Gary 
I was doing some spring cleaning of bookmarks in my browser and came across this Spy Magazine article from 2015. It's a snapshot of what a New York satire magazine thought back then of our current warlord and provides links to every article or snippet that they wrote about him. It's a good reminder of the person he was and still is. #Satire #SpyMagazine #history #magazine #currentevents
Glorious NoiseThere’s No Business Like Show Business. By Stephen Macaulay.
Spy Magazine was launched in October 1986 and ran until the late 1990s but its first five years, under editors Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter, were its best. Spy, which had as its descriptor “Smart, Fun, Funny, Fearless,” skewered the social, literary and entertainment participants who were then, as now, too self-inflated....
#journalism #politics #RockandRollHallofFame #SpyMagazine #music #blog
https://gloriousnoise.com/2026/theres-no-business-like-show-business
sgt1372Just learned of a new (to me) moniker for #DiaperDon that's a bit too wordy but it's so appropo that I'm going to use it occasionally from now on anyway.
It seems that in the 90's, #GraysonCarter, who was then the editor of #SpyMagazine and later the editor of #VanityFair, noticed that #Drumpf's hands seems too small for his body size, nicknamed him the #ShortFingeredVularian, which gives more meaning to #MarcoRubio's disparagement of size of the #FatOrangeMan's hands during their campaigns for #POTUS back in 2016.
I just learned this during Gràyson's interview on #TV on #SundayMorning on #CBS this past weekend but it has been mentioned in an article previously.
See:https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/history-donald-trump-small-hands-insult/story?id=37395515
But, now, Rubio like all #Repubicans is just another #BrownNosed sycophant of the "Short Fingered Vulgarian. 🤷
sharpstick
Miss Fidget@Ttubretep Mr Barry is good stuff #SpyMagazine accurately assessed his character too dubbed him a #ShortFingeredVulgarian
pootriarch ⏚in the late 80s there was a satirical magazine in nyc called 'spy' that loved sticking it to trump and everyone around him.
as a public service and reminder that corporate media covers only what it sees fit to print, i present spy's coverage calculator from the late 80s #SpyMagazine
https://www.belle-aurore.com/mike/2012/11/spy-magazines-death-news-equation/
