Tsk, tsk. The preznit's secret breakdown made the tabloids

[Rose Siding]

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Lovely, I 'll have to gulp, get a copy

and cull it to see if there is anything in there even remotely possible

Most importantly, think of the effect on the base of the Bush Administration, many of them get their news from teh Globe and the National Enquirer, seed a little doubt I say

[Rose Siding]

4. I can't tell if it's a actual Globe cover

If they have a web site, it isn't apparent.

[spinbaby]

6. It is

I saw it in the checkout line yesterday.

[Rose Siding]

9. Thank you

I thought it might be a joke :)

[rodeodance]

10. sad--

[rodeodance]

11. i will nominate--can't pass it up.

[mwb970]

32. I thought of that when the "Bush Is Drinking" story was in NE.

A lot of Bush supporters probably read those magazines.

[patrice]

2. Gotta keep those Meds balanced out, or things get even WEIRDER,

[BOSSHOG]

3. It was a tabloid that brought us the "truth" about limbaugh and drugs

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yep in our world of up is down and down is up

the tabloids are runnign the stories the so called real press does not dare touch

[niyad]

14. remember what "K" said in "Men in Black" about all the ral news being

in the tabloids? I keep thinking about that.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I know I know

we are now getting the rumors from the palace spread a little wider

[patrice]

19. Yep.

That's why I stay home as much as possible.

Do you notice a Lot of Drunks on the roads?

[JoZbean]

13. I don't know it for a fact, but I was told that

The Enquirer first broke the Clinton/Lewinsky story and it was discredited then as well.

As we all know, the Enquirer supposedly broke the "Drinking Again" story some time ago, but like the rest of the sane world, I was waiting to see if it was picked up anywhere else. I wish it was MSM and not some tabloid, but it's a start when more than one carries it.

[Jackpine Radical]

38. NE also broke some of the Enron story

among other scoops.

[notadmblnd]

7. If I wait, they will come?

who will be the first to trot out the "this is not a reliable source" meme?

I'm sorry, I've just been sensitive to the issue lately.

[zippy890]

8. I know, whats the big deal -- its FUN

to read these articles, whether they're true or not, we need the laughs

[johnaries]

16. Just so long as you don't QUOTE it as a "reliable source".

:hi:

[MrBenchley]

18. You mean somebody REALLY has to tell you

supermarket tabloids are horseshit? REALLY?

Tell us, do you sit around sobbing at Jennifer Aniston's heartbreak, too?

Don't look now, there's a turning point in Iraq!

[A Simple Game]

22. I love the Weekly World News!

I am a big fan of hyperbole.

I buy 4 or 5 a year.

[MrBenchley]

23. The sad thing though

is that there actually ARE very mentally damaged folks who BELIEVE that crap.

(Hilariously, the folks who publish that were once sued by somebody whose picture they used, and went into court to argue that no sane person could believe what they printed was true. Even funnier, as I recall, they lost.)

[A Simple Game]

26. I remember the picture thing.

I don't remember which tabloid, or the person, but they thought she(I think it was a she) was dead and used her picture with an unrelated story.

[MrBenchley]

27. One of the stranger trials I ever heard of...

[BJW]

43. Me Too!

[Robert Cooper]

24. Chuckie's got a brother? ;-) nt

[Tace]

42. 90% Of Weekly World News Is Actual Real Quirks

I was a top wire service editor for more than a decade. Most of the Weekly World News stuff is real. The cover stories, though, are generally imaginative fiction.

[patrice]

20. Language is a hypothetical system of hypothetical systems.

Everything beyond immediate phenemonology is/are propositions of hypothetical probabilities, speculative co-relations.

[rodeodance]

12. i do not rad tabloids--Has Jr been in tabloids (with this problem) before?

[notadmblnd]

15. not since his falling down drunk daughters

were photographed in one of them. As I recall the guy who published the pics later died of anthrax poisoning.

[jim3775]

21. Here is some more fine journalism from the Globe:

[MojoXN]

25. Wonderful way of making a point...

But I still think that * is back on the sauce, regardless of what the Globe says.

MojoXN

[Beelzebud]

33. Thank you! This reminds me of the National Enquirer story.

About bush being drunk.

I hate Bush. But come on. When we use sources like these to bash him, it makes us look pathetic.

[flordehinojos]

28. if the story is not true, why aren't the bushes suing the GLOBE?

they are not suing.

it must be true as with everything else related to bush.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. And the Enquirer add the Enquirer

this will soon make the jump to the MSM, I suspect... these may be trial balloons

[flordehinojos]

30. yes, why aren't they suing the enquirer as well.

maybe novakula might be the first one to break the news of bush's meltdown in the msm...perhaps even t-w-e-e-t-y

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. hmm let me see if I can find Novakula's article

http://townhall.com/opinion/columns/robertnovak/2005/11/12/175201.html

Here you go, he is tipping his feet in there

[flordehinojos]

41. would that sort of, but not quite, be classified as novakula turning out

to be a turncoart, just as stephanopoulous was for clinton, although not quite?
.... novakula needs to give more read meat to his article since he probably knows a whole lot more.

[StellaBlue]

duplicate

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[StellaBlue]

34. oooh - I relish the thought that this is down in my local grocery store

RIGHT NOW.

For all the fundie, flag-waving, GOP-loving nutjobs to see. I can't wait until it reaches a critical mass, the MSM turns, and they are surrounded with signs of their failure and feel ostracized as we have for so long.

[Vanje]

35. Well, Duh!

Of COURSE the whitehouse is hiding something from America!
Of COURSE he's drinking again!

kudos to the Globe and the Enquirer for being brave enough to noteice in print.

[corbett]

36. Saw That While In Queue

Have you noticed that until Scooter resigned, even the tabloids left the White House alone? Since I saw this right next to another rag claiming a beef between Hillary and Oprah, I'm betting that the tabloid gloves are off.

Since the FBI never issued a conclusive decision on the South Florida anthrax scare a while back, this seems only fitting.

[chat_noir]

37. Bush drunk - video on MSM, but...

sounds like "thinksssssss" (around 34 seconds)

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Bush-Kilgore.wmv


As I posted elsewhere about this clip, when other DUers mentioned that they thought he was drunk on other clips, I doubted it. Not this time.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. That should piss off Georgie.

:rofl:

[struggle4progress]

40. The pre-emptive leak is an established Rovean gambit: get ..

.. a garbled version of the story out and loudly discredit it, before the accurate version comes out.

W has been "immunized" by this gambit more than once: a classic example was the attack on the story about W's National Guard srvice in Fall 2004, where a number of independent stories disappeared under a smokescreen generated by attacks against ONE of thosde stories.

I won't quote the Globe, because I expect the story contains embedded Trojan Horses designed for exploitation by the rightwing noise machine -- but the general theme of the story is quite likely to be true ...

[BJW]

44. He May Not Actually be Drunk

He may have a neurological disease (explains increasing problems with word-finding, metaphor mixing, and speech slurring, etc.) or he may have had a stroke or heart attack (remember the chin spittle and probable earpiece during the debates?)

Regardless--the main questions are do his physical/mental impairments, whatever the cause, prevent him from adequately fulfilling his constitutional duties? And if the answer is yes, should he be impeached?