Vanity Fair's On The Election Radar

You can bet this one will cause some controversy. Radar’s November cover borrows a page from Vanity Fair’s March 2006 cover featuring Tom Ford nuzzling with nude Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson to show a clothed (albeit with an unbuttoned shirt) Rudy Giuliani and nude images of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

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As Radar’s editor’s note says, “What better way to underline the ego, excess, and artifice that dominate modern politics than to borrow a page from Vanity Fair’s now-notorious 2006 Hollywood issue …? True, on our cover, Hillary may lack Knightley’s porcelain visage, and Barack makes for a jarringly beefy ScoJo, but they, and the other contenders for the 2008 election, do have a few attributes to recommend them. Washington may well be Hollywood for ugly people, but, as John McCain once gamely noted, ‘Hollywood is Washington for the simpleminded.’”

There are, of course, a few questions that Radar isn’t asking: What does it mean that Giuliani the only white male of the bunch is wearing more clothes than his female and black counterparts? Do Hillary and Obama's lack of clothing suggest they're more vulnerable than Rudy? Or are they just vulnerable in the suddenly seductive adulterer's presence?

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