Posted by
Jonathan Cooke on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:49:37 PM
Magazine GQ Bows to Pressure From Camp Hillary, Pulls Article Negative About Her Campaign
Hillary Clinton has shown her true colors once again. Of course she may claim it’s all “a vast right-wing conspiracy …” as she has claimed in the past when stories first surfaced about Bill Clinton having an affair with Monica Lewinsky [1], although it may be difficult to call this a right wing conspiracy since GQ magazine themselves have admitted to pulling the article under pressure. “I don’t really get into the inner workings of the magazine, but I can tell you that, yes, we did kill a Hillary piece.” said Jim Nelson, the Editor in Chief of GQ.
The article GQ pulled, despite protests from employees at the magazine, had apparently mentioned infighting within the ranks of her campaign for the presidency, as well as other topics not considered to shed her campaign in the best of lights. Upon learning of the upcoming article, the Clinton campaign went into full combat mode and told GQ magazine that if they published that article the magazine would lose all access to Bill, which coincidentally is the subject of an upcoming article GQ has scheduled for their December cover piece, ‘Man of the Year’.
The Clinton campaign has declined to comment, little surprise. Power leveraging negative articles out of the press before they are even published certainly suggests her campaign machine is running at full steam, however.
Josh Green (Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly), who has written about Camp Clinton in ways they didn’t approve of before, wrote the offending article that was quashed.[3]. The aides of Clinton approached the magazine and threatened to withdraw all cooperation with an article being written for the December issue by George Saunders who is much more favorable to the Clintons, Saunders even traveled with Bill Clinton to Africa in July. Rather than risk their Clinton-friendly December cover article they dropped the negative article by Josh Green straight into the can, exactly as they were requested to do by the Clinton campaign. Heil Klinton!
Where is Austin Powers? “That’s not a woman, that’s a man, baby!”
Jonathan RF Cooke
September 26, 2007
For more articles ...
[ Go to the main blog of Jonathan Cooke at http://coffee.townhall.com ]
References:
1. The Today Show, Jan 17th 1998, said during an interview with Matt Lauer.
2. The Times (London), Sept. 26th 2007, article “Hillary and Bill Clinton show muscle as cover boy Bill gets a negative story dumped”.
3. Daily Telegraph, Sept 26th 2007, article “Clintons persuade GQ to pull critical article”.