Refried Screens

Unfortunately, Weekly World News is closing shop. 

In honor of the paper’s fantastic journalistic work for breaking monumental stories that mainstream media avoided, Refried Screens presents a gallery of the Greatest Weekly World News Covers along with contextual explanations:

Unfortunately, the aliens weren’t down with Kerry.  Rumor has it, they were supporting Romney, until Oprah stepped in:

  

Now they’re behind Obama.

But the Weekly World news wasn’t all about politics.  They had human interest stories too.

First, this story hit…

And it inspired Bigfoot to lose weight:

Eventually, we learned the dirty secret behind Bigfoot’s diet:

Then there was this story:

 

The intelligence community was stumped, until WNN found out the reason behind Saddam’s sex change:

It was to win Osama’s heart. But tragedy struck, as they were unable to have kids.  Adopting a normal baby was out of the question.   Agencies “claimed” it was because of  “both parents being on the most wanted list”, “gassing of the Kurds”, and “9/11″, but it really boiled down to discomfort with same sex adoption.  So Osama and Saddam did the next best thing:

This was the kid they wanted:

 

But the combined forces of the CIA and Interpol stopped the plot in the nick of time.  The baby tried the to part the Hudson river, but unfortunately, the baby wasn’t on high ground.

Dick Cheney didn’t take kindly to this story breaking, so he took extreme measures to get revenge:

 

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