I Write Letters

To Whom It May Concern:

I am not interested in reading emails exchanged between Governor Mark Sanford from his private account and the woman with whom he was having an affair. I am also not interested in seeing anyone doing dramatic readings of them (*cough* Keith Olbermann *cough*).

Unless they contain state secrets or criminal plots against American citizens, they are none of my business. And they're none of yours, either. They have nothing to do with policy, fitness for office, intellectual consistency, or misappropriation of taxpayer funds, all of which are legitimate issues warranting and demanding serious discussion, from which gawking at exposed intimacies is a damnable distraction.

This would be my position if the politician in question were Democrat, and it is my position given that the politician in question is Republican.

I am, however, curious how someone got access to the governor's personal email account to leak the emails to a newspaper, and why that newspaper held onto them for more than six months if they were planning to publish them at all.

Sincerely,
Liss