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A turkey fix from Bloomberg:

(Corrects to delete reference to fake turkey in third paragraph.)

UPDATE. You can’t keep a fake bird down:

Fake turkeys: The faux bird that accompanied Bush on his first surprise trip to Iraq in 2003 is left home alone.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/17/2006 at 07:37 AM
  1. But - polar bears are drowning (or walking dryshod), marines are butchering Iraqis, Israelis are bombing beach-goers, and all you, Tim Blair, can do is claim victory on a story that is soooo 2003?

    </Miranda Divide>

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 06 17 at 07:43 AM • permalink

  2. What a disjointed mess that column is; is that what’s called “stream of unconsciousness” journalism?

    Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 06 17 at 07:57 AM • permalink

  3. bloomberg 16.06.06 reporting chimplerburton daytrips doubleplusungood refs unfaketurkey

    Posted by benson swears a lot on 2006 06 17 at 08:30 AM • permalink

  4. #2 Mr. Bingley,

    When they get so incoherent that all you can do is watch for buzzwords tumbling by in the torrent, that means it’s “passionate”.

    If a given talking point is pasted in verbatim three or more times, it’s “devastating”.

    Posted by P. Froward on 2006 06 17 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  5. #4 and an opinion they don’t agree with is ‘divisive’.

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 06 17 at 09:37 AM • permalink

  6. Facts merely get in the way of a good story.

    Posted by CB on 2006 06 17 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  7. Here’s what were gonna do:

    1. We’re gonna kidnap Philip Adams.
    2. We’re going put him on the same flight as George Bush, the one headed to Iraq.
    3. Once in Iraq we’re gonna cover him in boot polish and give him an Osama beard, then dump him in a house near Bagdad after taking a picture of him.
    4. We’re gonna contact the US Air Force and tell him where they can find al-Zarqawi’s newist replacement who is called Mohammed Adams.
    5. Pray that the airstrike is accurate.
    6. Blame his tragic demise on that fake turkey.

    Posted by cjblair on 2006 06 17 at 10:06 AM • permalink

  8. I still don’t get it ... if President Bush actually served a faux bird, is it a faux pas?  Why are Bush’s detractors persisting in this fake turkey story?  Is serving pretend poultry on par with pulling your todger out to impress your dinner party guests?  Seems so ... so sad.

    Posted by Stevo on 2006 06 17 at 10:07 AM • permalink

  9. Who’d have thought a turkey faux
    Could match the phoenix, be fabled so
    Like its Arabian cousin, long in tooth
    By those who’re paid to speak the truth?

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 06 17 at 10:11 AM • permalink

  10. I contend that repeatedly falling back on the fake turkey is a failure of imagination. 

    Nice little rhyme, Inurbanus.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 17 at 10:33 AM • permalink

  11. As an insult by the left, I mean.  It means they have no real talent for insult.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 06 17 at 10:34 AM • permalink

  12. Well, when you have no real facts on your side, I guess you go with whatever you can dredge up.  It’s passing odd that they don’t see how ignorant this stuff shows them to be.

    Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 06 17 at 10:38 AM • permalink


  13. cjblair — Dude, this is PhilCo we’re talking about here.  Pray the airstrike is accurate?  Just hit the right grid square (I’m talking 1:50,000 scale here, don’t want to be offensive to the Morbidly Obese Community).

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 06 17 at 10:51 AM • permalink

  14. So odd how they never reprint the photos of Bush actually serving actual turkey to actual soldiers.

    Well, it isn’t really odd, I suppose…

    Posted by ushie on 2006 06 17 at 11:09 AM • permalink

  15. CJBlair and Richard, just keep in mind that it might take more ordnance than you expect.

    Have you seen this?

    Bulky German barely hurt as car rolls on him

    Posted by kcom on 2006 06 17 at 12:12 PM • permalink

  16. TB, malaria, guinea worm: Bill Gates will quit Microsoft in two years to tackle neglected diseases full-time.

    The obvious line is that he’s gone on to purveying bigger viruses.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2006 06 17 at 12:20 PM • permalink

  17. Mr. Bingley, in a profession replete with untalented hacks, Margarget Carlson is one of the dimmer bulbs. Even Time dumped her.

    I sent Ms. O’Hara an email about her faux faux turkey blurb. Knock ‘em down one at a time. Sooner or later they (and their editors) will become sensitized to any mention of plastic, fake or faux turkeys. Or so we can hope.

    Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 06 17 at 02:25 PM • permalink

  18. Thanks RebeccaH

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 06 17 at 08:39 PM • permalink

  19. Do not imagine that the plastic-turkey situation is anywhere near under control.

    The plastic turkey sometimes flies beneath the newspaper level, but thrives in blogs and groups. The anti-plastic-turkey forces have but scratched the surface.

    Blog search on “plastic turkey”

    Groups search on “plastic turkey”

    Posted by ForNow on 2006 06 17 at 10:19 PM • permalink

  20. So Beasley got his ‘cut and run’ idea from Kark Rove ‘cutting and running (as reported by Bloomberg).  What a surprise, can’t even be original.

    Posted by spyder on 2006 06 18 at 05:28 AM • permalink

  21. Home Alone -quick petition the R.S.P.C.T. -er R.S.P.C.P.T….

    Posted by crash on 2006 06 18 at 08:47 AM • permalink

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    Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 06 21 at 09:59 PM • permalink

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