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Post turtle

Political joke


Political joke

"Post turtle" is a phrase that has been used in the political discourse of various countries based on an old joke about the leader of a group being comparable to a turtle balanced on top of a fence post.

History

On Good Morning America in 1998, Hillary Clinton said, "If you find a turtle on a fence post, it didn't get there by accident, and I just look at the landscape around here, and I see just lots of big old turtles sitting on lots of fence posts, and I think we need to find out how those old turtles got on those fence posts."

References

References

  1. Kennedy, William. (March 24, 2002). "The Turtle on the Fence Post". The New York Times.
  2. (21 August 2013). "Hillary Clinton talks about turtles on fence posts".
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