T-shirt pokes fun at South Carolina’s recent travails with slogan: ‘We’re not making this up’

T-shirt pokes fun at SC public officials’ gaffes

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A new T-shirt poking fun at a series gaffes by South Carolina public figures is being worn by the state’s unlikely longshot Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alvin Greene.

Greene appeared Monday at a Rotary Club event sporting a white shirt featuring a blue outline of the state with the words, “South Carolina: We Don’t Make These Things Up!”

Rotary Club President Owen Clary designed the shirt after pondering events that have landed South Carolina in the news over the past year and a half. That chronology includes Gov. Mark Sanford’s revelation of an affair with a woman in Argentina and U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson saying “You lie” during a presidential address to Congress. It also includes Greene’s surprising primary victory.