Pawlenty, Obama, Ed Schultz grace GQ’s list of ‘Least Influential People Alive’

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garbon

November 29, 2011, 01:09:26 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/pawlenty-obama-ed-schultz-grace-gq-list-least-162726073.html

QuoteFormer Minnesota governor and Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is the least influential person alive, according to GQ's '25 Least Influential People Alive' list.

Pawlenty, who abruptly (and perhaps prematurely) ended his presidential bid in August, joins the illustrious ranks of Tia and Tamara Mowry, MSNBC's Ed Schultz, and Tila Tequila (who once had a bisexual dating show in which a bunch of men and women competed to be her true love, in case you somehow missed that).

"Every election season produces a number of hilariously pointless candidates who have no chance of winning," writes GQ in the list in its humor section. "Some of them have value as novelty items. ... Then there are folks like Pawlenty, who fail to register even as novelties. T-Paw (as he calls himself) spent much of 2011 as a six-foot-tall paperweight, an aggressively forgettable fellow perfectly suited to the role of debate filler. The $1 million he spent to lose the Iowa straw poll might as well have been burned in front of a group of orphans."

Pawlenty has since said that he regrets dropping out of the race so early, as the standings of the candidates continue to be in flux.

Of course, Pawlenty's stated irrelevance looks relatively mild compared to the lashing GQ doles out to Schultz. .

"Do you watch The Ed Show on MSNBC? Of course you don't. No one does. The only reason people watch The Ed Show is they're working out in a hotel gym and they can't find a staff member to change the channel to ESPN," GQ writes. "Did you know MSNBC suspended Schultz this year? It did! He called Laura Ingraham a 'right-wing slut,' and he still couldn't get noticed."

Other political notables on the list include Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former California Gov. (and the Terminator) Arnold Schwarzenegger, and, rounding out the list at number 24 and 25 respectively, Speaker of the House John Boehner and President Barack Obama.

"Okay, so we're cheating a bit with this one," GQ writes on Obama. "He did order the raid that wiped Osama bin Laden off the face of the earth. But then he used that surplus of political capital to let everyone in Washington stick a boot in his ass. This is a man who should be the most transformational figure of the century. Hell, he promised to be that. Instead he wields all the power of a substitute teacher at night school."
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Sheilbh

#1
November 29, 2011, 01:12:06 PM
It is extraordinary to think that killing Osama led to a 5% poll boost for about 2 months.  I wouldn't have guessed that ten years ago :mellow:
Let's bomb Russia!

Eddie Teach

#2
November 29, 2011, 01:19:44 PM
I'm sure I have less influence than any of those people. :mellow:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#3
November 29, 2011, 01:21:50 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 29, 2011, 01:19:44 PM
I'm sure I have less influence than any of those people. :mellow:

Obviously the list wasn't really out of everyone as the least influential people would by definition be completely unknown. :P
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#4
November 29, 2011, 01:29:33 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 29, 2011, 01:21:50 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 29, 2011, 01:19:44 PM
I'm sure I have less influence than any of those people. :mellow:

Obviously the list wasn't really out of everyone as the least influential people would by definition be completely unknown. :P

The existence of the list is silly, even before including Obama. They can always step down one more level. Instead of politicians and actors they could pick reality tv stars. Instead of reality tv stars they could pick internet bloggers. All it ends up being is a list of 25 people they feel like making fun of.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#5
November 29, 2011, 01:42:57 PM
The point of the article was entertainment. ;)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DGuller

#6
November 29, 2011, 06:24:37 PM
Obama can be very influential if he wants to be.  The problem is that he's incapable of wanting to be influential.

CountDeMoney

#7
November 30, 2011, 07:22:51 AM
Quote"Do you watch The Ed Show on MSNBC? Of course you don't. No one does. The only reason people watch The Ed Show is they're working out in a hotel gym and they can't find a staff member to change the channel to ESPN," GQ writes. "Did you know MSNBC suspended Schultz this year? It did! He called Laura Ingraham a 'right-wing slut,' and he still couldn't get noticed."

I :wub: Ed, because Ed trafficks in the truth.   He's a Working Class Warrior.

Razgovory

#8
November 30, 2011, 07:25:40 AM
Quote from: garbon on November 29, 2011, 01:42:57 PM
The point of the article was entertainment. ;)

Maybe it should have had clowns in it then.  Instead of being written by clowns.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

CountDeMoney

#9
November 30, 2011, 07:27:14 AM
Dude, it's GQ.  It's Playboy for latent homosexuals.

Eddie Teach

#10
November 30, 2011, 12:00:23 PM
I don't think there's anything latent about garbon's homosexuality.  :hmm:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#11
November 30, 2011, 12:10:49 PM
I read GQ because it is essentially a gay mag.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

fhdz

#12
November 30, 2011, 12:13:25 PM
I like the phrase "aggressively forgettable". Stealing it.
and the horse you rode in on

grumbler

#13
November 30, 2011, 12:17:01 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 30, 2011, 07:27:14 AM
Dude, it's GQ.  It's Playboy for latent homosexuals.
What the fuck is a GQ?  Doesn't sound significant.  What an insignificant says about the non-influential cannot be worth reading.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Razgovory

#14
November 30, 2011, 01:41:35 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 30, 2011, 12:17:01 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 30, 2011, 07:27:14 AM
Dude, it's GQ.  It's Playboy for latent homosexuals.
What the fuck is a GQ?  Doesn't sound significant.  What an insignificant says about the non-influential cannot be worth reading.

Gentleman's Quarterly?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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