On Thanksgiving 2003, President Bush made his famous unannounced visit to the troops in Iraq. While there, he was photographed presenting a turkey in the serving line. I don't know how it happened, but the myth that this bird was fake got started ---and has never abated. Probably because there's some irresistable metaphorical value in such a tale for the President's detractors. Or, maybe it's just because Democrats are goddamned liars who never let the facts contaminate their beliefs.
In any event, our man Patterico managed to get the Los Angeles Times to acknowledge that their columnist Joel Stein was wrong in referring to the "fake" turkey in a recent story.
Yeah. Not a huge victory in the annals of factual accuracy, but whether such small truths are acknowledged is a useful measure of a person's intellectual honesty.