Staff reports | Gov. Nikki Haley earned a lot of accolades for moderate comments, particularly on immigration, during the nationally-televised GOP response which she gave following President Obama’s final State of the Union address.
Haley said the country needed to head in a “new direction,” but added that Democrats like Obama weren’t totally to blame for the nation’s problems.
“We need to recognize our contributions to the erosion of the public trust in America’s leadership,” she said. “We need to accept that we’ve played a role in how and why our government is broken. And then we need to fix it.”
And in a reference to presidential candidates like Donald Trump, she said the nation needed to resist the temptation to follow the “angriest voices,” a criticism that prompted outlandish conservative pundit Ann Coulter to tweet that Trump should deport Haley.
Immigration also provided the background for a criticism that Haley ignored the nation’s history.
When speaking to reporters, she said, “When you’ve got immigrants who are coming here legally, we’ve never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion. Let’s not start that now,” she said while speaking to reporters in South Carolina.
Critics reminded Haley on social media that Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution originally included the “Three-Fifths Compromise” which valued slaves as worth three-fifths of a white person. Her comment also ignored Jim Crow laws passed after the Civil War that disenfranchised blacks and others.
Out with the old, in with the new
The good folks at S.C. Educational Television (SCETV) will complete a roll-out of a new logo next week on its website and other media. It will replace the blue and green logo that shows an image of a person reaching for stars next to the letters “etv”
The network, which offers three stations for free across the state, has spent a lot of time modernizing its look, officials said. For the last few weeks, you might have seen the new logo — a stylized, modern to-tone drawing of the outline of the state’s boundaries with the letters “etv” in a hip, sans-serif font. At right you can see the new logo.
We Can Do Better, South Carolina!