Hanging with Clinton and Mandela

Salon's Joe Conason says hi from South Africa

By Steve Kornacki

Published June 25, 2010 3:40PM (EDT)

Joe Conason, former President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela
Joe Conason, former President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela

It's not quite a postcard, but Salon's Joe Conason is spending the week in South Africa with Bill Clinton (they already went to a soccer game together) and has sent this picture along. You can probably guess which one Joe is.

Update: Salon's Rebecca Traister was in South Africa with Clinton in 2007 (she was reporting on his post-White House work) and posed for an eerily similar picture:

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By Steve Kornacki

Steve Kornacki is an MSNBC host and political correspondent. Previously, he hosted “Up with Steve Kornacki” on Saturday and Sunday 8-10 a.m. ET and was a co-host on MSNBC’s ensemble show “The Cycle.” He has written for the New York Observer, covered Congress for Roll Call, and was the politics editor for Salon. His book, which focuses on the political history of the 1990s, is due out in 2017.

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