Thursday, June 14, 2012

Dog item of the day

From the Washington Post:

At last night’s Runway to Win event in Chicago, U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour announced some new, perhaps unexpected, designer products in the campaign’s Runway to Win online store: ‘Bark for Obama’ designer pet products.
Presumably Ms. Wintour won't be sending one as a gift for the dogs of her favorite murderous dictator.

And the real story is that she wants a job from Obama: Ambassador to England.

Story at the Washington Post:


Her younger brother is currently the political editor for The Guardian, which has reported on Wintour’s desire for the ambassadorship. (A trial balloon, perhaps?)
She is also a bundler for Obama, and on Thursday is hosting a dinner along with “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker for Obama, Michelle Obama, whom she has advised on fashion matters, and two lucky winners of a small-donor raffle for the president’s re-election campaign...


Wintour came under fire last year when Vogue featured a glitzy profile on Syria’s controversial, but glamorous, first lady, Asma al-Assad. On Sunday, Wintour finally released a statement about the magazine’s coverage on the wife of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad....

The escalating atrocities in Syria are unconscionable and we deplore the actions of the Assad regime in the strongest possible terms.”
It’s unclear if Wintour’s statement came as a result of White House pressure but certainly she is becoming a surrogate for the campaign as she appears in video ads and hosts more and more high profile fundraisers in a highly-charged election year.

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