Quick: What’s the connection between the presidential election and yesterday’s guilty pleas by con-man Raffaello Follieri (a.k.a. Anne Hathaway’s ex), besides that they’re both easy cable news fodder.
Well, The Nation has done the journalistic spade work, and finds that McCain and Rick Davis, his lobbyist-turned campaign manager, spent part of the senator’s 70th birthday on a yacht in Montenegro with Hathaway and Follieri.
I’m sorry—McCain spent his 70th birthday where, with who? And why?
The magazine promises more information in their next print issue, but for now, Ari Berman and Mark Ames’s online account of this meeting of the stars will have to suffice.
Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.