Dan Harvell repeats smear email

By the way, Andrew, have you seen this yet?

That's called SATIRE. Like the Obama/New Yorker cover, it's FUNNY.

Ya see, it plays to the campaign talking points of John McCain's opponents that he: 1. Has a pill-popping wife; 2. Is too old to be President; 3. Isn't healthy enough to be President (see the bandages on his head, a not-so-subtle reference to his battles with skin cancer?); 4. Would represent a third term of George W. Bush (picture over the mantle); 5. That he and Bush are destroying the U.S. Constitution (burning in fireplace.)

None of those things is true - just as nothing on that New Yorker cover is true - but it mocks those who believe those things and use those issues as campaign issues. And this particular cover bites TWICE because it also mocks the controversy over that very same New Yorker cartoon. Satire, satire, satire.

But JD . . . you keep glossing over this point amid your definitions and diatribes about what is satire:

The New Yorker is a publication with professional journalists who are paid to write (call it a JOB) and compose articles, including those of satire, for their readership.

Kevin Bryant is a State Senator and a Pharmacist. Kevin crafts laws and dispenses pills when the General Assembly is not in session. That is his JOB.

Now, to pull the "JD is fair card out," I'm going to say that Kevin should stick to his two day jobs and not venture into the realm of SATIRE. At the same time, I don't think I'll have to twist too many arms at the New Yorker to make them not dispense pills or poor legislation.

There. Simple. All fixed.

- SSHM

SSHM, I believe the right to engage in satire falls under the First Amendment (under the part about free speech, you know.) Has somebody either repealed that amendment or exempted Kevin Bryant from it?

If so, no, not simple. Not all fixed.

Ahhh . . . but you see, it is simple.

A little thing called decorum, maybe? Might have heard of it, yes/no? There is a right time and a wrong time to say certain things. For instance, poor timing of commentary on Vogon poetry will get one pitched from an airlock.

You see in this instance JD, there will not be a Heart of Gold to rescue Kevin.

Very very simple . . . all is still fixed, save Kevin and the large foot in his mouth.

- SSHM

SSHM, I've followed politics in this state since before I was in grade school. The first state politician I ever met (I believe while he was still Governor of South Carolina) was Strom Thurmond. The first news interview I ever did, back in 1968, was with a South Carolina Attorney General by the name of Dan McLeod.

Since then, I've seen the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot in 1974 when they throw Pug Ravenel overboard and nominated William Jennings Bryan Dorn for governor, and he proceeded to get beaten by Jim Edwards. I've seen the Republican Party give us David Beasley and Mark Sanford while claiming they were Republicans. Sanford actually brought a couple of pigs into legislative chambers a few years back, which I thought was funny, but probably not in keeping with "decorum.")

I've heard the Chairman of the State Democratic Party at the time, an old college mate of mine named Dick Harpootilian, refer to our state legislature as "those sons of b*tches" in an oft-quoted tirade. (I told him afterwards that he should have called them "those b*stards" since even in South Carolina it's in poor taste to call somebody's Momma names like that.)

Decorum? Since when did South Carolina politicians pay any attention to decorum? When did we even start EXPECTING them to?

State senators almost always get involved in Presidential politics. That is certainly nothing new, and I really don't see why you expect Kevin Bryant to stay out of the Obama-McCain race. I certainly don't see other state officials staying out en masse, do you?

I think this is very interesting. I wish y'all knew what it was like living in my hometown of San Francisco. I have lived here my whole life and the beauty of the scenery and the city is 180 degrees opposite of the insanity of the politics. But don't worry, soon when the Messiah is anointed....we will all learn.

Andrew as explained previously, just because one person finds something funny, does not mean that all will find it funny. That is called personal preferance, something you might get a grasp of if you learn that what you think is right does not make it so. We all have our own ideas on what is funny and what is not, we all have our own idea of what is right and what is not. We all have our own idea of what the government should and should not be responsible for, that is what makes us different from other countries we are citizens we are not subjects. We get to say how we feel without any reprecussions from the government or other people. You may know like what I say, or I may not like what you say. But we have the right to differ. Now get off your high horse and enjoy whatever humor you can find.

Andrew and all simple minded democrats,

You must know that Senator Bryant did not put that Sheet on Barak Hussein Obama's head. Barak Hussein Obama did. By looking at the picture you must also realize that Obama seemed very proud that he was dressed like a terrorist. Indeed, he looks like every murdering terrorist that we as Americans have been exposed too.

Barak has no plan, he has no vision for America. If Barak Hussein Obama gets elected, we will pray for the Carter years to return.

We live in the greatest country in the world, and Barak Hussein Obama wants to change it. My, My, my....

Yes cause no real American president would wear silly ethnic clothes or be too close to Arabs....

but those were radical right wing murderers...God has forgiven them, and so has the right wing of the republican party.