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Obama must really be a narcicist!

Doh. The narcissist in chief is caught leaving the White House carrying an issue of GQ Magazine...Featuring...Himself.

I caught this photo in today's print edition of the New York Post, where they note the president is bringing along his favorite reading material: A recent GQ magazine with himself on the cover. Nothing like stroking your ego on the way to the golf course.

GQ is set to name President Barack Obama "Leader of the Year" in its forthcoming December issue. The honor is part of GQ's "Men of the Year" roundup which also highlights Clint Eastwood ("Badass of the Year"), Tom Brady ("Comeback of the Year"), the "Hangover" guys ("Funnymen of the Year") and Chris Pine ("Breakout of the Year").

My aunt is in town from Russia for a week or so. I spent sometime with her and my mom, her sister, over the weekend. She told me that she and her friends are all buzzing over an article in GQ Magazine that was less than flattering toward Vladimir Putin. The article is supposed to be scathing but that's not why many of her friends were buzzing.

In an act of publishing cowardice, Condé Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a GQ article criticizing Vladimir Putin. As a public service, we're running it here and ask for your help in translating it.

For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn't the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found. Scott Anderson, a veteran war correspondent Enlarge Timothy Fadek/Polaris Scott Anderson, a veteran war correspondent, says he's disappointed GQ was frightened of circulating his story. "If you're worried about repercussions and you bow to them, you're basically surrendering to the other side." Scott Anderson, a veteran war correspondent Timothy Fadek/Polaris Scott Anderson, a veteran war correspondent, says he's disappointed GQ was frightened of...

GQ Men Style: Palin - Cougar in Chief This is outrageous slander! A "Cougar" is supposed to be mid-aged woman who preys upon younger men! And GQ is shamelessly suggesting that Palin "leaves her paw prints" on younger men!? A new low for the MSM... BARF!

A report on the GQ magazine Web site is quoting unnamed former Bush administration official as blaming former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for many failures, including a delay in military assistance in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The report says "in speaking with the former Bush officials, it becomes evident that Rumsfeld impaired administration performance on a host of matters extending well beyond Iraq to impact America's relations with other nations, the safety of our troops, and the response to Hurricane Katrina. The Washington Monthly highlights more of Robert Draper's article in GQ: "[T]hree years later, when I asked a...

An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld "appreciated" the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings, and that Rumsfeld brought the briefings to President Bush. Urbahn e-mails that the briefings in question were not routinely sent to Rumsfeld, and that Rumsfeld considers the cover slides "harmful and counterproductive to the war effort." Urbahn's full e-mail: The slides in the “World Intelligence Update” were prepared on a daily basis by military personnel serving on the Joint Staff, which...

A series of cover sheets for intelligence reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials during the early days of the war in Iraq in 2003 were adorned with biblical quotations, and appeared Sunday, six years later, on the Web site of GQ magazine. The daily briefings were called the “Worldwide Intelligence Update,” one of several intelligence reports compiled overnight and presented in a folder for Mr. Rumsfeld and other officials as they came to work. In the selection of the cover sheets that GQ placed on its Web site, photographs of soldiers praying...

A reporter hired by Newsweek to cover the presidential primary has written an article admitting that he was biased.Writing in the latest issue of GQ magazine, Michael Hastings describes his personal feelings about various candidates, including Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Hillary Clinton, and admits that he could not be objective about the people he covered: If that sounds like I had some trouble being “objective,” I did. Objectivity is a fallacy. In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren’t just covering a story, they’re a part of it—influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates—and despite...

Transformers star Megan Fox graces the cover of GQ’s October cover with a tongue-across-the-teeth pose.

Here and there, the mainstream media is noticing the disturbingly enthusiastic support coming Ron Paul's way from distateful quarters. In a November 20 column titled "Ron Paul isn't that scary", LA Times columnist Jonah Goldberg calls stories about Ron Paul's racist and 9-11 troother supporters "overblown", but he does let slip the following: "Republican consultant David Hill condemns the candidate's ‘increasingly leftish' positions. Syndicated columnist Mona Charen calls Paul ‘too cozy with kooks and conspiracy theorists.' Film critic and talk radio host Michael Medved looks over Paul's supporters and finds ‘an imposing collection of neo-Nazis, white Supremacists, Holocaust deniers, 9/11...

