Vanity Fair has caused a total holiday season meltdown by Hillary supporters with the posting of a brutally smug mocking video of Millenial VF staffers urging Hillary Clinton to make New Year’s resolutions to not run for the presidency in 2020.
The video was posted to Twitter on Saturday, December 23 and received little attention over the long Christmas holiday weekend. The video found its audience the day after Christmas and boy are Hillary supporters venomously angry!
The Vanity Fair video is captioned, “Six New Year’s Resolutions for Hillary Clinton; Vanity Fair’s Hive editors make six New Year’s resolutions for Hillary Clinton in 2018.”
The video features six male/female/? staffers speaking alone while holding a glass of champagne as they smugly suggest to Hillary New Year’s resolutions for her to make.
1: “It’s time to start working on your sequel to your book What Happened: What the Hell Happened?.”
2: “Get someone on your tech staff to disable autofill on your iPhone so that typing in “F” doesn’t become “Form Exploratory Committee for 2020″.”
3: “You know on Anderson Cooper you were telling him about alternate nostril breathing? You seem really adept. You should try teaching a class.”
4: “Take more photos in the woods. How else are you going to meet unsuspecting hikers?”
5: “Take up a new hobby in the new year. Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy, literally anything that’ll keep you from running again.”
6: “To finally put away your James Comey voodoo doll. Now we all know you think that James Comey cost you the election–and he might have–but so did a handful of other things. It’s a year later and time to move on.”
The video closes with three of the staffers speaking solo to Hillary, “So cheers to you Hillary Clinton.” “Cheers to you, Hillary.” “Cheers to you, Hillary.”
Maybe it's time for Hillary Clinton to take up a new hobby in 2018 pic.twitter.com/sbE78rA5At
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 23, 2017
A sample of the reaction from Hillary supporters:
https://twitter.com/HRCpersists/status/945714314492571649
A #CancelVanityFair hashtag campaign was started.
For quick reference, below you will find the toll free number to cancel your subscription to Vanity Fair & the email address to contact the Editor #CancelVanityFair pic.twitter.com/JvYyUXVFyL
— JAM (@Eviljohna) December 26, 2017
A former Hillary staffer:
Bless your hearts. If this was supposed to be funny, it failed in epic fashion.
— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) December 26, 2017
The hate was strong in the liberal Blue Check Mark crowd:
Six New Year’s Resolutions for Vanity Fair’s Hive Editors: 1) Don’t make videos on Ambien 2) Show some fucking respect to the 1st female Presidential nominee of a major political party & the former 1st lady & Secretary of State 3) Learn what funny is 4) Fuck off 5) see 4 6) see 5
— Caissie (@Caissie) December 27, 2017
Damn Vanity Fair… damn…. #unfollowed
— Jaime Primak (@JaimePrimak) December 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/PattyArquette/status/945812980939161600
Your Vanity is failing you, VF! You wish you were as influential as she @HillaryClinton is! In a moment in history that probably we need more women leading than ever, you try to make a joke out of her? Why don’t you do it with the other male candidates of both parties? https://t.co/4CGALQjYqa
— Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 (@chefjoseandres) December 26, 2017
Vanity Fair tl;dr: Six young white people holding glasses of champagne would like Hillary Clinton to abandon her life's work and platform and just shut up. Good to know. https://t.co/cELDKdVmYd
— Summer Brennan (@summerbrennan) December 26, 2017
You mean besides helping women run for office and generally being a role model for women, who hold only 17% of the 500k elected positions in the US?
Just curious – what kind of hobbies do you recommend for Bernie Sanders in 2018, @VanityFair? https://t.co/zsp5B2JEz0
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 26, 2017
Hillary sycophant Peter Daou blew a gasket.
Repugnant. Sexist. And yet another example of why the problem was less Russia and the GOP but the mainstream media, who treated @HillaryClinton with dripping disdain for the duration of the 2016 election. And for all of 2017. Ugh.
Now back to my break… https://t.co/7CmJBWV5xM
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017
So @VanityFair decided that the best way to end 2017 was to take a repulsive cheap shot at @HillaryClinton, one of the most accomplished women in the history of the United States.
Now #CancelVanityFair is moving.
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017
I ended 2015 defending Hillary Clinton from sexist attacks.
I ended 2016 defending Hillary Clinton from sexist attacks.
I'm ending 2017 defending @HillaryClinton from sexist attacks.
So much for my Twitter break…— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 27, 2017
One Hillary supporter posted a classy retort:
https://twitter.com/vicsepulveda/status/945844952176590849
The funny thing is one clicks through to Vanity Fair’s The Hive, it is all Trump hatred with headlines like, “WILL 2018 BE THE END OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY? Assessing the odds of impeachment, resignation, electoral annihilation, and nuclear armageddon in the New Year.”
Vanity Fair also posted a New Year’s resolutions video for White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders that is mild by comparison and has garnered no attention.
Imagine a Sarah Huckabee Sanders + Bernie Sanders mashup in 2018 pic.twitter.com/fiKoD2vve2
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 24, 2017
VF also posted one for Gary Cohn, chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump and Director of the National Economic Council. This video also went nowhere.
What should Gary Cohn do in 2018? Consider sinking his entire life's savings pic.twitter.com/9ljp4LvOnE
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) December 26, 2017
Happy New Year!
