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Reactions to Mark Sanford from Around the Web, Plus Video

Jessica Grose — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:59:00 GMT

Mark Sanford's shocking presser from this afternoon is all anyone can talk about. Salon's Gary Kamiya admires Sanford for going off-script , and describes the Governor's confession as "so intimate it was almost unwatchable." Politico is reporting that...(read more)

The Sanford Debacle Proves Local Newspapers Matter

Sara Mosle — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:07:00 GMT

Actually, what's odd to me about the Sanford train wreck is how long it took the national media to decide something was truly amiss in the increasingly bizarre explanations coming out of Sanford's office for the governor's disappearance. For a while,...(read more)

Cry For Me, South Carolina

Emily Bazelon — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:17:00 GMT

Absent from Gov. Mark Sanford's amazing press conference: His wife, Jenny. Present: A man so utterly in the middle of a self-made disaster that he had to process it in front of us. Could it have possibly been more mortifying? Hanna, you're right, Sanford...(read more)