--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "ShempMcGurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > My favorite all-time NY Post frontpage headline was from about 25 years ago. > It had a photograph of Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi in drag, with > lipstick, and the headline was: "Qaddafi goes daffy!" > > Of course, the photo was photoshopped (a term that didn't exist at that time) > and it wasn't like it wasn't obvious that the Post had doctored the > photograph, nor was the Post trying to hide that fact. >
Here's a video clip of Rudolph Giuliani in drag that definitely wasn't faked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8 "Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it." ~~ Rudy Giuliani But there was a kernal of truth to the story because there had been a report -- appparently from credible sources -- that Qaddafi liked to dress up as a woman. > > I've tried several times in the past to "google images" the "Qaddafi goes > daffy" to see if there is an image of it on the web but I haven't been > successful. I think this is due to the fact that there are so many > variations on the spelling of "Qaddafi" that I don't feed in the right > spelling. > > But in my search I did come across this rather amusing item: > > http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-09-25-Bob_DylanGaddafi.jpg > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > [Ballz[1]] > > <http://www.newshoggers.com/.a/6a00d8345f80b469e20120a78a0079970b-pi> > > Great balls of fire. That's the classic New York Post headline under > > the mug shot of Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab, who was detained by > > authorities after trying to detonate a package in his underwear on a > > flight bound for Detroit. Adbulmutallab packed 80 grams of explosives > > into a condom but was unsuccessful in his attempts to ignite it. > > Instead, the only thing he managed to set on fire was his crotch. The > > Post goes on to refer to the briefs in question as "jihad > > jockeys" and "frighty whities." > > >
