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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 341005)

That does kinda looked poorly photoshopped, what with the text not at all aligned with the edges of the plastic it's supposedly printed on.

Now that you mention it, it does have a shopped quality, but Harps has responded so I'm inclined to think it may be real.

Thanks for checking into that, SM. Guess Harps uses really cheap labor to print their magazine shields.

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Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac (Post 341008)

Now that you mention it, it does have a shopped quality, but Harps has responded so I'm inclined to think it may be real.

Apparently the shields are now down (SM's link has been updated).

The official response:

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We have received a number of complaints regarding an incident in our Mountain Home store involving the current issue of US Weekly Magazine depicting Elton John, David Furnish and their newborn son. I would like to explain how this happened. For many years we have provided each of our stores with shields which can be used at the manager’s discretion to cover the front of magazines when they receive complaints from our customers regarding either the photo on the cover of the magazine or the titles of articles contained within the magazine. Sometimes those photos might be sexually provocative or too revealing. The magazine article titles might also be too suggestive for some customers.

In this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine. When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield.

Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention, we reversed.

Kim B. Eskew
President & COO
Harps Food Stores, Inc.

If it's truly at the managers discretion he needs to be reprimanded. Then again, it speaks volumes of the demographic that visits that store. How a happy, stable couple that has been together for over a decade showing off their baby can be offensive is pathetic.

Well come on BTD, it's obvious Elton and David are working tirelessly to destroy the American way of life, so it's only reasonable that Righteous Christians be offended by such treachery and do their duty to stop these homasexshuls.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!

I remember reading, years ago, a version of the Sermon On the Mount that was rewritten to fit modern American Christianity. There was something like "Blessed are the faithful, for they shall be easily offended and quick to anger."