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Wednesday, April 5, 1995
5B
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Magazine prank catches GOP off guard
The Associated Press
Rep. Sue Kelly, R-N.Y. said, "Yeah. Hillary's OK."
WASHINGTON — Do you think Hillary Clinton is pretty?
Randy Tate, R-Wash., said, "Actually, Hillary Clinton is an attractive lady, but she is pretty liberal."
Posing as a publication for GOP teens,Spy magazine asked new Republicans in Congress that question. Responses ranged from a grudging "not a dog" to a partisan "attractive lady but...pretty liberal" to a comment on the size of her hips.
"She's not a dog, but I, you know, she's not gorgeous. I'd give her a five," said Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio.
"She's not my type, let me put it that way," said Rep. Sonny Bono, R-Calif. "Obviously Bill thinks she's pretty, but she wouldn't pass the test. Nothing personal."
Is she pretty? Rep. George
Radanovich, R-Calif., responded, "Oh no! Are these going to be comments that are attributed."
"I would say I hold to the fact that I say she is pretty, and I hold to the fact that the Spy writer
misrepresented himself."
Rep. Robert Ney
R—Ohio
that one...yeah.
Rep. Robert Ney, ROhio, made the comment about her hips.
He told the Washington Post he was goaded into it, but Spy played the tape-recorded interview for The Associated Press, and it showed no prodding.
can't say that."
Yesterday, Ney said again that the interviewer repeatedly asked about big bips. "I was wondering, 'Is this going to print,' but finally I said, 'Maybe a little.'"
On the tape, Ney promptly answered,
"I think she's attractive." Then he interrupted the interviewer with additional commentary he couldn't get through without gigling: "I can't say it, 'cause it's kids. She has big hips, but I
Told that such an exchange is not reflected on Spy's tape, Ney replied, "Are you kidding? I remembered it a different way."
"I would say I hold to the fact that I say she is pretty, and I hold to the fact that (the Spy writer) misrepresented himself."
Spy's Alex Gregory, who conducted the interviews along with Pete Huyck, said the question about Clinton was meant to provoke comments.
"That is the art of the prank — to make it sound totally innocent, yet it's not," he said.
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Gregory and Huyck had identified themselves as interviewers for Republican Beat — The GOP Magazine for Teens, relaying questions compiled in a survey of junior high students.
Spy didn't interview Speaker Newt Gingrich but did get him to pose for a picture and sign a T-shirt.
Bono was asked, "Who's more powerful now, you or Cher?"
"I'm out in front right now, but the contest isn't over," Bono said. "You never know with her."
The magazine comes out Monday.
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