# Weekly World News outdoes itself! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231 "2001-05-23T00:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/1 "2001-05-23T00:00:14Z")
This week’s headline (with full-page cover “photo”) may even outdo the truck found with its engine running in outer space: DEAD MCVEIGH ON MORGUE SLAB! Photos the Government Doesn’t Want you to See! The checkout line was moving slowly, so I flipped to the article. yup, they “reported” on the execution that “took place” on May 16. Past tense. Now come on. Elvis is alive, but McVeigh is dead? I’ll believe the first one before the second, thanks. [sub](talk about jumping the gun)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/2 "2001-05-23T00:40:17Z")
Did they have a follow-up interview with bigfoot and Bat Boy? ---
**Author:** ![Opus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/858c86/32.png) [@Opus1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opus1)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/3 "2001-05-23T03:06:11Z")
I’m more interested in their story about the government covering up [Bible prophecies](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/conspiracies_story.cfm?instanceid=10682). You know, the prophecy which says that the world will end before May 13…2000! The really weird thing is that the bottom of the screen says that the story was published on March 27, 2001. I didn’t think that even the Weekly World News would stoop so low as to publish a story that was over a year obsolete! ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/4 "2001-05-23T03:17:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \* > \*\* > DEAD MCVEIGH ON MORGUE SLAB! > Photos the Government Doesn’t Want you to See! > \*\* I saw that when I was in Wal-Mart yesterday and three things came to mind: 1. _snort_ I _wish_! 2. My 14 year old could have doctored a photo better in PhotoShop. 3. I can’t believe the Wal-Marts in Oklahoma are carrying that. Talk about tasteless. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/5 "2001-05-23T09:37:59Z")
Mass media knows no tragedy, only ratings. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/6 "2001-05-23T13:22:24Z")
Outdone itself? Oh hell no! This is very mild compared to most stories. File this under “Things Diane Should Be Embarrassed About, But Isn’t” - I **LOVE** this magazine!!! Of course it is outrageous bullshit and very poor photo doctoring, but that is what makes it so gosh damn funny. I just wish the TV show was still on. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/7 "2001-05-23T13:41:43Z")
I too love the WWN—but I have been disappointed that the famed Space Alien has lost interest in U.S. presidential politics. Notice he did not back either Gore or Bush last year? Maybe he voted for Nader . . . Is the Bat Boy old enough to vote yet? ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/8 "2001-05-23T15:09:19Z")
I too was disappointed in his lack of political backing this year, but I can lay claim to the fact that I occassionally ride the elevator with a real, honest to God alien! (Congressman Orrin Hatch/Space Alien) ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/9 "2001-05-23T15:22:23Z")
Forget all this! What I want to know is…did the Bible predict THE HOTTEST SUMMER EVER yet again? Or are we off the hook this year? jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/10 "2001-05-23T15:53:01Z")
It’s not the hot summers we should fear but the KILLER STORMS that have been spotted with the face of Satan in the thunderheads! ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weekly-world-news-outdoes-itself/66231/11 "2001-05-23T18:08:40Z")
hey, i recall the alien backing Bush last year. That makes him at 100%. why doesn’t Bush put the alien on his cabinet? He could be on the department of the exterior…