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Author, staff writer at The New Yorker, chicken wrangler.
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Ryan Lizza
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Terry Moran
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The White House correspondent for Yahoo! News.

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November 21, 2012

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President Obama will pardon a Thanksgiving turkey this week. Is the annual tradition fun and entertaining, or silly and outdated? #HashOut

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Olivier Knox@OKnox

Sarah Sammis@pussreboots

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Anna Holmes

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Michael Kinsley

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Alexis Madrigal

Dan Gross

Choire Sicha

Margaret Atwood

Rob Delaney

Donna Brazile

Tucker Carlson

Henry Blodget

Virginia Heffernan

Ben Smith

Maria Shriver

Chris Hayes

Bill Weir

Walter Shapiro

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Rick Klein

Tim Miller

Chris Moody

Susan Orlean

Baratunde Thurston

Lizzie O'Leary

Ryan Lizza

Terry Moran

Mary Katharine Ham

Damon Lindelof

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