Weasel of the Week: David Pecker

David Pecker, long time friend of President Donald Trump, is the CEO of American Media, parent company of the long-running tabloid, the National Enquirer. Like its supermarket kinfolk, the Enquirer, in a bid to stay relevant opposite Comedy Central's Daily Show, for example, has resorted to fabricating headlines in order to sell papers. That the tabloids are now a wee bit overpriced isn't helping.

However, it appears that while Pecker has agreed to work with Federal investigators in regards to Trump's 2016 campaign, it now comes out that the staff at the Enquirer, on orders from Pecker, were attempting to blackmail Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos.

While it's well known now that Bezos and his wife had filed for divorce after Bezos' extra-marital affair came to light last year, it seems that Pecker, attempting to do a solid for Trump, wanted Bezos to retract claims that the tabloid's guerrilla journalism in exposing his affair was politically motivated. Trump has long claimed the Post is one of those purveyors of "fake news", and has had a long standing hatred of Bezos, the richest man in the world.

While the Enquirer has gotten in trouble before for fabricating stories about celebrities (i.e. Carol Burnett) in the past, this could end up being Waterloo for the long running magazine, which has taken some heat for its pro-Trump propaganda during the '16 campaign and allegedly paying someone hush money about an alleged affair she had with Trump.

This all runs back to Trump, and to that, we have to ask:

Jealous much, Mr. President?

We know Trump is thin-skinned, and has an enormous ego that, as a Christian, he should've scaled down. As the Bible tells us, "pride goes before the fall". That's a lesson that Trump and his dittoheads, Pecker included, have yet to comprehend. No, this is not so much about politics, but rather Bezos fighting back against a business rival who now has the biggest bully pulpit on Earth. If Bezos wins this fight, say good-bye to American Media and its family of once-proud tabloids, because the supermarket tabloid, which belongs in the fiction section of your local bookstore, not at the checkout counters anymore, is a dying breed.

David Pecker gets the Weasel ears this week for trying to 1) justify his paper's yellow journalism on behalf of Trump, and 2) bullying Bezos, which, so far, isn't working.