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OKAY JESUS IT’S NOT LIKE JOE WILSON BEAT OBAMA WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER, ALTHOUGH HE PROBABLY WANTED TO, BUT STILL: So… what exactly are they demanding the state Chamber of Commerce do here? “WASHINGTON — State and local tourism officials are being flooded by e-mails and calls from people across the country, who say they won’t vacation in South Carolina because they’re upset by Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst at President Obama. A number of the out-of-state e-mailers have said they’ve taken beach trips for years in Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and other resort areas, but don’t plan to return, officials said.” Huh. You’d think that people would’ve already decided not to return to Myrtle Beach after, you know… their first trip to Myrtle Beach. [The Sun News]
Myrtle Beach is the poor man’s Bahamas.
What’s Fancy Nancy looking at?
Yea, the biggest problem with South Carolina is that it’s full of Southerners. That convinced me not to go there decades ago.
You know its fun being a Liberal until they start making fun you.
No seriously, Tourism in SC helps pay my salary so I can in return write not so funny messages on Wonkette!
So everyone come to Mrytle Beach, there is lots to do, as long as you like golf and shopping and rednecks.
Sincerely
SC State Employees
Myrtle Beach went downhill when Hooters Air went out of business.
Potential Drudge: “State confronted by high-tech lynch mob after white man stands up to black man.”
Now I’m definitely canceling my long-awaited trip to South of the Border. Damn.
Fox News Light: Y’all got the Meher Baba center too. Can I golf there too?
Also: What the fuck is up with that shitty sugary iced tea the palmetto people insist on?
I don’t know why people would stop going to South Carolina as there’s supposed to be a lot to do there. I hear the Appalachian Trail is awfully nice.
I draw the line at boycotting Colbert. He is the best thing to come out of South Carolina since Charleston Chew. Mmmm, secessionlicious!
@Roommate: I will holiday in NC and urinate South of the Border.
Haha Jim. Your last line reminded me of that funny Dave Attell bit: “I was in Dayton, Ohio recently; anyone ever been to Dayton? You know what’s fun to do there? Pack up and get the fuck outta there, it’s boring.”
I see nothing wrong with Wilson. He aptly represents the slack-jawed yokels of his district.
Fox News Light: Us Wyomingites feel like that every day, but you realize after time that it’s not all that bad. AND! At least you have beaches. We have “reservoirs” and the North Platte, which is french for flat fucking river.
No, South Carolina is a fun place, especially if you’re accompanied by about 62,000 of your bestest friends all wearing Union army uniforms.
He should resign or face a firing squad.
“Fox News Light: Perhaps you should consider choosing a new state motto that doesn’t have the word “dum” in it.
Having a turkey as your state bird, and milk as your state beverage, probably doesn’t help things, either.
I’d recommend keeping the shag as your state dance, though. That shit is stand-up sex on a swivel!
Skip South Carolina: Buenos Aires, Argentina is for lovers!
Devil Pelosi GIF is way cooler. Just saying.
Fox News Light: You lie.
Holy Cow!!: That’s extreme. I was thinking more of a hybrid golden shower/bukakke treatment from the other members of congress.
Do they still have the bumper sticker I saw there in the 80s? No one can lick our ‘Cocks! If they would be a little more inviting, maybe we’d return.
Sounds like criminal syndicalism, a combination in restraint of trade, to me.
ForTheTurnstiles: What the hell is up with not having sweet tea everywhere fucking else? There are a lot of lame things about the South, but sweet tea, my friend, is a glorious exception!
Can we add Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas to the list while we’re at it? It only seems fair. North Carolina and Georgia have to stay because their hub airports make them impossible to cross off the list if you’re trying to get anywhere worthwhile.
Dear South Carolina:
Thanks for making us finally look decent by comparison. Also, Folly Beach? HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Sincerely,
Mississippi
Hey, stop hating on Myrtle Beach! I have many fond memories of spending the week after finals there, in my college days. Or rather, I assume I would have fond memories, if my memory-making cells hadn’t been destroyed by all the alcohol. Although I do recall that many of the rich prepster boys at my elite university looked waaay better in their oxford shirts than they did in swim trunks.
