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VisitMyrtleBeach.com

Posted on | January 15, 2012 | 16 Comments

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.
Having been in some media filing centers where we were lucky to get a cup of coffee, I just wanted to give a shout-out to the Myrtle Beach Conventions and Visitors Bureau, which provided the press a wonderful lunch today, with homestyle food and sweet iced tea. We didn’t get anything like this in Iowa or New Hampshire, that’s for sure.

A sand sculpture of the six Republican candidates who will debate here Monday night on Fox News.

The sign at the media hospitality tent.

My 12-year-old son Jefferson, serving as my assistant during this trip, chows down on fried chicken. You see my own plate — roast beef, rice, green beans and broccoli cheese casserole — in the foreground.

Category: South Carolina

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16 Responses to “VisitMyrtleBeach.com”

  1. richard mcenroe
    January 15th, 2012 @ 2:46 pm

    Y’all can’t get a good southron boy to drink sweet tea?

  2. JeffS
    January 15th, 2012 @ 3:37 pm

    Yeah, really!  First thing I noticed, after the Smile of Repletion from Jefferson.

  3. Adjoran
    January 15th, 2012 @ 4:18 pm

    Well, at least Coke is headquartered in Atlanta, which was once a Southern city.

    Broccoli and cheese casserole?  In South Carolina?  Not that I have anything against it, just never seen it here before.  Who catered this affair anyway?

  4. Adjoran
    January 15th, 2012 @ 4:59 pm

    In today’s news, lest you get the idea there are sane people in charge down here, the largest paper in the state endorsed . . . Huntsman.

    Yeah, you read it correctly.  Of course, McClatchy owns them so they can’t be expected to make any sense.  The locally-owned Post & Courier is just as bad; the left has taken over the newspaper business, which is hastening its demise.

    http://tinyurl.com/7qbqsr7

  5. Mike G.
    January 15th, 2012 @ 5:59 pm

     Hey, us Southrons are known for our hospitality and mostly good manners.

  6. Quartermaster
    January 15th, 2012 @ 6:09 pm

    At least RSM is drinking the national beverage of the Confederacy instead of that Atlanta swill.

    Friends in the Columbia area call “The State” “The Snake” for it’s Yankee proclivties. last I heard it was a Gannett paper.

    I hear Gannett is having cash flow problems 🙂

  7. Anonymous
    January 15th, 2012 @ 6:28 pm

    Sometimes my dyslexia provides insightful anomalies.
    When I saw the pic of the media hospitality tent billboard
    I read it twice and saw Mental Retardation Hospital each time before my brain unscrambled the mass of M’s and H’s and R’s

  8. newrouter
    January 15th, 2012 @ 6:49 pm

    i’m glad to see young mr. jefferson doing his part to save the poley bears

  9. Adjoran
    January 15th, 2012 @ 7:23 pm

    No, it’s McClatchy, which is like Gannett except without a soul.

  10. Bob Belvedere
    January 15th, 2012 @ 7:40 pm

    The sand sculpture is a nice idea, but, look at the full-size version of the picture: Perry looks like Reagan, Santorum like John Kerry, the guy to Perry’s right looks like Teddy Kennedy – only Newt looks like Newt.

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  12. Stephen Gordon
    January 16th, 2012 @ 3:28 pm

    Roll Tide, Jefferson.

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