11/20: Bush and the turkey

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Thanks to dave for sending this along - it was also the #1 image in Yahoo's most popular.

I saw in live on CNN, too. Bush "pardoned" the national Thanksgiving turkey, named "Liberty", in a ceremony on the White House lawn. Unfortunately nobody told the Pres that turkeys don't go for being petted on the head:



And the turkey reacted by kinda sorta pecking at him, but the freeze-frame is not exactly honorable.



Personally, I had thought that Bush would eat the goddamn turkey like the rest of us, doing away with this stupid ceremony. And frankly the turkey wasn't too generous after its pardon, proving that it should be et. (Aren't presidential pardons supposed to cost like a half-million dollars?)