Vanity Fair has apologized for a video in which six of its Hive editors attempted to make arch New Year’s resolutions for Hillary Clinton, while sipping champagne. 
 
 “It was an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark,” the publication said in a master stroke of understatement. 
 
 The suggested resolutions, in order: 
 
 It’s time to start working on your sequel to your book, “What Happened”: “What the Hell Happened.” Get someone on your tech staff to disable autofill on your iPhone so that typing in “F” doesn’t become “Form Exploratory Committee for 2020.” You know how on Anderson Cooper you were telling him about alternate-nostril breathing? You seemed really adept. You should try teaching a class. Take more photos in the woods. How else you are going to meet unsuspecting hikers? Take up a new hobby in the New Year: Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy – literally anything that will keep you from running again. Put away your James Comey voodoo doll. We all know you think James Comey cost you the election, and maybe he might have, but so did a handful of other things. It’s a year later and time to move on. 
 
 “So cheers to you Hillary Clinton,” the six wits concluded, condescendingly. 
 
 Before finally apologizing Wednesday – four days after posting – many had taken to to explain to Vanity Fair the inherent risk in sexist, ageist comedy that attempts to bully a former Secretary of State and first female presidential candidate of a major political party. Maybe most notably, Patricia Arquette, who suggested to VF: 
 
 Hey STOP TELLING WOMEN WHAT THE F-CK THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN DO. Get over your mommy issues. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) December 27, 2017 
 
 Others suggested it was a serious misstep by Vanity Fair‘s new editor, stating the obvious: 
 
 1. I have some serious advice for @radhikajones, the brand new editor of @vanityfair, who took over from the legendary Graydon Carter and stepped immediately into a major scandal over a stupid sexist video. — Tom Watson (@tomwatson) December 27, 2017 
 
 A former Clinton advisor went one step further, proposing people #CancelVanityFair: 
 
 Thanks @Eviljohna. And thanks to my friends/followers for amplifying your tweet about #CancelVanityFair. Suggesting the first woman to be a major party presidential nominee should take up knitting is a stunning lack of judgment on @VanityFair's part. Especially to end 2017. https://t.co/sWhhpLgyss — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017 
 
 So @VanityFair decided that the best way to end 2017 was to take a repulsive cheap shot at @HillaryClinton, one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States. Now #CancelVanityFair is moving. — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017 
 
 Maybe 6 New Year’s Resolutions for Vanity Fair are in order. 
 
 Anyway, here’s the video: ||||| Vanity Fair sent liberals into a tizzy this week by posting a video that mocks Hillary Clinton by suggesting New Year’s resolution possibilities for the failed presidential candidate. 
 
 The 63-second video recommends that Clinton starts working on a sequel to her book, “What Happened,” but with a new title, “What the hell happened?” Another Vanity Fair staffer thinks Clinton should “disable autofill” on her iPhone so that typing a simple “f” doesn’t automatically become “form exploratory committee.” 
 
 Another suggestion for Clinton is to teach a class on the alternate nostril breathing that she famously discussed during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, while another Vanity Fair staffer proposed that Clinton take more photos in the woods because, “How else are you going to meet unsuspecting hikers? 
 
 Knitting, volunteer work and improv comedy are suggested as new hobbies that will keep Clinton from running for president again in 2020. One Vanity Fair staffer said it is time Clinton finally puts away her James Comey voodoo doll. 
 
 “It’s a year later and time to move on,” a staffer says while others raise a glass of Champagne and offer cheers to the former first lady. 
 
 While the attempt at humor by Vanity Fair appears to be light-hearted and in good fun, left-leaning viewers stormed Twitter with complaints and defended Clinton. Former Clinton adviser Peter Daou even started a hashtag “CancelVanityFair” and encouraged his followers to boycott the magazine. Liberals are so upset that some are burning copies of the magazine and threatening to subscribe just so they can turn around and cancel. One comedy writer didn’t find the video funny, telling Vanity Fair to “stick to determining which celebrity was best dressed on the red carpet.” 
 
 “So @VanityFair decided that the best way to end 2017 was to take a repulsive cheap shot at @HillaryClinton, one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States,” Daou wrote. “Suggesting the first woman to be a major party presidential nominee should take up knitting is a stunning lack of judgment on @VanityFair's part.” 
 
