GQ’s annual list of the “least influential” people is out today and it’s just as bizarre as ever. Topping this year’s list is Bono and U2 for giving the entire country a free album they neither wanted nor asked for. But a close second is President Barack Obama, who the magazine goes after for golfing when the world is seemingly coming to an end around him. It’s a big step down — or up? — for the president after coming in at #17 in 2013.
As for other members of the media who made the list, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith clocked in at number seven for his unique defense of Ray Rice.
And there at number nine was the entire CNN enterprise: “They’re still looking for that fucking plane! Is it in the ocean? Did it travel to another dimension? WAS IT A ZOMBIE PLANE?! We need to put the folks at CNN out of their misery. I can get better news standing at a goddamn bus stop.”
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And finally, towards the bottom of the list are a pair of conservative pundit/activists who had less-than-inspiring years in the spotlight. Sarah Palin made the list for sitting in her limo while her daughter got into a drunken brawl at a snowmobile party while Dinesh D’Souza was honored, not for his campaign finance conviction but for sending out the all-time worst Obama pun on Twitter.
Read the full list at gq.com.
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