The American people got a chance to vote on whether Tater or Tot should get the title of National Thanksgiving Turkey.

In a time-honored holiday tradition.

President Obama is set to perform one of the most important duties of his office later this afternoon when he allows a pair of turkeys to avoid brines and carving knives and instead roam free, and PETA thinks it stinks.

President Barack Obama pardoned his first White House turkey, Courage, a little while ago. The White House has since released video of the ceremony (see below), during which Obama called Courage “a good looking bird.” The president was in a joking mood, noting that “there are days when I’m reminded why I ran for this office … and then there are days like this, when you pardon a turkey and send it Disneyland.” Obama also…

Everyone’s freaking out about this video of Sarah Palin being interviewed in front of a live turkey slaughter immediately after pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving. Should her aides have moved her away from the killing machine before she started talking to reporters? Of course. Has Palin just further confirmed that she’s a ridiculous person? Uh huh. Does it make the fact that “pardoning” a turkey for Thanksgiving is a meaningless, treacly tradition meant to…