 Actress Patricia Arquette responded, “Hey STOP TELLING WOMEN WHAT THE F--- THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN DO. Get over your mommy issues,” while anti-gun advocate Shannon Watts asked, “Anyone ever tell Al Gore, Mitt Romney or John Kerry to go away and try knitting?” 
 
 “You owe Hillary an apology,” one user tweeted. “I’ll never read you again!” 
 
 One professor posted a multi-tweet thread offering advice on how the magazine can recover from a “major scandal over a stupid sexist video.” 
 
 After a ton of backlash, Vanity Fair told the Washington Post that the video was “an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark." 
 
 Clinton’s team did not immediately respond to request for comment. 
 
 Brian Flood covers the media for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @briansflood. 
 
 Display nothing; This is on Publish with no configured Image ||||| Vanity Fair staffers are ringing in the new year with Champagne and cheap shots at Hillary Clinton. The magazine’s politics and business vertical, Hive, published a snarky video on Tuesday featuring editors and writers holding Champagne flutes while telling the former secretary of state to give up and retire in 2018. “Take up a new hobby in the new year,” suggested Vanity Fair writer Maya Kosoff. “Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy ― literally anything that will keep you from running again.” 
 
 Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At — VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017 
 
 The video is part of a series in which Hive staffers give politicians six New Year’s resolutions. The series has videos dedicated to White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and President Donald Trump. But Clinton’s video appears to have evoked the biggest reaction. And that may have to do with its timing. The video was tweeted less than a week after political news site The Hill reported that Clinton was focusing on elevating her political group Onward Together and considering her role in the 2018 congressional elections. Many people were offended by Hive’s condescending tone, especially considering Clinton’s extensive political résumé. Others argued that the video was flat-out sexist. 
 
 This video is insulting. You should all be embarrassed of yourselves. Telling a woman what to do-specifically a woman of her accomplishments-is sexist and gross. Enjoy the fallout. — Jamie Grayson (@TheBabyGuyNYC) December 27, 2017 
 
 Hey STOP TELLING WOMEN WHAT THE F-CK THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN DO. Get over your mommy issues. — Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) December 27, 2017 
 
 Vanity Fair tl;dr: Six young white people holding glasses of champagne would like Hillary Clinton to abandon her life's work and platform and just shut up. Good to know. https://t.co/cELDKdVmYd — Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) December 26, 2017 
 
 Why did they think it was funny for their staff to stand around with champagne and suggest Hillary Clinton take up knitting. https://t.co/mSs4EtV3Wt — Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) December 27, 2017 
 
 ok ok one last thing, imagine doing years of pro bono legal work in children's advocacy and being lectured by vanity fair to "try volunteering" did they even skim her wikipedia page — Anna Fitzpatrick (@bananafitz) December 27, 2017 
 
 Clinton adviser Adam Parkhomenko also weighed in on the video, calling it “embarrassingly not funny” and “awkward to watch.” 
 
 I went to bed on Christmas not disliking @VanityFair. 
 
 
 
 But, ya know. 2017 — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 27, 2017 
 
 Agree. It was embarrassingly not funny. And awkward to watch. I want to believe they gave each of those individuals an opt-out opportunity but they genuinely looked happy to do it. — Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) December 27, 2017 
 
 Peter Daou, a former Clinton adviser, slammed the magazine for insulting “one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States.” He also pointed out that he’s ended the last three years defending Clinton from “sexist attacks.” 
 
 So @VanityFair decided that the best way to end 2017 was to take a repulsive cheap shot at @HillaryClinton, one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States. 
 
 
 
 Now #CancelVanityFair is moving. — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017 
 
 I ended 2015 defending Hillary Clinton from sexist attacks. 
 
 I ended 2016 defending Hillary Clinton from sexist attacks. 
 
 I'm ending 2017 defending @HillaryClinton from sexist attacks. 
 
