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How Michelle Obama is backing fashion
queen ´Ambassador´ Anna Wintour all
the way - to Paris, NOT London (despite
the fact she speaks little French)

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff

Original Article

Posted By:MissMolly, 12/9/2012 6:08:28 AM

Anyone doubting the veracity of Washington rumours that Anna Wintour, the famously icy fashion queen of New York City, will soon become a high-profile American ambassador in Europe should look no further for substantiation than the archives of Vogue magazine. In March 2009, the magazine – ruled by Wintour as her personal fiefdom – devoted its cover and eight glossy pages inside to an interview with the new First Lady Michelle Obama alongside a fabulously glamorous set of photographs shot by legendary portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. The ‘Michelle Obama Edition’ hit the newsstands with the glowing headline

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: rinohunter, 12/9/2012 6:15:08 AM     (No. 9056074)

Incompetence is the hallmark of this administration. If it is something that you can´t do, are not qualified to do, have no ability to do, then please apply because then you qualify. Affirmative action on steroids!


Reply 2 - Posted by: provide, 12/9/2012 6:19:35 AM     (No. 9056078)

Why not? Moochelle needs a gal pal to go shopping and restaurant hops with on her upcoming monthly clothes horse trips to Paris. The White House chef will have to learn new dishes. Anna will feature new trendy burkas.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: fleetusa, 12/9/2012 6:21:26 AM     (No. 9056081)

Maybe the French will now learn why we think B0 is incompetent.


Reply 4 - Posted by: nina584, 12/9/2012 6:27:01 AM     (No. 9056083)

Barf alert!!!
These two women are disgusting b-itches.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Wetlandz, 12/9/2012 6:39:58 AM     (No. 9056092)

Is that vogue cover another quid pro quo we´ve been hearing about?

The First Lady we´ve been waiting for? Are they kidding? Gag me


Reply 6 - Posted by: beca, 12/9/2012 7:18:50 AM     (No. 9056105)

gag me is right....this whole bunch is sickening....and to think the american people put them back in office.......gag me on that one too


Reply 7 - Posted by: Fiesta del sol, 12/9/2012 7:19:23 AM     (No. 9056106)

So Vogue puts Mooch on the cover, and now Wintour is going to be ambassador to France? Surely, the editor,of People Magazine and In Touch deserve something, they´ve put out an awful lot of fawning Obama articles.

Hate to be a killjoy, but Conde Nast owns Vogue, owns Vanity Fair, just in case you don´t want to support any of these creeps.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: doodah, 12/9/2012 7:26:22 AM     (No. 9056112)

The leftist toadies and politically correct group go bonkers over our first black president and will continue to worship at their feet and put Michelle on that pedestal. They say that she is the black Jackie Kennedy, and next she will be our black Joan of Arc, they are all atwitter devising new ways to glorify a very ordinary black woman, who has no special talents. It is amusing to see how far they will go. All of us know that with all of her makeup, special shoots, glam clothes, and coddling, even the most unattractive person would look great. Michelle, you´ve come a long way, baby, from your America hating days. Enjoy it while you can, one day the truth about your husband will come out and you and yours will be shocked.


Reply 9 - Posted by: nevernaught, 12/9/2012 7:44:30 AM     (No. 9056131)

When you get time today, trot over to Drudge and look at the picture of Comrade Clinton. All she needs is a dozen or so heroic medals to pin on her chest to be a dead ringer for uncle Joe Stalin. Who dresses that woman, someone from the commune?


Reply 10 - Posted by: secondtimelucky, 12/9/2012 8:00:32 AM     (No. 9056154)

9 - I agree. Simply dreadful...


Reply 11 - Posted by: pineledger, 12/9/2012 8:08:58 AM     (No. 9056168)

History´s Grossest Quid Quo Pro.

