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Our golden bird of glory flies ever onward, this time courtesy of David Benjamin:
Here are my choices for the Top Five Pseudo-Events of the Bush regime.
5. 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.
David is a novelist and journalist, originally from Madison, who now lives and works in Paris. Hooray for him!
(Via Englisher Peter Briffa, who adds, mistakenly: “Pietersen will kick Shane Warne’s ass, you know.”)
- What crap, that isn’t even worth fisking as its inaccuracies are so blatant. And even including a Sen. McCarthy reference—what leftist propaganda piece would be complete without one, eh? Frigging cheese for brains.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 24 at 11:26 AM • permalink
- #5. andycanuck
The innacuracies are so blatant they can only be deliberate.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 11 24 at 11:52 AM • permalink
- And another
grimsad milestone passed today:
http://tinyurl.com/ybcqe8
Actually, it does use a “grim” later, come to think about it.BTW, offhand does anyone know how long NATO’s been in the Balkans and how long the UN has helped administer “Palestine”?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 24 at 12:56 PM • permalink
- #4, Dave,
“No, he just manned the chow line and served food to the troops. The President of the United States slingin’ hash for the grunts.”
Now while that was a pure photo op, I’d just like to point out the sheer significance of said foto op for any trolls or unbelievers nearby.
The man universally recognised as the ‘Leader of the Free World’ or ‘The Most Powerful Man on Earth’ (apologies to
Rove McManusThe Dark Lord Karl Rove), is serving up food to his ‘footsoldiers’ in the same fashion as the folks who normally do this ‘lowly’job. (No-one who is truely hungry thinks they’re less important than the shooters, but thats another story…)However, can anyone recall Joe Stalin, or Chairman Mao, or Ho Chi Minh, or even Mick Gorbachev commiting a (remotely) comparable act?
RE: #5, Can anyone link me to something that proves Sen. J. McArthy was right more often that the KGB? I’ve heard Joe had about a 75% sucess rate, whereas the KGB was about 55% with spotting spies…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 24 at 01:42 PM • permalink
- Time for glance down memory lane. There’ve been more plastic turkey discussions, analyses, poems, & lyrics, here than can be reasonably linked to, though, by using previous efforts, one can try. Certainly all the following is worth sending to David Benjamin.
Turkey was not plastic:
“The Bird Was Perfect But Not For Dinner,” Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2003, at (note changed URL) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33090-2003Dec3
Dec. 4, 2003 7:07AM entry at Instapundit http://www.instapundit.com/archives/012856.phpPhotos of Bush serving, yes, edible turkey from behind counter to troops in Baghdad:
Visual II, The Corner, National Review, Dec. 6, 2003, 9:15 AM
Touching Turkey, The Corner, National Review, Dec. 6, 2003, 9:12 AMImportant events around that time, which many media critters love to obscure with their plastic-turkey myth and decorative-turkey consolation hysteria:
Nov. 19, 2003 – Bush’s “Three Pillars” speech at Whitehall Palace in London.
Nov. 27, 2003 – Bush & Condi Rice fly into Baghdad to visit the troops and reassure Iraqis of US resolve.
Dec. 5, 2003 – Anti-terrorism march in Baghdad, “Iraqis march in salute to U.S.,” Washington Times, Dec. 6, 2003.
Dec. 10, 2003 – Anti-terrorism marches in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, “Thousands of Iraqis call for end to violence,” Maureen Fan, Knight Ridder via the Seattle Times, Dec. 11, 2003; also, “Iraqis for the ‘Occupation,’” Walid Phares, FrontPageMagazine.com, Dec. 11, 2003.
Dec. 13, 2003 – Capture of Saddam Hussein.The plastic turkey myth has shown considerable persistence, and, at Tim Blair’s sites, its debunking has correspondingly become a long-lasting vein of humor.
Dec. 5, 2003 – GOBBLE GOBBLE
– WHO’S THE TURKEY NOW?
– BUT DID SHE HOLD A DECORATIVE TURKEY?
Dec. 6, 2003 – THE GUARDIAN’S PLASTIC TURKEY
Dec. 10, 2003 – SHE DON’T GET NO RESPECT
Dec. 13, 2003 – ALAN RAMSEY, KING TURKEY
Dec. 14, 2003 – HISTORIC MOMENT
Dec. 16, 2003 – SURE, WE’VE CAUGHT SADDAM … BUT PLASTIC TURKEY!
Dec. 21, 2003 – G.O.B.B.L.E. MEMBERSHIP INCREASES
Dec. 25, 2003 – IT’S ALL ABOUT TURKEYS
Dec. 28, 2003 – REALISM AND SAUL LANDAU
BONUS GOBBLEFEST:
March 10, 2004 – JOHN F(AKE) KERRYPlastic Turkey Tales Addicts’ Corner: At each month’s archive page, do a simple browser search on the word “turkey” to find the relevant threads. It is unfortunate that not all further articles linked from within those threads remain. The blog Deeds for instance is gone.
