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Sanford Scandal
An Affair to Remember
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#35 Gail Collins
The New York Times
Gail Collins is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, where she previously served as the editorial-page editor.
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Good-natured but pointed, Collins can make light of politics' darkest truths and ugliest contradictions. Relying on barbs and one-liners, Collins likes to make sport of Republicans on the national stage and politicians of all stripes in New York City and Albany. If politics is theater, Collins sits in the back row, lobbing tomatoes.
Collins's obsession with the personal foibles of politicians has won her both fans and detractors. She has a predilection for running quizzes in her column space, typically asking readers to match the congressman or presidential candidate to the appropriate scandal or gaffe.
Good-natured but pointed, Collins can make light of politics' darkest truths and ugliest contradictions. Relying on barbs and one-liners, Collins likes to make sport of Republicans on the national stage and politicians of all stripes in New York City and Albany. If politics is theater, Collins sits in the back row, lobbing tomatoes.
Collins's obsession with the personal foibles of politicians has won her both fans and detractors. She has a predilection for running quizzes in her column space, typically asking readers to match the congressman or presidential candidate to the appropriate scandal or gaffe.
Gail Collins on Sanford Scandal
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June 26, 2009
Sanford Scandal
The S.C. Firecracker
“The only good news this week for Gov. Mark ('I love your tan lines') Sanford is that all those celebrity deaths have knocked him off the top of the news cycle.”
June 24, 2009
Sanford Scandal
The Love Party
“Finally, a governor who's weirder than Rod Blagojevich and less responsible than Eliot Spitzer.”