The powerful sway that Bill and Hillary Clinton hold over the American media has been illustrated by their successful attempt to "kill" a negative magazine story about Mrs Clinton's presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton 'could cost Democrats dear' Full coverage: US Elections 2008 According to the Politico newspaper, GQ magazine was planning to publish an article by writer Josh Green, who had previously angered the Clinton campaign by writing that the New York senator "offers no big ideas, no crusading causes" and had "plenty to talk about, but she doesn't have much to say". The planned article included details of in-fighting...

Both Hillary Clinton and GQ have a lot of explaining to do if the Politico has this story correct: According to Ben Smith, Hillary's campaign pressured GQ to kill a piece critical of her by threatening to withhold Bill Clinton's cooperation in the future. The editors of GQ caved into the threat and spiked the article: Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood...

"Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton. Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the Clinton campaign’s demands, which had been delivered by Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, several sources familiar with the conversations said. GQ writer George Saunders traveled with Clinton to...

Clinton campaign kills negative story By: Ben Smith Sep 24, 2007 03:43 PM EST Clintons’ press aides have leverage like Hollywood publicists — less Mitt Romney and more Tom Cruise. Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton. Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson...

Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president learned that the men’s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton’s aides pulled a page from the book of Hollywood publicists and offered GQ a stark choice: Kill the piece, or lose access to planned celebrity coverboy Bill Clinton. Despite internal protests, GQ editor Jim Nelson met the Clinton campaign’s demands, which had been delivered by Bill Clinton’s spokesman, Jay Carson, several sources familiar with the conversations said. GQ writer George Saunders traveled with Clinton to...

http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5900(Link only due to copyright complaint)

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney won the Man of the Year title at the GQ magazine awards held in London. Sir Paul was honoured for his latest album and his successful US tour. "Paul McCartney is not only one of our greatest living legends, he's also probably the most dignified," said GQ editor Dylan Jones. Other winners included Extras creator Ricky Gervais, presenter Jonathan Ross and singer Rod Stewart - who was given the outstanding achievement award. Embraced By PublicTop Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson won TV personality of the year, and received his award from Stewart's fiancee Penny Lancaster. GQ...

'WOMEN ARE equals now. They can fend for themselves. To offer a perfectly healthy woman a seat simply because she is a woman, however well-intentioned, is creepy. At best, she'll think you're from another country; at worst she'll feel old, or overweight enough to be perceived as pregnant." And that is a lesson in modern manners, according to the new issue of GQ (with Clive Owen on the cover). Glenn O'Brien and other GQ scribes weigh in on e-mails, cellphones, gym etiquette, dressing for travel, how to handle chatty seatmates, sleeping with your friend's ex, online dating, wedding gifts and...

TOM Cruise has claimed he will eat the PLACENTA after fiancée Katie Holmes has their baby. The actor, 43 — who wants her to give birth in silence according to his Scientology cult rules — said: “I’m gonna eat the placenta, too. “I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I’m going to eat the cord and the placenta right there.” But when a GQ magazine interviewer said it would be a big meal, Cruise replied: “OK, maybe I won’t.”

Republicans control Congress and the White House. According to an informal study in the latest issue of “GQ” magazine, the GOP is also asserting its dominance over Democrats in the bedroom. The anonymous author, who wrote the piece for “GQ” reports “After years of intensive research on both sides of the aisle, I’m here to report that Republican men are infinitely better to have sex with.” The article in the April issue of “GQ” lays out 10 reasons why Republicans are better and kinkier in the sack. “GQ” deputy editor, Michael Hainey joined Tucker Carlson on ‘Situation’ to explain the...

