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Photo of the Day: November 9, 2009
If you haven't spied it on newsstands yet, Washingtonian magazine's newest issue features a black cover with a rather grainy image of a shirtless President Obama superimposed over it. It looks really, really crappy from a design perspective, and the photo is recycled from last year, but it'll probably sell out anyway just for the novelty factor, which is no doubt what the magazine's editors had in mind.
Obama's "hot"ness is touted regarding the magazine's cover feature, "26 Reasons to Love Living Here." Do we even need to go in to all the reasons why this is lame? The president isn't in the habit of wandering around Washington in his bathing suit, and if you're a publication that purports to cover Washington and this is the (apparently second) best thing you can come up with about living here, well, we feel sorry for you.
Of course, the gambit appears to be paying off for the magazine already, earning more national and international press out of the shirtless Obama cover than you can shake a stick at.
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What's even more lame is that Ovechkin ended up #9. Couldn't they have been clever enough to bump him up just one spot so it matched his jersey #?
This would really be a hot issue if Hillary had won. Topless, I mean.
The best analysis of this whole bizarre "Obama as DC Uber-Resident" was done by, of all publications, the City Paper. I think the headline was "No, Obama is not going to be your ANC Commissioner."
What's reason #1?
Starbucks!
Lauriol Plaza?
Junkpunchers!
-the inflated sense of self worth based on decades of federal bloat?
-a minor league baseball team so good they play in the NL East?
-Marion Barry, who plays Road Runner to the IRS's Wile E. Coyote?
The new Harold Brazil Tattoo Parlor?
LNS!
This cool new bar called "The Black Cat!" I've never been because it's in a sketchy part of town. I heard someone got mugged there once.
Obama as pop culture superstar has officially gone over the line this week. First the shrieking reception he received at the CIA, of all places, that was just cringe-worthy. Now this kind of creepy Washingtonian cover.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't on him, this is us. I'm still inspired every day by his presidency. But there is a difference between respectful admiration and teenage girl groupie-ism. The man is POTUS for heaven's sake, not Nick Jonas.
Just wait until FHM publishes their "Smokin Hot First Ladies" issue. You ain't seen "hot" until you've seen Rosslyn Carter in a thong.
So... he's already in a bathing suit, can we just put him on water skis jumping the shark and get it over with already?
So, I assume that the Washingtonian, being a serious publication, would at least discuss some important changes in policy that Obama has brought, not just a pin-up photo. So for those of you who have read the article, does Obama prefer boxers or briefs?
Ah, you presume that Washingtonian is a serious publication and not just an excuse to run annual arbitrary lists of the "best" restaurants, cheap eats and bars in the area.
A little upset that Buttcoffee didn't make the list of "100 Best Spots to Get Your Gonads Pounded by a Thai Ladyboy" this year.
Gisele Bundchen (--err, Brady) isn't in the habit of walking around in her bathing suit either, but that doesn't make her any less hot no matter what she is wearing. Same with Obama. Your Snark=Fail.
Seeing our President (any President, not just Obama) like this makes me really uncomfortable.
Fortunately, I can't see any magazine doing this with Carter, Bush I, Clinton, or Bush II. They want to sell magazines, not repulse prospective purchasers.
Now if only the prez was sporting a gut. It would have made all us gut savvy people proud. We would be free to show off our swollen polished guts. Yes, even the ones with protruding outies. Free and proud to show off our glistening coconut butter moistened tummies. You know it's coming. He's stopped smoking cigarettes and soon the pounds will come a-packing.
The use of the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark.
Maybe we should make "junkpunch the shark" the new hip thing to say.
yea, that won't get old.
#1 reason: Portie-to-Labradoodle ratio.
Of all the magazines to survive the post-internet media world, why must "Washingtonian" be one of them? (I put Washingtonian in quotes there, because I refuse to acknowledge the magazine is actually Washingtonian...) Why must the paper version still continue to embarrass and provide the worst lists in the "metro-area" (which spans from the Eastern Shore of MD to the mountains of WV according to "Washingtonian Magazine")?
Ever since Northern Virginia Magazine came out, there's really no reason to even read Washingtonian. That's like 98 percent of Washingtonian's audience anyway. And what's left are the dozen or so literate people in Maryland, and they can just look at the pictures in Baltimore Magazine.
Still, the Washingtonian personals ads are always a hoot. Sixty-something widower doctor/lawyers looking for "no questions asked" relationships, or that special someone who needs to be showered with luxuries and urine.
Washingtonian used be a good magazine. However, in the 1990s they lost two big money lawsuits. One over a story they wrote on Jack Kent Cook and another one about animal testing, where they arranged for PETA to chain up a monkey and printed a photo implying this is what the testing lab was doing. After that, they just went to stupid "best of" coverage.
Sorry, I just jumped into the Wayback machine. Washingtonian was sued by PETA for an article claiming that they faked the photos.
is it just me or do his nipples seem kinda low? almost saggy.