
The e-mails also show some reached out to the governor on how best to come to his defense.
“If he wants something more personal for the blog to push back, I’m happy to help,” wrote Erick Erickson, a writer for RedState.com. On June 23, Erickson ripped “media speculation” about Sanford’s whereabouts.
“I wasn’t trying to be a reporter. I wanted to curtail the story,” Erickson said by e-mail. “Well that didn’t work.”
Ladies and gentlemen, we might have a new low in GOP smear campaigns:
At last – we have some news about our favorite Promisekeepers. Ensign not only won’t resign, he’s going to run again in 2012. Entitled, anyone?
As for our favorite governor, would it surprise you if discovered he got some help from the conservative media while he was “hiking the Appalachian trail”? Not me:
In an email to Sanford press secretary Joel Sawyer, Brendan Miniter, an editor of the Wall Street Journal‘s OpinionJournal.com, called out his own paper’s first-day coverage (sub. req.) of the story, writing: “Someone at WSJ should be fired for today’s story. Ridiculous.”
You Gullyvornians would have been better off with Spitzer the hooker-fucker. How is a one-minute, content-free video going to fix what’s wrong?

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