Post turtle
"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.[1]
History
[edit]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."[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Kennedy, William (March 24, 2002). "The Turtle on the Fence Post". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 2, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ↑ "Hillary Clinton talks about turtles on fence posts". YouTube. 21 August 2013.