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Sun gets Margaret Thatcher tribute off its chest Sun gets Margaret Thatcher tribute off its chest
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The Sun has spent much of the past week urging lefties, football fans, BBC bosses, foreign dignataries and sundry other "moaning minnies" to show respect to the late Lady Thatcher following her death last Monday. As tributes towards the Iron Lady divided a nation, the Sun promised that her funeral would be "a beautiful ceremony. Not remotely political. Fiercely patriotic. Deeply religious". So it came as some surprise that the Sun's special pull-out Maggie supplement on Wednesday – the day of the funeral – came nestled between a surely less-than-respectful double-page spread featuring 18 famous women's chests, with captions such as "creamy tits", "royal tits" and "ginger tits". The spread, headlined "Titler" with the strapline: "Up market magazine celebrates blue bloods' boobs", is a play on a stunt by high-brow mag Tatler, which caused a bit of a stir with a similar feature this month. And as if that wasn't enough disrespect on the day Thatcher was laid to rest, a, ahem … concerned reader also nudged Monkey towards the Sun's Official Page 3 twitter feed (not something we normally spend our time perusing, you understand, except for essential research purposes). On Wednesday morning, as Dimblebum and other TV anchors were intoning solemnly over events at St Paul's cathedral, the Official Page 3 twitter feed was cheerfully encouraging readers to "See amazing @TheSunNewspaper http://Page3.com girl Danni Wells from every angle in #Page360". Lack of respect, or a bit of harmless fun gone tits up?The Sun has spent much of the past week urging lefties, football fans, BBC bosses, foreign dignataries and sundry other "moaning minnies" to show respect to the late Lady Thatcher following her death last Monday. As tributes towards the Iron Lady divided a nation, the Sun promised that her funeral would be "a beautiful ceremony. Not remotely political. Fiercely patriotic. Deeply religious". So it came as some surprise that the Sun's special pull-out Maggie supplement on Wednesday – the day of the funeral – came nestled between a surely less-than-respectful double-page spread featuring 18 famous women's chests, with captions such as "creamy tits", "royal tits" and "ginger tits". The spread, headlined "Titler" with the strapline: "Up market magazine celebrates blue bloods' boobs", is a play on a stunt by high-brow mag Tatler, which caused a bit of a stir with a similar feature this month. And as if that wasn't enough disrespect on the day Thatcher was laid to rest, a, ahem … concerned reader also nudged Monkey towards the Sun's Official Page 3 twitter feed (not something we normally spend our time perusing, you understand, except for essential research purposes). On Wednesday morning, as Dimblebum and other TV anchors were intoning solemnly over events at St Paul's cathedral, the Official Page 3 twitter feed was cheerfully encouraging readers to "See amazing @TheSunNewspaper http://Page3.com girl Danni Wells from every angle in #Page360". Lack of respect, or a bit of harmless fun gone tits up?
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