“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.

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Big Head DC has received credible evidence that GQ leaked the Hillary Clinton kill story to Ben Smith of the Politico in an attempt to have revenge on the Clinton camp for leveraging its weight against the magazine. Some journalists and/or bloggers have accused the Politico of being conservative, which is why GQ chose to leak to that particular outlet, we’ve been told. Still, pundits have largely agreed today that the move has made Clinton simply look like a stronger force to reckon with.

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From Radar: “Hillary Clinton combats rumors of a negative GQ feature by forcing the men’s monthly to make a choice: either kill the piece or lose access to her beloved husband for their slated George Saunders story. Editor Jim Nelson pulls the plug, claiming, ‘I don’t really get into the inner workings of the magazine…. We kill pieces all the time for a variety of reasons.’”

You gotta give Hil the thumbs up on this one. After all, who reads GQ anymore? 

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At a press conference today where he denounced lies by Sen. David Vitter, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt said that he will be paying Wendy Cortez (aka Wendy Ellis), the woman who claims to have had a several months-long affair with the Senator, to appear in the January issue of his hardcore smut rag. The amount of payment was not disclosed.

“She looks damn fine for her age!” Flynt exclaimed. Read more…

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The publication’s last issue hits August 27; President Bush’s last day in office: January 20, 2009.

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