Ah, no one says it like Tim Gunn, revered style swami and champion of dandy diplomacy, who can tell you everything you need to know about the dumpy hunchbackwear you've got on with nothing more than a fist pressed to his lips and a deep furrowing of his Sharpei-like brow. If anyone can get away with skewering the sartorial challenges facing our past and present leaders, it is he. Appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Gun was utterly unwowed by what was going on below President Bush's ankles: Taken separately, a pair of black Crocs and Air Force One socks might work, but there was virtually no excuse for wearing the two together (short of perhaps currying favor with the German Chancellor at the next G7 Summit).

Even more shocking, however, is Gunn's frank disparagement of Hillary Clinton's personal style, which he suggests is probably better suited for a Secret Service agent nearing retirement. Siding with the impossibly pretty John Edwards that she would be best to throw her infamous pink jacket onto a small mountain of calf-length power suits and set the pile ablaze, we still doubt Gunn was suggesting the Presidential hopeful is beyond salvation. On the contrary, all she really needs is to to be locked in a room with Christian for a few hours, upon which the Project Runway frontrunner would put his bionic tailoring skills to good use, giving her a 17-piece, high-concept Three Musketeers outfit that would all but certainly tip fence-sitters into her super, super, super chic camp.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien [NBC]

2:21 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Seth
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CrankYank at 02:28 PM on 02/19/08
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Tim Gunn & Larry the Cable Guy - Conan juggles the extremes of basic cable.
BIG WHEEL at 03:20 PM on 02/19/08
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Republicans and Democrats were both well-represented...
NoGrumpys at 03:30 PM on 02/19/08
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Nipple clamps- YEAH!!!!

...and Timm Gunn as Maynatd G Krebs
LBJeffries at 04:02 PM on 02/19/08
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Oh wait...was she a great big fat person?
bitchybitch at 04:03 PM on 02/19/08
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Heavens to Murgatroyd, even.
SneakingThroughTheAlle... at 04:38 PM on 02/19/08
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I still say my favorite celeb Manhattan interaction was having TGunn quite literally run into me at the CVS in Sheridan Square. He's a tall drink of water, that man.
Bon Jour, Pee Wee at 04:50 PM on 02/19/08
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I just posted about the Tim Gunn/Snagglepuss correlation myself!
Bon Jour, Pee Wee at 04:51 PM on 02/19/08
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Oops, how do you add video to the comments?
bitchybitch at 05:24 PM on 02/19/08
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I know, I was just wondering that too! We have to educate the younger generation about this. My fellow Tim Gunn lovers, this man stole his entire personality, voice, and sartorial sensibility from a Hannah Barbera cartoon character!

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SugartitsMcFirecrotch at 06:26 PM on 02/19/08
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Okay, I'll fess up - I loves me some Tim Gunn (it's just the fag hag in me I guess) and he does actually describe Sen. Clinton as "mannish" (at about 00.45).

Not to mention, as much as I enjoyed Snagglepuss back in the day, he makes Tim look butch, even.
bitchybitch at 06:32 PM on 02/19/08
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I actually think that Tim is quite butch in his own way. He is so controlled and his movements are so tight, he's almost mannish.
CrankYank at 02:48 PM on 02/20/08
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@bitchybitch: Why is everything I watched as a kid in the 80s so much gayer than I remember? Remember the days before widespread acknowledgement of homosexual subtext? I ask this after having watched Magnum and his mustache wrestle a bad guy on a Hawaiian beach while shirtless.
bitchybitch at 06:54 PM on 02/20/08
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@CrankYank:
"Remember the days before widespread acknowledgement of homosexual subtext?"

I found this photoshop brush based an actual comic.

[img src="http://a408.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/53/l_6e6f5947d180d6cffd3937fe7471695f.jpg"]

I probably just screwed that up.
bitchybitch at 06:55 PM on 02/20/08
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Sorry I suck.
CrankYank at 07:48 PM on 02/20/08
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@bitchybitch: That's OK, the magical tools of cut and paste brought it forth in all its glory. And I always thought Robin was (only) the twink.
CrankYank at 07:51 PM on 02/20/08
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Here's da link. Just paste it in, your error was being intelligent and complex.

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Miss d at 08:52 PM on 02/20/08
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Gayer than a sequin! Bless!