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Great Moments in Newspaper Layout

Jesse Walker | 4.26.2006 3:06 PM

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I never knew Zarqawi looked like that.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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  1. ANTI-DC   20 years ago

    Looks more like a potato Hitler

  2. Clean Hands   20 years ago

    That's part of the answer, I think. Laugh at them. Drives 'em bats.

    These islamofascists take themselves almost as seriously as vegans or feminists do.

  3. NoStar   20 years ago

    That's the ugliest Bush I ever saw, and it's urging for a probe (for a price, of course.)

    Now what kind of Bush urges probes for a price?

  4. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    The question is, was the layout intentional? I vote yes. Now Mr Potato Head will join Evil Bert in a new wave of terrorist mockery.

  5. Captain Holly   20 years ago

    Mr. Potato Head is running Al-Qaida? Say it ain't so!

  6. Jesse Walker   20 years ago

    The question is, was the layout intentional?

    Nope. It's a byproduct of this inane "Hot L" layout The Sun recently adopted. It's constantly producing weird juxtapositions, but this is the funniest so far.

  7. joe   20 years ago

    Mr. Potato Head is NOT an evil terrorist.

    He just looks like one because someone put the evil terrorist eyebrows on him.

  8. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    joe,

    Yes, just like they did with Bert. Someone is trying to take our precious childhood icons away from us.

    Next, we'll hear that Mr. Rogers is actually alive in a cave in Pakistan. With evil eyebrows.

  9. joe   20 years ago

    No wonder they can't catch Zarqawi - he's a master of disguise.

  10. sage +P   20 years ago

    But they sure got a good picture of him.

    At least they put the nose and mustache in the right place.

  11. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    Where's the pipe? Oh, wait. Can't expose our children to a pipe--almost forgot. That's how we'll catch Zarqawi, when he slips up in his Mr. Potato Head disguise and includes the verboten pipe.

  12. Sandy   20 years ago

    joe:

    Perhaps. But in his unfriendly attitude and lack of positive statements about the Global War on Terror, I think it can be argued that Mr. Potatohead has crossed the line to being objectively pro-islamofascism.

  13. Stevo Darkly   20 years ago

    Mr. Potato Head is running Al-Qaida? Say it ain't so!

    The terrorists have eyes everywhere. Potato eyes.

  14. Stevo Darkly   20 years ago

    You know, putting out a daily paper is a huge, fast-paced operations. Little things like this will happen sometimes. Let's not have a russet to judgment.

  15. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    I have a question. Is it more appropriate to boycott potatoes or to eat more of them? In other words, which action would make Mr. Potato Head suffer the most? Starchy bastard!

  16. Sandy   20 years ago

    Ouch, Stevo, that was physically painful.

    Idaho what you think you're trying to prove.

  17. sage +P   20 years ago

    Zarqawi's just trying to show what a spud he is.

  18. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    Sandy, I don't get that pun. It just spud by me.

  19. smacky   20 years ago

    So if I still have my old Mr. Potato Head doll somewhere, does that mean I'm harboring a terrorist? Or am I cultivating one?

  20. sage +P   20 years ago

    He was at the beach trying to pick up chicks but was having no luck. His friend told him to try putting a potato in his pants. But this didn't work either. In fact, everyone was laughing at him. He asked his buddy what was wrong and he said "you're supposed to put it in the front."

  21. Osama   20 years ago

    Say, the Mr. Potato Head image that The Sun used looks a lot like Mohammed.

    Prepare to die, infidel scum.

  22. Stevo Darkly   20 years ago

    Idaho what you think you're trying to prove.

    That has got tuber the worst pun I've ever heard.

  23. Pro Libertate   20 years ago

    I yam getting sick of all of this nonsense. Next punster gets mashed.

  24. the other Mark   20 years ago

    That has got tuber the worst pun I've ever heard.

    Where did I put my stabbin' knife...

  25. Taylor   20 years ago

    The Sun is a new print. They're just starting to figure this stuff out..

  26. Adriana   20 years ago

    Is the probe that Bush is asking for like the ones that aliens do to the Earth people they kidnap?

  27. JD   20 years ago

    All these puns au gratin on my nerves!

  28. Rich Ard   20 years ago

    This is the sort of thing that happens to all of the johnny-come-latkes.

  29. Stevo Darkly   20 years ago

    I think that I shall never see
    A pomme as lovely as a tree

    All these puns au gratin on my nerves!

    Yukon say that again!

  30. Rich Ard   20 years ago

    This is getting ri-golden-diculous.

  31. Ruthless   20 years ago

    Before he started taking steroids, Zarqawi looked like Mr. Parsnip Head.

    By the time Uncle Sam catches him, he'll look like Mr. Pumpkin Head.

  32. Dogzilla   20 years ago

    "Looks more like a potato Hitler"

    You will address him as Herr Kartoffelnkopf!

  33. M'   20 years ago

    My sister was afraid of Bert as a child and always knew he was evil. I used to terrorize her with Bert dolls. If only she would have known the evil of Mr. Potato head I would have had twice as much fun.

  34. smacky   20 years ago

    The newspaper layout is very unappeeling. It looks like it was made by a bunch of gradeschool 'tots.

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