Fox News Light: Well, I like golf. One out of three ain’t bad.
Once, my wife and I played 72 holes in two days! Actually, it was about 71 holes–one of the holes at one golf course–the hole with the little windmill–was flooded by a broken pipe.
*rimshot*
groove: This may explain something about Southerner’s dentition, also. Now that I’m exiled to a Yankee enclave in the south, I can at least order unsweet tea (and really good tea, not that Nestea shit out of the soda machine) without being looked at like I have six heads.
S.C. sweet tea would be more appropriately used on pancakes. That’s some thick shit.
Oh? What’s this I see?
“No one has a claim to any further redress if the president of the United States accepts an apology, and he did,” said Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican. “So I stand with Joe Wilson. Let’s get on with the business of this House, and let’s start running the country instead of taking cheap political shots.”
Friends in low places, anyone?
I was in Myrtle Beach a few years ago, and tried to order a rare steak at some awful nat’l chain restaurant. The waitress told me that rare steaks are illegal in South Carolina. Really. What the fuck, SC?
CorkPopper: Yeah, I had a great time in Myrtle Beach. Though that was in Oregon.
DangerousLiberal: It’s just narsty down here. I order a cup of coffee and they give it to me half full, like I’m supposed to pour the contents of one cow and a pound of sugar in it or something. Sorry, Bible lady: this cracker takes it black, so fill the cup full and don’t fuck around unless you want both of us on the news tonight. I don’t get the sweet Southern palate.
bureaucrap: don’t forget Minne-sooo-ta, home of that loon Michelle Bachman, Sarah Palin’s evil twin.
boatapple: That just ain’t Amerikun! Even in California you can get rare steaks and medium-rare pork chops.
Fox News Light: Myrtle Beach. Sounds like it should be overrun with 80-year-olds named Dorothy and Betty. Hip it up, y’all! Tiffany Beach? Miley Beach? Cap’n Jack Sparrow Beach? Captain Morgan Beach? When I was standing in a line at The Louvre I heard a Texan say, “This place would be a lot better if Disney ran it.” Now THAT’s the demographic you want to appeal to.
Obviously if you want some tail in SC you need to home-school it, or hit the Argentine goody trail.
Whenever we go to the Southern part of the country, we always drive around South Carolina.
Is this Joe Wilson guy the guy who ran up on stage at that music video awards show the other night?
Oh, Jesus Christ. Listening to these assholes in the house makes me think congresscritters would make great soylent products.
Also sorta like Sarah Palin I can see Strom Thurmond raise his zombie-head from my office in Charlotte. Strom’s like Putie with zombie jungle fever. Additionally I am equidistant from the Jesse Helms center in Wingate. ‘m starting to wish Sherman had burnt a bigger swath.
I can’t see that a loss of tourist revenue is going to change anything. They’re already demonstrating against health care insurance that the majority desperately need.
Voting against their own best interests is a GOP tradition.
DangerousLiberal: My favorite BBQ on the south side of Atlanta serves sweet tea poured over crushed ice. You’d think it was a snowcone - and it is out of this world. Just remember to order a glass of water to, you know, take care of your thirst.
I drove through SC once. It was dark, and Tom Bodett forgot to leave the light on for me, or the cross burning.
I had more fun in one trip to Society Hill than in all my trips to Myrtle Beach. Those small towns in SC are chock full of my kind of crazy.
Meanwhile, I’m sure Glen Beck & Fat Arse Limbaugh will be promoting South Carolina as the primier vacation location. This could turn out pretty good, once all of the birther/freepers/truthers/teabaggers/…/…/… are assembled in SC, we can overfly SC with live nukes on a B-52, and oops! a couple got away.
Hey, Myrtle Beach is a national fucking treasure. Nowhere else in our country can one simultaneously view all living varieties of the elusive White Trash species in their natural habitat.
True story:
Years ago a friend and I took a trip to Myrtle Beach. We reserved a tee time at Myrtle Beach National, but we got a late start and didn’t get to the course until about 9:30am, although our tee time was for 9:15.
