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underpants

(182,279 posts)
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 11:54 AM Sep 2016

Trumps favorite Pecker is at it again - this week's Nat. Enquirer a Hillary cover photo

I saw this in the grocery store.
A horrific picture of Hillary and a request for the release of her medical file.



David Pecker is the editor in chief of the National Enquirer and good buddies with Trump.
Remember the Ted Cruz affair and JFK assassination stories? They both started at the National Enquirer.

Good Washington Post article from March
Washington Post

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Trumps favorite Pecker is at it again - this week's Nat. Enquirer a Hillary cover photo (Original Post) underpants Sep 2016 OP
I was disgusted when I saw it yesterday kimbutgar Sep 2016 #1
It's so over the top bad but how many people will see it this week? underpants Sep 2016 #2
Lol. She looks like the Walking Dead. Seriously. Hortensis Sep 2016 #3
I did too on the images underpants Sep 2016 #4
Ohmigosh, I haven't seen or thought of them in Hortensis Sep 2016 #5
Sept 8th was the 50th Anniversary of it's debut underpants Sep 2016 #6
I didn't realize when the re-runs started or I would Hortensis Sep 2016 #8
That's Picard's line underpants Sep 2016 #11
I don't think she should hand over another personal Ilsa Sep 2016 #7
According to the Enquirer, both Bill and Hillary Clinton have had 6 months to live Boomerproud Sep 2016 #9
It sells underpants Sep 2016 #10
That's got to be bullshit jmowreader Sep 2016 #12
That's what I've heard. underpants Sep 2016 #13
No. jmowreader Sep 2016 #14
Thanks underpants Sep 2016 #15
Saw it today at the checkout and it looked so obviously manufactured eleny Sep 2016 #16

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
1. I was disgusted when I saw it yesterday
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 12:14 PM
Sep 2016

Obviously doctored to make her look terrible. That said I wonder what women will think after seeing this photo. I always say when I put makeup on I have to put on my face today if I wear full makeup.

I wonder what cheeto looks like without his tan spray and hair pieces. Probably even worse.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
2. It's so over the top bad but how many people will see it this week?
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 12:15 PM
Sep 2016

That's pretty much the point I would guess.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Lol. She looks like the Walking Dead. Seriously.
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 12:53 PM
Sep 2016

I didn't expect to laugh when I pulled it up, but... Too ridiculous. I googled "images" and got a whole screen of nasty Clinton covers.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/09/hillarys-health-concerns-make-top-story-national-enquirer/

Personally, if they must libel and slander, and, yes, they must be what they have become, I much prefer it in this style, right out front at the grocery checkout line where all the pro-Trump conservatives coming through have to see what they have become a part of.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
4. I did too on the images
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 01:12 PM
Sep 2016

Thanks for posting the gateway pundit link.

I was thinking the salt suckers from the original Star Trek.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. I didn't realize when the re-runs started or I would
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 01:46 PM
Sep 2016

have tuned in for a bunch of the early ones.

My last office-based job was a long time ago, but I wondered a couple days ago if they were still there doing the ship-under-attack thing. The owner was a big fan, and whenever something went wrong with an account we'd all grab the conference table and try to keep our balance as the ship "maneuvered."

and his,

"Make it so."

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
7. I don't think she should hand over another personal
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 01:32 PM
Sep 2016

document like a medical file until trump releases all of his tax returns and his medical file. Draw a line here.

Boomerproud

(7,889 posts)
9. According to the Enquirer, both Bill and Hillary Clinton have had 6 months to live
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:11 PM
Sep 2016

for about 10 years now. Why can't someone stop this crap?

underpants

(182,279 posts)
10. It sells
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:14 PM
Sep 2016

It's printed not far from where I am sitting right now. South side Richmond VA. As I inderstand it, if anyone on the printing line turns it over and sees the next week's cover they are immediately fired.

Pecker.

jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
12. That's got to be bullshit
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:20 PM
Sep 2016

I have been an offset printer for many years. It is impossible to properly print something if you don't look at it. You have to know if the ink levels are proper, and that you do visually. It's more probable they hire raging Republicans for their production facility and swear them to secrecy.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
13. That's what I've heard.
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:41 PM
Sep 2016

The quality of print is low grade. Someone looks at it but not the people on the line. No?

jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
14. No.
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 03:11 PM
Sep 2016

The print is no worse than a newspaper. Someone is looking at it.

Once it gets off the press, that's a different story. Newspapers come out of the press face-down. There are automated stackers, automated strappers and automated pallet stackers. Any big production plant will have all that gear; with it, the papers come off the press on skids already stretch-wrapped and labeled as to the news dealer that gets them. If you wanted to read the front page of the Enquirer once it got palletized you'd have to cut the shrink wrap off the skid and that would be a firing offense.

Consider this: You're a pressman at American Media, publishers of the finest toilet paper. (Most supermarket tabloids come from that company.) You print that bullshit 50 weeks a year. At what point do you think you'd stop marveling over the "incredible scoops" in those rags and just think, "National Enquirer? Hey Joe, line up a hundred rolls of paper." I assure you it'd happen quickly.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
15. Thanks
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 06:02 PM
Sep 2016

A few years ago I worked with a former Cadmus print pro. The insights he gave me was incredible. Yours too.

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