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Wintour won't be ambassador to Britain
| Another Woman For Obama slides under the bus now that she's no longer useful to him. |
Anna Wintour, the editor of American Vogue, has missed out on a chance to be Barack Obama's ambassador to London.
To the bemusement of many in her British homeland, Anna Wintour, the famously nasty haughty editor of the US fashion bible for upper Midtown, was being widely tipped as Barack Obama's next ambassador to London.
But as the president's second inauguration this weekend attracts to Washington an influx of celebrities who would normally be more at home in a fashion party than a political one, reports indicated that Miss Wintour is going to lose out on the most coveted US foreign service posting.
The president has instead decided to offer the ambassadorship to Matthew Barzun, who headed his formidable money machine as national finance chairman for the Obama re-election campaign, it emerged yesterday. Mr Barzun is a genial unfashionable 52-year-old from Kentucky who made his money from a Californian tech media website.| You both raised boatloads of money, but Barzun has connections to the big data analysis people from Silicon Valley who mined Facebook etc. to get Obama elected. He plans to use them next on the gun control issue. You? You just trashtalk and offer photo ops and he can have either any time he likes. You're yesterday's fashion, sweetie. |
Posted by: lotp 2013-01-20 |
