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Will Folks: Blogging School Boy Fantasies

Will Folks. Remember him? Probably not, but I’m going to remind you anyway. [Background here, here, here, here, and here.] He’s the South Carolina blogger who attempted to destroy Nikki Haley’s political career by making unsubstantiated claims that he “inappropriately” interacted with Haley.

Folks did not provide evidence, mind you, he just made the spurious claim proving that he’s not only a pathetic political hack, he’s a pathetic man.

So, what has Mr. McBlogHack been up to?

During the run up to the election, he juiced his blog numbers by making insinuations about Nikki Haley. These days, he’s using soft porn pictures of celebrity women to entice male college students (his core readership) to hit his website.

Advertisers at websites give money for impressions. The South Carolina advertisers might be getting the wrong impression about Folks’ impressions. His classy site doesn’t appeal to core voters. His site (unsurprisingly) appeals to adolescent boys who, like Folks, have fantasies about sleeping with someone famous.

Folks South Carolina competition Stuffed Suits is having fun at his expense and exposing his dismal blog numbers. When they really got down to the numbers, here’s what they found:

What these tell us is just what percentages of the search engine traffic to fitsnews came from what keywords/phrases.

Just in case the image doesn’t show, the top 4 keyword searches driving traffic to fitsnews are 1. fitsnews 2. mariah carey 3. rihanna nude pics 4. kate gosselin

Other top ranked searches directing traffic to fitsnews include keywords and phrases such as:

kirk herbstreit affair

sex scandal

sarah jane lindsay

well, you get the picture.

My favorite stat is that the vast majority of his male audience finds his website from their college campus. Oh my. Lots of likely voters there.

Will Folks, same as he ever was, toiling away in South Carolina; covering politics the only way he knows how to–salaciously.

COMMENTS

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    Like Dirk Diggler, except without the Diggle!

  • http://mises.org/store/Vampire-Economy-Doing-Business-Under-Fascism-The-P371.aspx workingtommyc

    There are those who are in the “pay to prey” category of political hacks like Will Folks and Wesley DonEhue versus those like Charlie Speight (http://garnetspy.com) and the writers on http://stuffedsuits.com who make up an unpaid “citizen militia” of bloggers who simply want a moral, ethical government that exists within the actual bounds of written law.

    So far, we’ve recruited some excellent writers to the http://stuffedsuits.com thanks to the attacks initiated by the hacks. If anyone has doubts on who has the moral high ground, just check out the sites and then compare them to Folks’ site.

    • http://www.twitter.com/RS_yoyo yoyo

      To compare sites, I would have to visit Will’s site – and I don’t want to give him the viewership.

    • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

      Good to hear from you again, Tommy.

      I also had some conversation with Charlie the weekend before the election – he seems like an honest guy dedicated to clean government and getting the state moving forward.

      I’d been assuming that no news was good news; interesting to see Melissa’ report here that slime has found its way home to the ocean floor.

      And what’s Jesse Hathaway up to these days?

      I’d be fine if you want to take this offline, just write to me at yahoo.com

      • http://www.rightturnsonly.com/ Jesse Hathaway

        Well, my ears are burning, for one…

        • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

          It’s just that both of you were around for a couple of weeks before the November election and dropped out of sight since.

          I took a fair amount of interest in the pre-election drama that was going on in SC – and got a snapshot picture of some of the political entities on the conservative side of the divide. But since then I’ve heard nothing in large part because I live in California and have absolutely no familial or other base in SC.

          So now that Melissa’s update appears here, and since Tommy (and now you) have reappeared out of the ether, I was hoping to get an further update beyond Melissa’s to what has been transpiring since then.

          It’s like you catch a movie in midstream, get interested in it, and all of sudden you get pulled away – and you’d like to hear what happened next.

          • http://www.rightturnsonly.com/ Jesse Hathaway

            Ah, well, among other things, my “coverage” of Sic Willie earned me a spot writing for NewsReal, for whom I’ve been writing for, for about 4 or 5 months.

            I have a lot of fun writing there, and they’re good people. I’m the “Senior Fellow of Pop Culture References and Snark,” yeah that’s a self-appointed title.

            I x-post my stuff on my personal blog, and here, but you should go to NewsRealblog.com and check out my colleagues’ work as well. :)

            As for SC, Election Night was a close one (well, closer than it should have been), but the Upstate came through in a big way. And the Congressional Delegation only has 1 Democrat left, and the Statehouse saw a near extinction of the Democratic Party. They’re ridiculous in their death thoes, as I’ve blogged about.

  • rightwingmom52