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TURKEY RE-ELECTED
Thank you, Yifat Susskind. Thank you for keeping the bird alive:
President Bush headed home on Thursday from his five-day, five-country tour of Africa. Not since Thanksgiving 2003, when he showed up at the Baghdad Airport with a fake turkey for US troops have we seen such saccharine Presidential photo ops.
This grand creature, having survived numerous assassination attempts, is now more than four years old. It’s a two-term turkey! Shows the power of what Mark Steyn describes as the cult of ignorance.
If either major political party in the US tried a stunt like that, they’d be laughed out of office. And rightly so.
Wow.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 02 at 01:52 PM • permalinkThe Great Plastic Turkey of Baghdad is some sort of mystical holy relic to these fools, isn’t it?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 02 at 01:56 PM • permalink(BTW my #2 is a warning to all who have different pages of the same blog open on separate tabs…)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 02 at 01:58 PM • permalink#6 I just read that the supposed Danes who put on Jewish stars to confuse the Nazis about the real Jews there is also a myth, because at the time the Danish Jews were rescued they did not have to wear stars.
Does anyone know if this is correct? It is said that the Danish king later said he was prepared to wear a Jewish star, the source of the myth I have believed.
So the plastic turkey will ride on and on…The endurance of the plastic turkey myth just shows how correct Goebbels was when he said that if you tell a big enough lie and repeat it continually, people will believe it. The Liberal/Leftist media has chosen their mentor.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2008 03 02 at 04:47 PM • permalinkA myth in the making - one of the Bali bombers has been reported as saying he didn’t know the bomb he was carrying would kill so many people. He says the CIA must have swapped his harmless little bomb for a huge one packed with explosives.
Expect this claim to quickly gain some traction with ratbags such as the Guild of French Actors, the Australian Greens, Muslims and Phillip Adams.
One particularly ugly myth, the al-Durah blood libel, created by Robert Fisk and France 2, continues to test the quality of French justice by currently undergoing a thorough debunking in a French court.
A report presented to a French court last week by an independent ballistics expert maintains that the death of Mohammed al-Dura, a Palestinian child seen being shot in the Gaza Strip during the first days of the intifada in September 2000, could not have been the result of Israeli gunfire, corroborating claims that the shocking footage was doctored.
...
In his report, Schlinger wrote, “If Jamal [the boy’s father] and Mohammed al-Dura were indeed struck by shots, then they could not have come from the Israeli position, from a technical point of view, but only from the direction of the Palestinian position.”How many stakes through the heart will it take to lay this one in its grave?
Yifat Susskind is communications director of MADRE
I think the Polystyrene Turkey of Baghdad might be her way of easing brain strain.
Especially when some positions are particularly difficult to argue with a
straight face.#11 Contrail. That whole article is a good read. Samudra says he has sympathy for the muslim victims of his handiwork, but that the unbelieving Australians must go to hell. And that the mission was to help Muslims and was a victorious act, a martyrdom operation.
I hope they put their perforated cadavers on public display so that the families of the Bali victims get some sense of justice. Pity that they will die quickly and painlessly unlike most of their victims.
#11 & 20 Contrail & mehaul; I would prefer to see the bombers reshaped to look like turkeys before they are executed; little combs could be attached to their heads and some sort of turkey costume worn:
http://www.fancydress.com/shop/product-view/208366
And speaking of that obese lump of lard, adams, I still can’t get on his blog, and I’m running out of insults. I’m beginning to doubt that guy who told me the way to get on adams’ blog was to insult him because he was such a straight up sort of guy and could take it.The Left keep on giving with their ignorance.
For example, Stalin was good, Hitler was bad but only after Stalin changed his mind about Hitler. And of course, Fiddle is a good man.
The list is endless as is the left’s ignorance.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 02 at 08:00 PM • permalinkAn Admonition for Scribblers:
The Cursed Fowl of BaghdadBehold the Fowl of Baghdad
With crispy, gleaming skin;
Although thou doth be tempted,
Let not the creature in.For lo, the Fowl of Baghdad
Beclowneth hacks and bores,
Enscreweth credibility,
And mixeth metaphors.Beware the Fowl of Baghdad,
Heed thou mine urgent plea,
The Fowl doth bind thy tiny mind
And make a fool of thee.# 25
Is there a best of these and yours. If so where on the web?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 02 at 09:05 PM • permalinkHey, this apology business is really catching on!
