Category: richard bradley

Gossip Roundup: The Ubersexual Mantle

• Page Six: Ted Koppel may ink multi-million dollar deal with HBO when he leaves "Nightline". . . Rush Limbaugh defines himself as an ubersexual. [NYP, NYP]
• Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: Chuck Todd apologizes to Richard Bradley after The Hotline repeatedly referenced him as "Ex-Dick Blow.". . . Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey will visit the Clinton Library for publicity. [NYDN]
• Inside Politics: Spike Lee says the government may have destroyed the levee in New Orleans to "displace al the black people.". . . Rick Santorum, Hillary Clinton use U2 concerts to raise money; the band complains. [WT]

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Blowing George Out of Proportion

Belatedly, we learn that today Tom Brokaw is moderating a forum commemorating the 10th anniversary of "George." We didn't notice the magazine itself when it happened, either, but apparently it had a wide-ranging, permeating influence on popular culture -- without the culture knowing it. According to Richard Bradley (who was an editor at the magazine under the decidedly more appealing moniker "Rich Blow"), "George" is the Kevin Bacon of today's pop-politics nexus and its celebrity-fucking DNA is present in everything from "The West Wing" to "Air America" to Ann Coulter to (gulp) Wonkette. Of course. We wondered where we got the idea to dress up like George Washington. Most meaningfully, Bradley/Blow credits "George" with helping pave the way for "The Daily Show," saying the program "owes a creative debt" to the magazine. Hey, what's the interest for also being in English? -- WONKETTE

The George effect [Boston Globe]

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