Wednesday, May 18, 2005
CARTOONIST BELIEVES
Ted Rall joins the plastic turkey tribe some seventeen months after the lie was first published, and nearly a year after the New York Times ran a correction:
The Thanksgiving turkey Bush presented to the troops turned out to be plastic, as much of a staged photo op as the gloriously iconic and phony toppling of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad by jubilant Iraqi civilians ...
Rall is a polystyrene stoat currently occupying New Jersey landfill.
UPDATE. If it’s ABC policy to remove errors of fact from online transcripts, what’s the deal with this?
The company was responsible for providing thanksgiving dinner to none other than US President George Bush when he made a surprise visit to Baghdad last year, appearing in front of the cameras offering US troops that plastic turkey on a tray.