food writer at the Times and for six years before that at the San Francisco Chronicle. She spent seven years as an editor and reporter at the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska. She has also covered crime, education, social services and government for daily newspapers on the West Coast.
Nice attempt at being the next Todd Kincannon, though.
Classless ad hominens aside against the report: 1) I love how Mace says her opponents are “smearing” her—where’s the smear?; 2) no one believes your Haley allegations were proven; 3) I wonder if the NYT had to pay their “food reporter” in equity?; 4) it’s skipped over here how it’s now national news that Will Folks and FITS are “Tea Party favorite” Nancy’s biggest liabilities and the mere mention of the site gets her off message.
National news? Where? I’m seeing 1 article where Mr. Folks name is mentioned? Where is all this massive coverage?
Compared to your credentials she is David Broder. Now go make me a Bullshit sandwich.
That’s not saying a whole lot, though.
The NYT just realizes that there won’t be much to this race…
Excellent information war fare tactic……now how would every Cadet at the Citadel use this same tactic to send a message to Assad in Syria that would would put the fear in both Assad and Lindsey Graham..?
How would they send the message…?
How would Wil FOlks be used…??
How would the actions be tagged back to Philip Branton and Nancy Mace and Catherine Ceips..??
How should the Post and Courier respond..?
How should the Motley Law Firm staff respond to such informational tactics..?
We wonder if this food critic has ever thought about asking Senator Lindsey Graham and Nancy Mace about this subject in this article….here…
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-04-260813.html
Considering that Egypt is a topic that Senator Lindsey Graham should know well, we wonder if he understands how the comment section of this website should be used to get Nancy Mace to reveal her Egyptian “view”..?
Who believes in Free speech more…Senator Graham or Nancy Mace or Asia Times………or Wil Folks..? How can it be verified to teach voters WHAT they are voting for instead of WHO..?
NO, NO! You’ve got it all wrong.. It was the NYT’s way of saying, “Eat Me.”
Well I thought it was funny..
We wonder why Wil Folks did not link to this video….??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiOPsDk5rOA
Do the readers of this site realize that Fitsnews SHOULD be this …”interesting”..?
With her Nancy Boy tweet it looks like Mice is doing some smearing of her own.
Some GOP antics of recent years edge close to intraparty cannibalism.
As in. “eat their own.”
Well, first of all – food is political. Harold Laswell defined politics 1955, ‘who gets what, where, how, why, and when.’ Secondly, this is an old, and successful, tradition. Check out AJ Liebling, RW Apple, and Cal Trillin for some thrilling reading.