 So much for my Twitter break... — Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017 
 
 Kosoff, who suggested in the video that Clinton take up improv and knitting, responded to the backlash on Twitter. Kosoff said that the staff didn’t intend to single out Clinton and pointed out that the video was a part of a series. In the New Year’s resolution video for Trump, editors told the president to delete his Twitter account and drink more Diet Coke in 2018. In Sanders’ video, they suggest she team up with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for a radio show and hire Dylan “Pickle” (Trump’s 9-year-old fan who wrote a famous letter) as a contributor. “I don’t appreciate being taken out of context to make me seem super sexist,” Kosoff tweeted late Tuesday night. 
 
 i don't appreciate being taken out of context to make me seem super sexist. this wasn't a hillary hit piece either, fwiw! we made silly new years resolutions for a bunch of politicians:https://t.co/zartY9UVCHhttps://t.co/ye415NcHnqhttps://t.co/whdyLPL1mg — maya kosoff (@mekosoff) December 27, 2017 ||||| Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 WASHINGTON — Monica Lewinsky says she would meet me for a drink. 
 
 I’m game. 
 
 In her new meditation in Vanity Fair, Monica mashes Hawthorne and Coleridge, proclaiming that she’s ready to rip off her “scarlet-A albatross,” “reimagine” her identity and reclaim her narrative. 
 
 At long last, she says, she wants to “burn the beret and bury the blue dress” and get unstuck from “the horrible image” of an intern who messed around with the president in the pantry off the Oval Office, spilled the details to the wrong girlfriend and sparked a crazy impeachment scandal. 
 
 I wish her luck. Though she’s striking yet another come-hither pose in the magazine, there’s something poignant about a 40-year-old frozen like a fly in amber for something reckless she did in her 20s, while the unbreakable Clintons bulldoze ahead. Besides, with the Clinton restoration barreling toward us and stretching as far as the eye can see to President Chelsea, we could all use a drink. 
 
 The last time I encountered Monica was at the Bombay Club, a restaurant nestled between my office and the White House. It was at the height of the impeachment madness and she was drinking a Cosmo at a table with her family. After requesting that the piano player play “Send in the Clowns,” she leaned in with me, demanding to know why I wrote such “scathing” pieces about her. 
 
 My columns targeted the panting Peeping Tom Ken Starr and the Clintons and their henchmen, for their wicked attempt to protect the First Couple’s political viability by smearing the intern as a nutty and slutty stalker. I did think Monica could skip posing for cheesecake photos in Vanity Fair while in the middle of a plea bargain. But I felt sorry for her. She had propelled herself into that most loathed stereotype (except by Helen Gurley Brown): the overripe office vixen who seduces her married boss. Feminists turned on her to protect a president with progressive policies on women. 
 
 Monica bristled with confidence when she talked to me, but then she retreated to the ladies’ room and had a meltdown on her cellphone with Judy Smith. Smith would go on to fame and fortune as a co-executive producer on Shonda Rhimes’s “Scandal,” which focuses on Kerry Washington’s Olivia Pope, a blend of Judy, who was an African-American crisis manager, and her client Monica, who had an affair with the president. 
 
 Washington journalists fawned over the stars of “Scandal” last weekend at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner festivities, which served mainly as a promotional vehicle for the ABC show and HBO’s “Veep.” 
 
 The plot of “Scandal” is so luridly over-the-top, it makes the saga of the pizza-bearing intern who inspired it seem almost quaint. You’d think that the book “Monica’s Story,” the HBO documentary, Barbara Walters’s interview and the 1998 Vanity Fair spread would be enough about the most covered affair in history. Heck, the seamy Starr report was enough. 
 
 But she must feel that her reticence over the last 10 years of “self-searching and therapy” has led the public to hunger for her thoughts on the eve of Hillary’s book rollout in June and at a moment when President Obama is struggling to pull focus back from the Clintons, whose past and future are more dominant than Obama’s present. Monica is in danger of exploiting her own exploitation as she dishes about a couple whose erotic lives are of waning interest to the country. 
 
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 But, clearly, she was stung and wanted to have her say about the revelation in February that Hillary had told her friend Diane Blair, knowing it would be made public eventually, that Bill was at fault for the affair but deserved props for trying to “manage someone who was clearly a narcissistic loony toon.” Hillary also said she blamed herself for Bill’s dalliance. Monica trenchantly notes about the feminist icon, who is playing the gender card on the trail this time around: “I find her impulse to blame the Woman — not only me, but herself — troubling.” 
 
 Lewinsky said that Bill “took advantage” of her — in a consensual way. “Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath,” she writes, “when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.” 
 
