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Win dinner with Barack Obama and…

Hot Air
Jazz Shaw
6/3/2012

Excerpts:

"Without much fanfare, Team Obama rolled out a new ad which will be running tonight during the MTV Movie Awards. It offers the opportunity for two lucky people to have dinner with not only the President and the First Lady, but with two of the people I’m sure we’d all like to spend time with. One is Sarah Jessica Parker. The other, and the hostess of this advertisement, is Vogue editor-in-chief and real life inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada, Anna Wintour. If you’ve never heard Ms. Wintour speak, it’s an experience which is.. ummm… why don’t I just let you watch (the linked video) yourself."
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Yes, we get that Obama is trying to appeal to the kids/fashionistas by launching on MTV. And the awards show is fun and watchable because unlike other glad-handing awards shows, it is unpredictable. But for that reason, the ad buy raises a lot of political questions.

Like why would the President sponsor a show with such a long history of f-bomb dropping, Howard Stern butt-cheek baring and more tonsil-hockey playing than anyplace this side of the last song at a high school dance?

Not only that, but Anna Wintour? Really? Anna “Nuclear” Wintour, the alleged boss-from-hell who was the inspiration for “The Devil Wears Prada.” Doesn’t that just re-emphasize the elite, Coastal, liberal image that Republicans love to mock Obama for? It would be like if Mitt Romney were to hold a fundraiser at a place called Chateau Something….co-hosted by a CEO who just said she was going to shed 25,000 jobs from her company.

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New GOP ad hits Obama campaign for Wintour ad, jobs report

Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
6/4/2012

Excerpt:

"The RNC calls this ad “Meanwhile,” but perhaps they could have called it “While Obama Wears Prada.” Jazz wrote yesterday about the Barack Obama campaign ad starring Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, widely known to be the model for the sadistic boss in the book and film The Devil Wears Prada. The ad itself has to be seen to be believed. Bear in mind that this is the same campaign that has spent much of the past month and more slamming Mitt Romney for being a member of the 1%, for being out of touch with the reality of working-class Americans. And their new ambassador to the working class is … “Nuclear” Wintour?

The parodies will write themselves, but the RNC mainly plays this one straight. Instead of overtly ridiculing the ad, they simply play it in the background while pointing out that Obama attended six — six — fundraisers the day that the disastrous jobs report came out on Friday, and then reminds viewers that joblessness is up in every category over the last four years:"
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