John F. Kerry still dreams of becoming the next John F. Kennedy, but he’ll never even reach Ted Kennedy heights, or is it depths? Not that anyone would ever dare tell Liveshot this. Seldom is heard a discouraging word when you’re a 62-year-old gigolo married to a 67-year-old gold digger worth close to $1 billion. Ever more delusional, Kerry still fancies that his next job is commander-in-chief. He refuses to face the reality that he’s already well into his final role on the public stage. He has become the Mike Dukakis of the 21st century. John Kerry, reporting for doody...

In late November, George W. Bush went on the political offensive over the state of the war in Iraq. Determined to get his groove back after weeks of being pummeled by revitalized Democrats, Bush delivered a major speech outlining his “plan for victory.” Democrats, smelling blood, carefully plotted their response. The party’s Senate leadership decided that Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island would deliver their rebuttal. As a former member of the Eighty-second Airborne who had opposed the war from the start, Reed had the perfect credentials to remind Americans about Bush’s mismanagement of the war and of the grim...

GQ gives its read on Kerry, and it doesn't suit himSen. John Kerry's flack traded barbs yesterday with the author of a soon-to-be published GQ mag article claiming that loyal Democrats, especially former Kerry aides, wish the once and probably future Presidential candidate would just go away. "You read GQ to pick suits and ties, not to pick a commander-in-chief," Kerry's mouthpiece David Wade E-mailed me concerning Michael Crowley's hit piece, which claims party activists believe the Massachusetts senator "blew his best chance and that he's 'delusional,' as I repeatedly heard, to think he's still wanted." Wade responded hirsutely: "As...

Take me to your leader: Former President Jimmy Carter told GQ magazine for a January article that he saw a UFO in 1969 in southwest Georgia as he was preparing to speak at a Lions Club meeting. He recalled that it was a bright light that got ''closer and closer to us,'' but then ''changed color to blue,'' then to red, then back to white, and then ''receded into the distance.'' However, he said, ''I've never believed it came from Mars.''

Former President Carter asserts that no one among fundamentalist evangelical America is willing to have a robust debate on the issues he raises in his interview. In that interview his own beliefs are filled with flaws in logic. I am aggressively seeking to challenge his assertion that we evangelicals are afraid to have our beliefs challenged. I've said so in my column today, and will say so on-air. We will be fair, but we dispute his characterization that we are afraid to be challenged." Furthermore McCullough advanced the discussion by making the claim that Carter's actual beliefs as articulated in...

The niece of Osama Bin Laden has posed for provocative photographs for an American magazine. Wafah Dufour, the al Qaeda leader's niece, who took her mother's maiden name after the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11 is an aspiring musician struggling to make a name for herself, GQ magazine wrote. She appears stripped to ostrich feather lingerie, and in a bubble bath, in photos for American GQ magazine. She says she has never met Osama bin Laden. "Everyone relates me to that man, and I have nothing to do with him," she said in the article. "There are...

NEW YORK (Dec. 23) - Osama bin Laden's niece, in an interview with GQ magazine in which she appears scantily clad, says she has nothing in common with the al-Qaida leader and simply wants acceptance by Americans.

Hey, it isn't just Mother Sheehan getting the star treatment from the glossy mags of the glitterati. Those gay lads at Gentlemen's Quarterly have selected Cindy's "bright spot," pretend Moslem, pretend Rastafarian, but real honest-to-goodness felony ex-con, Black Panther, cop shooter, race-baiter and Katrina grifter -- Malik Rahim (real name, Donald Guyton) -- as one of their "Men Of The Year":GQ: Men of the Year 2005 Portfolio Heroes of the Hurricane: Katrina SaviorsMalik Rahim, 58 — The OrganizerA week after Katrina hit, the Algiers section of New Orleans was in shambles. Hardly any food or water or ice, on the...

This Never-Before-Told Story Offers Firsthand Accounts of What It’s Like to Spend Time with America’s Most Highly Valued Detainee New York, NY – June 20, 2005 – Following the announcement that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will soon be brought to trial on multiple charges, GQ magazine sheds new light on the man and his life since being captured and imprisoned. Hussein longs for the days when Ronald Reagan was president, says that he never dealt with Osama bin Laden, and is absolutely certain that he will return to power, according to an account of his captivity detailed for the...

