The New York Times Magazine always gets the fanciest cover stories, and then people talk about them forever, whether the subject be Chris Matthews or that in-house reporter nut who can’t pay his mortgage. And last Sunday’s profiled Conan O’Brien! (PSST GOOD LUCK ON MONDAY CONAN.) This week’s covers Bill Clinton, the former president who now cures AIDS. A number of anecdotes merit the ol’ Wonkette Blockquote — one comical bit involves the president planting trees, alone, in sadness — but we’ll run with the part about how Clinton’s best friends are Christopher Ruddy, the vicious wingnut founder of Newsmax, and Richard Mellon Scaife, who spent the ’90s actively working to destroy the Clinton Presidency from a gargoyle chamber in Pittsburgh. MORE »