11.27.2008 9:17 am
Happy Thanksgiving: Who’s your political turkey?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Don’t expect any posts today, but that doesn’t mean there is not a lot to talk about.
It’s been a busy political year. Change is afoot in Washington and Jefferson City. At City Hall, the mayor is gearing up for another term. In Springfield, the governor has taken a break from his own troubles to vet potential appointments to the U.S. Senate.
On this Thanksgiving, what political event in 2008 are you most grateful for? Who’s your biggest political turkey?
Let us know below — it’s better than arguing about it at the dinner table.



I see all of the tret giblets are out pretending to wit.
The absolutely biggest turkey is the PD’s lack of coverage of potentially one of the biggest Constitutional issues of the history of the country. We have a President Elect who has not confirmed his natural born status. We have no clarification on who is supposed to enforce that job requirement. This is not about throwing Obama out on a technicality. IT IS about playing by the rules set by our fore-fathers and not applying affirmative action to let him into the office anyway.
Jo Mannies, Jake Wagman and company should be disgraced at their lack of journalistic integrity. We know you all are registered Democrats, but you could at least cover the story like you are paid to do. On Monday, Obama must respond to the US Supreme Court. Why are you not covering this?
Many many times, I have said that if it all turns out that Obama is truly qualified, then I won’t have any problem with him assuming the office. I’ve been called by many names by many supposedly tolerant people on this site for standing up for an issue that every American should care about.
Cover the story… If you don’t, you all are the biggest, laziest turkeys of them all.
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Yellowbelly Harnack:
Too bad the skinny guy in bed sheets wasn’t available to test your non-violence gibberish in Mumbai, eh?
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Re: “Jo Mannies, Jake Wagman and company . . . We know you all are registered Democrats”
There are no “registered Democrats” in MO because MO doesn’t register people by party.
Now, certainly political reporters bring political biases to their reporting, and they probably wouldn’t be any good at political reporting if they didn’t have enough interest in the field to have come to some conclusions on what they liked. Since a high percentage of J-School grads are liberal and prefer Democrats, the odds are with you if you guess that a particular reporter is a Democrat. Nevertheless, a few observations:
Jo has done a damned good job concealing her biases, because Republicans on this blog accuse her of being a Democrat and Democrats accuse her of being a Republican. She’s pretty tough on everybody.
When Tony Messenger wrote for SNL (the Springfield paper, not the late night TV show), he confessed to having libertarian sympathies, but those leanings haven’t surfaced since he joined the Post.
Jake covers city politics, which has a 3-party system, but he hasn’t disclosed which party he favors: the old white Democrats, the young white Democrats or the black Democrats. (There are also two semi-active “third parties” there, the Greens and the Republicans.)
Biggest Turkey = PD coverage. As soon as they actually realize that there is more than just whining going on, people will start to read the paper again. I will give credit to the Post-Democrat for one positive advance in my life though: now that I know that I can’t get straight news from the paper, I do talk to my neighbor more often now. If I want news. For granted, they are missing half of their teeth, and the other half are on a strip of plumber’s chain around their neck, along with a little name plate with their name and phone number stamped on it from the little pet collar tag maker at WalMart. But at least if I want slanted news, I know I can get it there for free, and they might even buy me a beer. Check it out Jo and Deb - I’m hard on everyone too
At least I’m honest…. I hope that the coverage becomes a bit more informative on the complete issues. I mean, I’m already getting tired of talking to the neighbor
BobZ - you know better than that… we don’t just keep on reading. We stopped that a long time ago. We just scope out the headline, look at any picture that might be there, and start typing whatever we heard from our neighbor on the issue. No need to bother reading anymore, you know…