That's one reason Free Birds has grossed over $33 million ... A turkey named Reggie (Owen Wilson) realizes all turkeys must die. Reggie is then pardoned by the President — a typical white ...

as he crowned Abe the official National Thanksgiving Turkey and pardon winner. “Abe is now a free bird. He is TOTUS—the Turkey of the United States.” —@POTUS on the National Thanksgiving ...

Reggie had been lucky: pardoned ... a Turkey, or Schindler’s Lunch. The cartoonist Art Spielgelman defined a certain kind of concentration-camp melodrama as “Holo-kitsch.” Free Birds wants ...

Not unlike Remy in “Ratatouille,” a movie to which “Free Birds” otherwise bears zero ... as that year’s “pardoned turkey,” benefiting from a White House tradition that some believe ...

Each year before Thanksgiving, the President of the United States formally pardons a live turkey presented to him by the National Turkey Federation. It’s a tradition that’s seemingly been ...

leader of the free world, participates in a truly bizarre political ritual: the pardon of a turkey. President Obama stood before a 50-pound bird Wednesday, made the sign of the cross over him and ...

(NEXSTAR) – If you can’t eat ‘em, free ‘em. President Joe Biden is scheduled to pardon ... of their birds away, to a farm and a mini zoo, respectively. Soon enough, sending turkeys to ...

Under George H.W. Bush in 1989, it became a tradition to official pardon the bird at the White ... Trump joked that the losing turkey "refused to concede" after a "free and fair election" and ...

He never said the bird was pardoned, though some newspaper reports ... President Abraham Lincoln is credited as being the first to free a turkey after it was sent to the White House in late ...

"And today, Peach and Blossom will join the free birds of the United States of America," Biden said. The turkey pardon at the White House is an annual tradition that is usually "cranned" full of a ...

They are the last turkeys who will be pardoned by the 46th president, and they will “join the free birds of the United States of America,” Biden said. Peach, standing on a platform to the ...