Newsweek’s cover this week features a nice-looking old photo of Rudy Giuliani with the headline “Rudy’s Roots: How Growing Up in a Family of Cops and Hoods Shaped Giuliani’s Moral Universe.” Can anyone imagine a Bill Clinton cover from 1991 focusing on the “moral universe” of Bill Clinton’s gaudy family in all their sinful squalor?

The story begins with Evan Thomas and Suzanne Smalley digging deep into the opposition-research folder, recounting an incident from September 16, 1992, when New York City police held a rally that “spun out of control…According to some witnesses, they waved placards crudely mocking Mayor Dinkins, the first black mayor of New York, on racial grounds, while at the same time chanting ‘Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!’ to welcome Rudy Giuliani.who had arrived to shore up his political base. It is not clear Giuliani knew exactly what he was getting himself into – he later denied that he did – but video shows him wildly gesticulating and shouting a profanity-laced diatribe against Dinkins.” The New York Times account is here.

Remember stories like this when Newsweek reporters and editors explain that Republicans are desperate to dredge up negatives from Hillary Clinton’s activities from 1992 to the present.