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How Many Bill Clinton Covers Does Conde Nast Plan?by Josh Gerstein
Our colleague Ben Smith at the Politico has an interesting piece up about some maneuvering between GQ, Senator Clinton's campaign, and President Clinton's office. The Politico reports that aides to the Clintons allegedly threatened to withdraw cooperation with a GQ spread and possible cover on President Clinton's charity work overseas if the magazine went forward with a piece on infighting among Mrs. Clinton's advisers.If Mr. Clinton makes it to the cover of December's GQ as their "Man of the Year," as Mr. Smith speculates, it will be the second Conde Nast mag cover for the former president in just four months. Mr. Clinton, and his important work abroad, graced the three-page fold-out cover of Conde Nast's Traveler magazine in September. Here's a New York Sun story from last month on the high-profile play. I expect that the magazines are editorially independent, but the confluence will surely lead to grumbling from some that the free publicity amounts to improper help for Mrs. Clinton's presidential bid. There's still some ambiguity in the sequence of events laid out by Politico, though. Why did GQ still need Mr. Clinton's cooperation if the writer already traveled with him for the story? Just for the cover photo? Or maybe he was due a sit-down interview which the ex-pres's people threatened to pull? Mr. Clinton's spokesperson in recent years, Jay Carson, who appears to have moved in the last few days to Mrs. Clinton's campaign from the official office of the former president, did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment. Anyway, my hat is off to the able Clinton aides. Here's a challenge: how about a Conde Nast cover trifecta? Maybe Portfolio, the new business title? Still time to make the end-of-year deadlines!Related Topics: Dem Primary |
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