Many might expect to find the nation’s president leading a list of some sort — but maybe not on GQ magazine’s top 25 of least influential people. Well, President Obama came in at number 25 on the glossy’s year-end list of year “great artisans of utter uselessness.” Also landing a spot among those GQ claims spent the last year “devouring attention and contributing nothing to productive society”: editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast and Newsweek Tina Brown, who falls in at number 17; MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” host Ed Schultz; who ranks at number three; and T-Paw (Tim Pawlenty), who tops the list of what GQ describes to be the “most useless bastards of 2011.” According to the article, the former Minnesota governor and Republican presidential hopeful was crowned the winner because he “spent much of 2011 as a six-foot-tall paperweight and the $1 million he spent to lose the Iowa straw poll might as well have been burned in front of a group of orphans.” Congratulations!
