I Doubt He’s Telling the Truth, But Even if He is SC Blogger Will Folks is Still a Douchebag
Morgen on May 24, 2010 at 8:38 pm
So earlier today a South Carolina political blogger that no one has ever heard of (Will Folks) claimed that several years ago he had an affair with Nikki Haley, the leading Republican candidate for governor in SC, who was married at the time.
According to Folks, his admission was necessitated by the fact that someone with inside knowledge of the affair had been leaking details to the media. While Folks’ write-up seems credible on the surface, Haley has adamantly denied the allegation, castigating it as an attempt to derail her campaign just two weeks before the SC primary.
According to Folks’ own account, and other sources, he has been a strong supporter of the Haley campaign, which would seem to lend credibility to his assertion. On the flip side, multiple sources with inside knowledge of SC politics and the parties involved have expressed strong doubts about Folks’ credibility.
My gut is with Ace on this one…I think Folks is a despicable, lying, attention whore. For one, if he is telling the truth then you would expect the information he claims had been leaked to the media to be released in fairly short-order. Except that it hasn’t, most likely because he was the leaker. As supporting evidence I would direct you to either one of his earlier blogs, which demonstrate Folks to be the type of blogger who writes stories about himself in the third person, and to generally be a pompous, self-promoting douche bag.
Two, if he has been such a big supporter of Nikki Haley’s campaign, then why did he post this demeaning mock video interview with her last June?
The threats of violence are especially unfunny given that Folks has a prior conviction for domestic violence.
I may be proven to be wrong, but nothing about this story – or Folks – strikes me as credible.
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May 25, 2010 @ 10:24 amWow… that is sick. and it was posted on You Tube 11 months ago by this wacko. How could he be a big supporter? This guy seems to be a little bit over the edge.
May 25, 2010 @ 6:15 pm[...] Verum Serum gets all the credit for putting this on the RedState [...]
May 25, 2010 @ 6:45 pm[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Verum Serum, Sister Toldjah. Sister Toldjah said: @VerumSerum digs up disturbing animated vid done by Will Folks where he pretends 2 interview @NikkiHaley http://is.gd/cplpO #Creeptastic #SC [...]
May 25, 2010 @ 8:23 pm[...] in some more recent FITSNews posts about Nikki Haley.UPDATE: Via Red State, Ace of Spades and Verum Serum, here’s the creeptastic video in which Will Folks simulates a rather disturbing interview [...]
May 25, 2010 @ 10:48 pm[...] Creepy Video made by blogger Will Folks found by Verum Serum: [...]
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May 26, 2010 @ 12:23 am[...] an author at Verum Serum, came across a mock interview video that Will Folks created last year. It’s supposed to [...]
May 26, 2010 @ 7:08 amIf he was a “supporter”, he’d keep his fucking mouth shut even if he did have the affair. Duh. What an ass.
May 26, 2010 @ 7:53 amThis guy is creepy, and I’m picking up huge vibrations on my bullshit detector.
May 26, 2010 @ 9:30 amIf anything, I think he’s probably a stalker with vivid delusions.
May 26, 2010 @ 9:37 amIt looks like someone’s using this guy to try and derail a surging campaign and a strong female candidate. At the very least, she now has to spend time responding to this stuff which keeps her from focusing on the issues we care about. And all right before the primary. How convenient.
I did read 2 newspaper articles re: this guy’s domestic abuse from Fall 2005. No way would Jenny Sanford and Palin not know about this whack job and his past; Governor Sanford even told the paper at the time that the domestic attack by Folk was ugly, unnacceptable, etc.
This guy really looks like a media-whore profit monger, maybe sent in to gunk up the primary. A loose cannon and ex-GOP spokesman trying to stay in the spotlight and earn a few benjamins.
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May 26, 2010 @ 11:14 am[...] he produced last year that’s got the stalker alarm sounding at Ace and Red State? (Credit Verum Serum for rediscovering it.) And what’s with this? Folks said the proof exists in e-mails and texts [...]
May 26, 2010 @ 1:50 pm[...] I disagree, we need to stick with Ms. Haley to put a stop to this Axelrod-tactic or the Democrats will keep using it more and [...]
May 26, 2010 @ 3:57 pmOh, this is nothing. I had a homosexual affair with folks years ago. We also enjoyed the occasional goat.
May 26, 2010 @ 10:30 pm[...] that just after Haley announced her gubernatorial bid, Folks posted a mock interview in which he threatened her with violence: You need to learn to count. And while you’re at it, shut your mouth. Don’t you know I beat up [...]
June 6, 2010 @ 9:10 pm[...] that just after Haley announced her gubernatorial bid, Folks posted a mock interview in which he threatened her with violence: You need to learn to count. And while you’re at it, shut your mouth. Don’t you know I beat up [...]
June 7, 2010 @ 9:55 am[...] he wasn’t stalking college Republican co-eds, Folks was fantasizing about beating up Nikki Haley. Ha ha, joking about beating up women is [...]
July 30, 2010 @ 5:32 pm[...] he wasn’t stalking college Republican co-eds, Folks was fantasizing about beating up Nikki Haley. Ha ha, joking about beating up women is [...]
July 31, 2010 @ 5:41 am