Best. Tabloid. Front. Ever.

[wicked]

End the competition right here, folks, this tops "he took it in the butt."

 

[Point of Order]

Pretty good. The Mets beating the Astros is what puts it over the top.

 

[YankeeFan]

BTW, I'm not buying that they didn't have cable/satellite tv.

One of the clips they showed had him watching Claire McCaskill presiding over the Senate on C-Span.

Someone taped that for him and brought it to him? That's pure channel surfing.

And, this picture clearly shows a satellite dish:

 

[Steak Snabler]

Pretty good. The Mets beating the Astros is what puts it over the top.

Actually, "Debbie Does Abbottabod" on the TV screen is a nice touch as well ...

 

[BTExpress]

BTW, I'm not buying that they didn't have cable/satellite tv.

Had no internet or phone lines connected.

Don't remember reading anything about him not having satellite TV. And you can still have a satellite sitting in your yard but not have it connected. Or maybe nobody actually knows what he was connected to.

 

[Point of Order]

I'm wondering who at CIA gets to review the entirety of the porn stash to make sure there are no secret encoded messages.

 

[wicked]

YF, don't recall it ever being said that he didn't have TV service. Chalk up the TV-less rumor to shoddy reporting.

 

[Armchair_QB]

End the competition right here, folks, this tops "he took it in the butt."

Before I clicked on this I thought, it can't be better than "He Took It In The Butt"

I was wrong.

 

[Boom_70]

I think the CIA should release to porn to verify that story is not made up in effort to spoil the Osama legacy.

 

[doubledown68]

Pretty good. The Mets beating the Astros is what puts it over the top.

Actually, "Debbie Does Abbottabod" on the TV screen is a nice touch as well ...

Indeed. Any amateur could've come up with Osama bin Wankin'. It's the tv screen and the Whora Bora subhed that make this a master(burtory) piece.

 

[Versatile]

If you're looking at those two options on a news stand, the Post wins easily. I don't live in New York anymore, but I feel like the Post has really moved well past the Daily News these days.

 

[imjustagirl]

I've always had the Post well ahead of the Snooze.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

If you're looking at those two options on a news stand, the Post wins easily.

Just out of curiosity, why? Regular readers know that on non-local stories, neither paper's heds are usually indicative of what their respective stories (rewritten from the wires) will deliver. I don't believe it has significant effect on buying choices unless you are a tourist. If I've been burned before and I've already seen today's attempt at humor on the newsstand, why would I need to pay to see what's inside? I know from seeing the cover that the newspaper has, well, already shot its wad. I think they are playing to their established niche, not taking readers away from anyone else when they do this stuff.

 

[DanOregon]

You've got to love terrorists. They don't believe the porn story. Why? Because bin Laden was a sacred warrior. No problem with him killing thousands, but apparently they would draw the line with some skin mags?

 

[JBHawkEye]

Pretty good. The Mets beating the Astros is what puts it over the top.

Actually, "Debbie Does Abbottabod" on the TV screen is a nice touch as well ...

Indeed. Any amateur could've come up with Osama bin Wankin'. It's the tv screen and the Whora Bora subhed that make this a master(burtory) piece.

As I said on the thread in Sports and News, I would have given anything to be in on the meeting with the editors on this one. So many things make this an epic cover.

 

[The Big Ragu]

And with that I am nuking my thread on Sports & News. I should have known it was already covered. I didn't look hard. As I said, one of their best three ever and that is very high praise.

 

[imjustagirl]

If you're looking at those two options on a news stand, the Post wins easily.

Just out of curiosity, why? Regular readers know that on non-local stories, neither paper's heds are usually indicative of what their respective stories (rewritten from the wires) will deliver. I don't believe it has significant effect on buying choices unless you are a tourist. If I've been burned before and I've already seen today's attempt at humor on the newsstand, why would I need to pay to see what's inside? I know from seeing the cover that the newspaper has, well, already shot its wad. I think they are playing to their established niche, not taking readers away from anyone else when they do this stuff.

I disagree completely. With exceptions like this, the cover is rarely the best thing in the paper. It's the little one-column heds that I wonder how they come up with anything that blow my mind. It's the spreads. It's the big sports stories. There's nothing about the Post that has "shot its wad."

 

[dooley_womack1]

Being able to do "Bx," "Bklyn," "Qns" and "Slay" greatly helps.

 

[imjustagirl]

Oh, undoubtedly. But it still cracks me up to see it sometimes.

 

[Bubbler]

Pretty good. The Mets beating the Astros is what puts it over the top.

Actually, "Debbie Does Abbottabod" on the TV screen is a nice touch as well ...

Indeed. Any amateur could've come up with Osama bin Wankin'. It's the tv screen and the Whora Bora subhed that make this a master(burtory) piece.

I'm not sure about that. The beauty of the headline is that "Osama bin (fill in the blank)" has been low-hanging fruit for headline writers ever since he got capped.

But the Post held back and waited for the just the right moment and, voila!, we have hilarity.