Dec. 2003 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/2003_12.php (the Unforgettable Month)
Jan. 2004 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/2004_01.php
Feb. 2004 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/2004_02.php
Mar. 2004 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/2004_03.php
Apr. 2004 http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/2004_04.php
Etc.
- #9,
“WASHINGTON: The US involvement in Iraq will pass another sad milestone tomorrow, when it overtakes the length of its engagement in World War II.”
You mean its NOT worse than Vietnam yet? Shock horror, maybe the AK’s & RPG’s are getting old…
Am I the only one who thinks Colonel Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (KGB) would support America’s enemies in order to advance his own countries global standing?
“There is no such thing as a former KGB man” –
ColPresident Vladimir PutinP.S. If I come down with a case of “Thallium” poisoning, y’all know who dunnit. Sorry Paco, but I’m hoping Wron could organise an Arc-Light run or two over the Kremlin.
P.P.S. Arc-Light is 3 B-52 bombers loaded to the gills with 500-750lb iron bombs, flying formation and dropping as one. Imagine a 1 mile by half mile forrest. Imagine it all got blown to toothpicks in 30 seconds, thats Arc-Light.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 24 at 01:54 PM • permalink
- We raise a lot of those plastic turkeys now here in North Carolina. People don’t like living too near real turkey farms because they stink and all that leaking manure keeps the fly population abundant and happy.
Plastic turkeys don’t make nasty smells and it’s a lot easier on the workers breathing-wise when it’s time to chase them down and load them into crates for transport to the slaughter-house. I’ve worked in chicken houses and I can tell you – ten thousand large, stupid birds that don’t want to be caught can give you instant manure-induced lung faiure.
Plastic turkeys are a lot cheaper to feed, too.
- Do plastic turkey sightings’s count if they’re from blogs rather than newspapers? If so I nominate this “Left Toon Lane” site for the entry titled ‘No Plastic Turkeys for Bush This Year’.
- http://www.whitehouse.org/firstlady/recipebox.asp
mrs george bush’s receipes. gobble gobble..
Tim Tam, can we have a Christmas party here?
- Here’s what I sent to Mr. Benjamin’s editors.
David Benjamin—Pseudojournalists defile the Bush Administration
Although I have no doubt you will hear this from any other writers, the “Bush plastic turkey” is a complete fabrication. The turkey in question was a real turkey, albeit cooked for display and not to be served. The troops were served a turkey dinner; in fact, there are photographs, which I would be happy to provide, of President Bush _serving_ that dinner to the troops with his own hand, contrary to Mr. Benjamin’s assertations. Needless to say, I regard the rest of Mr. Benjamin’s claimed Bush falsehoods as being every bit as factual as the first. No matter. Mr. Benjamin is evidently about to get the government he deserves, and it would be hilarious to watch… if the rest of us didn’t have to live through it with him.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 24 at 05:33 PM • permalink
- Just in case you guys were fooled—1.168’s link didn’t lead to the real White House website, which is of course http://www.whitehouse.gov. The whitehouse.org site is a satire site.
Here’s George Bush and a non-plastic turkey.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 24 at 07:07 PM • permalink
- OK, here in Nebraska, it’s the Friday after Thanksgiving. The ducks (not turkeys) were served and consumed, along with calories fit for Renaissance cardinals in Urbino on a binge. The children are now happily watching Spongebob. The puppies are chewing each other (a holiday and non-holiday pasttime). I surf, as I do when I get a break from children and puppies.
With that intro (a scene-setter at best), I wish to express my deep, non-plastic (tho’ flexible) admiration for Tim Blair—thank you for your wit, dedication, and ability to skewer the turkey all the year ‘round(turkeys above ten pounds require multiple skewers). I’d come to Australia and flirt, but am married to jealous and mildly Democratic husband (a good guy—he cooked both ducks!). Again, thank you; I love you.
- “As God is my witness, I thought plastic turkeys could fly.”
Howcome journalist Benji isn’t covering the real story?
You know, it gets kind of tiresome to endlessly see the same lies repeated by people who, from their presumed professional experience, ought to be able to ferret out the true story. And yet they continue to repeat the same old lies. These lefties are so unimaginative; they ought at least to make up new lying stories sometimes. Is that beyond their capabilities? Is that too much to ask?
I guess it is.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 11 24 at 09:17 PM • permalink
- His latest book is “The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked?
Boy, does that ever speak volumes about Boy Benji. In response to any correction of his errors here he will no doubt claim something along the lines of “Whether or not the turkey was actually plastic is really not important, as its use as a metaphor speaks to a greater Truth about the Bush Administration and its many crimes, blah, blah, blah.” Fake but accurate ya know.
- And on this Turkeytide, Science bless us, all, everyone—especially to
TinyAussie Tim for making it all possible.Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 25 at 01:08 AM • permalink
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“The Life and Times of the Last Kid Picked”? The title of his book sounds like a memoir.