****Heads Up: POTUS Pardons a Turkey, Live!****

[Clio the Leo]

At this moment, lets all thank the good Lord on behalf of these two pardoned turkies that that Palin woman is far, far away from DC.

Live Streams...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-speaks-official-pardoning-turkey

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/John_F._Kennedy,_turkey_pardon.jpg

"The West Wing: Pardoning the Turkey"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZNCSyWy_0s

[denem]

1. Palin ruined this sort of thing, permanently.

I'll never get those images out of my head.

[Clio the Leo]

4. well just hang on......

.... Dr. Wonderful is about to fix all that.

Dream scenario #1: While in Obama's presence, the turkey falls into some deep, zen like state and we henceforth refer to the President as "the turkey whisperer"

Dream scenario #2: The turkey charges the President, he jumps back and screams, unharmed, and then we all debate whether or not the turkey is really a teabagger, a birther or both.

[jenmito]

2. Thanks, Clio. I can't believe someone unrec'ed this thread. Some here

are like the Repubs. in Congress-opposed to everything Obama does. I rec'ed it back up to 0.

[Clio the Leo]

3. lol, thanks but not to worry.....

... I'm not a rec whore ...... I'm a REPLY whore. ;)

[jenmito]

7. OK then...

I'll reply again. :)

[Clio the Leo]

10. doitagain! doitagain!!!

again! again!!! :)

[jenmito]

12. "I think it's fair to say we saved or created four turkeys."

:)

[hileeopnyn8d]

15. This is the type of thread

that I usually go neutral on, no rec or unrec unless it's in negative numbers.

I rec'ed this one because it made me remember West Wing, now I'm off to watch the Butterball Turkey Hotline clip.

[alsame]

5. Preview from WH TurkeyCam, lol.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/turkey_preview

[HopeOverFear]

6. is it over????

ok I haven't missed it yet. Just tuned in.

[Clio the Leo]

9. Yeah, no that turkey is running late.....

.... not the bird, the President.

[Clio the Leo]

8. Here's my question....

..... why cant we get a COOL, Hollywood looking turkey like the one in the West Wing clip? Like the ones my Thanksgiving salt and pepper shaker (that I made in Girl Scouts when I was seven) look like.

What is that? A non-wild turkey? ....... I want big fluffy feathers!

Or is that a girl turkey and the boy turkeys look like we expect them to.

I really need to do some turkey research.

[HopeOverFear]

13. yeah go find out ...I think you're thinking of a wild turkey, though

[Clio the Leo]

14. You know, you can drink Wild Turkey....

.... I had some friends in college who liked to use some Wild Turkeys to make the night go by faster.

Those were some different Wild Turkeys still I think. :)

[HopeOverFear]

16. LOL

did you hear what Malia said? "It looks like a big chicken!"

[Clio the Leo]

17. Yeah, that was cute when he made her jump.....

.... I think the President and my daddy must have gone to the same daddy-training school. That's something my father would do.

[HopeOverFear]

25. I love when Obama said "I was fixing to eat that sucker!"

:rofl:

[hootinholler]

18. Well, that was a wild variety that was raised tame...

And it was seriously horny! That's the only time they display the puffing and strutting behaviors. I'm not sure if domestics do that or not.

So Mr Sheen was playing to a turkey that had only one thing on its turkey sized brain, there might have been a hen off camera, or a caller imitating a hen with the turkey equivilent of why are you still dressed?

-Hoot

[Clio the Leo]

21. Well, Martin Sheen is pretty sexy....

... not Joe Biden sexy, but sexy none-the-less.

So a turkey raises its tailfeathers like a male peacock does?

[hootinholler]

24. There's a whole dance/call thing that goes on

If you get the chance it's fascinating and fun to watch. Yes it's like a peacock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMPlUw7J0N4&feature=fvw

-Hoot

[Clio the Leo]

11. I think Malia grows a foot taller every week. NT

[MattSh]

19. So, who is he pardoning? Bush? Palin? Limbaugh? Beck?

My apologies to all REAL turkeys, who are smarter than these four combined...

[mopinko]

20. damn. can't seem to stream.

this damn MAC! never did do video well. guess i should have complained while it was still under warrantee.

[Clio the Leo]

22. lol sorry...

.... I tried to find the CSPAN stream and couldn't.

[question everything]

23. Wondered about it

Didn't last year turkeys made it to Disneyland?

[thelordofhell]

26. "POTUS Pardons a Turkey, Live!"

I didn't know Dick Cheney was at the White House today.

[rasputin1952]

27. The Turkey's Away Episode of WKRP, a true classic:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/11/25/wkrp-in-cincinnati-turkeys-away/