It’s an annual tradition for the lucky AP photographer assigned to cover George W. Bush’s Turkey Pardoning Ceremony to take the president’s photo at the most awkward possible nanosecond and then order Drudge to rapidly disseminate the winning shot. While the most famous Immature George W. Bush Turkey Pardoning Ceremony AP Photo will always be the one in which the grateful turkey is giving Bush a blowjob, this year’s winner — and the last ever! — has the photographer channeling that hillbilly ass-rape scene from Deliverance, with the aide clampin’ “city boy” down while Bush fixes to take off them britches. [Drudge Report]

On this Thanksgiving Eve, we want to remind Americans that all presidents have always looked like twits during the annual Turkey Pardon Photo Op — so Barack Obama will make history again as the first president to ever look cool next to these fucking turkeys. Here’s Harry Truman, reportedly forced by the National Turkey Federation to start the dumb tradition, thus ensuring that other popular Thanksgiving main courses of the time — ham, roast beast, parsnips, etc. — would fall by the wayside. The Turkey Industry was the Jack Abramoff of 1947. MORE »

Here is some wingnut PAC that seems real … either that, or somebody out there is a secret master of Political Satire and has a lot of fat/dumb relatives who will do anything for more Hot Cheetos and Truck Nutz. Thank you, Sarah Palin, you fucking idiot! [Our Country PAC]

Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey at an abbatoir today to celebrate Thanksgiving, a full week beforehand. After pardoning the turkey, Palin partook in her favorite post-election hobby — answering questions from the media — while a turkey butcher worked in the background SLAUGHTERING A TURKEY IN A DEATH GRINDER, while smiling, a la Fargo. It is hilarious. Equally hilarious are the MSNBC captions in this clip, such as, “Gov. Palin Not Realizing Incongruity Of Her Words Versus Her Backdrop.” Liberals. [YouTube]

He doesn’t much care for pardoning humans, but George W. has once again taken part in the tired, joyless tradition of releasing a pair of gruesomely obese turkeys that were specifically bred to be eaten. MORE »