Bill Clinton-GQ Contretemps Makes CNN's Reliable Sources

CNN’s Reliable Sources took on the Bill ClintonGQ contretemps in the wake of Howard Kurtz’s Washington Post column on Friday. In the column, Kurtz spoke to GQ’s Editor Jim Nelson, who assured the indefatigable media columnist that ”Hillary didn’t kill the piece; I killed the piece … I guarantee and promise you, if I’d have had a great Hillary piece, I would have run it.”

In the program Kurtz compared the Hillary Clinton camp’s bargaining of access to the former President with GQ to that of the Hollywood quid pro quo of celebrity journalism.

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