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FSTV Newswire 7/18/11: GOP Targets South Carolina
For Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination, South Carolina is key to wooing southern primary voters. But American Independent writer Sofia Resnick finds that one conservative group is using its money and influence in the state to try and steer candidates toward its right-wing social agenda. She joins us via skype from Washington, D.C.
Email this pageGRITtv: S. C. Tea Party: Previews of 2012?
Michele Bachmann and Nikki Haley joined a Tea Party crowd in Columbia, South Carolina to talk politics--and a Democratic consultant was in the crowd, talking to rally attendees.
GRITtv: The F Word: What We Mean When We Say States' Rights
This week sees the 150th anniversary of the secession of South Carolina—the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. And of course, the anniversary brings with it the predictable repetition of myths: the South seceded because those Northern elites wouldn't let them govern themselves! It was about states' rights and freedom. Right? Author Edward Ball, who comes from a slave-owning southern family, reminds us that that's not exactly the case. Simply read the states' secession declarations: from Georgia to Mississippi, and of course, South Carolina, they all name continuing slavery as their top concern. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Lizz Winstead: The Candidate Said What?
Election 2010: it just keeps getting weirder. Now that the primaries are mostly over, a motley crew of Tea Partiers and abstinenceaholics are taking aim at Congress, and some of what they have to say is hilarious--or would be, if these weren't the nominees of one of the two major parties in the U.S., and the other party hadn't managed to alienate a good chunk of its base. Lizz Winstead joins guest host John Fugelsang to look--and laugh--at Jim DeMint, Christine O'Donnell, Meg Whitman, and more as we get closer and closer to voting time.
GRITtv: Samhita Mukhopadhyay: What Nikki Haley Represents
Two weeks ago Nikki Haley won 49% of the vote for the Republican gubernatorial primary in South Carolina. If she wins she will be joining Bobby Jindal as another Republican South Asian American leader in a Southern state. Does this mean Republicans are better at accepting South Asians?
GRITtv: Katrina vanden Heuvel & Melissa Harris-Lacewell: The Year of the Woman?
The victories of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman in California, Sharron Angle in Nevada, and Nikki Haley in South Carolina in last week's primaries are being hailed as a victory for women. Yet do conservative, anti-government women's candidacies spell gains for women nationwide? Or will the cuts they threaten to make to government programs hurt more women than their candidacies help? To kick off our new Monday collaboration with The Nation magazine, we are joined in studio by editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and columnist Melissa Harris-Lacewell, who break down the election results, the real history of these faux populists, and also report back on a Nation investigation in New Orleans that has led to indictments.
GRITtv: Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Identity Politics Problems
Melissa Harris-Lacewell of The Nation explains that when people buck the narrative of identity politics, they are immediately credited with being "independent thinkers."
GRITtv: Kevin Alexander Gray: Waiting for Lightning to Strike
"The successful movement is always going to be ordinary people doing extraordinary things," says Kevin Alexander Gray, somewhat of an expert on social movements. A longtime civil rights organizer and resident of South Carolina, Gray has been involved in movements from the Rainbow Coalition to campaigns to organize class action suits against banks. Gray joined us in studio to talk about his new book, Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics, the myth of post-racial America, James Brown, and why he calls Obama's administration "the Novocaine presidency."
GRITtv: Rural South Suffers Stigma of HIV
From RH Reality Check, this video looks at the state of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in South Carolina. Much of the state is poor and rural and suffers from a lack of both proper health care funds and proper education for the population. Activists in the state note that the stigma and the lack of information are still as bad in parts of South Carolina as they were in 1981, when the virus first hit the American consciousness. Activists are calling for a massive public health initiative to slow the spread of HIV and to treat people who have already contracted the virus.
