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In one of the weirdest interviews of the week the South Carolina man who won the democratic nomination to challenge Republican U.S. Senator Jim DeMint for the state’s Senate seat spoke to Keith Olbermann. Here’s a snippet from the Washington Post article about “the mystery man”:

Alvin M. Greene never gave a speech during his campaign to become this state’s Democratic nominee for Senate. He didn’t start a Web site or hire consultants or plant lawn signs. There’s only $114 in his campaign bank account, he says, and the only check he ever wrote from it was to cover his filing fee. Greene lives with his ailing 81-year-old father, James Greene, on the outskirts of Manning, a crossroads town of 4,000 ringed by truck stops, motels and fast-food restaurants. He has no cellphone and no computer, except the one at the public library. “I check my e-mail, like, it varies, maybe — I’m more, I mean — two or three times a week,” he says. “I prefer the telephone. I’m a little old-fashioned. I prefer the telephone. That’s the easiest.”

Where it gets hazy is Greene’s discharge from the Army in August 2009, six months before the end of his three-year commitment, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does not confirm whether service members are discharged honorably or dishonorably. Greene says he “was honorably discharged from the Army, but it was involuntary. Things weren’t working out. . . . Same thing happened in the Air Force. It’s a long story in both services.”

Check out the interview and let us know what just happened here.  People are already speculating that Greene was some sort of Republican pawn so that he will get killed when elections are held in November, but we think what really happened was [gets taken by men in black]

Tagged as: Alvin Greene, Controversy, Jim DeMint, Keith Olbermann, Mystery Man, Politics, Senate, South Carolina