Oh, my - did you see the Palin interview with the turkeys being killed behind her?

[Mid_FL_voter]

Gross. DumbDumbDumb, Sara.

MSNBC just played it.

[BrklynLiberal]

I heard it anounced, but decided not to watch it. He said it was gross.

[geekgrrl]

16. yeah, I couldn't watch that. I changed the channel. nt

[lame54]

120. You're missing out...

The funniest video of the year

:rofl:

Most surreal and hilarious vid I've seen in a long time

Monty Python material - with less blood

[mikiturner]

1. Epic Fail by Moosey

:rofl:

[Raschel]

88. This will be the final straw for her. Everyone will associate Palin with this image from now on.

I guess that's why some of us couldn't stop watching her. Just waiting for her to do the most stupid thing in the world.

[nc4bo]

2. Oh gawd - she's such a ditz. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. It was just bizarre and grotesque.

Kind of David Lynch-ish.

[frylock]

85. that was my first thought as well..

very David Lynch. Positively surreal.

[cyberpj]

4. Couldn't even tell what was happening - still, pretty pathetic. nt

[Mike Daniels]

98. I had a hard time figuring out what was going on as well

It wasn't until Morning Joe where they ran a less blurred out version that I figured out that he was removing the head of the turkey although I still didnt' understand the point of putting it in a tube. I guess I thought they still used axes like they would on a farm.

I realize animals are killed in order to make them "food" but it was bizare that Palin thought that was an appropriate backdrop for a press conference following a turkey "pardon".

[tridim]

5. OMG, she wanted that as the backdrop!

"No worries"

Gawd she's stupid.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. The media's actually dumber than Moosealini!

She "pardons" a fucking turkey, and then has the cameras rolling while the birds are getting slaughtered right behind her?

And MSNBC blurred out most of it. I'm guessing the Alaska media didn't?

[opihimoimoi]

9. They murdered TOM TURKEY on LIVE TV???? Who woulda thought?

The kids viewing that is gonna be stressed for the rest of their lives...PTS....

[Thothmes]

95. Object lesson, that is how the turkey gets on you plate

for Thanksgiving dinner.

[opihimoimoi]

114. I had flashes of The Woodchipper in Fargo...all that BLOOOOOD

Yikes

[philk17088]

101. turkey

but they were gay terrorist muslim turkeys!

[nc4bo]

23. Just another day in the tundra....

Really though - if you eat meat, poultry or seafood, it's just a fact of life (at least you know where your food is coming from) BUT.....I found it pretty cold hearted to be laughing and rambling nonsense while something's being killed like that on camera.

I'm weird like that I reckon.

[me b zola]

52. IMO, she is using this to (further)divide rural from urban people

She obviously knows where is standing, the camera position, and what is going on behind her. At about the 2 minute mark she looks over her shoulder,smiling, at the butcher in acknowledgment. Most urban people aren't used to the butchering of animals for food on their table, so their responses to this film will be different than those of rural people. IMO, that was her intention, to divide.

[nc4bo]

69. I looked at this vid more time than I care to admit and after reading your post

I think you may be right.

There's is something else going on here on a couple levels and I am SO thankful this Palin-thing is not the VP or worse, the President Elect.

[MattBaggins]

104. I helped out on my Aunts farm before "taking care of some chickens"

I have butchered more than a few cows and pigs; which was just part of life. Stocking the freezer ya know.

Despite this; I would never ever conceive of giving a press conference with that as a backdrop.

[tblue37]

68. The clear video is up on HuffPo. It's bizarre.

She is such a narcissist that she is aware only of herself and of the fact that she is on camera.

[Blue_In_AK]

75. Perhaps the media is subversively setting her up.

Maybe the media is trying to get the word out about how self-absorbed and clueless she really is. I'm sure the news people would have changed the backdrop if she had asked for it. This whole "turkey-pardoning" thing is not going over particularly well here with many veterans and friends of the military because she failed to commemorate Veteran's Day in any way while she was in Miami soaking up the limelight -- didn't even pretape a speech. But the media is all over pardoning a turkey. That's just not right. If she had said anything about Veteran's Day, someone would have picked it up, for sure.

[Mike Daniels]

99. Apparently some of the press brought it to her attention before the cameras starting rolling

She basically replied that she didn't have any concerns about how it looked.

If Palin thinks this is going to help her outside of her base she really is living in another dimension.

[Caoimhe]

7. omg ick

i am almost as bothered by the letcherous dipshit chewing gum and draining turkey blood behind her as her complete dizziness. He embodies "that guy" that sticks his hand deep into his pocket while chewing his chaw and nodding like a bobblehead while he tries to get the clearest view of Sarah Palin's mammaries. The "MORAN" guy.. has officially been replaced.

