The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Dan Riehl to Will Folks: ‘How Would You Like to Become the Next Jesse Griffin?’

Readers who fondly remember the takedown of anti-Palin blogger Jesse “Gryphen” Griffin will want to pay close attention to Riehl World View next week, because Dan Riehl isn’t a guy who makes idle threats: Nikki Haley can speak for herself. . . . Meanwhile, the voters of SC seem to want more substance and less […]

VIDEO: ‘They Unleashed a Tiger,’ Haley Tells South Carolina Press Conference

The Republican gubernatorial candidate seemed cheerful and confident in this Friday interview with reporters: About her phone calls with Will Folks: “You can ask any member of my staff. When they work for me, I expect work from them, whether it’s through e-mail or text or anything else. I work my staff hard and I […]

More on the Bauer/Shealy Angle in the South Carolina GOP Sex Scandal

Erick Erickson’s report — indicating that GOP gubernatorial candidate Andre Bauer and his “shrewd” consultant, Rod Shealy, are the sources pushing the Folks-Haley story — has been ridiculed as less-than-conclusive by Allahpundit.  However, there is more evidence indicating a Bauer connection to the accusations by GOP blogger/consultant Will Folks. A South Carolina blogger suggests that Republican lieutenant-governor candidate Larry Richter — whom […]

Background to the Carolina Scandal:
Will Folks, Jake Knotts and the ‘Hit List’; UPDATE: Who Is Rod Shealy?

In August 2007, according to the (Columbia S.C.) Free Times, former Mark Sanford staffer Will Folks had an unscheduled meeting with Gov. Sanford in which Folks reportedly proposed a “hit list” to defeat a number of incumbent legislators in the 2008 elections. According to the Free Times, the “hit list” memo that Folks subsequently developed […]

Nikki Haley Interview: ‘Will Folks? Complete Douchebag! No Way, Jose!’ UPDATE: Team Romney Double-Cross?

Actually, the video clip of the interview at Charleston’s WCIV-TV was screwed up, so I can’t be sure that those were her exact words, but the station does report that she’s denying the whole thing: Haley, who is still determined, says it’s nothing more than politics. “It worries me because I think this is what […]

VIDEO: Carolina Sex God in TV Interview

Always reluctant to speak to the media about his shagadelic mojo, Will Folks gives an interview to WCBD-TV: He rehashes the “protect my family” excuse, which has never made any sense at all. How would a media revelation of an affair be more hurtful to Folks’ family than his self-exposure? He reminds me of the […]

CNN: ‘There Is Nothing in the Correspondence Proving Folks’ Claim That He Had an “Inappropriate Physical Relationship” with Haley’

They buried the lede in the sixth paragraph, but that’s the payoff: The blogger claiming to have had an affair with South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley has posted a series of text messages between himself and Haley’s campaign manager that appear to show the two men colluding about how to handle the forthcoming scandal. […]

OMG: Did You See What Haley Accuser Will Folks Wrote About Ashley Herzog?

Jesse Hathaway is a friend of a friend. I encouraged Jesse with his blog, Athens Runaway. Jesse went to college with blogger Ashley Herzog, whom I met at CPAC 2008. We’ll let Jesse take the story from there: Folks has… a bad attitude towards women. And that’s understating it. To give an example, he stalked a […]

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