<P> George departed from the format of traditional political publications, whose audience primarily comprised people in or around the political world . The general template for George was similar to magazines such as Rolling Stone, Esquire or Vanity Fair . The consistent underlying theme was to marry the themes of celebrity and media with the subject of politics in such a way that the general public would find political news and discourse about politics more interesting to read . </P> <Ul> <Li> Chris Matthews </Li> <Li> Paul Begala </Li> <Li> George Clooney </Li> <Li> Ann Coulter </Li> <Li> Al D'Amato </Li> <Li> Al Franken </Li> <Li> Stephen Glass </Li> <Li> Norman Mailer </Li> <Li> Steve Miller </Li> <Li> W. Thomas Smith Jr . </Li> <Li> Jackie Stallone </Li> <Li> Naomi Wolf </Li> <Li> Rush Limbaugh </Li> </Ul> <Li> W. Thomas Smith Jr . </Li> <P> When it first appeared, George attracted great interest, and for a brief period had the largest circulation of any political magazine in the nation, partly due to the celebrity status of Kennedy, but it soon began losing money . Kennedy and George occasionally courted controversy to boost sales, one notable example being the famous 1997 issue wherein Kennedy posed in the nude and in his editorial lambasted his cousins Michael Kennedy and Joe Kennedy II, whose marital scandals had recently made news, as "poster boys for bad behavior ." </P>

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