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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums“Cobbler” and “Gobbler” will head to the White House tomorrow for turkey pardoning ceremony
Pardoned Turkeys To Stay At Luxurious W Hotel
Two turkeys pardoned by the White House dont just get to live, they get to live in style.
The ritzy W Hotel in Washington is letting them stay and giving them the VIP treatment with special meals of grains and cranberries that theyve been enjoying. Cobbler and Gobbler have been good guests, the hotel manager says. We havent had any noise complaints from their neighbors. The two will travel to the White House tomorrow for the traditional turkey pardoning ceremony.
http://www.alan.com/2012/11/20/pardoned-turkeys-to-stay-at-luxurious-w-hotel/
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“Cobbler” and “Gobbler” will head to the White House tomorrow for turkey pardoning ceremony (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Nov 2012
OP
What administration started this nonsense to begin with? I'm too busy finding the best 'black
Purveyor
Nov 2012
#1
Yep. Here's the video below of Palin and the turkeys. (I also added the Olbermann segment)
Tx4obama
Nov 2012
#7
It's only meaningful if the loser gets her/his head chopped off on national TV.
Luminous Animal
Nov 2012
#13
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)1. What administration started this nonsense to begin with? I'm too busy finding the best 'black
friday' deal!!!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)3. History and details of ceremony
Since 1989 during the first Thanksgiving of President George H. W. Bush, the president has granted the turkey a "presidential pardon" and thus spared the bird from being slaughtered.
BUT
The origins of the tradition of pardoning the White House turkey are unclear. Many credit President Harry Truman with starting the informal and lighthearted tradition in 1947. However, the Truman Library says that no documents, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs or other contemporary records are known to exist that specify that he ever "pardoned" a turkey. The Eisenhower Presidential Library says documents in their collection reveal that President Dwight Eisenhower ate the birds presented to him during his two terms. President John F. Kennedy spontaneously spared a turkey on Nov. 19, 1963, just days before his assassination, but did not grant a "pardon." The bird was wearing a sign reading, "Good Eatin' Mr. President." Kennedy responded, "Let's just keep him." President Ronald Reagan deflected questions in 1987 about pardoning Oliver North in the Iran-Contra affair by joking about pardoning a turkey named Charlie, who was already heading to a petting zoo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_pardoning
mr_hat
(3,410 posts)2. Why do they always pardon white ones? n/t
DanM
(341 posts)16. Is that all your point?
Could you expound a bit more?
nolabear
(41,984 posts)4. "I hereby pardon all but this one drumstick..."
I crack me up.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)12. *snort*
doc03
(35,344 posts)5. Remember when Sarah Palin made an appearance at a turkey
farm and while she was talking they were whacking turkey's heads off behind her.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)7. Yep. Here's the video below of Palin and the turkeys. (I also added the Olbermann segment)
First turkey at the :18 second mark, second turkey at the 1:10 minute mark, etc...
Edited to add...
Here's Keith Olbermann's segment from 2008 regarding Palin and the turkeys
doc03
(35,344 posts)11. OMG what an airhead n/t
I think the worker was laughing that they were in the TV shot.
And then she's talking about needing "levity in this job" while the turkey is slaughtered.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)6. It would be funny if Obama took a hatchet to one of them.
petronius
(26,602 posts)10. I was just thinking that - a full-on King Joffrey moment would be brilliant
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)9. Lucky birds.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)13. It's only meaningful if the loser gets her/his head chopped off on national TV.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)14. And yet they'll still sit down to a turkey dinner. (sigh)
Yeah, I'm a vegehegian, but the concept of pardoning turkeys while eating another one just doesn't work for me. It's silly at best.
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)15. Here's how you pardon a turkey (Great Moments in TV #31764)!
West Wing Style....