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In reply to the discussion: We loathed Dubya but never ever did I stand in the checkout line & see anything like this: [View all]jillan
(39,451 posts)72. But that is not the same. I don't mind the ridiculous headlines about personal bullshit even when
it's about Obama - or Michelle.
This is different. This is turning the most despicable tragedy and saying it's all the President's fault.
What's next week's headline going to be? Obama murdered Mike Brown while wearing a tan suit?
I don't give a shit if they say Obama uses drugs and is bi-sexual and has different lovers every nite....
but don't take a tragedy that the President tried more than once to have a different outcome and then say he didn't care.
There's stupid. There's ugly. And then there is this.
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We loathed Dubya but never ever did I stand in the checkout line & see anything like this: [View all]
jillan
Aug 2014
OP
Thank you - there is actual comfort knowing I am not the only one to feel that way.
jillan
Aug 2014
#2
It is trash - it is the National Enquirer. While they do publish insanity - this crosses the line..
jillan
Aug 2014
#4
Golly gee, I'll have to comb Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo for days for that one !
steve2470
Aug 2014
#56
Actually, I just bought a very interesting magazine 'special edition' on canning recipes
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2014
#52
How can we get back to some format of standards for truth in the news media
newthinking
Aug 2014
#11
This crosses the line, imho - talk about his golfing when this was happening but accusing him of
jillan
Aug 2014
#14
Recently one of the tabloids claimed Michelle was furious and moved out of the White House....
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2014
#16
Not to mention how sick it is that we are socialized to want to hear those kind of stories.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Aug 2014
#69
what was 9/11 then? and since georgee's way escalated all this, this also is georgee's.
pansypoo53219
Aug 2014
#17
That's probably every single grocery store chain in America. They always have these trash mags.
jillan
Aug 2014
#26
These and the National Inquirer are the same kind of scum. I saw their headlines one day:
freshwest
Aug 2014
#28
Why is there so much silence on our side? There was so much backlash from the right
jillan
Aug 2014
#43
It has grown throughout the country....this hatred (read racism) of President Obama
bobGandolf
Aug 2014
#31
For about 5-6 years, my neighbor would buy the "psychic prediction" issues of supermarket tabloids.
Archae
Aug 2014
#61
This just illustrates the massive propaganda advantage enjoyed by the RightiesŪ.
Enthusiast
Aug 2014
#66