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BILL FOLKS GETS ‘PUNKED’ BY LIKELY DOCTORED PHOTO
The man who likes to bill himself as South Carolina’s “top blogger” may want to re-think that title after getting “punked” into “reporting” on an image that was likely doctored.
Bill Folks of FITSNews.com blogged Wednesday that Attorney General Henry McMaster’s “latest attempt at courting supporters via the popular social networking website Facebook takes stoopid to a new level.”
Folks used a screen shot of an invitation to McMaster’s fan page that lists only two options, “no” and “maybe,” as proof of this “stoopidity.”
The only problem? The screen shot looks like it was doctored… and badly, at that.
Here’s the image that Folks posted. And here’s the actual image as it appears to invited users on Facebook.
Oh, and just for fun, here’s an image I created for the “Bill Folks is really gullible” group. I would send you an invite but it doesn’t exist… yet.
Ironically, had Folks done any due diligence, he would have noticed that the font on the screen shot he wrote about is nowhere near the same as the Facebook font.
A little research by Folks would have also “uncovered” that the person who published the screen shot, Chris Allen, works for South Carolina political consultant Jim Dyke.
Dyke’s firm is paid by, wait for it… Congressman Gresham Barrett — McMaster’s rival in the GOP gubernatorial primary — to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
Although, I’m not sure why Barrett has Dyke on retainer, as this latest stunt ranks up there with some of he and Allen’s previous moments of political genius.
Like when they sent Barrett to be mercilessly booed at a Tax Day Tea Party in Greenville.
Or when Allen wrote a guest editorial in March 2008 discussing his previous employment with Gov. Mark Sanford and how that position “allowed me to witness his leadership and morals firsthand.” Umm, yeah… about that.
Anyway, who’s “stoopid” now?
I didn’t know who Chris Allen was until I read this post. It looks like he’s nothing but a low rent political hack that Jim Dyke & Associates has sent out on behalf of client Gresham Barrett to stir up trouble. I hope Gresham Barrett will rein in Jim Dyke & Associates. He should encourage them to act like they are credible and legitimate political operatives and not College Republican-type hacks.
Jim Dyke encouraged Gresham to go to the Tea Party where Gresham was booed for supporting the Wall Street Bailout.
Jim Dyke was a senior advisor to Rudy Giuliani’s failed presidential campaign.
Is it about time for Jim Dyke & Associates to pack up and find something to do besides political consulting?
TOP 8 MOMENTS IN SLOW ZEBRA JIM DYKE’S STELLAR SC POLITICAL CONSULTING CAREER
8. Telling SC conservatives that pro-abortion presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was conservative
7) Guiding Rudy Giuliani to stellar 6th place finish in ’08 SC Republican presidential primary (positive note: Jim Dyke saw to it that Giuliani finished ahead of Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, John Cox, Hugh Cort and Cap Fendig)
6) Setting up SC Republican political consulting firm, then working against beloved SC Republican chairman Katon Dawson
5) Working against SC’s Katon Dawson to elect disastrous RNC chair Michael Steele
4) Failing to stop provision covering abortions in RNC insurance benefits when he was an RNC top dog in ‘04
3) Letting Gresham Barrett vote for Wall Street fatcat TARP bailout
2) Letting Gresham Barrett vote against Wall Street fatcat TARP bailout
1) Letting Gresham Barrett appear at TEA PARTY after flip-flopping on Wall Street fatcat TARP bailout
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