“The truth is, the turkey wasn't plastic, it was quite real and quite edible - the troops ate it, in fact.”
By Dell Hill
The “Plastic Turkey” myth lives on!
"By
the end of the Bush presidency, there will be as many Lefties believing
in the plastic turkey as there are that believe that Islam is a
religion of peace."
“In 2003, President Bush visited the troops in Iraq in a surprise Thanksgiving dinner tour. He was shown with the turkey, and morale was definitely boosted. The troops tend to love President Bush, especially those who served when the previous administration was in power. The difference in attitude toward the military was stark and many remember and appreciate it.
One of the memes that went around at the time was that the turkey President Bush was photographed with was fake. That it was plastic, a faux turkey. Given the plastic age we live in and the astonishingly staged and fake photo ops that the Clinton administration engaged in, this always struck me as an odd point to criticize anyone on. The truth is, the turkey wasn't plastic, it was quite real and quite edible - the troops ate it, in fact.
Even the New York Times admitted the turkey was real, in 2004:
“An article last Sunday about surprises in politics referred incorrectly to the turkey carried by President Bush during his unannounced visit to American troops in Baghdad over Thanksgiving. It was real, not fake.”
To a point, I understand their ignorance about the bird, the NYT ran a big story about the turkey being plastic, then did a correction buried in their paper about it being real. Few people find, let alone read the corrections, so false stories and misleading information lives on, and papers like the Times don't have the honor or courage to clarify the situation.”
And even now - many years thereafter - the “plastic turkey” myth lives on!
SUCKERS!
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