Bush Pardons Two Thanksgiving Turkeys

[wicket]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20041117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_turkey_pardon

President Bush used the annual Thanksgiving turkey- pardoning rite Wednesday to roast the bitter campaign for the White House, jokingly recalling fund-raising disputes, attack ads and a polarizing political movie. "Now's the time for healing," he said, as he ceremonially spared two birds.

The winning "candidates" in his satirical rendition of the presidential campaign were Biscuits and Gravy, turkeys raised in Mathias, W.Va. Their names came out on top on an online contest. "It was a close race. You might say it was neck and neck," Bush said. He spoke in the Rose Garden during a rare joint appearance with Vice President Dick Cheney.

"It came down to a few battleground states. It was a tough contest, and it turned out some 527 organizations got involved, including Barnyard Animals for Truth," Bush said, mocking the free-spending independent groups like Swiftboat Veterans for Truth known as 527s. The group raised questions about Democrat John Kerry's service in the Vietnam War.

"There was a scurrilous film that came out, 'Fahrenheit 375 Degrees At 10 Minutes Per Pound,'" he said, panning "Fahrenheit 9/11," the documentary film that assailed him over the handling of the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on terrorism.

[VioletLake]

1. It was surreal.

I just saw it on my local news.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. I was gonna say...

..nah the jokes are too easy on this one

[scarface2004]

32. thats sooooo humorous!!

about as humorous as the slaughter in irak!!

[LisaM]

3. God he is mean

Is there a nice bone in his body? It's like that offensive "search" he did for weapons of mass destruction for the press dinner.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Hm, that was somewhat better than his previous pathetic attempts at humor

Just :puke: instead of :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[AP]

5. "He's a good turkey. Cares about family. I looked into his eyes."

[Tab]

6. Yeah

Turkey #1: War in Iraq
Turkey #2: America's reputation

[Rose Siding]

7. tiny little man

This part's precious, too:

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The turkeys Bush pardoned last year died within three months after their "pardons," a result of drugs that make them grow excessively, the group said.
............

Do we ALL eat that drug?

[MallRat]

12. That's why you gotta go Kosher.

:-)

[JudyM]

43. Yes. poultry are fed drugs to make their breasts gets big (jokes aside)

and, like a lot of other factory-farmed animals, they live horrible, cramped and suffering lives, and then are killed in a painful manner. people need to wake up to this. It's kept quietly under the public's radar but when more people start getting informed about this that industry will be made to abide by humane standards not yet in place.

They're fed drugs. Their living and dying conditions are exploitative and cruel. And humans ingesting them are ingesting these problems, e.g., that is a cause for the growing human resistance to antibiotics, etc.

What you can do, for starters: Adopt a turkey:
Farm Sanctuary has a program where you can adopt a turkey and they'll send you a picture of it, etc. It's a small step, but every little bit of increased awareness helps. http://www.adoptaturkey.org/

The Humane Farming Assn is another source of info:http://www.hfa.org/about/index.html

[sui generis]

8. were they same sex turkeys?

Isn't it ironic that this president will spare the lives of two turkeys but didn't write a single stay of execution in his entire gubernatorial term?

[Zero Gravitas]

9. Fuck You Bush

I hope he never gets a pardon but has to be held accountable for his crimes.

[scarface2004]

33. yeah buck you fush!!

[physioex]

36. Too bad the man didn't have the same remorse as Governor....EOM

[bowens43]

10. The idiot laughs and jokes

while the marines continue the slaughter in fallujah.

[MallRat]

11. Wow. I don't even know where to begin. How inappropriate was this?

This blows the WH Correspondents' Dinner "searching for WMDs in the couch" joke out of the water.

The only word that comes to mind when someone like this finds these things funny? %The only word that comes to mind when someone grabs a turkey like THIS during a photo-op?

SOCIOPATHIC.

-MR

[newscaster]

13. I assume that means....

Dick Cheney and Condi Rice are off the hook. They are turkeys for sure.

Tom DeLay is probably the next Turkey to get pardoned.

[cubsfan forever]

14. Once again, I was too late

with my post! :-) My sentiments exactly!
Resident FullDiaper is a tiny little man, and a SOCIOPATH. :puke:

Professor 2

[lutefisk]

15. He released his hostages after threatening their necks. Ha ha.

Nice picture. How funny.

"It was a close race. You might say it was neck and neck," Bush said.

"Bush... kept a firm grip on one bird's neck."

[rodeodance]

17. guess he did not pardon the silver one in Iraq last year.

[AspenRose]

18. Isn't that how he embraces Laura sometimes....by her neck?

Yeesh

:scared:

[wicket]

21. Probably does it to Condi too

:puke:

[llmart]

16. And, later, after the photo op....

he blew them up just like he used to when he was a little boy.

