There was a lot of talk on Twitter Wednesday about that new issue of Vanity Fair with Beto O’Rourke on the cover photographed by Annie Leibovitz, from the way O’Rourke seemed to be taking fashion cues from Ronald Reagan to worry about why his dog looked so darned sad in every single photo.
Keen-eyed writer Freddie Campion had a flashback and dug up a great find from the archives:
Just remembered the last time a Conde Nast publication dressed a young Democratic hopeful in smart-casual workwear and posed them next to a dog and pickup truck in a cover story shot by Annie Leibovitz. pic.twitter.com/qvOzjdaUkw
— Freddie Campion (@FreddieCampion) March 13, 2019
That’s pretty funny, right? Flavor of the month Democratic politician posing with his dog and his pickup truck, both photographed by the same celebrity photographer.
But wait, it gets better. Crack open that old issue of Men’s Vogue, and what do you find but … the two profiles were also written by the same writer.
Oh. My. God. pic.twitter.com/SFgITC1dlo
— Freddie Campion (@FreddieCampion) March 13, 2019
Yep, Joe Hagen’s byline in on both pieces, and his writing style and his politics haven’t changed much. Check out how he described John Edwards, but have a barf-bag handy:
The hair, up close, is peppered with tiny strands of blond. Chestnut brown and so finely trimmed, mellifluous, smooth, and feathery, it could almost be a weave, the Platonic ideal as imagined by the Hair Club for Men. Along with the piercing blue eyes, slashing V-shaped smile, and a shimmering burgundy shirt tucked into stonewashed Levi’s resting low on the hips, the hair completes the man: John Edwards, a populist Adonis, a golden god of a Southern Democrat.
He seriously wrote that about John Edwards: “a populist Adonis, a golden god of a Southern Democrat.”
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And we thought Hagen’s piece on O’Rourke was nausea-inducing. Let’s hope O’Rourke has the same luck as Edwards did with this boost from Condé Nast.
A+ catch
— Nick Beaudrot (@nbeaudrot) March 14, 2019
Cringe…This reads like a bad, bad romance novel. pic.twitter.com/nkdzHcHbSf
— Schrümpfy (@soK1canmsgme) March 14, 2019
He used to teach a class on writing Profiles at NYU ?
— Not Maureen (@laugh_cry_laugh) March 14, 2019
— Schrümpfy (@soK1canmsgme) March 14, 2019
So canned.
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) March 14, 2019
Hilarious.
— Wayne Brown (@3rdrockwayne) March 14, 2019
This is gold. Too good for a subtweet. @joehagansays are you having flashbacks?
— Lynn ? (@lynnhagewood) March 14, 2019
Yeah, let’s get Hagan in on this lovefest.
Joe Hagan has a type.
— Holy_Cow! (@SupremeLister) March 14, 2019
It's his specialty.
— sunflowerNC (@sunflowerNC) March 14, 2019
“Hagan, you’ve got the pretty boy”
— I’m a cop, you idiot (@imacopyouidiot9) March 14, 2019
Who is the go to guy for a presidential puff piece for the cover? We know! It's. Joe Hagan
— SwanSpirit (@SwanSpirit) March 14, 2019
His "journalistic" specialty how to make fluffy look macho.
— frikken_orwell (@frikken_orwell) March 14, 2019
Hagan’s a bit obsessed with men’s hair.
— ChiefReconRanger (@guzifer2) March 14, 2019
Recycling is good for the environment and Hot-Dad politicians.
— Mayakovsky’s Ghost (@Loneprotester) March 14, 2019
A biased shill. Imagine that? These frauds are exposed each day. Love it!
— Nicholas Augusta ✯ (@naugusta) March 14, 2019
Perfect, now comes the love child with the nanny
— Gianbattista (@gbtiepolo1) March 14, 2019
To be fair, Vanity Fair hasn’t really had a new idea since 1994.
— slay dunaway (@notbrodyjenner) March 14, 2019
Time is a flat circle.
— Alex Schmalex. (@AEC_PA) March 14, 2019
It’s a cottage industry.
— Luis Garcia (@cowboy082478) March 14, 2019
Hagan & Leibovitz should charge for this brand work.
— Law, Politics, & Football (@IReadAboutStuff) March 13, 2019
Joe Hagen has a picture of Robert Francis on the ceiling of his bedroom.
— Lady Hecate (@Hecate40) March 14, 2019
Of course … that John Edwards cover was getting really faded.
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‘He has an aura’: Vanity Fair gives Beto O’Rourke the full nausea-inducing glamor treatment https://t.co/YOw0akeHWY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) March 13, 2019
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