Rolling Stone Editor on Bombshell McChrystal Interview: 'The PR Person Is Always The First To Go'

Rolling Stone executive editor Eric Bates has been making the rounds after a bombshell story published by the magazine this week on Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who is currently meeting with President Obama to discuss remarks made by him and his staff in the story criticizing the administration and the Afghan war.

While it remains to be seen if McChrystal will keep his job, the PR person who set up the interview, Ducan Boothby, has already resigned.

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