By the way, I no longer want to eat turkey or any meat ever again. I'm so grossed out.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. And the reporter asked her what (in the budget) was on the chopping block just as the guy in the

was chopping the turkey! The TV crew knew EXACTLY what they were shooting, including the framing and the guy in the background laughing his ass off.

[Blue_In_AK]

78. I find it very subversive,

and Sarah's so dumb, she doesn't even know she's being set up. :evilgrin:

[ladywnch]

79. the TV crew ASKED her if she really wanted that for the backdrop

and she said, 'no worries'. THAT is how dumb she is!

[Nordmadr]

106. It seemed to me the guy actually doing the killing seemed to

be amazed that they had the cameras rolling while he was doing his job. When one of the birds was twitching, he was clearly trying to keep it from moving and being noticed on camera...and failing.

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[Caoimhe]

13. Oh wow same here

You know she had to be smelling, in that cold Alaska air, the warm, sweet, sticky smell of turkey blood and turkey shit. All melded together.

I'm still really bothered by the shitstain practically jacking off with the turkeys neck while trying his best to see Sarah. Groty.

[fed_up_mother]

19. Well

There's plenty of reasons to dislike Palin, but most women are not vegetarians. Like me, I suppose they'd think it was stupid to do an interview right there, but we do know that the turkeys are killed before we eat them.

[yardwork]

107. But to joke about it while the turkey behind her is being slaughtered...that's just weird.

[Double T]

10. Why were rethugs being killed behind her? Palin must support torture.

[Sebastian Doyle]

28. No, it was turkeys, not pigs!

Though I expect she'll probably go to a pig farm to pardon one of them just before Easter, and the idiots can catch the piggies being whacked on camera too.

[nc4bo]

11. Full clip from KTUU here:

http://www.ktuu.com/

[high density]

20. That is really weird

Kudos to the camera man for framing it perfectly...

[ecstatic]

24. She's in charge of cooking turkey? Yeah right!

I wasn't convinced by her pathetic performance last week.

[political_Dem]

30. I am quite taken aback. I don't know how anyone could act naturally around what was happening.

It was quite appalling for her to stand there and just talk while turkeys are being slaughtered in the background.

Her behavior sort of reminds me of the cops who make jokes around corpses at a crime scene.

[nc4bo]

34. Thank you for putting my thoughts into such appropriate words....nt

[political_Dem]

42. No problem. It was very disturbing looking at that clip.

[MadMaddie]

47. The difference between cops and what Palin did

Cops see sick shit everyday...they see the innocent destroyed...they see horrific things that you can't even imagine.....

Cops and Fireman have some of the highest suicide rates, alcoholic and drug rates and it has to do with not having balance in their lives and not lettting steam off in the right way...if the right way is gallows humor to deal with the horror I am okay with that....

Palin is just fucking stupid, she knew what was going on and didn't move where the interview was being conducted...she had to be in front of the camara...

[political_Dem]

49. I couldn't say it better myself.

All in all, Palin has no feelings. She is nothing but a heartless woman. The turkey interview even makes her more despicable than she already is.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

44. JFC!!!!! It takes that freaken long to kill a Turkey?? What the Fuck?

& This really happened? What the hell is she doing?! And she says This is Fun!!

I give thanks to our lord in heaven that this monster is not our vp. She's worse than shotgun Cheney.

:scared:

[Sebastian Doyle]

82. The turkey was probably dead long before the guy pulled it out

the whole purpose of killing them that way is to bleed them out as completely as possible.

Which admittedly sounds brutal, but not so much after you have seen the video.

Nothing I hadn't seen before, growing up around chickens (same killing process more or less) but it still seems a bit much to do it on live TV, presumably without a warning.

[Cleita]

90. I think that in itself is really going to ruin many people's Thanksgivings.

I remember my grandmother killing chickens, some ducks and she once killed the live turkey my uncle brought for Thanksgiving, but damn she stunned them first unconscience before finishing them off. I don't believe they ever felt a thing because she was that fast and skilled.

[Thothmes]

96. My Grandmother just use to grab them by the head

and wrung their necks. She didnt like using a ax for fear she may cut her self with it.

[tekisui]

61. What is beyond absurd?

I am at a loss of words.

[pengillian101]

62. That was just plain ugly to watch.

The guy in the background feeding those turkeys head-first into a wood-chipper like device is gruesome. Perhaps it is a humane way to kill them, I don't know.

Don't watch it if you intend on eating turkey this Thanksgiving. :-(

I didn't need to watch. :-( Wish I hadn't.

[Sebastian Doyle]

84. It's not really anything like a wood chipper, just a funnel

Pardon the graphic description here, but this is what happens in the video.....

The turkey is placed upside down in the funnel with its head coming out of the hole in the bottom. The scary looking redneck guy cuts the turkey's throat and it bleeds to death. You may notice that the guy was holding the bird's feet, because otherwise it would have been thrashing around, and .....well let's just say the video could have been even more disturbing than it was, had that been the case.

