>Since I'm not a subscriber to any of the aforementioned tabloids, I
>can't say for sure if the following would hold up under scrutiny. But it
>would seem to be the case that over the years, esp. during the Gulf War
>and after the embassy bombings, the supermarket tabloids would have been
>prime purveyors of anti-Saddam and perhaps even borderline anti-Arab
>material. All that Saddam-as-Hitler stuff was grist for the mill, no?
>Maybe they even took shots at Bin Laden at some point.
and Kirsten said:
>i don't know about post gulf war period, but the tabloids have certainly
>had some interesting (?!?) things to say about bin laden recently ...
and Doug said:
>Last week's Weekly World News had ObL on the cover, in crosshairs,
>and inside, columnist Ed Anger challenged him to go mano a mano.
You have to consider the source of the insults. For example, here's a fine lad:
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze24z4z/welcome.html
Now, if serious people (as serious as Bin Laden, if not more so) took this sort of stuff seriously, I'd be sitting ringside in a minute.
Todd