Laura trashed in tabloid?!?!?

[annabanana]

I'm at the checkout counter at the Stop & Shop, idly perusing the headlines of the really stupid tabloid mags on the racks when I spot the following banner atop the April 10 issue of Globe:



Now I don't know about YOU, but I have never, ever, ever seen Laura discussed in the pages of one of these rags. This thing is about as close as some people ever get to a newspaper, I mean this is a FOX audience kind of reading material.

I covered my face, bought it and brought it home in a plain brown wrapper just to see what they'd say and let. me. tell. you. It brought up all the old skeletons.. The dead boyfriend, the whole dime bag selling party girl thing.

Now THIS I take to be a true sign of the turning tides.....

[Nickster]

1. So what's her bizarre obsession? I mean besides loving alcoholic, drug add

led pseudo-cowboys?

[CottonBear]

2. What is her "bizzare obsession?" Enquiring minds want to know. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

5. What is your bizarre obsession with

bizarre obsessions?

[jedicord]

11. Looks like the majority of us here have that obsession! n/t

[izzie]

12. Life gets dull doing this stuff all day. May learn something new.

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[katty]

29. bizarre obsession w/her braindead hubby-just say No,Laura

[katty]

30. Rather strange that Tabs are going after HER/FrontPage...

Laura has become the Mother Theresa of the White House-just gives,gives, gives round the clock to her family-now, a tabloid queen?

[Neil Lisst]

13. CLEANING WITH BLEACH! out damn spot!

[AX10]

3. I saw that.

Times must be changing indeed.

[jedicord]

4. What is her bizarre obsession?

Making doilies?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[annabanana]

18. "Laura is the Clorox Queen"

"Clorox, Formula 409 and Windex are her three favorite substances. Even while waiting for George's first presidential election results, she was holed up at the ranch in Crawford cleaning with Clorox!" (according to her close friend Nancy Weiss...)

pretty funny stuff (sorry, I couldn't find an online link)

more:
"She was always a Democrat, opposed to the Vietnam War, and although not passionate about anything political, she supported abortion. But then along came George W - a Republican, a binge boozer who couldn't hold his liquor, boisterous and dirty when he drank and anything but a reader. Headlines and the sports page were all he could focus on - but they were a match."

These excerpts are apparently from the book by Ron Kessler
"An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady" - Doubleday

[northzax]

27. well remember what being a democrat meant in the south

in the 60's...not what it means today, that's for sure.

[Mabus]

33. In Pilate-like behavior she tries to wash away the sin around her

In the Gospel of Matthew (27:24), before condemning Jesus to death, Pilate washes his hands with water in front of the crowd, who had demanded that Jesus be crucified, and says, "I am innocent of this man's blood; you will see". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate#Acts_of_Pilate


Let the fundies chew on that image.

[Cleita]

40. More like Lady Mcbeth to me.

"Out,out damn spot!"

She just couldn't wash the blood away.

[Mabus]

45. I can go with that

:thumbsup:

except, iirc, didn't Lady Macbeth start out lusting after power and then it is something called a conscience that drove her to suicide? I don't know if any of the Bush Family has a conscience much less let it get to any of them.

[BrklynLiberal]

38. Maybe his family pays her plenty to stay with him and keep her mouth shut

[Ian David]

6. Wasn't The Globe one of the papers hit during the Anthrax attacks? n/t

[CatWoman]

8. no

that was the Enquirer.

[PublicWrath]

20. Star, Globe, Enquirer, and Sun

All same publisher, American Media. Headquartered in the same building in Clearwater, Fl.

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. Isn't it Clearwater where the scientologists have kinda taken

over the town?

[BrklynLiberal]

7. NOT smoking in public?

[progressivebydesign]

35. doesn't sound like any of it was any surprise to all of us.

We knew about the boyfriend, the drugs, the smoking, the democrat thing, the cleaning obsession (her daughters said that they and George torment her over it.. nice), etc. No big surprises. Why she married that dickweed is beyond me.

[cyanide]

9. Well

She mothered two sexually promiscuous drunkard daughters, so she can't be all .............. never mind she is.

[Chimichurri]

10. LOL - I did the same thing today - paper bag and all...

I had to buy it because Laura's headline left me agape at the supermarket. I'd say the tide is definately turning, albeit slowly but it is turning. This, Tom Delay and Pink's new song Dear Mr. President, gave me a sense of hope I haven't had in a long long time.

[LaurenG]

17. so what IS her bizarre obsession?

do tell.

[CottonBear]

34. See post #18. n/t

[Generic Other]

41. I'm laughing because I was too ashamed to buy or even flip through pages

in public.

Buying one of those rags is like publically identifying yourself as Boobus Americanus. But sometimes you just have to do it. I always say it's for my aged mother.

