Always looking to keep his place as first witht the hot and steaming publishing dish, Matt DRUDGE has been fed this tasty item about the new and debased "Gentlemen's Quarterly" -- or "GQ," as the monthly is known in the rag trade. Item:
GQ MAG DEPICTS PRESIDENT BUSH AS 'JESUS' IN CONTROVERSIAL PHOTO SPREADWe'd say it marks the panic-stricken entrance of Nelson as he feels his publisher's hot breath on his backside.
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.
Ah, "controversy!" Where would magazines be without the carefully contrived controversy of taking two emblems of middle-America, the President and Jesus, and melding them into one image that can shock and horrify everyone living west of the Hudson River? We can hear the fevered editorial conference right now: "I need something, ANYTHING, that can convince the owners I'm cutting edge!"
"How about slamming the President and Jesus?"
"I don't know. Any Republicans or Christians working for us here at GQ?"
"Only the Dominicans in the mail room and that illegal who empties our trashcans at night."
"Screw them, they don't read. Let's get something cobbled up that we can use in an issue this Fall. I need those American Magazine Awards."
"I thought you needed the circulation of Maxim?"
"Hey, if I can think up enough whack stuff like this and shovel it into the issue, what's to stop me?"
"Maxim?"
"You're fired."
"That's okay, Bonnie Fuller just offered me the chance to stay up night after night closing her new rag in Florida. Besides, if you really had guts you'd put it on the cover."
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