Rachel, Katie & Campbell Are In Vogue

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The Vogue issue featuring Rachel Maddow (alongside Katie Couric and Campbell Brown) is not the make-over disaster we feared, as you can see. It's also chock full of interesting bits — and we've got more.

A well-placed source at 30 Rock (the building, not the television show) tells us that when Maddow arrived for her fitting, she was shown to the Vogue closet — and a row of Louboutins that our source was dying to pet. As you can see, however, Maddow insisted on sticking to her standard Converse, wearing a Jil Sander suit that wouldn't seem out of place behind her desk and keeping on her sexy librarian glasses. (Our source also confirms Maddow's claim that Page Six made up the story about MSNBC trying to de-dyke her.) So much for the worries about Andre Leon Talley — who our source says is such a huge fan of Maddow's (and Olberman's) that he chatted with her about the last three days' worth of shows.

http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009_Jan_Shaping_the_News/?mbid=rss_feature (full article)

Go Rachel!

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Katie & Campbell couldn't carry Rachel's

...GRAVITAS! Both of them are the antithesis to Maddow's androgynous, 'serious-but-not-taking-herself-too-seriously' approach to covering important issues and presenting them to her audience in a way consumable by anyone.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. They are not even in the percentile as Rachel when it comes to intelligence.