A staffer for the CNN anchor thinks Cindy McCain dresses well and has nice hair. She also details a lot of nice things about Sen. John McCain’s spouse, apparently in an effort to help you get to know her. And then she mentions that Cindy was once a drug addict.

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The phony branches totally match his personality:

Got the Christmas tree up today, so I’m almost done with the decorating. As I live in a small studio, I use a fake tree. One year I got a real tree and it nearly killed me with the pine scent. Not to mention, I kind of find (sic) like I had this decapitated plant all gussied up and slowly dying in my living room. Never felt that way about anyone else’s live tree, but with my own, just felt like I had killed a plant. Very weird. Anyway, my sis got me a really beautiful fake tree a few years back - the pic doesn’t do it justice. The thing actually looks real. I’ve had people compliment me on it in person without realizing it was fake. Anyway, even though the studio is far too crowded, I’m glad I made room for the tree this year - it had been a few years, due to space constraints, and I finally said screw it, time for the tree. Glad I did.

His decorating skills leave much to be desired. For one, who uses a topper like that anymore? The bulbs all look generic — no special ornaments might mean no special person in his life? Plus, is he even going to make an effort to hide the cords before company comes? And, no, John, it doesn’t look real. The metal stem is a dead giveaway.

Related: John Aravosis Finds Michael Musto Party “Creepy”

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“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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In-the-know politicos have long been asking a certain question about conservative South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham: Why are his eyes so pretty? Read more…

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Thank goodness the Nobel Peace prize isn’t awarded for familial fashion. Oh, Mrs. Gore!

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Today in media elite sightings, a tipster says that he or she caught Patrick Gavin, of Fishbowl DC and Examiner fame, huffing and puffing in an apparent attempt to slim down. From the always-anonymous tip box:

I just saw Patrick Gavin jogging through the streets of Glover Park, trying (desperately) to get in shape.

Three observations:

1. Total fashion victim. Who jogs in basketball shorts and a huge headband other than my grandfather??

2. He is VERY overweight. At least 260 pounds. Fat legs and everything.

3. I hope he made it home alive. The way he was sweating and huffing, I got a little scared for him.

Well! At least he’s trying, which is more than we can say for his attempts at gossip blogging most days. Right?

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Now, we normally don’t self-promote, but today we’ll make an exception to let you know that Big Head DC’s notorious contributing writer Mockette is back in town — and she’s apparently come into some bucks. She’s been seen out and about at the Capitol, wearing a pricey Yves Saint Laurent wool cashmere jacket combined with a chic Thomas Pink shirt and tie. You go girl!

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Attendees at this weekend’s Rock & Roll Hotel “Underwear Party” were left scratching their heads (and nether regions) when a guest showed up who looked uncannily like the Washington Post’s Robin Givhan, style writer extraordinaire. The bespectacled visitor was said to be carrying around a reporter’s notebook and was paying close attention to the labels of everyone’s undergarments. Now, we’re no expert on the diva’s panties, so you’re going to have to be the judge on this one, kids.

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Wonkette editor Alex Pareene went to Minnesota over Labor Day weekend to visit someone (more on who later), and look what he brought back:

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