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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps 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
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)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)That's pretty much the point I would guess.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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)Thanks for posting the gateway pundit link.
I was thinking the salt suckers from the original Star Trek.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)decades. Absolutely, complete with eye bags!
underpants
(182,279 posts)We are Star Trek fans.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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."
underpants
(182,279 posts)I think it is a great line.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)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)for about 10 years now. Why can't someone stop this crap?
underpants
(182,279 posts)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)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)The quality of print is low grade. Someone looks at it but not the people on the line. No?
jmowreader
(50,452 posts)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)A few years ago I worked with a former Cadmus print pro. The insights he gave me was incredible. Yours too.