There was an eye-roll quality to much of this publicity, not unlike his 1992 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show, where Clinton wore sunglasses and played the saxophone. There was a desire to portray it as pandering and unserious. The results, however, were almost always good for Clinton. Unlike most politicians of his era, he did not appear to be fighting popular culture. He appeared to simply view it as the culture that was popular, and he’d engage with it on its own terms.
