Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Posted by Bill Smith at 11:43 AM | 20 comments

when kids who go to these schools grow up and can't get a decent job because of their lack of education, can they sue her?
 

Indeed. Would only that they could. I tell you, the absolute arrogance and hubris of this woman knows no bounds. Her maniacal obsession with and rabid dedication to the failing-and-getting-worse public education monstrosity in this state renders her unwilling and unable to register any concern for kids whose lives are being ruined. She is perfectly willing to sacrifice as many young lives as may be necessary to see to it that the beast is fed, as long as the young lives are kept impersonal and reduced to statistics on a page, and not any of her personal kin. This is an evil woman. And she gets to say whatever she wants in the pages of "thestatemulletwrapper" with the happy support of Brad and the other Druids on Shop Road. Dave
 

Dave, you have hit the nail on the head once more. She is totally obsessed. Doesn't anyone over there realize she is totally unbalanced? Her columns alone should be enough to drive off any thinking reader. She has two things to write about ( now that Richard Eckstrom is in office and no longer a ready target for her vitriol) ,how much she hates SCRG, and how much she adores Bill Cotty.
 

Yeah Jake. I used to call people like her "a mile wide and an inch deep," but Scoppe isn't even that...she's an INCH wide and an inch deep. Her entire repertoire consists of the couple of things you mentioned, and then foaming regularly about how we are undertaxed and must stay the course on public education. That's it...that is all she's got. Surely if anyone at "thestatemulletwrapper" cared to, they could find someone at least minimally qualified...or, failing that, minimally interesting, to write for them. Dave
 

She is obviusly on the payroll of the Education Establishment and their failing schools, which trap our children in their indoctrination centers. The liberal, communist media at its worst, supporting the insidious teacher's union for kickbacks.
 

Jake,

I've seen The Scoppe Cow in action and I can attest: she is indeed shallow but she's a whole lot wider than an inch!

Porky
 

Scoppe didn't say Sanford "repudiated school choice" or that the eminent domain amendment "was not a victory for property rights supporters." Such assertions would be patently absurd, and easily rebutted by even a third-rate blogger.

As a point of fact, she wrote that vouchers weren't mentioned by Sanford as part of his mandate and that New Yorker Howard Rich had no hand whatsoever in getting the eminent domain amendment passed in SC.

You based this entire post around two things that Scoppe never wrote. Why?
 

Lookie Lookie, a bunch of crackpots getting together to reassure each other that what they all believe has merit! Cindi keeps on hitting the nail on the head, and you guys keep whining about it.
 

Lookie Lookie, a bunch of crackpots getting together to reassure each other that what they all believe has merit!

Wow. Just wow.

That's a real high level of contribution to the discussion.

Could this be Cindi herself coming over to comment?

Folks--stay away from rude comments about how she looks. That is rude and unfair.
 

Upstate Voice, please give me your definition of a "Libertarian," and how they are so bad for this state/country. Also, if you'll take notice, no actual Libertarian candidate received money from Mr. Rich.

You've been reading the incorrect, anti-Libertarian BS in The State newspaper for far too long.
 

UV,

"The rich make no contribution to the good of the whole."

But aren't you claiming that this Howie Rich guy is making a HUGE contribution? I mean, you're definition of the good of the whole is way off from mine (and about half of the GOP in SC).

You guys make statements like "the government will be spending money on private schools through school choice" and then contracdict yourself by saying stuff like:

"Libertarian / Fake Republican - Spend no money."

Well, which is it? It obviosly can't be both.

You are confused and confusing.
 

Gross is Howard Rich's mouthpiece? That's hilarious! The stupidest most hilarious thing I've heard in a while. Thanks UV!
 

National Review has found that lefty bloggers are getting paid to blog and comment on blogs.

That must be why lefty bloggers are addicted to conspiracy theories about behind-the-scenes manipulation. They have firsthand knowledge of it.

++GregHounddog
 

Confused and Confusing (UV),

Howie Rich, according to all the blogs out there is rather new on the scene in SC. Sanford and Eckstrom are not. They were both elected long before anyone raised a stink about this Rich guy. I won't argue on Karen Floyd since she is a newcomer.

Could it possibly be that he's supporting people that align to some of his views? Oh no. That couldn't be it at all. Then there wouldn't be such a conspiracy.

The funny thing is that you really think you're much more informed than others out there. Now you're dragging Josh into the founding of SCRG? You may want to do a little thing that we call "research" unless your desire is to continue to feed the blogosphere gossiping rants.
 

You based this entire post around two things that Scoppe never wrote. Why?

Because I'm bored, that's why. Scoppe was also lying when she wrote that Grady Patterson won. That is patently false - Ravenel won.

Scoppe tells lie after lie after lie in my imagination, and I see it as my duty to refute these imaginary lies.

In summary, grape my fizzle Amadeus.
 

To anonymous 11/30/2006 05:10:45 PM AKA anonymous 2/02/2006 02:42:52 PM AKA "Ross Shealy,"
Hi. I would like to declare, as owner of this humble website, that you win. This is officially the funniest sentence ever posted on this blog:

In summary, grape my fizzle Amadeus.

Let me declare, with all due modesty, that you are clearly the funniest blogger in the history of the SC blogosphere.

Unfortunately, your reading comprehension isn't nearly as good as your sense of humor. I know the name of some good literacy tutors who can help you understand the words you read. In the mean time, let me see if I can be of assistance.

You claim that Cindi Scoppe never said that Sanford was repudiating school choice. While she did not use the word "repudiate," she made a statement that was functionally synonymous here:

If Mr. Sanford planned to mount a massive campaign to defund the public schools, this would have been the time to announce it.

Next, Ross Shealy, you continue your stalker-like obsession with Howie Rich. You claim that Scoppe's point is that being a property rights activist during an election season where property rights were vindicated at the polls doesn't prove that you had anything to do with the victory.

This strains credulity. If I contribute to cause X (note to Scoppe and Shealy--Freedom of speech is still legal in America) and cause X wins at the polls, did I have anything to do with it?

Um, the claim is more-or-less unfalsifiable. Here, let me use smaller words so you can understand. Scoppe's column doesn't make any sense. Unless there's a counter-example like a parallel universe in which the Eminent Domain ballot initiative loses, we can't figure out who or what caused the election outcome.

That's why all the posturing over the Karen Floyd election is a bunch of bullcrap. Was it School Choice? Was it Willy Horton ads? Was it the stolen votes in Sumter county? Was it K-Flo's inexperience?

The answer is "yes." And "no." And "the question doesn't make sense."

Anyway, why am I trying to explain this to you? I wish you'd just concentrate barbecue and comedy. Those are the areas where you shine.
 

UV,

That's about the most unpatriotic thing anyone can say. What respect I had for you has greatly dwindled (seriously).
 

Married man's minivan,

You had respect for him? Any at all? This whacko has been wasting everyone's time by posting statements he can't prove all over sc political blogs. Someone needs to restrict his internet access.

Jake
 

You're right Jake. I'll quit responding to his gossip. I try [hard] to respect all people. Some will never extend the courtesy back.
 

All of you demonstrate that the public school system is failing, not because it is "public", or because we don't have "school choice" as you define the term, but because you don't know how to write without slandering Cyndi Scoppes or anyone else who disagrees with your unsophisticated reasoning and desperate logic. A resort to name calling is the last refuge of the unschooled. Ah, there's that school issue again! Do you think if you'd received a better education, you might have been able to fashion your arguments more effectively; or is it more likely that you would never have wrapped your little minds around your little regressive ideas in the first place? Yea, it's the system's fault all right.