Yes, it’s GQ. And yes, they don’t stand a metrosexual’s chance at a tractor pull of getting you to care who they think matters or not. Still, the glossy “men’s” magazine’s jokey annual list of The Least Influential People, written by Drew Magary, is instructive.
The list is billed as “a comprehensive, anger-fueled list of everyone who ruined our year.” It starts with Hillary Clinton and includes a few other schadenfreudelicious picks – Anthony Weiner, Matt Lauer, Lena Dunham, Alex Rodriguez, Arianna Huffington – it features pop culture figures of varying fame, and snotty putdowns of conservatives and Republicans (it’s GQ, after all).
And it ends with God. The entry reads:
Yes, God. Are you up there, God? WHAT THE FUCK? Listen, I know that You are not a micromanager. You do not guide the trajectory of NFL passes or strike down those who displease You with bolts of hot lightning. I know You’re more of a hands-off parent. But this is getting out of hand. We’re in deep shit down here. We need You. We were already teetering on the brink of self-immolation, and that's when things were going WELL. Now we have all this to deal with. We’re not gonna make it if You just stay up there in the clouds playing backgammon all day and what not. We need help. AND DON'T SEND FLOODS! Floods are not the answer to everything, man.
Kinda funny. It would probably be a lot funnier were it not in GQ, as obvious a vessel of secular liberal sensibilities as there is. Put another way, this is probably how worldly lefties would pray if they did pray. It’s political, it’s got put-downs of the devout, it’s crass, foul-mouthed and basks in its predictable irony.
So it’s a perfect illustration of oh-so-sophisticated liberals’ disdain for the rest of America. It’s why people outside New York and California vote differently. It’s why Hillary heads GQ's list.
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