FTA: When she first appeared on the political stage, Michelle was dismissed as a slightly awkward, intellectual lawyer: an angrier, African-American version of the young Hillary Clinton. But when Vogue was finished with her, Michelle was recreated as a softly elegant global fashion icon and role model: a perfect Jackie to her husband’s JFK for a multi-racial age.

The rest of the article (and the pics of AW with her permanent, supposedly winsome chin-tilted-down pose) is big-time upchuck-time. Sometime watch some video of her striking that pose. Incredible.

But then POSE is what this pair of primitives in the WH are all about.


Reply 12 - Posted by: pineledger, 12/9/2012 8:09:54 AM     (No. 9056170)

Sorry. Quid Pro Quo.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: uno, 12/9/2012 8:29:24 AM     (No. 9056205)

Maybe the real goal is to encourage Paris to get going on some fundamental fashion change to add slash booty ratings on their clothing.
So for example a size 8 dress becomes a 8/16, a size 10 becomes a 10/20 and so on...


Reply 14 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 12/9/2012 8:35:20 AM     (No. 9056216)

If the first lady we have been waiting for is a tall angry black woman who can´t be happy unless she is on an expensive vacation at the country´s expense, then yes, she is the one.

If I didn´t know her true nature,(mean & angry) I would be able to say honestly that that cover shot actually made her look nice for once. She is dressed for her age and position in life, not as a teen wannabe. I wonder what kind of fight they had to go through to get her to wear that dress.


Reply 15 - Posted by: ufos4, 12/9/2012 9:09:56 AM     (No. 9056277)

Mz Wintour rules her kingdom - Vogue - with an iron fist. No wonder her and Mrs. O get on. Dictators do like to party together.


Reply 16 - Posted by: lillehuset, 12/9/2012 9:10:20 AM     (No. 9056278)

Michelle Antoinette assigns good friend to Paris......I say that´s just perfect...........


Reply 17 - Posted by: Sanspeur, 12/9/2012 9:10:31 AM     (No. 9056279)

Actuallment, je suis thinking this is a mahvelousment way to symbolize our current detente avec nous amies les froggies . We now have the vain, self aggrandizing ally betraying , perfidious de Gaulle lite nutty clone, la wintour. .. Mahvelous dahling.. Kiss kiss.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: jalo1951, 12/9/2012 9:27:50 AM     (No. 9056298)

I hear the position in Libya is open.


Reply 19 - Posted by: nevernaught, 12/9/2012 9:57:00 AM     (No. 9056330)

Here I thought Omar was to blame.


Reply 20 - Posted by: fotomom557, 12/9/2012 10:04:52 AM     (No. 9056339)

Being impaled in the left eye w/ a fork would be less painful than the thought of US Ambassador to France, Anna Wintour. Good Lord.


Reply 21 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 12/9/2012 10:06:17 AM     (No. 9056341)

The first comment after the article says it better than I can, plus it´s all I can do to keep my breakfast down before heading out to church. I´m feeling the need to ask forgiveness for my thoughts about the Obamas.

Question: Did Michelle rub oil all over herself for that picture in the dress that looks like the top is a swimsuit?

Comment after the article:Wintour wants something for all the funding parties she headed. She´s about as qualified to be an ambassador as obama is to be president. With that in mind, anything is possible.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Old Army Vet, 12/9/2012 10:08:41 AM     (No. 9056344)

Great idea, if this woman can annoy the French like I think she can, more power to her. She should be confirmen on the first vote. I tried to learn to speak French but I could not bring myeslf to keep saying "I surrender" all of the time.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: nonsense, 12/9/2012 10:11:24 AM     (No. 9056347)

Ms Wintour will be you-know-what on wheels. Who would be foolish enough to work for the devil in those expensive shoes? Although keeping a journal to publish later after the reign ends could prove lucrative.


Reply 24 - Posted by: kiwinews, 12/9/2012 10:11:41 AM     (No. 9056350)

You french think you know arrogant and rude? Well meet THIS!


Reply 25 - Posted by: Husker Infidel, 12/9/2012 10:51:18 AM     (No. 9056409)

I didn´t know that she left school at 16. She´s a high school drop out! Someone in the article is quoted as saying that appointing her ambassador is like Caligula appointing his horse a senator. I think she should be appointed ambassador to France. Then the French will see that the country has an incompetent president with an incompetent foreign policy.


Reply 26 - Posted by: Grambo, 12/9/2012 11:04:49 AM     (No. 9056432)

The Brits are heaving a collective sigh of relief.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Emerson, 12/9/2012 11:05:28 AM     (No. 9056434)

She found out that it was easier to sleep her way to success than go for a standard education.

Her bio describes her as being an ambitious "there are no rules" slut.


Reply 28 - Posted by: SoCalGal, 12/9/2012 11:09:09 AM     (No. 9056439)

That gushing Vogue cover feature was in March 2009.

There was word that Mooch would be the cover again this December. Didn´t happen. Maybe Wintour wasn´t so sure how the election would come out.


Reply 29 - Posted by: mickturn, 12/9/2012 11:17:58 AM     (No. 9056458)

...and Anna loves Michelle...it takes twice the material to make her dresses so it costs twice as much!


Reply 30 - Posted by: whyyeseyec, 12/9/2012 12:13:11 PM     (No. 9056527)

@#9: I`m rolling on the ground laughing!! She looks like a Russian babushka in her finest evening wear.


Reply 31 - Posted by: vrb8m, 12/9/2012 1:36:12 PM     (No. 9056614)

The first lady of the U.S. is nothing more than an angry, disbarred, radical activist with a chip the size of Asia on her massive shoulders.


Reply 32 - Posted by: LanieLou, 12/9/2012 3:30:41 PM     (No. 9056716)

Now Ambassador to France when she doesn´t speak french is perfect! Someone needs to send Mooch the movie The Devil Wore Prada.

This Nasty Anna is probably forcing designers to make balloon butt versions of their creations for Mooch.... free of charge!


Reply 33 - Posted by: LanieLou, 12/9/2012 3:35:26 PM     (No. 9056724)

Poster #9... I seriously believe Hillary converted to Islam. There is no excuse for her looks... even her beloved LGBT care about their appearances. No... that hairdo & forehead are from hours privately enjoying her Burka Wear.


Reply 34 - Posted by: eorsc, 12/9/2012 4:22:16 PM     (No. 9056757)

The cover pic of Michelle has been photo chopped. (Yes I said chopped.) Her waist is not that small.


Reply 35 - Posted by: bumbleshorts, 12/9/2012 5:08:49 PM     (No. 9056788)

The French think Jerry Lewis is a comedic genius.

Shirley Temple (Black) was the ambassador to Czechoslovakia for years, Vaclev Havel considered that a wee bit condecending and petitioned the US to make Frank Zappa the ambassador to Chechoslovakia.

obama appointed a homosexual ambassador to a Muslim country...that is an insult to a Muslim. Surprised obama did not know that.


Reply 36 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 12/9/2012 10:24:25 PM     (No. 9057092)

Thunder thighs and Cousin It in gay Paree.

How impressive.


Reply 37 - Posted by: JudithC, 12/10/2012 1:21:42 PM     (No. 9057913)

Does anyone think Big Moo doesn´t really know that the world laughs at her and particularly when it comes to the fashion icon baloney? Who in the world, and especially the nasty, awful, almost as repulsive as Big Moo Anna Wintour thinks this hog woman has style? It´s suspected that she harvests retread rubber from the sides of highways for her belts and that the oil of choice for her bared bowed-legs is Mazola. This woman is a national embarrassment and seeing at least 10" of thunder thigh in any of her hideous dresses is enough to cause one to lose lunch. She is classless and its showing more every day e.g., as in her upcoming 4 million vacation in Hawaii with her surly daughters, her entire grifter family, and Zippy.



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