# David Pecker - former National Enquirer Publisher - the Pit thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [April 25, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750 "2024-04-25T17:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/1 "2024-04-25T17:42:46Z")
David Pecker is the former Chairman of American Media (AMI) and Publisher of the National Enquirer: > **[David Pecker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pecker)** > > David Jay Pecker (born September 24, 1951) is an American publishing executive and businessman, who was the CEO of American Media until August 2020. He was the publisher of Men's Fitness, Muscle and Fitness, Flex, Fit Pregnancy, Shape and Star. He was also the publisher of National Enquirer, Sun, Weekly World News, and Globe. > In 2018, Pecker became embroiled in controversy regarding his involvement in a catch and kill operation to buy exclusive rights to stories that might embarrass his friend... He’s critically involved in the Trump “hush money” trial. I’m not a young man, but I’ve struggled to stay sober at the mere mention of the name, “Pecker” in the context of this trial. I think others have, too. So – use it or not – here’s The Pecker Thread. I’m paging @Aspenglow so she’s aware it exists, and on the off chance she’s bored enough to shift a few posts from that thread to this one. Pecker. David Fucking Pecker. Yeah. That’s all I got. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/2 "2024-04-25T17:44:24Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I’m not a young man, but I’ve struggled to stay sober at the mere mention of the name, “Pecker” in the context of this trial. I think others have, too. - Sounds like a stand up guy to me. Let’s hope he doesn’t wilt under the coming scrutiny. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/3 "2024-04-25T17:45:52Z")
The fact that Pecker got an immunity agreement means he has very little (fore)skin in the game. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/4 "2024-04-25T17:51:07Z")
Since he has earned his very own Pit thread, is it fair to say, “That Pecker is a real prick?” 😈 ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/5 "2024-04-25T17:53:27Z")
Oh, it’s _more than_ fair. It’s basically obligatory. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/6 "2024-04-25T17:58:29Z")
I gotta hand it to him, it takes balls to still be on the side of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/7 "2024-04-25T18:21:38Z")
Can’t beat Jeff Tiedrich’s recent, “narcoleptic old dipshit wakes up to stare at pecker.” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/8 "2024-04-25T20:04:10Z")
Would you testify against Trump? Pecker would. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/9 "2024-04-26T12:28:56Z")
> [@Manhattan Prosecutors file criminal charges for Trump re Stormy Daniels case - ongoing discussion here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manhattan-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-for-trump-re-stormy-daniels-case-ongoing-discussion-here/980953/2435): > > That said, the prosecution’s initial thrust with Pecker feels like it’s been more effective than expected, and the defense’s nibbling away at timelines and terminology seems to be pretty weak sauce. I would like to state for the record that the “thrust” double entendre in my post above was entirely inadvertent and I didn’t notice it until I went back to re-read. If it had been deliberate, I would have said the prosecution’s thrust with Pecker had penetrated more deeply than expected. I probably would also have said that the defense’s attempts to lick Pecker regarding his timelines and terminology had failed to produce much of a result. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/10 "2024-04-26T12:38:57Z")
[![](https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/1200/height/675/https:/media.snopes.com/2018/08/CNN-Chyron.jpg) ](https://mediaproxy.snopes.com/width/1200/height/675/https:/media.snopes.com/2018/08/CNN-Chyron.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/11 "2024-04-26T12:44:47Z")
Please tell me that’s real. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/12 "2024-04-26T12:55:27Z")
It’s not. Still funny, though. > **[Did MSNBC Use a 'Trump Worried About Pecker Leaking' Chyron?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/msnbc-pecker-chyron/)** > > The chyron 'Trump Worried About Pecker Leaking' was created by an internet prankster, not the graphics team at MSNBC. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/13 "2024-04-26T13:28:24Z")
While only tangentially relevant, I’d like to quote George Carlin here: > [@](#): > > Here’s a statement of an anti-pornography dude. Kind of an anti-smut man. And words, what you select tell a lot about you… > > “Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive to penetrate any crack in his defenses so we can to lay to rest his dominant position. We want him hung and we want fast action. Let’s get on him. Let’s ram through a stiff bail law…so it will be hard for him to get it up. We’ve got to come together so we can whip this thing into submission. It’ll be hard on us, but we can’t lick it by being soft!” ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/14 "2024-04-26T14:16:18Z")
To pile on his business in general… Can someone explain to me what the point is of the supermarket tabloids? If it was just celebrity gossip, I don’t really care much about the private lives of famous folk, but to each their own, and there’s already _People_ and _Hello!_ and a zillion other lifestyle magazines to fill that need. But the tabs seem to exist with the tacit understanding that they’re spinning falsehoods. But it’s not even satire. _Spy Magazine_ (R.I.P.) is one thing, but there’s no punchline to anything spewed by the _Enquirer_ or the _Star_. I know the _World Weekly News_ (does that still publish?) with its alien abductions and Batboy sightings is even more openly fictional, but once again, there doesn’t seem to be any actual satirical intent. I once got as a joke gift, a collection of the “Ed Anger” columns from the _WWN_, and they just seemed like red state ravings that are barely different from OAN’s or Newsmax’s today. It’s terrifying to me that these things have existed for so many decades based on a business model of “exaggerate or speculate or make shit up” without an actual payoff. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/15 "2024-04-26T14:29:54Z")
When you’ve read one did you notice how short the stories are, and the primary focus is on scandals and photos? The text rarely if ever needs to be continued on another page, and if so the continuation is only like one or two more sentences stuck in the back with the diet pill ads. Essentially it’s “news” for the lazy and willfully uninformed, and their writers level of journalistic integrity is commensurate with that format. I wouldn’t be shocked if the “writing” is being done entirely by AI now. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/16 "2024-04-26T14:31:47Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I wouldn’t be shocked if the “writing” is being done entirely by AI now. Ardent Illiterates. Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/17 "2024-04-26T14:35:51Z")
Imagine growing up with a name like that. Must have been hard. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/18 "2024-04-26T15:17:42Z")
One of CNN’s legal analysts, this morning, mentioned that – because one has been helpful to the Defense and the other is expected TO be helpful to the Defense – that there’s “no reason to come at Pecker hard and there will be no reason to come at Stormy Daniels hard.” God. I’m such a fucking child. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/19 "2024-04-26T15:23:33Z")
I’m sorry but I find many of these puns to be flaccid. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750/20 "2024-04-26T16:23:14Z")
I’m 65 years old, and my paternal grandmother believed every word printed in the enquirer and all of those papers like it. I like to think people don’t anymore, but I’m not that naive. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-pecker-former-national-enquirer-publisher-the-pit-thread/1000750.md?page=2)