Vanity Fair Apologizes For Video Mocking Hillary Clinton: We ‘Missed The Mark’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking at a rally at David L. Lawrence Convention in Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 30, 2016. Clinton and Kaine are on a three day bus tour through the rust belt. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
FILE - In this Saturday, July 30, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh during a bus tour through the rust belt. In 2016, after repeated att... FILE - In this Saturday, July 30, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pauses while speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh during a bus tour through the rust belt. In 2016, after repeated attempts to break into various staffers’ hillaryclinton.com email accounts, the hacking group known as Fancy Bear took a new tack, targeting top Clinton lieutenants at their personal Gmail addresses. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vanity Fair is trying to defuse criticism of a video mocking Hillary Clinton and her presidential aspirations.

In a statement Wednesday, the magazine said the online video was an attempt at humor that regrettably “missed the mark.”

Posted last weekend, the video shows editors of Vanity Fair’s Hive website offering toasts and New Year’s resolutions to Clinton.

Among the suggestions: that Clinton take up knitting, volunteer work or any hobby that would keep her from running again for president.

The backlash included a tweet from actress Patricia Arquette with her own proposal — stop telling women what they should or can do.

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  1. Maybe Alcohol should be minimized at your back room editors parties.
    It’s all funny until the hangover takes effect.

  2. Any publication named “Vanity” should be held at arms length, and flushed.

  3. Avatar for jm_tpm jm_tpm says:

    Yes, of course. What we really need right now: as possible war looms and America is at risk of becoming an authoritarian state, is for a liberal magazine to mock Hillary Clinton.

  4. Apparently, misogyny knows no political stripe.

  5. In my work I sometimes have to remind people that teams of high-end professionals don’t always succeed at sketch humor. Amateurs are about guaranteed to fail. Also I fail to see why a bunch of magazine editors have any right to sneer at Hillary Clinton. I’m a former magazine editor myself and I happen to know there’s an unfortunate tendency in the culture to be know-it-all smartypantses. Say what you will but Hillz is vastly smarter, tougher, and more accomplished than than any of her sneering critics.

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