Byron York correctly asserts that conservative blogger Erick Erickson, who is backing Colorado’s Ken Buck for the GOP’s U.S. Senate nomination, has destroyed his credibility as a blogger and pundit by making up a rumor about a GOP candidate and her accuser in South Carolina.

Erickson wrote on his RedState blog that he knew who paid a blogger to charge a Republican candidate with adultry, and then he admitted that he made up the story.

York concludes:

Why write something he knew wasn’t true? “With apologies to RedState readers,” Erickson wrote, “I’ve had no hesitation in stringing the media along like Folks has done.”  Apparently Erickson’s intent was to call attention to Folks’ nasty tactics and the likelihood that Folks is attacking Haley on behalf of some other player in the South Carolina political world. But sacrificing your own credibility in an effort to undermine someone else’s is not a good idea, and what Erickson has done has surely hurt both his own reputation and that of his website

I’ve never been an Erickson or Red State fan, and I never will be.