Liz Smith at Variety dispatches on the latest front in Hillary v. The Media. This time, we learn:

The "brains" surrounding Hillary Clinton didn't make any friends last week at Conde Nast when they balked on a firm, longstanding commitment to let the candidate pose for Vogue, while the astute Julia Reed hung ten waiting to write about her and photog Annie Leibovitz had her cameras at the ready for nothing. Handlers for the senator suddenly decided Vogue would be "too elitist" and Hillary might come off as "too glamorous." Hmmm, after those hideous Al Gore-type pantsuits, like the one she wore at her 60th birthday fund-raiser, I think Mrs. Clinton could use a touch of glamour. Elitists vote too, you know.

Wait -- she's rejecting an offer to participate in a tightly controlled, media-constructed glamour boost? Is that your final answer, Hillary?