Sic Willie: “Righteous Dude”

He may not be getting any love from the politicians or the blue bloods these days, but our founding editor (and aspiring opposable thumb model) Sic Willie is still beloved by the people … and particularly the people giving power to the people every day, South Carolina’s political bloggers.

One of the best of these new media-ites, the Lowcountry’s Earl Capps, wrote a particularly insightful piece earlier this week proclaiming bloggers as the “Righteous Dudes” of 2008.

And yes, Sic got some love.

From The Blogland:

Will Folks showed plenty of guts when he took on GOP State Senator Randy Scott, publicizing his DUI arrest, including jailhouse records which were ordered muzzled by a judge. (The) content of those tapes, which crossed over into mainstream media, did much to create unflattering public impressions of the Senator, which did much to undo any potential political gain from his acquittal.

Awwww … as much as we wish it were otherwise, though, the rest of the article isn’t about what a bad ass our founding editor is.

Instead, it moves on to much less interesting subjects:

Increasingly, political bloggers are building trans-partisan alliances based upon specific issues, as well as other factors such as personalities and non-political interests. As the influence of bloggers rises, it will be interesting to see how these new approaches influence the overall political picture.

Actually, that’s one of the most “dead on, balls-accurate” statements we’ve read in awhile.

What Earl is saying is that all the old, predictable political alliances of certain consultants, candidates and special interests (with a restrained MSM watching over the proceedings) are long gone.

Any issue trying to move its way through this state’s quirky political universe will not only encounter its share of strange bedfellows, but will also find itself exposed to immediate, unfiltered analysis from any number of unforgiving new media outlets.

Or “righteous dudes,” as Earl calls them.