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South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has been unusually candid about his affair with a 41-year-old former reporter in Argentina.

In stark contrast to the taciturn Eliot Spitzer – who made no mention at all of his escapades as "Client 9" except opening his resignation speech with a reference to his "private failings" – Sanford held forth at length with reporters last week, describing how the affair came about and at one point prefacing an answer with, "To give you way more detail than you'll ever want…"

Then there were the e-mails. Perhaps Sanford shouldn't be judged on those, given that they were private communications. Serious questions remain about how South Carolina's State newspaper came to posses and publish them.

But never fear. The (new) Love Gov was back at it today, telling an Associated Press reporter that “This was a whole lot more than a simple affair. That it's a love story – a forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.”

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The Associated Press has filed a counter-lawsuit against artist Shepard Fairey over his use of an AP image as the basis for his famous "HOPE" poster of President Obama. Last month, Fairey sued AP, claiming that his use of the image constitutes "fair use."

According to Paid Content, Mannie Garcia, a freelance photographer working for AP, took the picture of Obama's face in April 2006. Fairey later took Garcia's photograph and created the stylized red white and blue poster that became an icon of President Obama's campaign.

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