Asma Assad playing badminton as Syria burns.
You will recall that on February 25, 2011, the ultra chic, ultra progressive Vogue magazine published a fawning profile of Syrian first lady Asma Assad and her husband Bashar al-Assad. Not too long after Joan Juliet Buck’s story appeared Syria descended into open savagery and what do you know, the story was flushed from on-line Vogue.
Seraphic Secret preserved and reposted the story because we believe that author Joan Juliet Buck and Vogue editor Anna Wintour—both fervent Obama supporters—should be held accountable for their moral nothingness. For even before Syria exploded into civil war it was a brutish, Jew-hating totalitarian state that occupied Lebanon for sixteen years and eliminated all political opposition through assassinations.
Well, the Syrian regime obviously believes that Wintour and Buck had it right, that fashion and mass murder make excellent public relations. Thus on Sunday, the Syrian regime published a photo of the ultra fashionable Asma Assad smiling, playing badminton and wearing a t-shirt that reads in Arabic: “You, my beautiful country.”
And because Joan Juliet Buck so convincingly summed up Asma’s appeal, let us flashback to Vogue’s scintillating prose:
Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic—the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies. Her style is not the couture-and-bling dazzle of Middle Eastern power but a deliberate lack of adornment. She’s a rare combination: a thin, long-limbed beauty with a trained analytic mind who dresses with cunning understatement. Paris Match calls her “the element of light in a country full of shadow zones.” She is the first lady of Syria.
And while we’re at it, let’s take a look at Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s pitch for Obama:
Obviously, Anna Wintour has fab-u-lous political instincts.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Sara Jessica Parker AMAZING??? Yes, amazing in that she somehow resembles Seabiscuit.
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C’mon now. Can’t everyone see how thin she is? And you’re worried about the fact that she hates Jews? It’s a good thing HRC and Barry have their priorities straight.
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If she’s going to do a photo op at least make it reasonable – barefoot badminton?
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Asma wants to show off her pedicure.
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She is a pretty woman, but let’s remember that beauty is only skin deep. It’s what lies within your heart that matters most….
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Like Messalina her head is going to look great on a pike.
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She is probably not a nice girl in the Marie Antionette sense, but she does know how to present herself. Maybe Marie, not so bad. What came after has to be considerably worse. And, if indeed she suggested cake for her peple rather than bread, she almost surely knew something. Like how good the cake was. How about is Asma, like American so-called liberals, doesn’t believe the facts on the ground. Doesn’t trust what she sees. Simply isn’t smart. I think we have her co-religonists running the United States. I’m in Canada, and we have aa good government that takes quite a bit of paranoid heat from the not so-radical left.
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The posting re above: Kentuckians Against The War On Women.
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There is something being posted all around labeled Kentucky Women…led by Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem regarding loss of rights for women in the Untied States in Obama campaing fails. Asma is cuter, and I’ll bet, smarter than these dim bulbs.
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Funny how these liberals ignore Obama’s war against the Catholic Church.
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