“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”

—  John McCain

GOP fund-raiser, Washington D.C., (June 1998)
1990s
Source: [the Flash, Flashes - That's Senator McNasty to You, http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998-06-18/news/flashes/, Phoenix New Times, Village Voice Media, 1998-06-18, 2007-02-19, The Washington Post broke the news last week of yet another McCain gaffe, made during a GOP fund raiser at a D.C. steak house. But neither the Post nor any other national publication that the Flash knows of actually printed the joke. To its credit, the Arizona Republic did. Here goes: ...]
Source: A joke too bad to print?, 2007-02-09, Corn, David, Salon.com, Salon.com, http://web.archive.org/web/20000229090904/http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html, 1998-06-25 http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html,
Source: McCain's Out-of-Control Anger, 2007-02-09, Kessler, Ronald, 2006-07-05, NewsMax.com, NewsMax.com, 2007-02-08, http://web.archive.org/web/20060721082127/http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/5/00548.shtml, "… only a few news outlets, like the Phoenix New Times in Arizona and the National Journal, that ran an Associated Press story reporting McCain's 1998 joke suggesting that Chelsea Clinton was ugly and Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton were lesbians." http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/7/5/00548.shtml,

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