You really can't make this stuff up:
As I mentioned yesterday, Vanity Fair dropped a long-awaited article on Bill's exploits since leaving office. Given the state of the race, I expected it to be mostly ignored, a footnote in a long and torturous campaign. But then Bill heard about it and went ballistic, launching into a tirade about the author of the piece.
Then, at the end, he said this:
"The editor of Esquire--he sent us an email yesterday and said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it."
Funny, that. The editor of Esquire did no such thing.
This prompted us to reach out to Esquire editor-in-chief David Granger who quickly said: "Why is everybody calling me on this?" Granger explained to The Washington Independent that he did no such thing and that an editor on his staff had merely reached out and offered some sympathies to Doug Brand, counselor to the former president, who received harsh treatment in the piece.
"Apparently [Brand] mentioned to the president and it spun into something different," Granger said. "I did not reach out to the president, nor was I critical of the piece. I wasn't even aware [Clinton] had said it when someone called me to confirm last night."
So a staff member reaches out to Doug Brand, Bill finds out about it, changes its contents, and makes it all about him. Brilliant, no?
And to think I used to like Bill Clinton.
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