Bill “I Did Not Have Sex with That Woman” Clinton

In the pre-Trump era, Bill Clinton was known as the greatest gift that political humorists had ever received. The chapter on Bill “I did not have sex with that woman” Clinton begins by discussing the fact that late night comics found plenty of material with which to roast him. He was lampooned for overeating, bending the truth, draft dodging, marijuana smoking, the Whitewater scandal, and more. However, the dominant and lasting caricature of Clinton was based on his history of having—or allegedly having—sexual relations with women other than his wife. The caricature, in other words, focuses on Clinton as an inveterate womanizer. Clinton’s presidency is a classic example of how political caricatures in the modern era are exaggerations, based in, but stretching the truth.