Who are these schlubs? A new poll commissioned by GQ magazine reveals that one in five American men has turned down hot, steamy sex to watch sports on TV. That's 200 of the 1,000 men between the ages of 25 and 55 across the country whom pollsters talked with this summer. Veteran sex researcher Ed Laumann of the University of Chicago said that while this statistic may dismay many women, "There's another way of looking at it." "It means that 80% of the men turned off their televisions," Laumann said. "And when you consider that the average encounter in an...

John Kerry Has a Beer With GQ, Reveals His Admiration for Charlize Theron, the Connection Between Marlon Brando and the Contras, and Why His Years As a Bachelor Were Not So Great Monday August 16, 12:52 pm ET NEW YORK, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In the September 2004 issue of GQ, Senator John Kerry sits down with the magazine's deputy editor Michael Hainey, who bellies up to the bar with the contender and dares him to show some personality. Kerry reveals his favorite sports heroes and actresses, his greatest athletic moment, and gives advice on what to look for in...

Presidential hopeful John Kerry let down that plastic "Ken doll" hair recently with a GQ editor for "A Beer With John Kerry" article. The Democrat talked about everything from family and sports to Bob Dylan and Huck Finn. The juiciest part of the "drinking session" was when he pointed out his picks for sexiest female. He named Charlize Theron and Catherine Zeta-Jones. He also considers Marilyn Monroe the sexiest starlet from his youth. He confidently added his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry to the list describing her as flirty, sassy, smart and challenging. He's got that political response down!

The romantic side of John Kerry emerged yesterday with a candid interview about his search for the right woman - and a former flame's description of him as a red-blooded Romeo who whispered French sweet nothings in bed. Over beers with a writer for GQ magazine, the presidential hopeful waxed poetic when asked what advice he would give about finding the perfect love. "Look for what gets your heart - someone who excites you, turns you on," he said. "Full woman. Confident. It's a woman who loves being a woman. Who wears her womanhood. Who knows how to flirt and...

KERRY OFFERS RELATIONSHIP ADVICE FOR MEN Mon Aug 16 2004 20:01:49 ET In the new GQ, the Democratic presidential nominee offers relationship advice for men: On what to seek in a woman: "Look for what gets your heart. Someone who excites you, turns you on. ... It's a woman who loves being a woman. Who wears her womanhood. Who knows how to flirt and have fun. Smart. Confident. ... And obviously sexy and saucy and challenging." The WASH POST is set to preview GQ's: "A Beer With John Kerry." Which hot actresses float his boat: "I think Charlize Theron is...

  KERRY OFFERS RELATIONSHIP ADVICE FOR MENMon Aug 16 2004 20:01:49 ETIn the new GQ, the Democratic presidential nominee offers relationship advice for men:On what to seek in a woman:"Look for what gets your heart. Someone who excites you, turns you on. ... It's a woman who loves being a woman. Who wears her womanhood. Who knows how to flirt and have fun. Smart. Confident. ... And obviously sexy and saucy and challenging."The WASH POST is set to preview GQ's: "A Beer With John Kerry."Which hot actresses float his boat:"I think Charlize Theron is pretty extraordinary," he gushes. He's also...

I can't post the article or excerpts because of copyright concerns, but the latest issue of GQ magazine has a bizarre article claiming that George W. Bush was actually working for the government in a James Bond sort of role during his "missing" years in the National Guard... Check the link.

Powell aide blasts policy on Cuba BY LESLEY CLARK lclark@herald.com As the White House last week prepared to put its stamp of approval on a range of Cuba sanctions recommended by Colin Powell, a senior aide to the secretary of state was quoted as calling the decades old-standoff against the communist island, the ``dumbest policy on the face of the Earth.'' The outspoken remarks appear in the June issue of GQ magazine. In the article, GQ writer Wil Hylton interviews several Powell aides, including Larry Wilkerson, Powell's chief of staff who is described in the article as having a ''mind...