I think it’s time we gave the turkey a proper name.
How about Josef Gobbles?
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 02 at 09:52 PM • permalinkA Verse for the Witching Hour:
Truth Comes for the ScribblerI hear a bird a-pecking,
Pecking at my chamber door;
Could the bird a-pecking be
The Plastic Bird of War?In fear I hear the pecking,
Pecking at my mortal core;
Who can ignore the pecking
Of the Plastic Bird of War?My brain echoes the pecking,
And tho’ my blood doth roar,
I rise to check the pecking -
Can it be the Bird of War?As I approach the pecking,
My heart can stand no more;
I wring the knob as if it were
The Plastic Bird of War—There is no bird a-pecking,
Just Tim Blair looking sore:
‘Idiot, there’s no such thing
As the Plastic Bird of War.’From yesterday: Left-wing commentators demand Bush withdraw plastic Turkey from Iraq
Posted by Machiavellian on 2008 03 02 at 10:28 PM • permalinkI am so proud that the next generation of commenters have taken over the task of Fake Flying Plastic Turkey commenting, poetizing, and the like. I am worn out, exhausted, can think of nothing more to say about it, and can sound only like an off-key Neil Young, “Hey, hey, my, my, the plastic turkey will never die” except when I dig up an old comment of mine and jigger it around a bit. Even it when it disappears from articles for a while, it lives on in Internet groups and obscure blogs. It goes on drowning out Bush’s 2003 London speech shortly before it and the Iraqi anti-terrorist demonstrations and the capture of Saddam Hussein soon after it. It goes on being ginned up and manipulated as a supposed example of Bush-Rove media manipulation. Meanwhile Tim Blair amazes me, that he can persist as persistently against it as the foul fowl itself persists at all.
lyle, you need to publish that stuff.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 02 at 11:11 PM • permalink#16 RebaccaH
She also didn’t mention that African Muslims avoid even vaccines, fearing a “CIA plot”.
That’s because she knows it IS a “CIA plot”.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 02 at 11:26 PM • permalinkThere’s more than a whiff of Poe about this persistent polypropelene poultry palaver:-
Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
Quoth theraventurkey, `Nevermore.’It’s harder to get rid of than freeloading distant relatives who believe they’re unrecognised artistic genius, or state Labor governments (much the same but on a grander scale).
#37 Andrea
lyle, you need to publish that stuff.
Seconded. That one is OFS.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 02 at 11:34 PM • permalinkLyle, you are one clever guy. It’s not every blog that has its own Poet Laureate.
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2008 03 03 at 12:31 AM • permalink<a href=“http://minx.cc/?post=256880”> Payback is a solid-steel bitch…</i>
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 03 at 02:01 AM • permalink@ #8, Barrie,
As a Dane, I can say that the story about Danes wearing the yellow star is indeed a myth. So is the story about the King.
The Jews in Denmark were never ordered to wear the star.You can read more about it here, but read the whole article article if you’re interested in that period.
As far as I can tell, it’s very accurate in the details.Cheers, Mike
Nilknarf, thanks. I sent the following:
Dear People,
I read Ms. Susskind’s silly excoriation of George Bush’s trip to Africa, and was amazed by it.
1) There was no plastic turkey in Iraq. In fact, the only plastic turkey involved was the one who typed this article.
2) Ms. Susskind seems unaware that both Bono and Sir Bob Geldof have praised Mr. Bush’s aid to Africa. surely she cannot disagree with those two great humanitarians, can she? If so, on what possible grounds?
3) Will Ms. Susskind please list, in a followup article, the many countries who have also helped to combat AIDS in Africa? Say, China, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela…they haven’t? The devil, you say.
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I know no one personally with the exception of 3 family members that believe the turkey was anything but fake. The true definition of a factoid, something widely believed to be true that is not…..