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2012's Least Influential People

'GQ' provides a year-end list we can get behind

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 28, 2012 1:58 PM CST

(Newser) – If all those year-end lists of inspiring, fascinating, and otherwise amazing people has you feeling bad about yourself, turn instead to GQ's end-of-the-year list of 2012's least influential people, a group of "zeros" it refers to as insignificant and thoroughly uninspiring:

  • Mitt Romney: "Did anyone vote enthusiastically for Mitt Romney? Of course not. Voting for Romney is like hooking up with the last single person at the bar at 4am."
  • Madonna: "That cheerleading outfit isn't making you look any younger, Madge." Get out of the way, we have Ke$ha now.

  • Lance Armstrong: "Every year brings new and incontrovertible evidence that Lance Armstrong is the polar opposite of the inspiring legend he was once made out to be."
  • Adam Sandler: "At this point, the only reason Sandler makes movies is so that Rob Schneider can earn a living."
  • Occupy Wall Street protesters: "You really showed those Wall Street bigwigs you meant business by failing to adopt proper leadership and embodying virtually every awful liberal-hippie stereotype. ... Say what you will about the Tea Party, at least it managed to get people elected."
The entire hilarious list is worth a read.

This 2003 file photo shows Lance Armstrong waving on the podium after he won his fifth consecutive Tour de France cycling race, in Paris.
This 2003 file photo shows Lance Armstrong waving on the podium after he won his fifth consecutive Tour de France cycling race, in Paris.   (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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LReyes
Dec 3, 2012 10:00 AM CST
Madonna should just pull a "Garbo" & disappear. As for Ke$ha, she's far worse!
secondalto
Nov 28, 2012 5:31 PM CST
I can't stand Madonna, the woman can't sing her way out of a paper bag, but the notion that she should step aside because she's older now is really annoying.  This country's youth obsession is really ludicrous.  As for Ke$ha, her CDs are destined for the bargain bin at Best Buy, and she is even more irritating than Madonna.
RaymeeDotCom
Nov 28, 2012 4:22 PM CST
The graphics (at the GQ site) for Romney & Madonna was top notch.
 

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