South Carolina GOP Gov. Nikki Haley Accused Of Being “Sexist” For Calling Female Reporter a “Little Girl”…
Wait, Nikki Haley is a woman?
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s first woman governor called a woman reporter in Charleston a “little girl” over an article detailing at least $127,000 in taxpayer dollars spent by the governor and other state officials 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 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.”
On Friday, Haley redoubled the criticism, but said she regretted the personal remark.
“The story painted a grossly inaccurate picture and was unprofessionally done, but my ‘little girl’ comment was inappropriate and I regret that,” Haley said. “Everyone can have a bad day. I’ll forgive her bad story, if she’ll forgive my poor choice of words.”
That’s off the mark, too, said Drucilla Barker, director and professor of women’s studies at the University of South Carolina. “Oh, my God. I find that almost as offensive as calling her a little girl. It was an easy way to demean a reporter and take away her credibility. Little girls are sent from the room so adults can speak,” Barker said.
“That reporter doesn’t need Nikki Haley’s forgiveness,” Barker said. “She should apologize for using the words ‘little girl.’”
Rick Nelson, the newspaper’s content editor, declined comment on the issue.
Melanie Balog, a columnist for the paper, called Haley’s criticism “catty.”
“No, I’m talking about how you stooped to a condescending, catty low Thursday in talking about another woman,” Balog wrote. “The governor of the great state of South Carolina called another woman a little girl?”
Bill Rogers, executive director of the South Carolina Press Association, said it was “a poor choice of words and its’ a sexist personal attack rather than a response to the story. I think it’s ironic coming from the first woman governor to call an award-winning journalist a little girl.”
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“Bitch” would have been more appropriate than “girl”.
And i suppose that Snoop Dog is a ‘white racist’?
if she is younger than the Gov, then what’s the problem. Yet, if she is an osama obama zombie it IS a compliment.
So, a completely inaccurate hit piece on the governor is acceptable, but a jibe at the one who wrote it is not?
These people have too much time on their hands.
Each and every one of us should go to the website and on every article written by this cow (how you like that?), we should use the term “little girl” in commenting on her article.
Sunday’s article by Renee Dudley in The Post and Courier of Charleston: (http://bit.ly/oMjHxE).
A *controversy* manufactured purely out of whole cloth.
At least she wasn’t racist! How thin-skinned people have become, especially the ones who tell others to be tolerant.
didn’t the affable charlie rangel call one of the fox hosts “just a pretty girl “during an interview when she persisted for an answer…….crickets from every msm outlet
These people are so eager to label Republicans with whatever slur they can, but they’re so inept that they can’t even do it right. It’s like the Obama Administration in a nutshell.
maybe the chief editor needs a copy of the news paper shoved down his throat
yea, but ‘barbarians at the gates’, ‘take them out’, ‘sons of bitches’, ‘go to hell’….all that’s cool, right?
I must have missed their outraged editorials calling for “war” against the “sons-a-bitches”, or their condemnation of articles demeaning Sarah Palin’s family or Michelle Bachmann’s credentials. Or any number of public statements by Joe Biden, such as his “barbarians at the gates” speech this past weekend. Or any number of paranoid ravings about those “violent tea baggers”.
Yep. Must have missed those.
Just a wild guess, but I’m willing to bet the little girl had nothing to say about Moochelles trip to Spain, or her taking separate planes both ways to Marthas Vineyard, or the cost of Moochelles coming trip to Bali.
*** That’s off the mark, too, said Drucilla Barker, director and professor of women’s studies at the University of South Carolina. “Oh, my God. I find that almost as offensive as calling her a little girl. ***
Drucilla Barker’s use of “Oh, my God,” to be the most offensive thing in this whole article.
I proudly contributed to Nikki Haley’s campaign.Maybe one day she will run for higher office or even take Miss Lindsey Graham’s place in the U.S. Senate.
Moral equivalence at its worst.
Damn my last comment was meant for the Turkey-Israel tjread!
So, where was this paper when Barky called a reporter “Sweetie, I’ll get to you”??
Now that’s sexism! straight up!
Why do I picture a blood sucking vampire when I hear the name Drucilla?
“little girl” “little girl” “little girl”
Did I say “little girl”?
There, I said, “little girl” because that is the demeanor of these people., like little kids.
Haley called it right on her maturity level.
At least Ricky Nelson declined comment….
Just emailed the libtard. Feel free: rdudley@postandcourier.com
Speaking as a transplanted Midwesterner (what locals refer to as a Yankee) living in the South, I can say with confidence what Gov. Haley WANTED to say was along the lines of “That little girl is just trying to do her job, bless her heart.”
If you don’t speak Southern, google that phrase “bless her heart”.
“model217 says:
September 9, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Why do I picture a blood sucking vampire when I hear the name Drucilla?”
Guess you were a fan of Buffy’s.
“Little girls are sent from the room so adults can speak,” Barker said.”
Honey, if the shoe fits….thus the liberal/and everybody else divide. One side iis petulant little children who change the rules to suit themselves and on the other side is well, us, the adults (sometimes-speaking for myself only!)
And “sexist”? Is this guy somehow related to drooling moron Ed Schultz? Y’all remember Special Ed calling Dr. Walter Williams racist for his comments about welfare effect on black families. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the good Dr Williams:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Bf3swwIJC3Y/TWwJ6CA9ZEI/AAAAAAAABtA/zcecyuns52k/s400/Walter-E_-Williams.jpg
And yes, Governor Haley IS woman….and one helluva’ HOT woman at that!!!!
RTS
the only good lawyer is…
Wait for the big feeding freinzie to start and the vultures and sharks realy dislike these journalists since they dont care for these competers
how about?……..BIG BABY! buh buh Whaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Another 30 seconds of my life wasted reading leftist drivel. Arghhh.
@countessdrucilla
Exactly!
Like OMG! Catfight! Keep pluckin the chicken vaunted 4th estate.
little girl = biatch = bitch. I use it all the time. Mostly about liberal men.
bless your heart—-A polite way to say “go to hell”
Don’t forget the alternative “well, bless your pea-pickin heart!”
this totally makes me like, respect and support Gv. Haley MORE.
Did you sock puppets bother yourselves with reading the reporter’s article before getting on the attack wagon or was that too intellectually strenuous? To spend a week in Europe with five star accomodations must be nice when it’s the taxpayer forking up the dinero.
The Governor’s alleged indiscretions on the taxpayer’s dime are incidental to the story, but not the story itself, Christo. Bless your heart.
The reporter tried to gig a politician for something, the politician was dismissive to the reporter and her “story”, the reporter got her panties in a wad because she’s a big girl who’s smart. She’s smart and she wants respect!
@Christo
As with The State or The Post and Courier, I wouldn’t wrap fish in either one.
Bless your pea-picken’ heart.
yikes, Nikki Haley blew it…twice, not just a “bad day,” but a really bad attitude revealed in her sort-of apology…not a good sign
Hasn’t Sarah Palin been called a c**t by liberals? Like, many times?
Sorry, this doesn’t even appear as a blip on the screen compared to that.