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Everyone's freaking out about this video of Sarah Palin being interviewed in front of a live turkey slaughter immediately after pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving. Should her aides have moved her away from the killing machine before she started talking to reporters? Of course. Has Palin just further confirmed that she's a ridiculous person? Uh huh. Does it make the fact that "pardoning" a turkey for Thanksgiving is a meaningless, treacly tradition meant to make us feel a little less guilty about the largesse of America's fattest holiday somehow less real? Nope.
Of course, if you're less cynical than we are, you may like to vote on the names of the two turkeys up for pardon by President Bush. Click here. Voting is open until Nov. 26. We like "Yam & Jam."
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there are too many jokes and/or recommendations to make here, so i'm just going to leave it up to all of you to suss out what i want to say.
Personally, I plan to pardon one soy turkey breast so it can frolic happily in the freezer (or lie motionless, whatever it deems best). However, I will probably cave and microwave it by January.
Should her aides have moved her away from the killing machine before she started talking to reporters?
I just can't stop saying that sentence aloud! It's like Don Lafontaine is back from the dead and reading the trailer for "Terminator V: Hockey Mompocalypse." I'm putting it on my hanukkah cards this season.
So would that have gone something like, "Ms. Palin, would you please step away from the killing machine?"
Interesting coincidence: in the parallel universe where McCain/Palin won, that actually becomes a commonly uttered sentence in the executive branch.
Palin to reporter: We're not killing them, we're
reincarnating them.
Sweet. Then they'll be reincarnated as Christmas hams and Easter lamb. Maybe!
Reminds me of a scene from "Fargo" ..........
It's kind of like she just got punked.
I am thankful for DCist posting that video. Did anyone else notice she's a much better speaker when not a McCain-minion??
To echo IMGoph, this inspires too many bad jokes.
Notice the guy operating the killing machine keeps looking back to watch her. Maybe he was thinking "Are they really filming her while I'm killing turkeys?"
She should hire "Joe the Turkey Killer" as a policy analyst.
that guy has to go down for the best "i can't believe this is really happening" face of the week. multiple times.
Or would it have gone this way..
AIDE: Ms. Palin, would you please step away from the killing machine?
PALIN: Oh heck no! Can I pull the trigger?!
Maybe she's just subtly making fun of the whole ridiculous thing. I mean, really, people need to understand where meat come from.
You mean it doesn't come from some magical happy place where unicorns shrinkwrap it and rainbows fly out of the cow's ass when it gets hit with the pneumatic skullsplitter?
Does anyone else shudder when they realize this idiot was on the ballot?
How's the pardoned turkey supposed to appreciate this benevolent gesture without witnessing what could have been? . . . duh
Hey, she's just sticking up for Tommy the Turkey slayer. Anyone in real America would understand.
It's hardly a "killing machine." It simply holds the bird in place while you knife its throat.
or maybe it's a response to the PETA turkey snuff film. The secularists have already ruined Xmas, and she probably thinks Thanksgiving is next.
Look into my eyes! Look into my eyes! You don't see a turkey! You don't see anything! Look into my eyes!
it took me a minute to realize what the guy behind her was doing. and it took me the rest of the video to accept that she is just *that* insensitive (and careless) to be filmed in front of him doing that. but i gotta say, better her at a turkey slaughterhouse in alaska than the west wing of the white house. AMEN!
C'mon, people! Lighten up. It's not like he was f***ing the turkey while he was killing it. This isn't Swann Street.
Wonder what was in the cup?
Wonder what was in the cup?
Gizzards.
and it took me the rest of the video to accept that she is just *that* insensitive (and careless) to be filmed in front of him doing that.
Christ, it's like DCisters been have never done farm work before. Considering how many Alaskans hunt/fish, its not like blood, guts, and head chopping is a totally alien activity.
People need to toughen up and do some skinning/gutting/castrating of livestock.
Don't forget the f***ing. Show that poultry who's the boss!
Gizzards
Belch. Sounds offal
Pardon me.
Christ, it's like DCisters been have never done farm work before.
Christ, it's like some people are incapable of distinguishing one individual commenter from a simplistic collective stereotype of everyone who comments on the site . . .
All jokes aside, what strikes me is how it seems like the camera was held to perfectly frame her on the left, and a guy draining turkey blood on the right. It was perfect split screen, obviously the camera person wanted to get that shot just right- and they did. Most people looking through that view finder would have slowly panned left.
P.S. I'm no fan of hers, but I think this was (more or less) a "set-up" of Palin by the camera crew. You can tell the worker is surprised they're shooting with him in the frame, and he even does his best to minimize the visual impact of what he's doing. Whoever was holding the camera could have easily moved around so that he wasn't including the Turkey Death Machine in his shot.
Also, since there doesn't seem to be any point where the worker picks up a knife, I'm guessing that the machine holds the turkey in place, includes a head-chopping blade, and channels the blood down into the tub underneath. It's not fancy and automated, but it's more than just an immobilizer.
When are we going to see a "Wasilla-ist"
Check the 'headers' on MSNBC while they ran this. They are hilarious!
I lost the html tags... too fancy for me. Put this together to see.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/
msnbc-was-having-far-too-much-with.html
I'd put Levi, the hockey dad of the little Palinista unwed mother-to-be, in one of those turkey containment devices, upside down, on any damn day ending in Y.
Fast forward to President Obama, November 2009
"I ain't gonna' pardon no jive white turkey!"
I just pardoned my Tofurky®.
Never thought I'd be defending Sarah Palin, but... killing things is part of life in Alaska. As she said - this is just a local business. Her constituents are going to be considerably less squeamish about acknowledging and accepting reality than your average city dweller who thinks meat is born at Safeway.
@somegirl
I'm not speaking for anyone else, but I know killing is a part of survival period. We're just having a little fun with her cause she's so dog gone
cute. Kind of like of like the females in the French film 'Baise Moi', the femmes in the Greek film 'Singapore Sling', or Uma Thurman in the 'Kill Bill' series. Cute kick-ass women. Blood and guts.
The female has always been a part of the killing thru-out history. She cleaned, gutted, and cooked the kill. Sometimes she even made the kill herself.
Chickens were brought to the kitchen and she'd have to break their friggin necks. She's skin those damned rabbits. She went to town. God bless you killin wimmen.