Carolina Cheater-gate: Must see interview with Larry Marchant

Click here to see 8 minutes of raw interview video courtesy of WIS-TV in Columbia.

Watch the whole video and tell me you seriously believe Marchant is lying.  If so, he deserves an Oscar.  Tell me he'd put his pregnant wife through that kind of torture by lying to her about sex he didn't even have.  Think, people, think!

I want to speak directly to Haley supporters.  It was one thing to doubt Will Folks' motives.  But to believe that a second man would lie to his wife (who is 6 months pregnant!) about sex he didn't even have is sheer lunacy.  Odds are you are a birther or 9/11 truther or both.  It's an insane conspiracy theory.  Period.

One of the snarkier and saner voices in the crowd is Chris Haire with the Charleston City Paper.  Says Haire with regard to crazy conspiracy theories championed by people like Erick Erickson (who by the way, had to do a MAJOR retraction after defending Sanford against "lies" that turned out to be TRUE).

And then there are those who believe the entire thing was a conspiracy, like RedState's Erick Erickson, a conservative blogger and CNN commentator who knows next to nothing about South Carolina politics and even less about the motivations of Folks and Haley. For these thick bricks, this entire episode is either a play by Haley's opponents who paid Folks to confess to a relationship that never occurred or a coordinated move by both Sic and Nik to boost support for the Indian-American candidate. Both suppositions are asinine.


After all, the facts we need are right there. The answer is staring us right in the face. And it's all there in the text messages and the late-night phone calls, one truth and one truth alone: Nikki Haley and Will Folks were planning a surprise birthday party for Sic's former boss and Haley's hero Mark Sanford.

And if that's not the case, then they were debating the merits of Team Edward and Team Jacob.

Or they were chatting with each other while they played World of Warcraft and fantasized about the one time they ran across Mr. T's night-elf mohawk in the game and their never-ending quest to find the legendary Leroy Jenkins.


Or they were arguing over the rather shocking cut-to-black ending of The Sopranos. Folks believes Tony and his fam were gunned down; Haley thinks it was a metaphor for the paranoia that had finally overtaken the mobster's psyche.

Without further evidence, any one of these explanations is as likely as anything we've heard so far.

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