Anna Wintour – Page 2

Anna and Joan — Anna Wintour and Joan Juliet Buck, fashionable enablers of mass murder.

In March 2011, Vogue magazine ran a gushing profile of Syria’s totalitarian first couple Asma Assad and her husband Bashar al-Assad. Syria, we noted, is a military dictatorship that routinely tortures and murders its own citizens. It is also an openly Jew-hating state that has vowed on numerous occasions to annihilate Israel. For Joan Juliet Buck to write such a flattering profile of a butcher and his accomplice wife was almost surrealistic, a Brooksian “Springtime for Hitler.”

As Syria descended into civil war and Assad openly murdered scores of his own people Vogue magazine quietly scrubbed the article from its website.

Seraphic Secret saved and reprinted the article because we knew that sooner or later events would catch up with Vogue. We wanted to make sure the story did not get flushed down the memory hole like so much Communist propaganda.

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a lengthy article about the favorable PR enjoyed in the west by the Assads. The story focuses on Barbara Walters, Joan Juliet Buck and Anna Wintour and their enabling of this murderous regime.

On February 25, 2011 the ultra liberal, ultra chic, ultar amoral Vogue magazine published a fawning profile of Syria’s Asma al-Assad, wife of dictator Bashar al-Assad, who can only be described as a totalitarian butcher.

In the past year his regime has murdered at least 11,000 of his own people.

On March 2, 2011, Seraphic Secret reported on this profile. We likened it to “Springtime for Hitler.” We also saved the article because we had an inkling that sooner or later Vogue would, Soviet style, drop it down the memory hole.

We can only assume that the slaughter in Syria has finally registered as a bit unfashionable and indeed, Vogue has scrubbed the story.

But we think Vogue—prominent Obama fundraisers—should be held accountable for their hymn to evil, so here is their original story in case you missed it.

Read the whole thing—if you have the stomach—because the last sentence…

Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert

by Joan Juliet Buck | photographed by James Nachtwey

Asma al-Assad, Syria’s dynamic first lady, is on a mission to create a beacon of culture and secularism in a powder-keg region—and to put a modern face on her husband’s regime.

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.

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