Was This Turkey a Story? Ombudsman questions Mike Allen's story.

WashingtonPost ^ | 12/07/03 | Michael Getler

[Pikamax]

washingtonpost.com Was This Turkey a Story?

By Michael Getler

Sunday, December 7, 2003; Page B06

The Thanksgiving turkey is long gone, but some Post readers think the paper is still sticking a fork in the White House and President Bush.

At issue is a story in Thursday's paper by White House reporter Mike Allen, who accompanied the president on his holiday visit to the troops at Baghdad airport and who provided first-rate coverage of the event. The most widely published image of that visit was an Associated Press photo of a beaming president wearing an Army workout jacket, surrounded by soldiers and carrying a picture-perfect, golden-brown turkey on a platter.

But in the Thursday article Allen reveals that the presidential-looking turkey was for decoration, meant to adorn the buffet line, and not for eating. The turkey to be eaten came from cafeteria-style steam tables.

[OpusatFR]

"Maybe it was planned, maybe not. It would have been better just to record the known details of the saga and let the reader figure out whether it meant anything."

Yes, it would be nice if the WAPO and other leftwing rags let the reader figure it out. I've already figured out that reading the papers is akin to sitting in a windowless, featureless room with spotlights on my head while a man with a truncheon slaps it across his hand and demands I sign a confession.

[jackbill]

Posted here yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035280/posts

[LibertyLight]

A more full viedo was shown very early on - I saw it on FOX - in that video one can clearly see the President with the troops spontaeously sees the turkey and grabs it...
I have never seen that beginning part of the video since.
This 'turkey' story only shows the pure idiotic journalism that exsits.

[LibertyLight]

A more full viedo was shown very early on - I saw it on FOX - in that video one can clearly see the President with the troops spontaeously sees the turkey and grabs it...
I have never seen that beginning part of the video since.
This 'turkey' story only shows the pure idiotic journalism that exsits.

[funkywbr]

The Turkey story shows what idiots Dems are.

[sr4402]

I read the rest of the Article. They had readers complaing that multiple sections of the paper had "Gay" articles on the same day and wondered if this was the "Post or the Blade"

And typical of the Post, they brushed the complaints all aside. They have no clue about their readership as the majority of big papers have written off the American Family and Independents/Republicans in favor of Angry, Anti-war Democrats.

Most Reporters mindset is still in the 60s, they haven't figured out what Al-Quida in our midst really means or having a Terrorist attack your city (like New York or D.C.). They want to have peace rallies to report on and protests to cover. If a terrorist nuke was to take out Chicago or make it a radioactive wasteland, these reporters would rather focus on the activists than the threat to our citzens.

Our press, the watchmen of the city, are asleep. Some of them are helping evil to get in (Photographing terrorists during their acts). The results are that the citizens no longer listen (readership/veiwership dwindling). The question is when do those purchasing advertizing space/minuites figure it out?

[OldFriend]

Actually, the turkey is the lamestream media, et al.

[airedale]

Anyone who knows what's required to feed that many troops in the time period the military allows knows that they wouldn't be slicing a real bird on the line especially when you don't know exactly when the guest of honor is showing up. It's also a pretty common trick to put a display on the line like the decorated turkey. It make the whole institutional thing seem better.
Does anyone know if the troops got real turkeys sliced in the kitchens or if they got turkey roll or something similar? If they got real turkey sliced in the kitchens in country the "deception" as the loony left and their media minions like to call it is even more irrelevant than it currently is. It looks to me like the media is just trying to carry on their partisan attacks to diminish this President that they don’t like and help their side in the next election.

[Norman Conquest]

News Flash Expose: Tiger Woods did NOT take that giant six-foot check from last week's tournament to the bank and cash it. Instead, tourney officials secretly passed Woods a normal-sized check backstage. This kind of deception casts a stink of fraud over the whole professional golf con game.