<p style='font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;'>Why does President Obama <a href='http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2012/11/21/obama-cracks-nate-silver-joke-at-turkey-pardon.html' target='_blank'>pardon Thanksgiving turkeys</a> more often than actual human beings? Melissa Harris-Perry, on her eponymous MSNBC show, bemoaned Obama's woeful pardon record.</p>