THE SCRAPBOOK offered a bounty -- a one-year subscription to THE WEEKLY STANDARD -- to the first person who mailed in the incriminating photo shown here, in which this magazine's executive editor impersonates a Green Bay Packers fan. The winner of the subscription is Democratic senator Russ Feingold. And therein hangs a tale.
Barbara L. Lyons, executive director of Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., actually mailed in the photo. And she elaborated as follows: "For a powerful and influential guy, Fred Barnes gets into more pickles than vinegar. We invite the poor guy out to Milwaukee and what happens? Our wonderful dinner emcee, Charles Sykes, provides us with a photo-op worthy of high-level blackmail (we're always looking for productive fund-raising ideas).
"Then you learn of our compromising photo. We were hoping some big-money eastern or Hollywood liberal would want to get Fred embarrassed on 60 Minutes and pay big money for the photo. Instead you offer a one-year subscription. Oh well. Please send it to our ultraliberal, pro-abortion and partial-birth-supporting U.S. senator Russ Feingold. We'd really like to do something nice for him because we think he's going to be pretty sad come Election Day."
Consider it done, Barbara.