What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

[Eurobabe]

19. That begged for a caption....

[4_Legs_Good]

24. Fantastic!

Heh heh heh

david

[Catfight]

28. Chicken Hawk meet Turkey. n/t

[4_Legs_Good]

20. It was funny when JFK did it. Bush can but my shiny metal ass!

The first couple times, this was funny, but unless these dudes are going veggie on Thanksgiving they should cut this shit out.

david

[WI_DEM]

you mean Rummy and Cheney?

[GarySeven]

22. Were their names Rumsfeld and Tenant?

Thank you, thank you. I'm here through Friday. Try the veal.

[Sabriel]

23. Yes, ha ha, funny joke about his reaction on 9/11

The fcker's a laugh a minute! I'm sure gonna loooove the humor of the next four years.

[bluedeminredstate]

25. Could he be more offensive

to the people who voted against him if he sat down with a team of professionals and really, really tried??????? I don't think so. The Swift Boat "quip" chaps my ass so much that I feel sorry for the service manager of the dealership that has my brand new broken down car when he calls at 2:00. I'll try to not take it out on him, but Sweet Holy Jesus, I'm ripping!
:wow:

[dreamcollector]

26. He'll pardon the real turkeys

Lay etc when he leaves office.

[Shoeempress]

27. So I gather that Alberto Gonzalez was not involved in the pardon process.

[MattPSU]

29. This picture is disturbing

What an odd, intent expression he has...he looks totally homicidal. He clearly relishes the power he has of life and death over living creatures. Either that or he is trying to perform the Vulcan mind meld on the bird (they presumably think on the same level).

[lutefisk]

35. He's also in his "blessing" pose

I've noticed that more and more often lately, he has adopted his "head tilted over hand limply extended as if blessing someone or something" pose.

He's gotten quite odd lately- one day he thinks he's the Pope, the next he's the omnipotent King of the World. He's nuts.

[yellowcanine]

37. Looks like he is choking the chick - err, turkey.

Notice how tightly he is gripping the turkey's neck. I guess he is more used to dealing with fake plastic turkeys than real live ones.

[Eurobabe]

39. wonder if he handles Condi OOOPS I mean Laura like that

really erotic.

[physioex]

38. I can't tell which one is the Turkey....

:shrug:

[zulchzulu]

30. Maybe Chimpy is going to offer the turkeys a cabinet position

They would do just what he says they will do...like the others...

[obreaslan]

31. We know the turkeys weren't...

Retarded or female then. He never pardons anyone like that.

[PatGund]

34. And here I thought....

He would have decided not only not to pardon the turkeys, but got out his ex-Saddam trophy pistol and killed them himself. Or at least shoved firecrackers up their rear like he did with frogs.

[XemaSab]

40. Probably grabbing it like that.....

....so he doesn't get pecked in the nads again. Anyone have that photo?

[realisticphish]

41. he looks into its eyes, and sees how much more intelligent it is nt

[Beware the Beast Man]

42. You'd think he would have mocked them before their slaughter.

Bush is a four-letter c-word I am not allowed to use in this forum. But it aptly applies.

[Nestea]

44. The Karla Faye tucker thing was overblown

I live here in TX and heard about it in the paper first.

Was it childish for Bush to do that? Sure. Was it immature? Yeah, obviously.

Was it really terrible? No.

The lady was an unrepentant murderer. I didn't feel pity when she got her just desserts.

[Beware the Beast Man]

45. Not only was it childish and immature, it was hypocritical.

Bush, a so-called Born-Again Christian and self-proclaimed compassionate conservative, mocking a woman who, definitely guilty in the eyes of the law, had turned to religion and was simply asking for a stay of execution, not to be freed for her crime. Just the fact that the governor of one of the largest states in this nation acted in such a fashion is sickening.

[Nestea]

46. No

I would have acted the same way, and I'm not a Born-Again Christian.

Compassion for criminals is spitting in the face of victims. It's okay though. You just cared more about her rights than her victim's rights. She didn't have a "right" not to be mocked.

And what good would a stay do? All it's doing is delaying the execution. She didn't have any new evidence.

I actually laughed when I read it in Talk.

I mean, really now, Beast Man. Why should I have felt sorry for her?

[Beware the Beast Man]

47. I do not care more for her rights .

This has little to do with her and more to do with an elected official acting like a condescending jerk when being interviewed by the press. It's not just the KFT situation either. I agree with you. She was guilty of murder, and she was punished. There's a certain unwritten protocol to being an elected official, and Bush has proven to violate that protocol on numerous occasions. He is a man with no integrity, no scruples and no class. And the KFT issue is one example of that. I'm sorry, but if I were responsible for issuing the termination of one's life, no matter how hardened they may be, I would not crack jokes about it.

[MisterP]

48. stop strangling them! not everyone can go without oxygen to the brain like

you, George

[MrScorpio]

49. So no turkeys will be executed for their political "crimes"

In the last four years, he's probably pardoned more fowls that humans.

[patomime]

50. Just One Turkey........

looking at another!:bounce: :spank:

[wicket]

51. kick

:kick: