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Posted on 05/26/2010 4:56:52 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Ben Smith of the Politico called Will Folks “credible” when the “inappropriate physical relationship” story broke. Michael Brendan Doughtery called him “revered” and said “His reputation since leaving the governor’s office has only increased. He has become South Carolina’s essential political blogger.”
Like the only two movie critics quoted on a movie scoring 5% at Rotten Tomatoes, those quotes may come back to . . . . hahahahahaha . . . . who am I kidding — there’s no accountability for the circle of young beltway journalist-pundits who hang together and consider diversity of thought ordering two different things at Ben’s Chili Bowl while discussing how actual conservatives suck.
In any event, as things start dribbling out about Will Folks and what he may or may not have and may or may not have done, a more and more disturbing picture of him is taking shape — we’ve got some stalker vibe going on. Maybe ‘inappropriate physical contact’ happened after all. I get a real “collecting toenails and hair and building a ‘companion’ to share late night microwave burritos in the basement with” vibe that would make even a San Franciscan nervous. Maybe.
In fact, this picture of Kos had been the gold standard for stalker vibe among the bloggerati and we may now have a new gold standard.
With a fist in Nikki Haley’s face and some totally creepy . . . . I’m at a loss here . . . . creepiness (?) going on, I present to you the Will Folks video interview of Nikki Haley that Folks apparently put together himself.
This is from last year.
And Verum Serum gets all the credit for putting this on the RedState radar.
What’s he doing smuggling in not one but several “jokes” about beating up Nikki Haley in this video?
If he’s innocent, I guess I sort of understand that he doesn’t think he should be branded as a woman-beater.. and yet… Does that extend to making jokes about giving Haley a taste of his knuckles?
I guess so.
And then he has a shot of “Nikki Haley” shuddering in fear.
WTF?
Now, parting thought here: I have it on very good authority from a third party group not connected to any of the campaigns that Folks was trying to sell this story last year. SELL IT.
Also of note:
In 2008, Will Folks invaded the privacy of a conservative Ohio University student who wrote for TownHall.com and talked about performing sexual acts on her…
http://www.redstate.com/athensrunaway/2010/05/25/the-sleazy-scummy-scandal-smearing-of-nikki-haley/
The only thing that matters is if he is telling the truth. And he has a very small window to prove his salacious tale.
It is not the only thing that matters, but it is big (that he was trying to sell the story last year belies his current pious reluctancy, and leads one to need more than just his word on this alleged affair).
But he has now released his “evidence,” and even Salon.com was forced to admit he has proven nothing other than a rumor of an affair was being investigated by reporters last year (which now appears to be a rumor Folks himself started in an attempt to sell the story).
In other words, his “evidence” proved he was blowing smoke, and was lieing when he claimed he had proof of an affair.
So he lied about having proof of an affair,
Lied about not wanting anyone to know about it,
and lied about needing to get out in front of a rumor about him having sex with Haley because of his current girlfriend, who he did not even know at the time of the alleged affair.
He showed all of his cards, and even the lefty blogs are calling “bullsh*t” now.
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Wonder if Folks will try to buy a house next door to Haley?
He either has the evidence or he doesn't. All this gnashing of teeth won't effect that. If he does, she's screwed. If he doesn't, he's screwed. So far what he released seems to be a teaser for what he claims he has to prove the affair, and to set up the timeline and motivation.
My guess is that he's been negotiating the whole time.
No, his ‘evidence’ does not prove anything, one way or another. Other than he’s stupid. But we already knew that. IF he has the goods, then so be it, but get it out there. If he doesn’t do that ASAP, then we’ll know he’s lying & he needs to be tarred and feathered, as well as sued by Nikki for slander.
He would have provided the proof weeks ago.
Folks has now resorted to demanding Haley make public every phone call, text, and e-mail of her office for the last couple of years, knowing full well that SC destroys them after 18 months.
He's looking for an out. “The evidence was there, honest! But the State destroyed the e-mails after 18 months!”
Everyone called his bluff, and he failed to deliver. Now it is coming out that he was trying to sell this story last year, and that the source of the rumor that stirred this up recently was B.J. Boling, who is currently working on the Barrett campaign.
He had nothing to sell last year, and he has nothing to sell now. He's not negotiating anything.
We’ll know soon enough. He either has nothing, or is pretty shrewd.
You are putting way to much faith in Haley’s innocence at this point. There’s no sense in trying to spin it. Either has soemthing or he doesn’t. Everyone in the email chain certainly thinks he does.
IIRC, I thought he said he had exchanges from her and would release them later but maybe that's changed. The last thing I saw about the texts and emails was that Folks handed over a laptop to retrieve hard drive data and he requested records from the cell phone provider.
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