Bill Richardson: The Playboy (really) interview

Just as we were commenting here in the Swamp this week about the paucity of presidential candidate interviews in the illustrious (or is it illustrated?) magazine since Jimmy Carter confessed to lust in his heart a long time ago, comes word that Richardson, still a single-digit contender in the Democratic field of presidential candidates, has sat for the Bunny.

“I don’t mope around at night worrying that I didn’t look good on Jay Leno—though I saw myself, and though I’ve lost 30 pounds I’ve got to lose more..” Richardson says in his interview with Jeff Greenfield, the CBS News political correspondent who joined Richardson on the campaign trail in Iowa, New Hampshire and New York.

Greenfield dug up an old interview of Fred Thompson, the Republican candidate for president from Tennesee, for a piece that Playboy posted recently. But this is the Real McCoy, “The Playboy Interview.” It runs seven pages.”*

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