Video of Knotts' Infamous 'Raghead' Remarks Leaked

UPDATE (8:30 p.m. May 15, 2012): Ben Smith at BuzzFeed clarified in his post this afternoon that the source was anonymous. The story has been changed to reflect this.

ORIGINAL: As if Sen. Jake Knotts, R-Lexington, didn't already have enough trouble, exclusive video has now surfaced of his infamous "raghead" remarks on Gov. Nikki Haley, prior to her 2010 election.

Tuesday afternoon, BuzzFeed released a previously unseen video of Knotts' appearance on the Columbia online political show Pub Politics on June 3, 2010.

In the video, Lexington Sen. Jake Knotts criticizes both Barack Obama and Gov. Nikki Haley, who at the time was a house member, just days before she won the GOP nomination for governor.

During the show, Knotts was quoted as saying: “We already got one raghead in the White House. We don’t need another in the Governor’s Mansion."

Political consultant Wesley Donohue, who served as a producer for the show was surprised by the video's release.

"No one on the Pub Politics team put the video out and we have no idea who did," Donohue told Patch.

But the video's release could prove to be another sign of the growing discontentment among Knotts' political adversaries.

Blogger Will Folks also claims an argument in December 2010 may resurface in a complaint against Knotts.

According to multiple sources, Knotts is about to be sued over a December 2010 incident in which he challenged former South Carolina Republican Party official Patrick Haddon to a duel.

Folks' links to his own 2010 post, where he noted that Haddon claimed, via Facebook, that Knotts had challenged him to a duel. Folks alleges that the duel threat could get Knotts kicked out of the Statehouse, as dueling goes against the state's constitution.