If this is a scandal, clearly the Washington Post needs a new set of editors. I have a suggestion- and he is out of retirement:
I am afraid this scandal is a turkey.
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PRESIDENT BUSH visited troops in Baghdad for Thanksgiving — but one week later, efforts to put a negative spin on…
CPTHAM
Greetings from LSA Anaconda at Balad, Iraq.
I too ate in a military dining facility on Thanksgiving and surprise of surprise, we also had a fully stuffed turkey on a table that was not meant for consumption. It was simply there to grace a table that was made to look like home. As JC roughly said surely there must be better grist for the leftie scandal mill than this. Keep trying though, it is so very entertaining.
platosearwax
This is hardly a scandal. It does make the whole thing seem much more like a publicity stunt than anything else though.
Having said that, as much as I dislike Bush’s policies, I give him props for going there. Good for him.
michael
you can expect that blowhard marshall to have about 30 posts of 1000 words each on it.
i can’t wait to not read that
JKC
Here’s another vote from a Democrat for the “much ado about nothing” category.
Flippy
“A contractor had roasted and primped the turkey to adorn the buffet line.”
Perhaps the Post should have delved into whether this “contractor” had donated any money to Bush’s campaign. Now, that’s a story!!!!
Not.
J.P. Carter
Now the question is which lefty blogger will pick up this story and run with it? Any guesses on who will take the bait?
Terry
In response to JPC’s question, that crazed loon and substitute gym teacher from Philadelphia has given it a couple of posts already.
mark
JPC, Oliver has it. No way in hell will the day go by without Yglesias posting it.
This scandal is too, um, juicy not to talk about.
And can someone please tell me why the British Airways story about the pilot seeing AF1 – or not seeing it – is even news?
HH
How exactly does Bush picking up a centerpiece for a matter of seconds make it “more of a publicity stunt?” Where was it implied that this turkey was for consumption? Certainly not in any of the photo captions for the news services I’ve read… if there were statements implying such, the WaPo didn’t include them.
As for the British Airways thing, that entire “scandal” is based on the fact that the pilot, one of hundreds in the air at the time, hasn’t come forward (British Airways has stated they are not exactly going around and asking all the pilots about it) to say he was fooled into thinking the plane was not AF1 after he saw AF1. Yeah, big shock there.
HH
“NATS has now concluded its investigations and can confirm that a conversation between the crew of an aircraft belonging to a non-U.K. operator and its control center took place around 9:30 GMT, on Thursday, the 27th of November, 2003.
“The pilot of the aircraft asked whether the aircraft behind it was Air Force One. After consulting the flight plan of those aircraft in the sector at that time, the center responded that the aircraft was a Gulfstream V. NATS notes reports that U.S. officials have said that for security reasons, Air Force One had filed a flight plan which stated that the service would operated by a Gulfstream V.” – Natl. Air Traffic Services out of London
platosearwax
HH, as good a thing as the visit was, and I gave him props after all, it sure seems to me that it was more for the photo op than anything productive. Sure it boosted moral, and that is a great thing to do (which is again why I give him props, it was a good thing to do, going there) but like so many of Bush’s events, it all seems so staged that it makes me wonder what HIS real reasons were for going. He is a politician after all.
Rey
If you watched the video and have any skill at lipreading he picked it up and jokingly said “I’ll take this one home with me.”
Rey
HH
The “it’s all so stage-managed” complaint is pretty damn funny coming from anyone who supported Billy Jeff.