Welcome listener to the 233rd premium chapter of the QAA podcast, the George magazine

episode.

As always we are your host Jake Rockatansky, live acre, Julian Field, and Travis View.

In September of 1995, John F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference where he announced

the launch of a new magazine, George, of which he'd be the editor-in-chief.

George's graphics will grab you and its writing will hold you.

Politics isn't dry, it isn't dull, so why should a magazine that covers it be?

In fact, George just doesn't cover politics, it celebrates it, we will celebrate it.

It is a general rule, but we won't be afraid to criticize it when necessary.

You know what?

In some ways this was very prescient, just the recognition of politics as spectacle, as something

that's supposed to be fun and sexy as anything that comes out of Hollywood.

George's slogan was not just politics as usual.

In the first issue, which JFK Jr. revealed on a large spinning placard in that press conference,

featured Cindy Crawford dressed as a sexy George Washington, midriff exposed.

Yeah, I don't know, I mean, I don't know about a magazine that grabs you and holds you,

what else is it going to do?

Man, I've never wanted to fuck a slave owner so much.

At first, the magazine did relatively well, mostly due to the amount of celebrities involved.

In fact, in some ways, George was a harbinger of things to come.

Here's JFK Jr. speaking to Chris Matthews of CNBC in 1997.

Historically, Americans have always been frustrated with what they've received inside Washington

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