Thus this copy of Wolfe Reports' nailing of Red States blogger and CNN "analyst" Erick Erickson, who said he had the solution to the Will Folks Story and then folded his hand entirely. The only thing WR missed is that AWOL blogger Adam Fogle, late of "transforming South Carolina politics" blog The Palmetto Scoop- on whom Erickson relied in his farrago of rumor-is a former employee of Erickson's on his Georgia political blog, Peach Pundit.
Why does WR refer to Fogle as Wheels? The back story is here. Fogle whacked me for repeating the story and claimed it set gay rights back in the process. As if he cared.
But 'tis but a quibble. Here's WR's slap down:
‘Erickson continues to be a douche’
The title to this post comes from the Charleston City Paper’s Chris Haire, who seems to get just as fired up about RedState’s Erick Erickson, the Viking, as we do. The tweet pretty much ruined our morning, as we planned on laying down and listening to podcasts all morning, which is how we enjoy spending our weekend mornings. Now we’re ending up writing this while listening to audio of Thursday’s “Pardon the Interruption.” Dammit.So, Erickson responded to comments on his post. It was fucking painful to read.
I can’t say that I am surprised by the level of aggravation and acrimony in the comments of my “Letting the Chips Fall” post. I certainly promised more than I delivered. You should have seen the first six drafts. They were much better.
Six drafts? Really? What is he, a bad writer in an English 101 class? And they were better? Maybe he should have run with one of those half-dozen, then.
For the few cheery souls remaining, I appreciate that you got the point — it’s exactly what Will Folks has been doing, but doing in a ridiculous third person narrative. The emails and phone calls from people in the media wanting to know when exactly I was going to do the big reveal on this were more than a little illuminating.
OK, so while trying to raise money for a candidate in a state in which he does not live, and knows even less about, he talks big and delivers nothing and that was the point? Hey, we have a public relations degree. We know spin when we see it, especially bad spin. And goddamn, this is bad spin. Then he goes into his bad argument again.
Look — if you told us we would be spending all this time sticking up for the gubernatorial campaign of Lt. Gov. André Bauer, we would have told you that you were nuts. But here we are again. Here’s how Erickson came up with his theory that the Bauer campaign was behind all this: He references the well-known fact that Will Folks worked with Rod Shealy four years ago. Then, he sites the well-known belief that Sen. Jake Knotts had a guy investigating political opponents who were, and this is important, out to get him. And to back it all up, what does Erickson do? He sites a Harper’s article from three years ago, and year-old posts from Wheels, who was then and is now a paid consultant of Richard Quinn & Associates, the firm behind Atty. Gen. Henry McMaster’s gubernatorial campaign.
It — it boggles the mind. The man is an uninformed fool. We haven’t chimed in on the Tim James messas it deals with the Alabama gubernatorial election. Know why? We don’t know enough. Just reading what shows up in news stories and blogs does not make you informed. It comes from discussions with people in the know, people not in the know, and generally living in the eye of the storm.
As we’ve said before, it’s one thing to make an educated guess, but it’s quite another to spend 30 minutes on Google and think you’ve solved the mystery behind a political scandal. Just about every political insider in Columbia thinks Erickson has no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Might be a clue.
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