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"Fred Stone" |
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10 Dec 2007 01:34:19 PM |
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Idiots still pushing plastic turkey meme |
http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/turkey_frenzy1/
Thursday, September 06, 2007
TURKEY FRENZY!
George W. Bush was only in Iraq for a few hours, but that’s long enough
to spawn a crazy new batch of plastic turkey drones, including Chicago’s
Pam Berns:
Bush’s six-hour visit and photo op in front of a few hundred troops
and his traditional triple kiss to President Jalal Talabani (who arrived
late) compares favorably, however, to Bush’s 2003 surprise Thanksgiving
trip to Iraq in which he posed for a photo op while serving a large
plastic turkey to soldiers.
Pam is on the board of Chicago Media Watch, which “aims to ensure that
this region’s media remains open, honest and responsive to the people’s
needs”. So she’ll soon be publishing a correction. The Hartford Courant’s
Jim Shea writes:
The only difference between this visit and the first one that
President Bush made over Thanksgiving in 2003 is a photo-op with a fake
turkey.
Contact Jim here. From a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial:
On Labor Day President George W. Bush made his third secret trip to
Iraq (no need for a plastic photo-op turkey this time, not with CBS’
Katie Couric already in the field) this time landing at a remote air base
....
A correspondent to the Charleston Daily Mail:
Again, Bush sneaks into Iraq like the coward he is. Did he take the
plastic turkey this time?
San Francisco’s Jim Provenzano finds a musical angle:
As you may know, Franti went to Iraq, and he didn’t serve a fake
turkey.
Neither did Bush. The Oregonian’s associate editor David Sarasohn - he
could do with a note, too - is so confident of his turkey facts that he
visits the subject twice:
For Thanksgiving 2003, Bush appeared on front pages all over the
nation holding up a turkey that turned out not to be, well, exactly a
turkey ... like the turkey that wasn’t exactly a turkey and the close-up
of Anbar province from inside a U.S. military base, the claims present
problems.
As does Sarasohn’s claim. Let’s see him fix that. Best saved till last;
here’s Mary Lyon, “an advocate for liberal causes, responsibility and
accountability in the media”, in a piece actually titled Everything But
the Plastic Turkey:
It made a great photo-op, until the truth got out - that what he
carried was as phony as he and his policies are - complete with a turkey
made of plastic. The only troops allowed to partake in that feast, or
even to get close enough to be photographed with that plastic turkey
display were those who obediently stuck to the script. Any dissenters
hoping to press for a little truth were left outside in the heat, making
do with MREs. As long as the cosmetics are there, who cares what’s really
underneath? Little did Young George realize how painfully accurate that
visual metaphor was.
Wrong, Mary. The turkey was real.
(Via Doug E. and Murph)
UPDATE. The Oregonian’s associate editor David Sarasohn promises a
correction, but Jim Shea of the Hartford Courant wants to do things the
hard way:
It was later determined the nyt correction was wrong.
Oh, dear. Looks like we have another Mike Hudson on our hands.
UPDATE II. This might explain Jim’s attitude:
You could probably label me a shy egomaniac, a description that fits
a lot of newspaper people.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
If you go into Sudan today; Your heart will fill with dread
If you go into Sudan today; You might just lose your head
Because on the sands; With blood on their hands
Every nut that ever was; Will be there because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears; Have their Jihad!
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| User: "Mirage" |
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| Title: Re: Idiots still pushing plastic turkey meme |
10 Dec 2007 01:41:28 PM |
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On Dec 10, 11:34 am, Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> wrote:
If you go into Sudan today; Your heart will fill with dread
If you go into Sudan today; You might just lose your head
Because on the sands; With blood on their hands
Every nut that ever was; Will be there because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears; Have their Jihad!
I couldn't care less about this "plastic turkey" stuff, as I don't
even know what you're yakking about, but that signature is hilarious!
^^
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