"'Ultimately, you can’t have a political magazine that doesn’t have a politics,' Victor Navasky, then the publisher of The Nation, told The New York Times in an article headlined 'George Wins Readers, but Little Respect.'
Arguably, the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal was the publication’s undoing.
In the spring of 1998, when the independent counsel Ken Starr was deep in his investigation of the Clinton White House, George published a puffy cover story on the film 'Primary Colors,' an adaptation of the roman à clef about Mr. Clinton’s 1992 campaign. (For a brief while, America had its own Elena Ferrante in Joe Klein).
The magazine further showed its hand when it referred to the under-fire president as the 'chief charmer.' When Mr. Kennedy and his staff tried to cover the imbroglio, they made choices that would now seem cringe, like publishing a write-around article about Ms. Lewinsky’s past accompanied by a full-page caricature of her biting into a hot dog."
Why is it so difficult to find that caricature of Monica Lewinsky biting into a hot dog?

Google gives me 2 pix of Obama stuffing something into his mouth and one of Reagan. This is the most obvious caricature idea for Lewinsky. You'd think dozens of lame efforts would show up in this search. And George Magazine published one. Where is it? Is Google caring for our presumed devotion to the beloved boy? I mean John John. Not that rogue Bill!
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"Why is it so difficult to find that caricature of Monica Lewinsky biting into a hot dog?"
Because Bill Clinton is a democrat. Google 'Michelle Bachmann corn dog photo'. Contrast and compare.
Women are advised not to be photographed eating a banana either.
Google is simply bringing its authentic self to work.
Lewinsky bites?!? Bill Clinton must be one sick dude.
The media will never get over their continued adoration of the Kennedy clan - it's the journalistic epitome of the 'sunk cost' fallacy.
I have a suspicion that the Clintons will be treated to the spotlight in a less-than-friendly way in the upcoming weeks. Not sure Bill is ready for prime time though.
I found an AI image of a fake/ young Lewinsky with some hot dogs here:
https://r2.erweima.ai/imgcompressed/compressed_df391b137344b9ad50f70ec6f88d0d20.webp
What I remember about John-John is that he made Elaine lose the contest.
Kids, don't try this at home.
"She also showed him an e-mail describing the effect of chewing Altoid mints before performing oral sex. Ms. Lewinsky was chewing Altoids at the time, but the President replied that he did not have enough time for oral sex."
- Starr Report.
That's a busy man.
John-John is the fantasy, but Puddy is real.
Elaine & Puddy: A Love Story
What if you prompted Google AI to compose a Lewinsky-eating-a-hotdog picture?
Not in my house is John John "beloved." Aside from the good hair that the K men seem to have, there's nothing to like about that klan.
She dated Jake Tapper.
Somewhere in Arkansas, there is an old barn where rests a rusty ‘69 El Camino with Astroturf® lining the truck bed and a tattered bumper sticker warning “NO FAT CHICKS” allowed.
Yeah - but Jussie Smolette build a fake assault hoax and is off the hook.
The left built the russia russia lie - so far -off the hook.
There are actually a lot of interesting things being hidden from us.
What has changed is that X now allows us to ask questions in the public square.
When enough people are able to ask a question they cannot get an answer to interesting things start to happen.
I only remember it as DC People Magazine sold with John John sex appeal. Don’t fly VFR late on a Friday is the lesson…
I saw the article about John Jr and George and the first thought I had was that George was launched at the last period in history (late 90s) when a magazine could be launched. And the photos of people reading the first issue stuck me as quaint. Like people sending telegraphs or smoke signals.
If he'd gotten proper table manners down, John Kasich might have been president. But it's hard to find the happy medium. Eat pizza with knife and fork - bad. Cram pizza into your mouth - also bad.
Rogue? Try rapist. You’ll be calling him a rascal next….
In my experience, Boomers have a much harder time letting go of the ‘90’s than they do the ‘60’s and ‘70’s.
Spy actually did come close to being non-partisan. And they disliked Trump before it was cool. So I forgive them.
Eating the hot dog is also a major challenge, and corn dogs aren't any better. Stick with hamburgers.
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Pump up John-John to take down Bobby-Bobby. I wonder if "George" really was "post-partisan." If it was, I'm impressed, given the state of today's partisan media. Navasky may have been thinking that without a partisan edge the magazine would have been worthless, but now almost everything has a partisan edge and not much is worth much.
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I finally figured out what the other thing about the Schumer cheeseburger picture was. It wasn't just that he doesn't know how to cook burgers. It was also the meat and milk mixing thing. But now the possibility is raised that perhaps he had never made or eaten a cheeseburger for religious reasons and that it wasn't just stupidity that made him put cheese on the raw burgers.
I liked John John. A pitty he chose to run against Hillary. So weird that plane crash.
Altoids?
Back in my day the thing was creme-de-menthe over ice.
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