[Cleita]

14. Isn't the Globe the one with the photoshopped pictures of

aliens and human/animal hybrid babies? When the Enquirer starts running things like that about Laurs and about * and the twins then we might start smiling. Unfortunately, I don't think the Globe has any credibility even with the FOX Koolaid drinkers.

On edit: I hope they check their mail for anthrax from now on.

[Ian David]

22. No, that's Weekly World News

The Globe is shady, unethical muckrakers, but more grounded in reality.


Inside the Globe - tabloid newspaper reporting
Washington Monthly, June, 1999 by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_6_31/ai_54938993



Also:

The Globe (tabloid)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Globe is a supermarket tabloid published in North America. It was founded in 1954 Montreal, Canada as Midnight by Joe Azaria and John Vader and became the chief competitor to the National Enquirer during the 1960s. In 1978 it changed its name to the Midnight Globe after its publisher, Globe Communications, and eventually changed its name to The Globe. The newspaper, as well as most of its rivals, is now owned by American Media Consumer Entertainment Inc and is published out of American Media's headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.

In 2003, The Globe stirred up considerable controversy by publishing the name of Kobe Bryant's accuser and putting her picture on its cover. Traditionally, media in the United States have refrained from revealing the names of victims of alleged sex crimes.

Earlier, The Globe had named the accuser in the William Kennedy Smith rape case, achieving notoriety for that move. The paper also printed the transcripted tapes of Frank Gifford's affair at a NYC hotel, cheating on the then-popular Kathy Lee Gifford, his wife.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Globe_%28tabloid%29

[annabanana]

24. The Globe has credibility with the folks

who believe that the soap opera characters are real. . .YOU know... George's GOTV base..

[leftstreet]

31. Bush really hates human/animal hybrid babies

Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Creator -- and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale. (Applause.)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060131-10.html

[Cleita]

32. LOL Apparently he must read the Globe and probably gets

all his talking points for his speeches from it.

:rofl:

On edit, I meant the other tabloid.

[PublicWrath]

15. Anybody remember the last time an American Media tabloid trashed

a B*sh family member?

[Cleita]

19. They even stopped trashing Arnold S. when he ran for governor

and they used to publish all his pecadilloes all the time.

[annabanana]

21. I sure can't . . that's why I grabbed it!

I've seen the twins being tossed around, but never Queen Laura...

[Kber]

42. Sure - that was right before someone delivered anthrax to the

Nat'l Enquirer building.

[AndyA]

16. You should probably wear disposable gloves while reading it...

I do think this could be a good indication that the tides are indeed turning.

Oh the joy of it all! :)

[Tinksrival]

23. I thought I knew all about Laura

but I was reading an interview she did before the election and she was being asked about the very short dating time for her and the coke head. Seems they married after only knowing each other for three months. She was asked if this was odd and of course she said no.

Edit to add link:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2004/first_ladies/interview1.html

[im10ashus]

25. Remember this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4839199&mesg_id=4839199

:-)

[annabanana]

28. yeah. . but that was HIM

This is the one with the good numbers..

[Mabus]

46. I get it now! Crawford, cleaning - Laura thinks she's Joan Crawford

Which means Laura is "Mommie Dearest". The eyebrows tell the story.



Joan Crawford: Did you scrub the bathroom floor today? DID YOU?
Christina Crawford: Yes, Mommie.
Joan Crawford: Yes, Mommie what?
Christina Crawford: Yes, Mommie Dearest.
Joan Crawford: When I told you to call me that, I wanted you to mean it.

****


Joan Crawford: Ohhhh... Helga. When you polish the floor, you have the move the tree. If you can't do something right, don't do it at all.
Helga: I'm sorry, Miss Crawford...
Joan Crawford: Gimmie the soap. You see, Carol Ann, you've got to stay on top of things every single minute.

Joan Crawford: Carol Ann, will you get that?
Carol Ann: Yes, Miss Crawford.
Joan Crawford: Helga, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the dirt.

****

Joan Crawford: SCRUB, Christina. SCRUB.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082766/quotes


on edit: oops wrong place. meant to post to op but since you wrote the op I'll leave it here.

[valerief]

36. Thanks. I'm going to support the rag by buying it!

[cliss]

37. Yes, I saw the same tabloid at the store yesterday

here in Portland. I quickly grabbed the rag, got out of line, and went down the aisle.

Started reading the tabloid to see what it was all about. No doubt about it: the long knives are out for Bush and Bush.

It's about time.:smoke:

[annabanana]

39. finding an anti-Laura piece in one of these rags

I think is a bell weather...

[johnnie]

43. I can see them at freepland now

"We hav to take a stand poeple..Boycot the GLOBE!!1!!11!!"

[goclark]

44. We had a long thread @ this article 2/3 days ago

I started the thread, did a search just now and it is gone.

Must have been the Clorox.:crazy: