“The ‘brains’ surrounding Hillary Clinton didn’t make any friends last Friday at Condé Nast when they balked on a firm, long-standing commitment to let the candidate pose for Vogue, while the astute Julia Reed hung ten waiting to write about her and the giant fotog Annie Leibovitz had her cameras at the ready for nothing,” Liz Smith tells us today. “A source inside Hillary’s camp supposedly informed the Vogue contingent they’d decided some time ago not to honor the commitment, but Vogue wasn’t told until the last minute.”

Why the last minute dump? “Handlers for the senator decided Vogue would be ‘too elitist’ and Hillary might come off as ‘too glamorous,’” Smith says.

More strange is that Hillary already appeared in Vogue in 1998. Guess she didn’t mind appearing elite during the White House years? Also, the Hillary camp didn’t have a problem when her top aide Huma Abedin appeared glamorously in the mag earlier this year.