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Obama Turkey ‘Pardon’ Not Good Enough For PETA: t’s just not good enough for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that the White House symbolically pardons two massive turkeys on the eve of each Thanksgiving. Now PETA wants to retire the word pardon. At issue: Pardons are used to free crooks. And, they say, the birds are innocent victims.

Obama Turkey ‘Pardon’ Not Good Enough For PETA:

t’s just not good enough for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that the White House symbolically pardons two massive turkeys on the eve of each Thanksgiving.

Now PETA wants to retire the word pardon.

At issue: Pardons are used to free crooks. And, they say, the birds are innocent victims.

Tags: president thanksgiving turkey pardon obama peta politics animals language semantics usnews washington whispers ingrid newkirk birds
November 17, 2011
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President Obama grants a pardon to ‘Apple’, the National Thanksgiving Turkey.

A Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Tags: usnews thanksgiving turkey pardon president obama whitehouse video
November 25, 2010
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"The tradition of ‘pardoning’ White House turkeys has been traced to President Abraham Lincoln’s clemency to a turkey recorded in an 1865 dispatch by White House reporter Noah Brooks who noted, ‘About a year before, a live turkey had been brought home for the Christmas dinner, but [Lincoln’s son Tad] interceded in behalf of its life… . [Tad’s] plea was admitted and the turkey’s life spared.’"

— Washington Whispers - Who Dreamed Up Pardoning White House Turkeys?

Tags: history lincoln thanksgiving usnews whitehouse turkey pardon
November 22, 2010

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