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Here’s the magic secret to throwing a good free party: Have an open bar that will pour actual booze instead of just beer and wine, serve good food, and make sure the attractive people show up. This last hurdle can be pretty difficult to overcome at a blogger party, which was why the geniuses at the Huffington Post and GQ made sure their Netroots Nation party would feature little Zooey Deschanel-lookalike nymphet waitresses and a healthy smattering of cute boys in slim-cut suits straight out of Mad Men. Of course everybody got wasted. MORE »

The April issue of GQ features a delightful profile of Meghan McCain, the 23-year-old daughter of WALNUTS! and famous Blogette. Somehow she procured full access to the McCain campaign, and has done a dutiful job reporting on the minutiae of life on the trail — namely, her favorite songs, what shoes she and her Blogette friends wear to town halls, and which McCain advisers are hot. The lady does not filter, she’s a liberal like her father, and she alternatively makes you hate and love your life. MORE »

GQ’s January interview with Mike Huckabee starts off like this: “There is a reason Mike Huckabee is standing out in a crowded and dull Republican field.” Wait. Stop. I know the answer. Because he’s fucking nuts?! Ok, so there’s more to his campaign than sheer nuttery, which is why this Q&A is fascinating in a laboratory study kind of way. The entire interview after the jump. It’s long, but sooo worth it.

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We didn’t cover the looooooong John McCain profile in November’s GQ precisely because it was long. Eleven Internet pages of Walnuts! Pass. Fortunately a tipster found a funny excerpt involving Tom Tancredo and some nachos and copy-pasted it to us. MORE »

Remember the alleged strong-arm tactics the Clintons used with GQ earlier this year? No? Well, basically the allegations were that unless GQ spiked an unflattering story about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign, then Bill Clinton would not cooperate with an article and accompanying cover photo for the December’s Men of the Year issue. Not surprisingly, GQ dropped the story. At the time, one editor said the Clinton camp did not force them the to kill the story, adding that the magazine drops stories all the time and for lots of reasons. Well, with just a few days before the magazine hit stands, we must ask: Was killing the Clinton story worth spiking a potentially revealing political piece? Do we really need to see a Smiling Bubba on another magazine cover? And what’s up with your Men of the Year choices, GQ? After the jump, feast on the list, which includes — WTF! — a woman? MORE »

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, known among fellow Republicans as “Liberal Socialist Guy Who Does Kennedy,” made what he considered to be a “joke” to the latest UK edition of GQ: that marijuana is not a drug, “it’s a leaf.” Well HA HA HA! We the American people are so glad that you consider marijuana cigarettes to be a joke, Mr. Governor of Drugs (Drug Party-CA)! Your constituents will not stand for this anti-Jesusery. MORE »

When GQ put out their list of the most powerful people in Washington, we all had a good laugh at how dumb some of their choices were. Then because we are whores we accepted their invite to a party at Cafe Milano last Monday night (never forget!). Liz Gorman came too, she took pictures. We just drank. Gallery here, random recollections after the jump.

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Cheney?

“I still see Cheney.” [GQ]

Not that we are particularly interesting in talking about GQ more, but, you know, they sent us their ranked list of the 50 most powerful people in Washington (part of their SPECIAL POLITICS ISSUE), and we just want to get posting about it over with before this actually hits newsstands and 500 people email to ask WHY WE HAVEN’T COVERED IT. It’s a surprisingly decent little list! They asked a bunch of people who knew, mostly, what they were talking about, the lame gimmick entries (Reagan! Even though he’s dead he’s more powerful than Joe Lieberman!) aren’t too egregious, and overall nothing is too embarrassingly wrong. Oh, except for their choice of the single most powerful person in Washington. MORE »

This month, Barack Obama graces the first political cover of GQ since 1992’s “Bill Clinton and Al Gore pick their favorite warm weather duds for a stylish Summer.” Ryan Lizza writes a zillion words about the
perpetually second-place Dem optimism junkie. Long story short: he likes change and hope and shit, and also everyone loves him but for some reason no one wants to vote for him. But boy, does he photograph well!

Above the Fray [GQ]