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Donklephant.com on that favourite bird of ours:
How many people heard an anti-administration type chortling over the “Bush served plastic turkey to troops in Iraq in ’03” story this holiday? I just heard my newsroom co-worker insist, without a shadow of doubt, that it was an absolute, incontrovertible fact that Bush posed with a plastic turkey, pretending it was a real one.
This was a popular story on the left-wing blogs last year about this time. It seems to be entrenched over there now. It’s going to go down in history as yet one more of those little memories that divide us as a nation.
You hear that, all you plastic turklers? You’re dividing the nation, just like Chimpeachment abu Hitlerstein himself. More than three years after Ol’ Plastic first appeared, David Michael Green joins Team Turkey:
The regressives who rejoiced at this war and worshiped the plastic turkey tough-guy who ordered it up are furiously scrambling to affix blame anywhere else they can. A couple of them have had the good sense and intellectual honesty to be properly mortified at the monster they’ve created …
Easy there, Dave. Considering your belief in fantasy poultry, you’re on thin ice lecturing anyone about “good sense” and “intellectual honesty”. The Niagara Falls Reporter’s Mike Hudson is another sensible, intellectually-honest type:
A few years ago, President George W. Bush made a surprise Thanksgiving Day trip to Baghdad to have his picture taken helping to serve the troops their turkey dinner. The sight of a chicken carrying a turkey into a roomful of heroes was memorable enough, but the irony became even more delicious a day or two later when it was reported that the turkey had been as fake as Bush’s play Army suit.
The big bird was made of plastic, and once again our feckless leader provided ample evidence that he wouldn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy if it came up and bit him …
Count yourself among the bitten, Mike. In his “Top Five Pseudo-Events of the Bush regime”, David Benjamin of the Capital Times includes an event that never took place:
Plastic Turkey for the Troops. On the first Thanksgiving of the Iraq war, Dubya surprised the troops with a turkey dinner. Except, well, the turkey, which photographed beautifully, was fake. And Dubya didn’t actually hang around for dinner. Nice uniform, though.
Nice fact-checking, Benjamin. Thrive on, magic bird!
That birds like freakin’ Keith Richards!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 11 at 03:28 AM • permalinkFor as long as there are those who believe, the plastic turkey will remain forever real!
73 nimrods on that list…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 11 at 03:34 AM • permalinkIt come as no surprise that the Legend of the Plastic Turkey has beome enshrined as truth in the left-wing folklore. Just as 600,000 dead in Iraq, Israel’s “rocketing” of an ambulance, the Howard governments’ complicity in the AWB affair and deceitful lying about children overboard,...etc, etc.
are all accepted now as self-evident truths.
Just ask Phillip Adams !As others have pointed out, no-one manufactures replica thanksgiving dinner turkeys because there is no demand for them. Has anyone ever seen a realistic looking plastic turkey dinner anywhere? Even if they did exist, a real one is easy enough to prepare, as was the case in Iraq? Some people are just too hasty to accept glib (and stupid) lies , because they want to believe them. Consensual gullibility.
#6, Newman: Consensual gullibility.
A hole in one.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2006 12 11 at 04:31 AM • permalinkEndlessly, endlessly they sneer about this plastic turkey. But only two years ago they were telling people to vote for a real turkey!
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 11 at 05:54 AM • permalinkThe big bird was made of plastic, and once again our feckless leader provided ample evidence that he wouldn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy if it came up and bit him …
This illustrates the problem we have in our country, when people whose responsibility is to report the facts and truth, instead use their own prejudices to report “a higher truth”. This simply has to change.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 11 at 06:57 AM • permalinkAs much as I effing hate the blasted things I reckon the way to beat this one is to do up a chain email detailing all the idiots who have been sucked in and send her off. Lefties will be slow to forward on but I think it will become known even in their circles eventually won’t it, surely…
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 12 11 at 08:39 AM • permalinkThe plastic turkey must cross the bridge at the fork in the road.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 12 11 at 08:46 AM • permalinkAt my instigation, James Rummel did a search for a plastic turkey vendor before Thanksgiving this year. When he finally tracked one down, it sold for $75US and didn’t look as real as the one Bush was photographed with. A real one would have been cheaper, and probably would have required less effort.
#13 nailgun, right.
We should also point out that Bush was clowning, making a joke, and the joke would have been funnier if the turkey were plastic. Spreading the story as a criticism of Bush is an admission that the spreader knows nothing whatever about the military, a confession of total ignorance.
Regards,
Ric#11 blogstrop -
History can be wrewritten, wronwright, by the winners.
It’s not the history I’m complaining about. It’s the reporting of current events. When the MSM selectively report the facts or even worse report falsehoods and lies under the guise of news, then they stop being a neutral reciter of what’s going on and and, instead, become an involved party. It’s like playing Monopoly and seeing the person manning the bank and real estate titles joining forces with your main opponent. It simply cannot be allowed.
(looks over at Andrea, sees that she just bought Boardwalk)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 11 at 09:19 AM • permalinkYou see where they they say “Nice uniform” and “play Army suit?” Not quite.
Bush was wearing civilian clothes, but had on a windbreaker with the word Army on it and and a First Armored Division patch. This is about as far as any President goes in the direction of wearing a uniform.
This here is one of the first results of a Google Image Search for Bush Turkey iraq. Look how real that plastic looks!
Posted by James Fulford on 2006 12 11 at 09:56 AM • permalinkThis illustrates the problem we have in our country, when people whose responsibility is to report the facts and truth, instead use their own prejudices to report “a higher truth”.
I believe that the new word for that is url=http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006510.htm]“truthiness”[/url], wronwright. Certainly the concept has seeped into the MSM.
Re: #20, James, as I recall, Bush was wearing a uniform item, a physical training jacket, given to him by the 1st Armor Division. They are nifty wind breakers; I still have mine.
This was neither uniform (he wasn’t wearing the entire ensemble) nor “play Army uniform”. In fact, any soldier caught wearing his PT jacket with civilian clothes, especially on post, would be to take it off immediately. Soldiers are not authorized to mix uniform and civilian attire.
The President is…..because he’s a civilian and the commander-in-chief. A nuance these idiots ignore.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 11 at 10:53 AM • permalinkCrap, I dorked up the link! Try again. Sorry!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 11 at 10:54 AM • permalinkI believe that the new word for that is “truthiness” ...
In times of war, maybe the better word is “treason”.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 11 at 11:27 AM • permalink#16 Ric Locke
Spreading the story as a criticism of Bush is an admission that the spreader knows nothing whatever about the military, a confession of total ignorance.
It’s worse than that, despite their obvious and laughable ignorance, they think they know all about the military and despise everything and everyone involved.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 11 at 12:11 PM • permalinkIn times of war, maybe the better word is “treason”.
Word.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 11 at 12:58 PM • permalink“David Michael Green joins Team Turkey:”
Another lefty in a red rage because things haven’t worked out too well for his Baathist buds.
Boring.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 11 at 10:26 PM • permalinkTim…I don’t know how they do things in the land down under, but I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder. Now go back and play with your didgeridoo before I have to come over there and smack you upside the head.
Posted by mike hudson on 2006 12 12 at 01:29 AM • permalinkTim…I don’t know how they do things in the land down under, but I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder.
Well, we don’t muck around with some bullshit story about a freakin’ polymer bird. We cut straight to the chase and say something like “You know that bloke is a real Mike Hudson.” People tend to gasp and splutter, but everyone knows exactly what you mean.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 12 12 at 02:31 AM • permalink#34
When I shit on an American president, I tell the truth.
For example, when I say FDR was the biggest prick ever to hold the office, because he personally ordered thousands of American citizens (who were totally innocent of any wrongdoing), including little children, for the love of Christ, put into fucking concentration camps, it happens to be true.
Too bad you can’t say the same for lefttard criticisms of President Bush.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 12 12 at 02:32 AM • permalinkAttention Dminor - your Cooler Licence has expired.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 12 12 at 05:37 AM • permalinkThreats get you banned, Mike Hudson! Bye bye, “American” who is apparently too stupid to realize that Tim is a journalist who lives in a city, not a “wallaby-eating sheepherder.” My, Christmas does bring out the trolls. I guess this is what happens to people whose families don’t speak to them anymore…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 12 at 07:33 AM • permalink#38: Shoot! Here I am, munching on breakfast (wallaby chops, over toast), when I hear troll noises in the computer room. No sooner do I roll up the newspaper for a good swat, than Andrea has already beat me to it with the vaporizer. Too bad. These faux bravado types usually get apoplectic after a few exchanges with the commenters here; kind of fun to watch.
re #34, mike, I’m an American as well, and if you’re going to make fun of a President, that’s fine, I do it all the time myself. So do a lot of comedians. It’s perfectly all right.
But I suggest that you do it with the facts, and not looking like an feckless journalist who “...wouldn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy if it came up and bit him…”.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 13 at 06:29 PM • permalinkFrom an earlier Hudson column attacking the editor of his competition:
“... the Gazette is looking for someone to fill the space currently filled by editor David Arkin, a boyish, 28-year-old wunderkind who arrived here last October and has made a mess of things ever since.”But did Arkin fall for the plastic turkey?
e-mail just sent to the wretched colonial Hudson:
Per your reply to Australian editor Tim Blair on the fake ‘plastic turkey’ story, to wit…
“Tim…I don’t know how they do things in the land down under, but I’m an American, and if I want to make fun of an American president I’ll do so without any interference from some wallaby eating sheepherder.”
Well, I’m an American, too, and if I want to read actual facts, I find it amazingly easy to do so without reading what passes for an American newspaper these days.
Keep up the good work. Hey, did you know there are flying saucers in Rockwell?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 13 at 09:18 PM • permalinkNo plastic wallabies, but they got wombats and ... ummm ... jumping sharks.
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Good gawd, these people are all blinkered idiots. What your list up to now, Tim? 100 professional Plastic Turkey True Believers? It’s got to be at least that many…