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The Perfect Mandate: Obama and Becks (and the Media)

David Beckham, global poster-boy for metrosexuality, sporting an Edwardian beard, had a hot date with Obama at the White House today. Though he had to bring his team-mates along as LA Galaxy were being honoured with a reception after winning the Major League Soccer Cup, America’s equivalent of the Premiership. After listing the soccer star’s achievements, introducing …

The Gay Case Against Gay Marriage and Gay Bigotry

By Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 30 April 2009) Who would have guessed the dainty opinions of a Miss America candidate would have been taken so seriously by gays and liberals? Miss California, a practising Christian, was last week denounced by Miss America judge Perez Hilton on his blog as ‘a dumb bitch’ and unworthy of the …

May 1, 2009 – 5:33 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, Barack Obama, gay marriage, journalism | Tagged civil unions, gay marriage, Miss World, Perez Hilton | Comments (30)

The Obama Model

Mark Simpson on fashion’s new love-affair with black males (Arena Hommes Plus, Spring 2009) Shortly after Obama’s election last year, Israeli-American designer Elie Tahari made a prediction: ‘I think the fashion industry will have a ball with him.’ So far, this is one fashion prediction that has been on the money. Since Obama’s glitzy inauguration …

April 30, 2009 – 12:50 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, Barack Obama, commentary, fashion, journalism, masculinity, racism | Tagged Arena Hommes Plus, Barack Obama, black male models, Elie Tahari, Givenchy, Lanvin, Michelle Obama, Oscar Garnica, Request Models | Comments (3)

Star Trek Boldy Goes Into the Obama Era

Mark Simpson, The London Times (April 16, 2009) It died a death during the Bush years in 2005, but it’s back. I’m talking of course, about the American Dream. Rebooted. In kinky boots. The first teasing trailer for the new Star Trek movie in January last year showed glimpses of a shiny new USS Enterprise “under construction”. …

April 19, 2009 – 12:33 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama | Tagged American Dream, Chris Pine, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, George W. Bush, Obama, Star Trek, The Next Generation, Voyager, Zachary Quinto | Comments (6)

White Working Pus: How the Media Sees the White Working Class

The Times of London’s cartoonist, like most cartoonists and journalists, has been strangely unable to produce anything even vaguely critical of the Senator from Illinois, while going to Hating Town in Hate Week on the Senator from New York, Hillary Clinton. But today he — and it is a he, a white he — finally …

May 22, 2008 – 11:53 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton | Tagged Times of London | Comments (3)

Limo Liberals Take The High Road to Defeat

By Mark Simpson Claiming the moral high ground is, in my view, the lowest form of politics. No doubt this means that, like the voters of Pennsylvania, I don’t read The New York Times enough. We’re really missing out. Yesterday’s haughty editorial in the wake of Senator Clinton’s convincing victory in that key state, despite …

April 25, 2008 – 3:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, commentary, Hillary Clinton, politics | Tagged Barack Obama, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, limo liberals, New York Times | Comments (5)

Who’s the Diva? Hillary or Obama?

As camp comic Kenneth Williams might say: ‘ark at ‘er! An entertaining, often incisive, if rather, er, campy, Huffington Post article ‘The Diva’s Camp’ about Hillary’s diva power (and why this turns off ‘Obama-colytes’) compares Hillary Clinton to Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest: ‘Hillary Clinton is possessed by the spirit of Joan Crawford. Like that notorious …

April 10, 2008 – 8:26 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics | Tagged camp, Democratic Primaries, Diva, gay vote, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, Joan Crawford, misogyny, Obama, sexism | Comments (5)

The Bitch is Back: Hillary Comes Out Clawing

After being written-off and told to give up, Hillary has earned grudging respect By Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 6 March 2008) What is American voters’ problem? The media, on both sides of the Atlantic, has been telling them for weeks that dreary Hillary was “finished” and that Tuesday’s primaries were going to be her “Alamo” — …