We asked the guy at the desk, a typical southern gentleman, politely but firmly informed us that he wasn’t allowing anyone else on the course since it was “too hot”. “Gentlemen,” he said, “my golf course is closed.”
This, of course, made no sense to either me or my friend, since there were already people on the course he wasn’t chasing off, and if we had gotten there 15 minutes earlier he would have let us go out, no matter how hot it was. Also, why should the golf course care how hot it was, and why would our playing on it make any difference.
But he held firm, no matter how pointless our long drive had been. He directed us to another course, where I guess they didn’t care how hot it was, or simply weren’t logically challenged.
It’s the same kind of thinking that leads people like Joe Wilson to wrongly shout at the President that he was a liar. First, you can only lie about something in retrospect.
So I’m on board with the SC vacation-avoidance citizen revolt. Their beaches are just so-so, anyway. I suggest the NC Outer Banks, anyway.
Also consider these three words:
Black. Biker. Week.
MB is an equal opportunity shithole.
Just took a good look at the photo.
Is that Fish’s hand checking out Nancy’s wattle?
In the good news department, the sale of white sheets in South Carolina has gone through the roof.
If there are jobs lost in the tourism industry due to a boycott, there are always openings as a South Carolina community organizer. And what is a South Carolina community organizer? It is a - wait for it - Grand Dragon. Or, alternately, an Imperial Wizard. Or Tea Klux Klanner, also. Shazam!
At least he didn’t challenge Obama to a duel.
Now, THAT would’ve been tacky.
Myrtle Beach: Home of The Shag.
That’s cool.
Dangerous: By any chance, are you black?
As a pro-Union South Carolina politician said when SC voted for secession in 1860:
“South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for a lunatic asylum.”
A hundred and fifty years later and it still rings true.
boatapple: Idaho too. Do not visit Idaho if you like eat.
“Tonight we have on special, sashimi grade tuna.”
“Great I’ll have it very rare.”
“We can only it serve well done.”
“????”
Look, there’s an easy way to end this: eye for an eye, tit for tat.
Next time Congressman Joe Wilson has some big, prestigious event in South Carolina where all attention is on HIM, at a quiet moment just have someone in the audience scream: “You SUCK!”
Or let out a gigantic fart.
RoscoePColtraine: Oh, sure tell me now- a week after my trip.
i’m curious though. do left wingnuts have more monetary outrage power than right wingnuts? i would assume yes, but i think an ‘outrage off’ could be key.
When I was 14, I saw dolphins off Hilton Head. That and the extensive mini-golf courses were the only reasons this childhood Thanksgiving trip was memorable.
You want to know what my problem with South Carolina is (in relation the rest of the South)? The state is like 30% African American (and make up an even larger part of the electorate, I believe), but you never hear about them. Short of Clyburn, it’s like they brushed all of their black citizens under the rug; quite frankly, they are completely invisible except when used as manuel labor as if it was still the 1850’s. You don’t see them in any leadership positions; no one ever asks them their opinion on anything.
Eat it! South Carolina. North Carolina is better, anyway. There are so many New Yorkers in Charlotte, now, they may as well just renamed in Brooklyn.
Jim89048: Isn’t South Carolina just a gigantic swamp of teh crazed? That’s what my Rough Guide says…
Dangerous: Your story reminds me of something that happened to me in Arizona a couple of months ago. I needed to get the oil changed on my car and at 4 p.m. I pulled into an establishment that specialized in that. I went up to the counter and told the man I needed an oil change. He shook his head “no.” “What do you mean, no,” sez I. “No. You’re here too late.” “It’s only 4,” I protested, pointing to the sign that said they were open until 6. His reply: “We did enough work for today.”
I proceeded to go to four other places and no one would change the oil “at that late hour.” The American Southwest: as lazy as the American Southeast since 1848.
Jukesgrrl: Sounds like France, no?
I am almost certain that I saw the missing link between ape and man in Myrtle Beach in 1986. The guy (I hope) was big, slouched over, and carpeted in body hair which made the absence of his shirt unfortunate. Bless his heart.
BTW in the Carolinas it is the law that barbeque joints must have tea sweet enough to make your teeth fuzzy. You’ve been warned.