Powell aides go public on rift with Bush Chief of staff says secretary of state is fed up with apologising for the administration and is disdainful of 'ideological' hawks Gary Younge in New York Thursday May 6, 2004 The Guardian Colin Powell's key aide has described US sanctions policy against countries such as Pakistan and Cuba as "the dumbest policy on the face of the Earth". In an article in GQ magazine Larry Wilkerson, chief of staff of the United States secretary of state, bemoans Mr Powell's firefighting role in President George Bush's cabinet. "He has spent as much time...

<p>The State Department yesterday backed away from public criticism of Bush administration policies, saying that published remarks, while accurately quoted, "are not an accurate reflection of [Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's] views."</p> <p>"The facts of the matter are that you have a secretary of state who's happy in his job, proud to serve the president, accomplishing a lot along with the president, satisfied with his service," Mr. Powell's spokesman, Richard Boucher told reporters.</p>

Four years into an embattled Bush administration, Colin Powell is hard at work at something he's never had to worry about before: salvaging his legacy. A few weeks ago, I went to see Colin Powell in his office. The room was tiny and the light dim. An Asian lamp on his desk cast a faint glow onto the walls, and the shades of his windows were drawn, giving the room a padded, womblike feel. Everything was in earth tones. When I commented on the warm ambience, Powell shrugged his considerable shoulders and said, "Yeah, because I have stuff lying all...

GQ Magazine, in it's latest issue, details Sec. of State Colin Powell's frustration with the Bush administration, his battles with the Pentagon, his 'real' relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney, and whether he'll return for a second term. The magazine issued a press release saying the following: Secretary of State Colin Powell is exhausted, frustrated, and bitter, uncomfortable with President George W. Bush's agenda, and fatigued from his battles with the Pentagon, reports GQ magazine writer-at-large Wil S. Hylton in the June 2004 issue of GQ magazine. Hylton's exclusive article, "Casualty of War," in which he talks with Powell and...

GQ MAG DEPICTS PRESIDENT BUSH AS 'JESUS' IN CONTROVERSIAL PHOTO SPREAD A coming edition of GQ magazine turns President Bush in to Jesus Christ -- in a full-page photo illustration! The controversial photo is set to run with an accompanied essay titled "George W's Personal Jesus," publishing sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. "In the beginning, there was the call...," writer Guy Lawson opens in his essay on the president's religious convictions. The photo marks a dramatic entrance for new GQ editor Jim Nelson. Developing...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUGUST 19, 2003 14:49:35 ET XXXXX GQ MAG DEPICTS PRESIDENT BUSH AS 'JESUS' IN CONTROVERSIAL PHOTO SPREAD A coming edition of GQ magazine turns President Bush in to Jesus Christ -- in a full-page photo illustration! The controversial photo is set to run with an accompanied essay titled "George W's Personal Jesus," publishing sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. "In the beginning, there was the call...," writer Guy Lawson opens in his essay on the president's religious convictions. The photo marks a dramatic entrance for new GQ editor Jim Nelson. Developing...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Rick Santorum would advise his children to resist any "temptations" of homosexuality, according to an interview published Tuesday. In the interview with the magazine GQ, Santorum, R-Pa., was asked what he would do if one of his six children told him of homosexual urges. "I would treat it like I would any other thing my child comes to me with," Santorum answered. "Try to deal with it in a loving, supportive way." He continued: "You try to point out to them what is the right thing to do. And we have many temptations to do things...

GQ is the latest glossy publication sizing up U.S. Sen. John Edwards' presidential prospects. Look for a piece on the North Carolina Democrat by writer Robert Draper in the September issue, which should appear on newsstands in August. U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge says Afghanistan remains "a nervous place." The Lillington Democrat, who just returned from a brief swing through the region with several House colleagues, said he was struck by the steep challenges facing the Afghan people and the work that must be done to keep their new government from collapsing. "If the coalition forces were to pull out, they...