Sure sign that they’re coming this way

You know there must be some presidential primaries coming up when national media types start calling. And we’ve been getting some of that. This came in over the weekend:

Brad,

  I’m Neil Simon. I produce national
stories for the fox affiliates all over the country. I’ll be coming down there
May 12ish for the fox-broadcast Republican debate.

I’d like to talk to you at some
point about your thoughts on the energy about the primaries down there and
whether Republican primary voters needed any sort of ‘awakening’ after having
the 2004 primary cycle off.. how the crowded field plays into the leading staff
people down there..

In the meantime, are there any SC
political experts I should be sure to talk to before the trip? I will want to
interview them (and you if you want) for stories we will run the day or two
before the debate to introduce viewers to SC politics (and of course shamelessly
promote the debate).

Take
care.

 -Neil

 
Neil Simon

Field Producer | Fox News
Edge

I answered as follows:

    Let me know
when you’re coming.
 
    There would
be no "awakening" necessary. The only thing GOP voters had "off" from was
presidential. They had plenty of hotly contested primaries for governor, U.S.
senator, and a host of legislative and other offices in 2002, 2004, 2006. The
GOP electoral machinery always seems to be running. I think Democrats got more
of an energy boost from 2004 that Republicans get from presidential primaries;
they tend to have fewer seriously contested statewide
primaries.
 
    What sort of
political experts? People in politics, consultants, media, political scientists?
And sure, I’ll talk with you if you’d like.
 
    By the way, I
enjoyed "Biloxi Blues."
 
    Sorry. I’m
sure you get that all the time…

So now you’ve witnessed an official meeting of the grand national media conspiracy…

12 thoughts on “Sure sign that they’re coming this way”

  1. Doug Ross

    Let Neil know that I am available. 🙂
    Actually, I think a half hour of Mary Rosh on Fox would be far better than Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity.

  2. Randy E

    Brad, I can’t believe he’s coming down here to interview about your energy party, that’s great news!! Tell him I’m available after 4 M-F, but won’t answer any questions pertaining to SC2.
    I especially enjoyed “Song Song Blue” when I was a child.

  3. Dave

    Brad, this proves that Fox News is fair and balanced. Some would think FNS would simply call Katon for a list. Since you are the Unparty, we see how open and objective they truly are. But do a favor and dont put Oscar Lovelace on the list. Or Jake Knotts. I nominate Lee with Lexwolf as the backup nominee.

  5. Ready to Hurl

    Lee would be a perfect representative of SC political thinking. Of course, he might start the other 49 states seceding from SC.

  7. Randy E

    I second the nomination for Lee! Maybe he could carry the Confederate battle flag and provide a list of our SAT scores as well.

  9. Ready to Hurl

    Ahhhh, the blessings of conservatism and “free trade.”
    Be sure to send the reporters to Laurens with Lee as a tour guide.
    Racism still runs through county
    Signs of racial tension, old and new, are not hard to find in Laurens County. The school where one of the teachers worked used to be blacks-only. In the town of Laurens, where one of the teachers taught, an old movie theater has been converted into a Ku Klux Klan museum and paraphernalia store called The Red Neck Shop. There, visitors can buy Confederate flags — reminders of the Southern slave-holding states that seceded from the United States in 1861, sparking the Civil War — and bumper stickers, such as one that depicts three Klansmen and reads “The Original Boys in the Hood.”
    Textile mills were once the chief source of jobs in the working-class area about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of the state capital of Columbia, but the industry went into decline in the 1990s. The main employers now include a maker of plastic coolers and Presbyterian College in Clinton. As of 2003, nearly 15 percent of county residents lived below the poverty line.

  10. Dave

    Some of us have been saying the students are constantly getting screwed in the public school system.

  12. Lee

    Randy can’t decide whether to make excuses for Laurens or say they deserve lousy public schools.
    Laurens County residents today are wealthier than almost any school district was in SC in the 1950 and 1960s, when we produced a half dozen astronauts and three Nobel Prize winners in physics, biochemistry and medicine.

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