I’m watching MSNBC right now as GOP S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford is holding a news conference to criticize his lieutenant governor, Andre Bauer, also a Republican, for suggesting that Sanford should step down in light of his extramarital affair and allegedly improperly traveling on private planes, etc.

Has Sanford never heard of stage management? Rather than holding the conference with the dome of the state capitol or the governor’s mansion as a background, there’s a busy street so close behind him that his statements are practically drowned out by the passing cars.

There was some anticipation in the media, we can assume, that Sanford was going to announce that he’s stepping down. Instead, he just held forth against Bauer, accusing him of using the publicity to set up a run for Congress.

Sheesh.