![]() We need more like him in the media marketplace … especially over at The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper. politics willing to hold the status quo accountable for its failures. We’ve previously amplified his work – crediting him as one of the few media voices in Columbia, S.C. But this time the joke was on Folks, as the noted bomb thrower, self-proclaimed Romeo, bon vivant about town and founding editor of the state’s top political blog aimed and fired – directly into his own foot.”įor the record, we like Fisher. “He regularly ridicules McMaster as ‘Foghorn Governor,’ a reference to the classic cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. “One of Folks’ continuing themes is to portray the governor in (this) manner,” Fisher wrote. Unfortunately, not everyone is pleased with our Looney Tunes homage to South Carolina’s thick-drawled, guffawing incumbent “Republican” governor – Henry McMaster.Ĭolumnist Kevin Fisher of The (Columbia, S.C.) Free Times believes our founding editor Will Folks owes McMaster an apology for comparing him to the fine feathered Galliformes.Īccording to Fisher, our recent invocation of this fowl caricature was a “cheap shot” – part of a “mean boy rant,” one that “made Folks, not McMaster, look slow-witted.” We had some fun last week on social media reviving one of our favorite Palmetto political nicknames: #FoghornGovernor. ![]()
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