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'Magic-Hour Glow'? Vogue Profile Inadvertently Turns Gavin Newsom into Laughingstock
Newsbusters ^ | February 4, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 02/05/2026 5:13:13 AM PST by PJ-Comix

I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking "wow, you're ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career." ---Derek Zoolander

Did the Gavin Newsom campaign think it was a good idea to turn to Vogue magazine for a glowing profile piece as perhaps a desperate attempt to counter the disastrous Atlantic magazine story that recently blasted the California governor who has 2028 presidential aspirations?

Whoever that campaign person was could be finding his (or her) job currently at risk due to the hilarious blowback that resulted from the glam paean that resulted in Newsom coming off as the Zoolander of politics as portrayed on Sunday by Maya Singer in "Gavin Newsom Is Setting His Own Rules."

Just a brief sampling of some excerpts from the Vogue puff piece reveals why this boomeranged on Newsom by turning him into a laughingstock thoroughly mocked in much of the media, both news and social, as well as in much of the rest of the web.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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An article that completely reinforced Newsom's Ken Doll bonafides in a way to keep us laughing.
1 posted on 02/05/2026 5:13:13 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

I’m sure the only thing magic was the mushrooms the writer took.


2 posted on 02/05/2026 5:17:17 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I maintain my position that he is the Democrat’s Jeb Bush.


3 posted on 02/05/2026 5:17:17 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: PJ-Comix

The word on the street is that Zorro is coming for Governor Newsome and will take him out.

President Trump is sending J.D.Vance to bring to light and prosecution the zillions of tax payer money fraudulently stolen with the model brought to light in Minnesota.


4 posted on 02/05/2026 5:17:58 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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Meanwhile, from this past October, guess who's spinning like Linda Blair...

The future of fashion magazines: Fewer, more premium issues After years of decline, magazines are getting a refresh with bigger, collectible editions no longer tethered to a monthly cadence. Is this the dawn of a new print era?

Well, that's one way to put it, eh?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

5 posted on 02/05/2026 5:18:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: PJ-Comix

Great example of the leftist biosphere theu all live in.


6 posted on 02/05/2026 5:20:36 AM PST by blitz128
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To: PJ-Comix

He was already a laughingstock.


7 posted on 02/05/2026 5:23:50 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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The "money shot":
"I was having a hard time taking in the man. His actual molecular reality."

50 Shades of Gavin.

8 posted on 02/05/2026 5:23:52 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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I'd like to see a cage match between Newscum and Beatoff O'Rourke.

9 posted on 02/05/2026 5:25:46 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: PJ-Comix

They didn’t turn him into a laughing stock.....they just pointed it out.


10 posted on 02/05/2026 5:29:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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One hundred percent of fashion mags, as well as one hundred percent of women’s mags snubbed Melania since 2015 after loving her dearly prior. You can still find the occasional cover with Big Mike’s mug on it, but not Melania.


11 posted on 02/05/2026 5:32:26 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Texas Eagle

GTMA.......the liberal media would have us believe that Governor DeSantis wiping the floor with greasy gavin in thst debate never happened.


12 posted on 02/05/2026 5:33:03 AM PST by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave)
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To: PJ-Comix

Does ANYONE read Vogue?


13 posted on 02/05/2026 5:33:27 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: mewzilla

Don’t progressive females eschew make up and stuff?

Could that be a reason Vogue is no longer in vogue


14 posted on 02/05/2026 5:35:07 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

The comparison does seem curiously apt, doesn’t it?


15 posted on 02/05/2026 6:14:19 AM PST by drwoof
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

I’m with you on that one.


16 posted on 02/05/2026 6:16:19 AM PST by Dave911
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To: PJ-Comix

Thus the term, slobbering media.


17 posted on 02/05/2026 6:17:33 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SMARTY

It used to be a little more sophisticated.

This person writes like a 13-year-old...


18 posted on 02/05/2026 6:27:56 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

They want Buttigieg.


19 posted on 02/05/2026 6:29:32 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: bert

That’s a really good point.

The AWFULs are not focused on high fashion.
Other Gen Z women are not focused on “looking good”.

Where does Vogue expect to find an audience either now or 10 years from now? It seems pretty suicidal.

I will also point out that Vogue put Michelle Obama on the cover repeatedly, and they put Jill Biden on the cover repeatedly. Melania Trump? Not since 2009 (when she was working as an actual model). Once she became First Lady, Vogue lost all interest in her. And anyone who has watched the new “Melania” documentary knows that she is beautiful, stylish, and extremely knowledgeable about style and taste. Vogue shuns that stuff, I suppose.


20 posted on 02/05/2026 6:32:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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