By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--September 1, 2017
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Our prayers are with all those in the path of #HurricaneHarvey. @usedgov stands ready to assist impacted schools.
— Betsy DeVos (@BetsyDeVosED) August 26, 2017
The hurricane is going to do less damage to schools than you are, # https://t.co/D71GP8Qnw0
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 26, 2017
What is more certain is that the G in GQ, no longer stands for “Gentlemen’s.” My guess is that “Gentlemen’s” went out at the same time that the quarterly changed to a monthly publication, but I don’t know for sure. I tried to ask GQ Editor Jim Nelson about that, but he never replied. Nelson had plenty to say about Olbermann when the former MSNBC host was front-page news in The New York Times business section just weeks before President Trump’s election last fall. “I missed Keith’s rage,” Nelson said back when Olbermann’s GQ videos had only been downloaded 25 million times. “We wanted to add to our political and election coverage. … We felt that no one was meeting Trump at the temperature level that was needed.” Even a spokesperson for the Condé Nast-owned magazine didn’t have anything to say about GQ’s mysterious “G.” She emailed me: “GQ declines to comment.”
Of course not, because the meaning of the G in GQ is now a corporate secret of the firm that also owns Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, a family of magazines “renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences.” Flinging foul language at a member of the Cabinet must be some seriously high-quality content because nobody at GQ or Condé Nast said anything about the colorfully worded tweet even as it was shared 19,000 times and liked 52,000 more over 48 hours. A few Trump-friendlywebsites got all priggish, but not one mainstream journalist on the media beat bothered to write an article.No one bothered, because these days no one views Olbermann as anything more than an amusing footnote. Still, Keith must like making videos in his closet. Either that, or he's desperately clinging to the bottom rung of the infotainment world ...because he's (sort of) apologized for his remarks:
I apologize without reservation to @BetsyDeVosED for the gutter language. I'll reserve it for people who truly deserve it. pic.twitter.com/M83BFBQ2Uy
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 28, 2017
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