pathetically howling and MOST especially those who signed up or commented for the very FIRST time to berate you….well…….they can go jump in a lake and forget breathe!

Seems like more would figure that out. It’s been made famous by…well if I have to explain that it aint worth the effort.

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I had hoped that you might give a true apology. But you’re in some bizarre state of denial that is truly breathtaking in its contempt for truth and ethics.

The only point youve made is that your word means nothing.

But by all means enjoy the comfort of your denials and the unquestioning adoration of the mouth-breathing crowd.

I know I always tried to get the other side to give it up first. Didn’t work out. Stuff happens.

I think this can be chalked up to lessons learned on how easily people can be snagged with innuendo and the promise of titillation.

We need to be vigilant in fact checking and making sure the information can be proved from more that two reputable sources.

Scandal and Swindle (MSM) sheets have led the American people a merry chase by the nose far too long. It keeps us from paying attention until the yoke and shackles are firmly locked in place.

Thanks for the reminder Erick.

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next time; say, posting it with the tag, “Caleb Howe”, or otherwise making it clearer that it was an homage to Folks’ style. Risking long-term credibility for potential short-term gains is rarely a good idea. We all get it wrong sometimes; all we can do is learn from our mistakes and correct them.

becomes ethical, when it serves to remind us to be ever vigilnat to guard against the unethical conduct of other bloggers and the larger MSM! Now i get it!

Ysterday it was real. Then this morning it was entertaining. And now it was all *satire* dontcha know?

This place is as bad as Little Green Footballs. Wait, I take that back. Charles Johnson never pulled a stunt like this … but if he did, he’d be proud to count on support like this!

Black is White. Freedom is Slavery. War is Peace.

for purposely and completely baseless assertions on the other, as an illustration that you were not shy of returning a ball of feces back over the net. Sometimes it isn’t an Ace, but the point gets made nevertheless.

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I get it Erick and understand why you did what you felt you needed. No need for apologies to this newbie. I would have done far worse..LOL But Oh how I would have loved to have seen concrete info. just to put this non-sense to rest. Regardless, it doesn’t alter my feelings toward Nikki Haley. She one in a million and exactly what South Carolina needs. Again, I thank you and all the others for the ongoing support for her. Onward and Upwards!

Good to see you can take criticism.
As Brockway wrote, illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Point well taken.

your just as bad as Charles Johnson at LGF. Actually, I take that back. Your worse then he ever thought of being. At least he had the decency to not hold the blogosphere hostage on a college level prank.

Perhaps this might be a good time to sit back and reflect on your previous actions, and perhaps become a better person in the future. I dobt it though, with this non-apology you posted. This blog deserves getting trashed for the inane posts you have done over the last three days.

Erick Erickson and Little Red Footballs have lost any credibility you had. Ironically, you may have just sunk Nikki Haley’s candidacy as well, or at the very least, hurt it.

You and several posters here need to have your egos deflated.

your just as bad as Charles Johnson at LGF. Actually, I take that back. Your worse then he ever thought of being. At least he had the decency to not hold the blogosphere hostage on a college level prank.

Perhaps this might be a good time to sit back and reflect on your previous actions, and perhaps become a better person in the future. I dobt it though, with this non-apology you posted. This blog deserves getting trashed for the inane posts you have done over the last three days.

Erick Erickson and Little Red Footballs have lost any credibility you had. Ironically, you may have just sunk Nikki Haley’s candidacy as well, or at the very least, hurt it.

You and several posters here need to have your egos deflated.

a couple of weeks ago u gave a little lecture about endorsements, and that “certain” big name republicans should only look to candidates that Sen.Demint endorses. well I read this morning that demint did not endorse Haley, I will patiently hold my breath waiting for u to explain to him how wrong he is.

It was obvious to me exactly what you were doing from the start and I thought it was great. The fact that so many so-called “professional” journalists fell for it is just evidence at how low this “profession” has fallen in many places and why so many like myself go elsewhere to round out their news sources. Keep it up and enjoy the show(s)!

a blogger feels the need to “push” a story in a certain “direction” that favors his chosen candidate. I honestly (and naively) thought RedState was above that sort of shenanigans. I haven’t posted many comments, but I’ve been reading here for several years and signed up (or tried to) a couple years ago. I thought Eric and RedState were about putting forward truth, not pushing stories with fibs or “anything goes if it advances ‘the cause’”! I’ll keep coming and reading and, occasionally, commenting, but I’ve lost respect for RedState and I damn sure won’t trust anything I read here without confirming it elsewhere. At this point, I’m almost convinced that Eric doesn’t care whether the story is true or not, he just wants to kill it – and the guy who’s alleging it – in order to help one of his favorite politicians. Call me crazy, but that bothers me, too.

How dare you….Nah, just kidding. I see what you did there. Good one.

OK – who?

Pardon me for being naive and gullible. I thought this was a true statement. I usually take people at their word. You know, like this:

“Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”

And it didn’t come with a ‘/sarc’ tag either. So how were we to know it was a joke unless we were in on it beforehand?

Somehow I still believe he knows what he’s doing and is working to support conservatives and occasionally entertain.

…running a positive campaign to get Haley(and others) elected?
Voters are pining for solutions. We’ve got ‘em, but lowering ourselves to play ball with the sewer rats in their sewer won’t get the job done.

…running a positive campaign to get Haley(and others) elected?
Voters are pining for solutions. We’ve got ‘em, but lowering ourselves to play ball with the sewer rats in their sewer won’t get the job done.

it was creative and I’m sure caused quite a few folks pushing the story to suffer aneurysms.

is very much like the criticism of Rush when he takes a controversial quote by a leftist and has fun with it by making a song or similar: Rush becomes the originator of the quote (per msm) and thus is a racist/bigot/homophobe for saying it.

..we’re not familiar with the style of the blogger Erick was spoofing.
Upon further review, it makes perfect sense.

Everything erick pointed to is credible evidence of his belief that Folks had people pushing the story out. In fact, his evidence is far more compelling then anything Folks has produced.

Yet, in Folks situation, the grand claims backed by little evidence causes people to doubt Haley, not Folks.

Erick makes grand claims and backs with less than what he claimed but more than what Folks provided, and what happened? Bauer is left alone and erick is doubted.

Double standard? You bet.

Handily illustrated? Damn straight.

Don’t forget people that Erick is on CNN now. This is exactly the kind of stuff he can bust out on a panel to force “journalists” to confront their double standards.

I say well done.

and Folks is suddenly driving a Lamborghini Gallardo, ask yourselves outside of his wife being all bent out of shape, who has the necessary deep pockets of $$$$$ to fund him?

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

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And at the core of all this clever “strategery” and game playing are people’s very real lives. The Haley family, specifically.

I was one of the “naive” who was hopeful that Erick really had the answers, and that this family was going to be saved by an intrepid blogger with the connections to get at the truth. So I believed his first post; but when he started to drag it out like it was a game, instead of helping the Haleys, I knew he was not in it for them. In fact, I wonder if they even crossed his mind at all, considering his target was the media.

As disappointed as I am that this was all a game, I’m even more disappointed with the High Priests of the The RS In Crowd telling all the rest of us how stupid we are and to drop dead. I hate when conservatives turn on each other like that, and especially when voicing an opinion over what Erick himself admits to be a highly controversial move. Tip: controversy breeds disagreement.

I’m sure Erick wasn’t expecting free-thinking, independent conservatives to fall in line with his gambit, and to expect such is idiotic and anathema to what conservatism is all about. We are adults, we think for ourselves, and we have strong opinions. Why don’t all the High Priests of The RS In Crowd man up and quit tinkling in their panties about some honest principled dissent?! Why can’t you handle disagreement like big boys, for pete’s sake? Quit threatening the ban-hammer like tiny despots and quit demanding that people leave because they don’t line up with YOU!!

This whole episode is ugly and we need to leave it behind. Erick is oh-so-very human and humans make mistakes. He made one here, and he’s a big boy who can take his lumps without a cadre of frothing group-think supporters beating down honest disagreement.

Do posters beg to get banned? Like it’s a badge of honor or something?

that Folks-worm may or may not have been officially paid. It is, however a logical CERTAINTY that he either violated the Seventh Commandment or the Ninth Commandment, as well as the Tenth.

Does that not make him inherently unreliable?

RedState is one of the few sites online that won’t have this comment send people scurrying to google “commandment”.

I believe SC voters will do the right thing and vote for Nikki

Nevertheless, it would be nice to see half the effort put into bashing (er…investigating), say, the Congressional Budget Office, as on minor political skirmishes, no matter how disgusting.

Figure it’s time for a flash back, the new version is coming out soon.

I thought the story was Obama told Rahm to tell clinton to speak to Sestak about a job with no money. But now its Erick knows that Bauer told Folks to lie about Haley for some money.

O.K. look people, these plot lines are difficult to keep up with.

so many threads to follow, pull
untwist, knotted threads within
warped, woven threads, slowly
unravel the weave. trail back strands
to the raw unspoken truth

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

The Concord Project: Fighting for Freedom in the Fall

it shows you believe in Haley. If you thought this would cause a self outing, you have to believe there is no there there. And I am also starting to get your point. I had not followed this until today so all the names meant nothing to me. But either way, we know Folks is practicing the politics of personal destruction. For too long people could claim anything ie. Anita Hill and get off scot free or even become a hero.

If this folks guy is telling the truth AND he thinks it is important that we know, then he should come out with proof, period. I guess he is either trying to destroy her or just get himself some media exposure.

You have inserted yourself into this story in a way that cannot turn out positively for anyone. You lied outright, and that will go a long way in influencing opinions about your credibility in regard to the Nikki Haley situation. Any point you were trying to make was undercut by the fact that you told the nation a bold-faced lie, your nobler intentions notwithstanding. You have a large audience sir, and conservatives and conservatism are judged in part by prominent voices in the blogosphere.

With the status that you have earned among conservatives comes a certain responsibility. You are not obligated to wield it, but you are accountable to it nonetheless.

A gentleman never kisses and tells. Only a “Cad” does… and you never trust anything a “Cad” says…

As for what Mr. Erickson did… –Artistic license accounts for the effort. I’ve seen (and written) worse…

Remeber to thank a veteran this weekend, and say a few words for the America’s fallen and our current men and women in uniform

For those of you who are REALLY upset over this…”Step AWAY from the Chulupa…”

Cheers

Erick Erickson is a political activist not an political investigative/opinion journalist. This stunt helped me to identify why I have been critical about some posts in the past. I wasn’t reading him with the right mindset. It all makes sense now. What a relief.

I hope this scandal fades quickly and that Nikki makes the run-off against McMaster.

Looks like Foxnews has added Erick’s story into their coverage:

The conservative redstate.com blogger Erick Erickson also has been highly critical of Folks, claiming on Thursday that he has proof Folks was “paid” to claim he had an affair.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/28/sc-blogger-tries-support-claim-affair-gubernatorial-candidate/?test=latestnews

You are one of RedState’s founders. You said you had Will Folks dead to rights.

But…..you really didn’t. You were playing a game. It doesn’t matter what your intentions were. You were playing a game.

You shouldn’t have.

A lot of damage has been done, imho, to RedState’s credibility. I believe in what this site stands for. Saying one thing and not following through on it, and then saying, “oh, well, we didn’t really mean it”, is not what we are supposed to be about.

We are not better off today than we were yesterday.

One thing I know: Will Folks has a new lease on life, and credibility. Please try not to pretend otherwise. Nikki Haley is not better off today, that’s for sure.

A new poll shows that Nikki Haley has actally extended her lead by about a point since Folk’s made his claim. Either the voters in South Carolina aren’t buying Folks lies or they don’t care. My money is on the former.

FOLKS FAIL

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First, I read one a couple of weeks ago about the Palin endorsement, and the take away on it was that Haley the RINO (paraphrasing, of course) is snaring Palin and Palin doesn’t know what she’s getting into.

I have to admit it’s been several days since I looked at RS, mostly just monitoring from Facebook, and here’s this bruhaha but the posts seem to be a little incoherent on message while taking the Palin endorsement post at full value. Perhaps it’s because I’m up here in NY and what appears like a 180 just isn’t clicking wth me.

I think I would understand this better if it was a straight forward admission that new information has come to light and because of that, the other guy appears to be worse and maybe Palin knew more than anyone guessed. When making a choice you can only go with what you know and if things change, then adjust. But it’s always better to do it in a forward way rather than becoming one of the props. It’s far more credible.

But the point was made, in spades. It’s the WWWFD? bumper sticker, duh . . . don’t get all, er, sophomoric over it.

Folks has already run his course, I think. The Post & Courier ran with Haley’s appearance in Charleston, which centered on the allegations, but she handled the questions well and there was nothing new from Folks. The story is their 3rd lead on the website, no related picture on the home page for the first time in a few days.

The State (Columbia) has nothing about it on their front page – you have to scroll all the way down to see Haley mentioned in a headline, and that’s about how she and congressional candidate Tim Scott would ‘break boundaries’ if elected – not a word on Folks.

Now he has run into the Mariana Trench for scandalous news: a three-day holiday weekend (note the White House’s Sestak “statement/cover-up” hit today, too). Anything he releases now will be overlooked, but next week people will already be wondering why he doesn’t just go away.

Seems to me that there are a few folks posting here who are struggling with their own fragile psyches, resulting in some rather hysterical outbursts.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with Erick, there doesn’t seem to be any good reason for the sturm und drang being presented here. Stating a case, or a dissenting opinion, doesn’t necessarily involve the use of “Oh, yeah? Well, you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny!”

Scut Farkas is not a role model.

None of the above applies to emotional outbursts against liberals, leftists, Marxists, statists, congressional dunderheads, and American Idol; in those cases, carry on.

The Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Time to get back to protecting and upholding.
We the People have so much Power and have misused it by electing idiots, bullies, thieves and those who think we will go willingly or easily into soft slavery for our own good.

I thought there were laws on the books to protect us from ABUSE.
We arrest spousal abusers all the time and prosecute.
Well?

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. ~~Elmer Davis

I am stone forged from the fires of creation into flesh ~~Pamela1631

The greatest civilization is one where all citizens are equally armed and can only be persuaded, never forced.~~Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret.)

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I just had to log in for this my old friends, to toss in my two cents, you know that old saw about people who can’t take a joke?

Have at him and the pathetic msmr’s who salivate at tearing down conservatives and conservative women in particular, Erick.

In fact you should toss up another siren for more drivel/important info to come. Odd you should catch more heat than the one who preciptiated it all…

Well nuff said about that, it’s good to see all my old friends, Art, AE and al the rest still keeping the faith.

I’ve kept myself busy onthe local front, tea party stuff and other local issues and I’m happy to say we took our town back last fall, from a horrific democratic administration swept in with the lead edge of the Obummer sludge tide.

Iron Man?

OR

http://palmstatepolitics.blogspot.com/2010/05/where-theres-smoke-nikki-haley-will.html