"The Bird Was Perfect But Not For Dinner" -- the Washington Post reveals that the Rockwellian uber-turkey President...uh...Turkey was shown hoisting on the front page after his Thanksgiving surprise visit to our troops in Iraq was -- *gasp!*-- a "trophy turkey"! The troops were fed from their usual chow line steam tables, and apparently Georgie Boy grabbed the bird in a fit of extemporaneous mugging for the AP cameras...or, alternatively, not, and really, who cares? Much as I enjoy the tackier foibles of this Administration (see: the "Mission Accomplished[?]" banner), does it really pay to make hay out of this? There are far darker dealings going on at the White House, and I'm starting to think that the whole Bush-as-Quaylesque-media-chew-toy thing is only working in their favor. Best line: "White House officials do not deny that they craft elaborate events to showcase Bush, but they maintain that these events are designed to accurately dramatize his policies and to convey qualities about him that are real. " Let's play Count the Oxymorons!