AP report: Fox News hires ex-S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is joining Fox News as a political commentator through the 2012 presidential elections, a Fox Channel spokeswoman confirmed Saturday.

The network spokeswoman told The Associated Press the two-term Republican governor has been hired as a contributor, though she declined to give any details on his pay or when he would start.

Sanford was a rising political star before he vanished from the state for five days in 2009, and reporters were told he was hiking the Appalachian Trail. When he reappeared, the father of four admitted to being in Argentina with a woman he later called his soul mate.

The international affair destroyed his marriage, which ended in divorce, and derailed his once-promising political career, which had included talk of presidential aspirations.

Sanford faced impeachment hearings in 2009 after the state ethics commission looked into his use of state planes, campaign cash and first-class travel stemming from the affair. The GOP-dominated House issued a formal rebuke but did not impeach Sanford, who paid $74,000 in ethics fines and reimbursed the state for the investigation and for travel and personal expenses.

full: http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/8361965-418/fox-news-hires-ex-sc-gov-mark-sanford.html

[H2O Man]

1. Shocking, eh?

I hope he reports on ethical issues regularly.

[monmouth]

2. He and the Newt could team up. I'd even watch that...lol..n/t

[Ikonoklast]

3. Is he going to do reports on the great outdoors and hiking gear?

Or will he be a commentator on the moral decline of our society?


My bet is he rates the different Hooters restaurants around the country.

[spartan61]

4. Now why am I not surprised?

[undeterred]

5. He'll be covering the adultery beat.