It's like he got his fingerprints wiped with acid, too

Back in the day, blogger Adam Fogle loved few things as much (well, aside of hating on gays and the parks and tourism director) as ragging on the expansionist tendencies of Columbia's city government- specially the mayoralty.

You can't read about it (well, unless I take the time to go back through the archives and report what I wrote then) 'coz Fogle scrubbed the Internet of The Palmetto Scoop once he got out of the Quinn mail room and on the team of new mayor Steve Benjamin- who wants to have a gaggle of city workers seconded to his personal staff at a cost of a cool mill.

Odds that redstate.com will take him back? Not good, based on this archive denunciation:

Kettle, meet Pot. Or, as he’s known in South Carolina, Adam Fogle.  In a poorly sourced and potentially libelous attack on a professor at Clemson University , little-known blogger Adam Fogle demonstrates once again that Hell hath no wrath like a paid hack scorned.

At PalmettoScoop.com, a thinly trafficked blog that follows South Carolina Politics, Fogle this morning accused Clemson professor James David Woodard of taking bribes in exchange for praising Sen. Jim DeMint and bashing Sen. Lindsey Graham.  “Professor May Be Running ‘Quotes for Hire’ Racket at Clemson University,” Fogle blared.  Woodard co-authored a book with Sen. DeMint and previously served as a consultant for several South Carolina lawmakers, including DeMint in 1998, Lindsey Graham in 1994, and Rep. Gresham Barrett in 2002.  Something must be amiss when a so-called conservative like Fogel frets that academia is just too darn supportive of conservatives.

Fogle’s proof of Woodard’s guilt in a seedy “pay-to-say” consists of the fact that…Woodard used to work as a consultant for DeMint.  In 1998.  But how would that explain Woodard’s attacks on Graham?  “[W]hen Graham stopped paying [Woodard] as a consultant, Woodard suddenly became his biggest and harshest critic,” answers Fogle.  Unfortunately for Fogel, Woodard’s praise for DeMint continued long after his work for him ended, suggesting that Woodard’s real crime against Graham isn’t that he’s on the take; it’s that he didn’t stay bought.  And staying bought is something Adam Fogle knows a lot about.

Enter Richard Quinn, the father of former South Carolina House Majority Leader Rick Quinn and a long-time political consultant of Sen. Lindsey Graham.  Quinn also owns Mail Marketing Strategies (MMS) in Columbia, S.C. While Adam Fogle would like his ones of readers to believe his day job consists of running Palmetto Scoop, he actually works for Quinn, the Graham confidante.  According to an October 2007 online archive entry for Newsweek , “Adam Fogle is a 23-year-old account for Mail Marketing Strategies [...] where he works in a Web-based capacity to assist the firm’s state and local clients in developing Websites [sic], utilizing multimedia content and achieving other Internet-oriented goals.” Palmetto Scoop is also rumored throughout the state to be owned and operated by Quinn, which would explain why candidates currently paying Quinn (Graham, McMaster, Wilson) receive glowing coverage from the site, while those who refuse to grease Quinn’s palm (DeMint, Barrett) receive only scorn.

Fogle’s main problem thus lies not in professor Dave Woodard or his beliefs about Lindsey Graham, but in the fact that he is the junior web lackey for one of Graham’s top consultants, a consultant with a laundry list of past offenses that would make even the most unprincipled hack blush.  People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones (or use the bathroom), and untalented hacks-on-the-take like Fogle most certainly shouldn’t invent stories or feign outrage about others doing the same.  Hypocrisy, thy name is Fogle.

Comment, Boyo?

UPDATE: here's an old Will Folks post that put his claim of support for "the gays" to rest.

EXTRA UPDATE: he's on tumblr, too, and apparently the pharma's really good.

When things get really tight in the consultant/blogger piranha tank, they play the gay....