Clinton Campaign Kills Negative GQ Story

If you are a Clinton and a magazine has a negative story on you…then just bribe or threaten them.

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. Source

Ed Morrisey has the ultimate question:

If Hillary the candidate manages to push the media around this easily to silence criticism, imagine what Hillary the President would do to those who report negative aspects of her performance.

Does Hillary believe in a free press? It doesn’t appear so, but she believes in one she can buy off cheaply.

Indeed.

John Stephenson is also the editor and chief blogger at Stop The ACLU