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The New York Post Cover Compares The Stock Market To A Prostitute’s Underwear

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One of my favorite Simpsons gags of all time occurs in an episode where Bart runs for class president. He gets Homer to make his campaign poster and Homer comes up with a doozy; simple text exclaiming “SEX! Now that I’ve got your attention, vote for Bart!” What makes this gag so great is that I feel like I’m reminded of it about three times a week even 17 years after the episode aired. My latest reminder, this New York Post cover that uses an interesting analogy and an incredibly random stock photo to inform readers that the stock market’s been kind of crazy lately.

It’s not just the blatant “sexiness” of this cover that I enjoy. While many readers will be drawn to this expecting some kind of sordid news story about ladies of the night, I’m pretty sure just as many readers will look at that image of a slightly anachronistic “hooker” smoking a cigarette and be confused into thinking the Post has magically transformed into a pulp detective novel.

“I could tell from the instant the Dow walked in. It had been up and down more times than a hooker’s drawers. Normally, I’d never have taken the case but I needed the cash, I needed it bad. I’d invested all my money in the stock market.”

(image via Newseum)

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  • http://www.IndiaCurry.com Yogi Gupta

    I am still waiting for Mediaite to cover the results of Wisconsin Recall yesterday. It covered the rants of Al Sharpton and Ed Schultz in support of the Union… What happened? Last night the biggest losers were the Unions, and the progressive agenda of Phil Griffin at MSNBC. The winners were the people of Wisconsin who voted for what was right for Wisconsin, balanced budget and jobs.
    Oh yes, there were other losers.. the liberal progressive broadcast media, and the progressive liberal online media such as Daily Beast, and Politico.

  • Anonymous

    You forgot to add the Democratic National Convention and President Obama who chimed in when the Union debacle first hit the airwaves as losers.  My grandfathers were both union men, while my father and two uncles were “management”, so I saw both sides of the fence.  I do think the unions in Wisconsin should have given more towards their healthcare costs and retirement costs since the private sector doesn’t pay for everything.

  • Anonymous

    good point

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  • Anonymous

    The New York Post, classy as always. Are any conservatives embarrassed that this is considered the “conservative” paper in New York, while the New York Times is considered the “liberal” paper?

  • Anonymous

    Fact: NY the morals city of the US!

  • Anonymous

    I assure you that Mediaite would have covered the Wisconsin recall if the editors had liked the results of the election.  But Republicans defeating a coalition of Democrats, Obama activists, and big-spending labor unions is not a story they want to cover.

    Thank goodness we have the liberal media, who obligingly “filter out” news that we don’t need to know about!

  • Anonymous

    I assure you that Mediaite would have covered the Wisconsin recall if the editors had liked the results of the election.  But Republicans defeating a coalition of Democrats, Obama activists, and big-spending labor unions is not a story they want to cover.

    Thank goodness we have the liberal media, who obligingly “filter out” news that we don’t need to know about!

  • Irish189

    people wear underwear? 

  • Anthony Olszewski

    Welcome back Megen and congratulations on the new addition to your family. Please grow your hair back.

  • Anonymous

    Breaking News Headline: Chaos in Washington directly reflects helter, skelter  thought process in what little there is of Obama’s brain. ( clusterf**k ) – ed.

  • john.kliber

    Hey baby, how’s your volatility index today? Know what I mean? Purrrrrrrrrrr! Got change for a 50? I gotta take the a cab to the train and then to the park and ride.

    Si, Senor Weinberg. Tengo cambio. Tiennes dos notas de diez?

  • Anonymous

    This is a racist photo…why are they portraying a minority as a whore? All minorities are not deseased sluts.

  • Anthony Olszewski

    We need to begin talking about Obama’s connections to ACORN and his Socialistic Past. The only place I read about these issues is ON LINE. You all need to Step Up and tell it like it is. Obama is a follower of Saul Alinsky and Cloward & Pivin and his only agenda is to overload & bring down the economic system of the United States of America and enforce his and their agenda on the population. WE THE PEOPLE need to speak up conscerning these issues and it needs to begin NOW!! Report about FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS and all of OBAMA’S COMMUNIST CONNECTIONS from his past. The Birth Certificate, The Social Security Number and all the rest. If we do not press these issues WE WILL LOSE IN 2012. Expose the Socialist agenda for what it is and allow THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE!!!!!!!! Obama knows exactly what he is doing and we cannot sit back and allow HIM to get away with it.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: NY Post the morals paper of the Right Wing!

  • TruDat

    Nope, I’d be more embarrassed to be associated with the left-wing rag the NY Times.

  • john.kliber

    You’re right, it’s a strawman argument: only most of them are.

    Although I would qualify that by saying they are morally superior to stock players since knowing what you are always trumps thinking you’re a normal and good human being.

  • john.kliber

    Well they’re certainly liberal in letting “they don’t know any better” affirmative action journalists simply make up stories.

  • Anonymous

    I object to the claim that prostitutes wear underwear. Isn’t that kind of a”job killer”?

  • Anonymous

    Faster Fax: NYT is the talking point memo for libtards like you!

  • Tegeagent007

    The New York Post fast becoming just another tabloid publication.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    The average Conservative is an  anti intellectual voting against his own interests as he “reads” the rag called the Post

  • TruDat

    Yeah, you lefties are a real brain trust.

  • Anonymous

    How classy. Something you’d expect to see in a trash tabloid. Oh wait, I guess that means NYP is a trash tabloid.

  • Dan Abramswig

    Isn’t that Wendy Deng on the cover?

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