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On episode 322 (June 20, 2014) of
“Real Time with Bill Maher,” Maher talked about a news story about Dr. Oz
touting green coffee extract as a “miracle” and “magic” weight loss aid. (When
a doctor uses words like “miracle” and “magic” you know he has sold out.) Maher then held up a Time magazine showing the cover story about weight-loss titled,
“Eat More Butter” as an example of another sell-out.
Maher claimed this was all about
telling people what they want to hear, and he had a few magazine cover story
ideas of his own.
Maxim: You Have
a Chance with These Women (the supermodels on the cover)
Boys
Life: If All the Scouts
are Doing It, It is Not Really Gay
Rolling Stone: You’re Right: The Music Today Sucks
Sports
Illustrated: Video Gamers: The Real
Athletes
AARP: That Smell Isn’t Really
Coming from You
Cosmopolitan: How to Drive Your Man Wild with Oral
Sex Once a Year
Hustler: Masturbation Prevents
Cancer
Modern Parenting: How to Raise a
Genius by Sticking Your Toddler in Front of the TV All Day
Read the full review and recap of episode #322 at Premium Cable Reviews.
I decided to do a few wish-fulfillment cover stories of my own.
AARP: 70 is
the new 40
Vogue: Old
Clothes are Vintage Treasures
Money; Bottle Cap
Collections Worth Millions
Prevention: New Medical
Research Shows Sugar Prevents Cancer
Mother Jones: Occupy: Potent
Political Force
Cosmopolitan: Flat-Chested
Women Have Better Orgasms
And finally,
The Journal of Lost Causes: Stop Me Before I Blog Again
While doing research for this
post, I decided to subscribe to Mother Jones
as a public service. They have a lot of great stories. They are also non-profit
and depend on subscriptions and donations.
Do you have any ideas for magazine
cover stories that would be wish-fulfillment fantasies for their readers? Share
them in the “Comments” of this blog.
Bill
Maher’s Guests, #322, June 6, 2014
Paul Reickhoff: Writer,
veteran of the United States Army and the Iraq War, founder and Executive
Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and author of Chasing
Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective
Ta-Nehisi Coates: National correspondent at The
Atlantic, which recently published his much talked about article in The Atlantic magazine, “The Case for
Reparations.”
He
is also the author of the memoir. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and
an Unlikely Road to Manhood.
Glenn Greenwald: American lawyer, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,
author I of several books. His most recent book is No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and
the U.S. Surveillance State
Kristen Soltis Anderson:
Republican pollster for Echelon Insights, columnist for The Daily Beast.
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