 Disingenuously and pretentiously, Monica said that the tragedy of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers freshman who committed suicide in 2010 after his roommate secretly streamed his liaison with another man over the Web, had wrought “a Prufrockian moment:” Did she dare disturb the Clinton universe to become a spokeswoman against bullying? 
 
 Her bullies were crude strangers in person and online who reduced her to a dirty joke or verb. Monica corrects Beyoncé, who sings, “He Monica Lewinsky’d all on my gown,” saying it should be “He Bill Clinton’d all on my gown.” But her bullies were also the Clintons and their vicious attack dogs who worked so hard to turn “that woman,” as Bill so coldly called her, into the scapegoat. 
 
 As Hillary gave a campaign-style speech in Maryland Tuesday, warning that economic inequality could lead to “social collapse,” That Woman started her own campaign, keening about her own social collapse. It was like a Golden Oldie tour of a band you didn’t want to hear in the first place. ||||| Acting on behalf of deposed Fox News honcho Roger Ailes and wife Elizabeth, attorney Charles Harder — Hulk Hogan’s libel lawyer — has requested that New York magazine and writer Gabriel Sherman preserve all documents pertaining to Ailes, a not-so-subtle threat of possible legal action in response to the magazine’s damning article about sexual harassment at the network. 
 
 Magazine spokeswoman Lauren Starke confirmed today that New York and Sherman — the magazine’s national affairs editor — have been contacted by Harder, as first reported by The Financial Times. “New York Media and Gabriel Sherman were contacted by Charles Harder on behalf of Roger and Elizabeth Ailes, asking that we preserve documents related to the Ailes, for a possible defamation claim.” a spokeswoman for the magazine said Monday. 
 
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 Harder’s letter “was not informative” as to specific objections to the magazine’s cover story “The Revenge of Roger’s Angels.” 
 
 Harder might have a hard time choosing just one objection. As Deadline recently reported about the article, Sherman’s details “the 15 days it took to end the 20-year reign” of Ailes at Fox News after former FNC host Gretchen Carlson filed her sex harassment lawsuit. Among the charges: Carlson used her smartphone to record conversations to support her claims of ongoing harassment by Ailes. 
 
 Associated Press 
 
 If Harder follows through with legal action — a big assumption based solely on the contact confirmed by the magazine today — it would be the attorney’s third high-profile media case in recent memory: He represented Hogan in the former wrestler’s highly successful suit against Gawker, and was retained by Melania Trump in a defamation suit against The Daily Mail and blog Tarpley. 
 
 Still, the tactic of a legal threat by the Ailes’ attorney is by now chillingly familiar: After sending correspondence of intent to the Daily Mail in response to allegations that Melania Trump was once an escort, the Mail quickly retracted the tale. A similar response from NY Mag is unlikely. 
 
 Deadline’s Dominic Patten contributed to this report
– Vanity Fair's new editor-in-chief has kicked off her tenure with a scandal. The magazine issued an apology Wednesday, four days after a video mocking Hillary Clinton drew outrage on social media, per Deadline. In it, six editors suggest New Year's resolutions for the 2016 presidential candidate while holding glasses of champagne. They suggest Clinton teach a class on alternate-nostril breathing and "take more photos in the woods." But they also say she should abandon her "James Comey voodoo doll," and take up knitting or "literally anything that will keep you from running again," despite the fact that Clinton has stated she is done running for president. "Get someone on your tech staff to disable autofill on your iPhone so that typing in 'F' doesn't become 'Form Exploratory Committee for 2020,'" an editor quips. Though Fox News sees the video as "light-hearted and in good fun," Erik Wemple's interpretation of it as "snarky and demeaning" is more in line with social media users, who were quick to point out the sexist, ageist air, per the Washington Post. "Hey STOP TELLING WOMEN WHAT THE F--- THEY SHOULD DO OR CAN DO," tweeted Patricia Arquette. One Clinton adviser even used the hashtag #CancelVanityFair, while another burned his copy of the magazine. An editor included in the video initially defended it, noting "this wasn't a Hillary hit piece" and similar videos were made for other politicians, including President Trump, per the Huffington Post. By Wednesday, however, the magazine was trying to quash the backlash. The video "was an attempt at humor and we regret that it missed the mark," a spokesperson said.