Clinton campaign kills negative story

[katty]

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Clinton campaign kills negative story

By: Ben Smith
Sep 24, 2007 03:43 PM EST

Clintons’ press aides have leverage like Hollywood publicists — less Mitt Romney and more Tom Cruise.

Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland.

So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton.

Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the Clinton campaign’s demands, which had been delivered by Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, several sources familiar with the conversations said. GQ writer George Saunders traveled with Clinton to Africa in July, and Clinton is slated to appear on the cover of GQ’s December issue, in which it traditionally names a “Man of the Year,” according magazine industry sources.

And the offending article by Atlantic Monthly staff writer Josh Green got the spike.

[LeftCoast]

1. Good. She'll need every bit of that media muscle to hold up against the RW noise machine

:thumbsup:

[MasonJar]

2. Seems a fair trade to me. If my husband or son or daughter were

going to shafted by an organization, I would be sure not to appear on the cover of it ever.

[Demeter]

3. The Facts Will Get Out Anyway

and be more lurid in the mistelling, too!