2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMark Sanford: Is This Fox News or the National Enquirer?
Things got a little uncomfortable for former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford when he went on Fox News to talk about his victory over Elizabeth Colbert Busch to fill an open House seat. You are now engaged to the woman with whom you had the affair, Maria Belen Chapur, Fox News Chris Wallace said. She made a brief appearance
at your victory party which raised some eyebrows. Question: What did your boys think of that? And, your four boys, and have they accepted her? Sanford avoided the question: I'm not going to go into inner family conversations, but I would just say it is what it is.
Wallace, however, kept on pressing about what is likely the one thing that makes Sanford remotely interesting to a national audience: Do you have a date for your wedding and will your fiancéewill she come to Washington to live with you? I feel like I'm the National Enquirer here. Sanford took that as his cue: Exactly. Is this Fox News or National Enquirer? So, I'm not going to make news on that front tonightor this morning.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/05/12/mark_sanford_is_this_fox_news_or_the_national_enquirer.html
Lucky Luciano
(11,256 posts)My first thought was about another mistress until it dawned on me that he meant "date" as in a calendar date!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)It is Fox News, Mark.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Prohibited and Restricted Items to Bring Into The U.S.
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)They got the guns in the shot.
(sarcasm)
niyad
(113,310 posts)national tv to talk about his "soul mate"? you know, the family values congressional member who demanded that bill clinton be impeached? so now, his life is private? keep trying, you adulterous cretin.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)Now I understand what's wrong with Republicans. They're all graduates of EST.
-- Mal
DFW
(54,384 posts)Only the logo is different, and the Enquirer will take down anyone for money. Fox only takes down people from one party.
Wallace exceeded his authority here. Sanford is no Democrat, and Wallace will be surely disciplined for forgetting that. If he felt like he was the Enquirer, it is because that is exactly who he was imitating.
Wallace failed to keep the unofficial motto of Fox: "selective sleaze."
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)n/t