Straw Man?

Like a long-legged Indian-American puppeteer, S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley is deftly pulling the strings of this website to advance a “straw man,” or an “informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position.”

And yes, we copied and pasted that definition directly from Wikipedia because we were way too stoned during most of high school days to remember logic class.

Ad homo? What?

Are you calling us fags, dude?

Kidding … kidding. Anyway, our alleged “straw man” … or the subject of our alleged “straw man” … or our alleged “straw man” method … (or whatever “straw man” should modify in this run-on sentence) was exposed today by the paid political blogging of Adam Fogle over at the Palmetto Scoop.

According to Fogle, we reside at ground zero of a nefarious plot to frame Rep. Haley’s gubernatorial campaign around a series of nasty personal attacks against House Speaker Bobby Harrell – who last time we checked was not running for governor.

And who we’ve been attacking for years …

But wait! That’s the alleged genius of the plan …

From the Scoop:

“(Haley) knows there’s no way she can truly take on the big three gubernatorial candidates, so she’s going to campaign against someone who isn’t even running,” a source told The Palmetto Scoop. “It’s kind of a sad strategy, but I guess it’s the best she’s got.”

Hey, that actually sounds pretty good to us. Of course the last time we checked the “big three” (a.k.a. U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster and Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer) were having some “big” problems – meaning they might not be so “big” after all.

Politically-speaking, of course.

But rather than get into any of that we’ve decided to issue a blanket admission of whatever the hell it is Adam’s accusing us of.

Sure, little fella … we did it … whatever it is.

We’ll also link you to his article one last time in case you didn’t catch it earlier, and because we like helping handicapped people around here.

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