From social security to push polling to his love of soggy southern green beans, Fred Thompson held court at a local diner here in Columbia this morning in front of a standing room only crowd of about 100 people or so.
I wanted to share some emails coming in to The Brody File on the volatile race down here in South Carolina.
My political producer, Robin Mazyck is at it again. She shoved me out of the way to guest write this blog. Right now we're in Columbia, S. Carolina covering all the uncertainty that is the GOP presidential race.
You just know the suicidally PC Brits are going to grant him the visa too. You just know it. From The Hindustan Times:
I write this blog from the swanky Capitol Hill Club in downtown Columbia, South Carolina. It's so swanky that I had to be ushered through the back door because I was wearing jeans and management didn't want to upset the patrons. At that point I told them that I should go through the restaurant the regular way because I was The Brody File. They said "who"? I repeated again with emphasis that I was The Brody File. They then gave me a blank stare and said "so what".
National Religious Freedom Day in the United States is an event that celebrates one of our most cherished freedoms in America. It was on this day, January 16, in 1786 that the Virginia State Assembly adopted Thomas Jefferson's famous Virginia Stature for Religious Freedom. This landmark legislation became the foundation for the freedom of religion granted under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
I received a vivid lesson about fire and fuel one warm, summer day. Lying on our backs in the tall grass behind my house with a couple of buddies, stalks of dried grass hanging out of our mouths, we told stories and enjoyed ourselves. Life couldn’t have been sweeter.
The crowd was packed inside the ballroom in the Russell House here on campus. I’m estimated the crowd at roughly around 500. They’re all chanting, “Let’s Go Mitt” I have covered many Romney events and the first thing I noticed that was very different were the signs behind him. The big placard read, “Washingt
You knew these push polls were going to surface again. And indeed they have in South Carolina. They are being made in support of Mike Huckabee but the Huckabee campaign is none too happy about it. Read below from The Associated Press:
If you want to know what sort of storyline may develop in South Carolina, The Brody File has a little insight. A Senior Campaign Advisor to Mike Huckabee told me the following this afternoon: