POWERFUL SC POLITICO TAKES AIM AT ‘INMATE NUMBER 1125′

It seems my good friend Will Folks of FITSNews infamy is once again the subject of someone’s ire… and this time, it’s not me. It turns out that “Sic Willie” — a nickname he has bestowed upon himself — has managed to piss off one of South Carolina’s most influential politicos, Bob McAlister.

In a post on his blog SC Conservative, McAlister blamed Folks — whom he referred to as “inmate number 1125″ — for tarnishing the fragile credibility that many legitimate bloggers have worked hard to achieve.

My column, picked up by several newspaper websites across the state, was a response to The State newspaper’s sacking of editorial page editor Brad Warthen and 37 of his colleagues. In a 24-hour period, Will the Younger both praised the piece and ripped me apart for writing it. In the real world outside of narcissistic blogdom, that’s clinical schizophrenia.

But in the world of bloggermaniacs, where a single petri dish somehow hosts mutant organisms (Folks) and more rational life forms (Adam Fogle), freak is chic. After all, in a roomful of crazy people, everyone is sane to everyone else in the room. A sane person walks into a room of crazies, and the sane person becomes odd.

And so it is with mutant bloggers like Folks, who trashes Fogle like he trashes most everyone who is successful.

Bobby Harrell, Hugh Leatherman, Glenn McConnell, Warren Tompkins, Richard Quinn and most every other Republican is, to Folks, either crooked or a RINO, or both. Never mind that these guys were working to build the GOP when Folks was in his crib playing with his wee wee, begging to the breastfed.

In fact, they made it possible for an unwashed pothead to occupy a position of power in the governor’s office, if only for a brief period of time.

Now Folks has crowned himself the next media god. Problem is he’s still playing with his wee wee and begging to be breastfed. Not exactly a media mogul to fear.

Of course, in typical Folks style, he responded by painting himself as a martyr for some kind of greater cause.

I’m not sure if that “greater cause” would be his feigned libertarian ideology that extends only as far as his checkbook, or the State Senator he gratuitously pimps on his blog who is also allegedly paying him.

Hopefully Folks will let me know in his next post attacking me for failing to give a rat’s ass about his hypocritical rants.