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Today's nominee comes from a CNN article concerning the recent presidential pardon of Randall Leece Deal, convicted forty years ago of moonshining. Deal also had a bit part in a popular film of the seventies, giving George Bush "the unique distinction of becoming the first president to pardon a cast member of the 1972 Academy Award-nominated movie "Deliverance." The article goes on to describe Deal's life since his convictions, etc., but it's not until the end that we get what we've really come for. CNN subsequently edited it out, but we've got a screen cap. Ladies and gentlemen, your nominee is:

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Thank God for that.

Bush pardons moonshining 'Deliverance' actor
[CNN]