Here’s an extra serving of hypocrisy for your Thanksgiving dinner.
I think we’re all familiar with the big, flashy show that the White House puts on every year when the president pardons his Thanksgiving turkey. In a forced public display of American “mercy,” the administration trots out a big fat bird in front of a bunch of cameras, the president makes some funny remarks about democracy and Thanksgiving, and then the bird — this is key — doesn’t get its head chopped off.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=182006