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Last updated on March 5th, 2018 at 01:40 pm
Al Franken, a ferocious opponent of lying liars, tells a lie:
Last year, I was in the same hangar that Bush did his – who came with the Thanksgiving turkey, the plastic turkey …
Franken, according to Dennis Glover, is part of the solution. Just so long as the problem doesn’t involve anything so complex as working out if a roasted bird is real or not.
- It’s the phrase that keeps giving. “Plastic Turkey’’ probably survives because of the alliteration t-k t-k. I wouldn’t be surprised if Coleridge used it somewhere.. Yes!
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the plastic turkey, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
- Heh! So that’s why Al came to Iraq, just to tell a lie? Talk about projecting your shortcomings onto others……Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 01 14 at 05:48 AM • permalink
- “Just so long as the problem doesn’t involve anything so complex as working out if a roasted bird is real or not.”
Note to self:
Never have coffee (or any beverage) in mouth while reading Tim’s blog. It’s such a pain to clean the spewed coffee from the desk, keyboard, etc..
Posted by CJosephson on 2005 01 14 at 06:30 AM • permalink
- Pants on fire!
You’d think that, given all the scholarly research that Franken and his numerous Harvard-funded assistants have done on the topic, he might have realized that successful lying is hard work. You have to keep all those fabricated stories straight and all that.
As Groucho Marx once said, “Time wounds all heels.” Gloat, gloat. Tee-hee.
- The plastic turkey has been a staple of poets from time immemorial. We�re familiar with their use by Wallace Stevens & William Carlos Williams, but how many remember Ovid�s
Into plastic�the spirit bears the tale of things shifted�
turkeys!or Shakespeare�s more spartan
To be or not to be
Plastic turkey!(& I hardly need mention Homer�s often mistranslated figuration of the crafted beast at a decisive juncture in the Iliad).
- Maley Lies to us all:
�THE release of Australia’s Mamdouh Habib from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will surely come as an enormous relief to his family, although realistically it may take him years to recover from his experiences. But it also provides an occasion to reflect on the fragility of liberty.� William Maley, The Australian, 14th January 2005
Maley wants us to continue to fight extremism within the legal system. It has not yet dawned on him (and others) that the legal system is a luxury afforded by civil societies in times of peace, not war. It is weighted towards the presumption of innocence. It is not a tool which can fight those whose goals are the overthrow of the system of government.
Our liberty is fragile and will be made more so if advocates like Maley insist that there be no innoculation against the viral actions of those who seek to destry from within.
-Arthur Carlson, station manager WKRP