The REAL fake news, circa 1993

[MoonRiver]

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[Karadeniz]

1. Ah, the good old days! You could spot lying at 50 paces!

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Chelsea Clinton once recalled these stories

And said she wouldn't have minded since she would have liked a sibling.

[MoonRiver]

4. Funny!

[nuxvomica]

23. Of all the nonsense stories about Hillary, this is probably the nicest

It actually softened her image for a lot of people. Remember the thing about whether she baked cookies?

[EarlG]

3. I believe this is now

part of the official Republican Party platform.

[MoonRiver]

6. They're just not quite ready to admit it, lol!

[TreasonousBastard]

5. I do miss Bat Boy.

[MoonRiver]

7. I remember that dude!

[LeftInTX]

8. Was Hillary also his mother?

They missed out on a family affair fake news!

[csziggy]

9. He became Senator Rick Scott of Florida nt

[SoonerPride]

12. DUzy

[csziggy]

16. Not my original thought

Someone posted a different picture of Bat Boy a day or two ago and made that comment. That Bat Boy picture looked a LOT like pRick Scott.

[AZ8theist]

29. You mean this?

[csziggy]

37. Yes! Thank you for posting that one.

Somewhere here I have the Bat Boy book. It tells the entire history of Bat Boy - from the tabloid point of view, of course.

[AZ8theist]

38. Forward by Rick Scott?

[csziggy]

39. !

[SoonerPride]

11. I'm pretty sure he was the source of Covid 19.

You can't deny factoids!

[lettucebe]

10. Yup, we are all living "News of the Weird" now. Astonishing how many don't seem to realize it either

[brush]

13. Hahahahahahahaha! I forgot how crazy things were back then...

toward Hillary. It hasn't get any better since.

[LeftInTX]

14. The world of QAnon

[Sanity Claws]

15. But it says Official Photo!

[MoonRiver]

17. Uh oh! My bad!

[Staph]

18. I can't find a picture of it, but ...

I have fond memories of their story about the twelve U.S. Senators who were actually aliens. The story was published in the summer of 1994, and the senators were Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Dennis Deconcini, D-Ariz.; Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.; Bennett Johnston, D-La.; Howell Heflin, D-Ala.; Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; William Cohen, R-Maine; John Glenn, D-Ohio; Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan.; Sam Nunn, D-Ga.; Al Simpson, R-Wyo.; and Phil Gramm, D-Texas.

Alas, all the alien senators are dead or retired. Who are the aliens now?

[Harker]

22. Pat Robertson, surely. n/t

[AZ8theist]

30. here ya go!!

[Staph]

33. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you!!!

I remember this because Jay Rockefeller was my senator at the time. He had great fun with the whole thing. How lovely to have politicians with senses of humor!

[AZ8theist]

35. I'm pretty sure Alan Simpson was a space alien....the others? not so sure....

[Midnight Writer]

19. If this story broke today, the headline would be "Hillary Clinton Drinks Blood of Alien Baby"

And millions of people would believe it.

[3Hotdogs]

20. Dunno. The baby she adapted looks a lot like Stephen Miller.

[Harker]

21. Well, maybe...

But Bat Boy was real.

[sandensea]

24. All those tabloid covers screaming about "Hillary's affair with Vince Foster!" started it all...

"Hillary had Vince Foster killed to keep him from disclosing affair!"

"Bill ready to divorce Hillary over Vince Foster affair!"

"Vince Foster ready to tell all about the Clintons when he was killed!"

And my favorite:

"Hillary carrying Vince Foster's child; Vince killed over objecting to abortion!"

We laugh - but millions of Republican church ladies lapped all this garbage up as if it were the Gospel.

Many still believe it - and it permanently poisoned the well against Hillary against a wide swath of the electorate.

Idiots vote too, lest we forget.

[NoMoreRepugs]

32. THIS.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. ah the" hot sheets " .(men in black refrence)

my fav was 2 headed baby born singing christmas carols ..

[StevieM]

26. Actually, Whitewater was the fake news in 1993.

The GOP even stepped it up on the day Bill Clinton went home to Arkansas to bury his mother.

Our failure to deal with Whitewater as a Republican scandal is the reason we are in this mess today.

[ironflange]

27. Ed Anger always had something interesting to say

[hoosierspud]

28. Another favorite cover for WWN

was Bigfoot ---attacking campers, teenagers, whoever.

[NoMoreRepugs]

31. Huh, Matt Gaetz grew hair eventually.

[Brother Buzz]

34. Back in the day, tabloids were the bomb on camping trips

Two or three tabloids, augmented with a copy of Mad magazine, and we were set for hours, days, devouring everything in them from cover to cover.

[AZ8theist]

40. Yeah, I know what you mean....

The "funny cigarettes" sure helped to pass the time as well....

[uponit7771]

36. Tabloid news is 100% what FAUX News today is, they look sound and act like the kGOP version of

... Tabloid news.