Congrats Anna! This is how you know you've truly made it in politics. You have your own political protesters and they made funny if wholly unoriginal signs about you! (But seriously, trying to make Prada and Obama rhyme is like trying to make fetch happen.) Thanks to Daily Intel for pointing this out.
Bloomberg's report that Anna Wintour is being considered for an ambassadorship in the U.K. or France didn't just have fashion news sites like ours buzzing--it was the topic of conversation on every major morning show, from the TODAY show to MSNBC. So we thought it was worth looking into a bit more. If you thought our super fun and super serious GChat conversations with Current TV's Jo Piazza would go away after the election, you're wrong! Aren't you happy? In this latest installment, we discuss why Anna Wintour would be an awesome ambassador. Should she want the job. Jo thinks she should. Why? Read on.
Anna Wintour has always been an Obama supporter (she donated $10K to Democratic White House Victory Fund in 2008) but to say she's ramped up her support for Obama's 2012 reelection campaign would be an understatement. She's one of Obama's top tier bundlers, which means she's raised over $500,000 for the reelection campaign. She put together Runway to Win, a project in which she recruited big name designers (many of whom Michelle Obama has worn) to create items to be sold on the campaign website. Wintour will head to Chicago on June 12 for a "Runway to Win" fundraiser (she hosted one in NYC back in February, too). And, in perhaps her most visible move in support of Obama, last week Wintour was the subject of a campaign video announcing a contest for potential donors to win the chance to dine with her, Sarah Jessica Parker, and the First Couple at a June 14 fundraiser. A few days later, one of those chatty, casual, Obama emails landed in our inboxes with Anna Wintour's name as the sender. "I don't do this sort of thing often -- get involved with politics, that is," the email reads. "But I'm doing everything I can to support President Obama this summer and fall because it's important that we all do. Nights in New York like this one are a happy side benefit." That video was met with immediate backlash.
As a recent White House press conference would suggest--you know, that one during which a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney “Has the President seen The Devil Wears Prada?”--people can't get enough of this Anna Wintour ambassador story. And it's still going. This rumor's got legs. Legs in stilettos, people. A new report in The Hollywood Reporter suggests that Wintour is still in the running for an ambassadorship--the one in France, not the UK.
So about those nagging rumors that Anna Wintour is up for an ambassadorship in the Obama administration--or even those rumors that she'll retire soon: This latest bit of news should put them to rest once and for all.