As far as humane.... That's as about as humane as it gets for an animal that someone's going to eat. Obviously they can't gas them or inject them with chemicals.

[pengillian101]

112. Thanks, Sebastian Doyle for the explanation.

That does sound better than what I thought!

[Double T]

66. I worry about 'people' that derive pleasure from killing animals.

Got to make sure she NEVER runs any segment of this country. No wonder all frogs are always looking over their shoulders when rethugs are nearby.

[polichick]

118. The most obvious sign of a sociopath.

[Blue_In_AK]

72. Sarah's lack of social grace is really showing here.

I spent my early childhood on a farm and watched my grandmother behead many a chicken, so I'm not particularly squeamish about this, but I can't believe Sarah wouldn't realize how this might look to people who don't share that background. Totally clueless, that one. Maybe the cameraman set it up that way on purpose to make a point. Maybe he's not a fan. :)

[Genevieve]

12. Oops, and wearing her Burberry scarf from Saks.

http://www.burberryusaonline.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2843441&cp=2119969.1862184&parentPage=family

[Caoimhe]

17. What a chav! n/t

[Genevieve]

18. Lol! Exactly! . nt

[Caoimhe]

21. kick!

I avoid anything Burberry... after learning from a friend in the UK how it's become a fashion statement for thugs. I would NEVER EVER EVER Ever ever ever ever EXPECT a worldly American that can see Alaska from her house like Palin, to know anything about thugwear.

[thoughtcrime1984]

27. Nice 300 dollar scarf, Turkey Killa from Wasilla

I thought you were donating the RNC clothing to charity. Suuuuurrrreee you were, jackass.

[Genevieve]

35. Check it out .. here she is:

http://www.ktuu.com/

[merh]

54. who pays 300 for a scarf

the RNC, that's who

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

93. That was the first thing I noticed during the "pardoning". I guess it didn't make it to

the belly of the plane.

[Genevieve]

109. Probably, neither did any of the jewelry.

you betcha.

[global1]

14. What's The Difference - Turkeys Being Killed Behind Her Or The Repug.....

party being killed behind her. She's just bad news and I wish she would just go away.

[ErinBerin84]

15. god, she just repeats the same things over and over

"reignin' in growth of government", "progress", etc. etc. And when she is asked follow up questions, she just repeats the talking points. And I'm really glad that they blurred out the gross parts, because I couldn't even tell what was going on with the turkey. "No worries!" Oh, and I was gagging when she read the pardon and said she was "friend to all creatures." Righhhht.

[political_Dem]

22. I'm surprised that she would even consider to pardon a turkey.

Isn't hunting animals and field dressing them more her cup of tea?

:sarcasm:

[Caoimhe]

25. Yeah I think the Bible refers to fur and feathers or hooves or

crap I don't know.

[political_Dem]

33. Seriously, this interview does convey some very troubling issues about her character.

Like I said earlier in the thread, she stood there and didn't flinch while this man was killing turkeys. It is quite disturbing that she is openly flaunting her desensitization of the extinguishing of another life. What is worse, it makes the "pardoning" of another turkey's life seem rather vulgar and pretty cheap.

But then again, this clip goes down as one of many demonstrations of why America is quite a violent society.

[Chulanowa]

50. The turkey pardon has always been idiotic and cheap

This is just a particularly tasteless iteration of it.

[gblady]

26. it was so gross....

I could not watch it...
made me feel like throwing up...
both her voice and what was happening...

[elshiva]

40. OT: But great sig line photo.

:loveya:

[City Lights]

29. Yes, I did. Glad I'm a vegetarian.

:puke:

[Borgnine]

110. Yeah, same here.

I've been a vegetarian for over seven years and haven't looked back. And now, whenever I think of meat, I'll look back on that gruesome sight: Sarah Palin doing an interview.

[Catherine Vincent]

31. What I want to know is why was it breaking news that Palin pardoned a turkey?

Who gives a f*ck?

[political_Dem]

36. I've been asking myself the same question.

There is a national tradition when it comes to the Presidency. I don't know if it is the same for Governors or other public officials.

[ErinBerin84]

38. I think it was in jest...Countdown has used the "breaking news" banner in jokes before

Though I wish they wouldn't use the breaking news banner, it freaks me out.

[Sebastian Doyle]

41. Well, in Alaska it probably was (as far as the media is concerned)

Just like the national media will cover it when Chimpy pardons a turkey. Except he'll at least have the sense to NOT do so at the fucking slaughterhouse!

Here's a memorable photo from a past "Chimp pardons Turkey" episode.....

[Blue_In_AK]

81. See my post about how she forgot Veteran's Day.

People are paying attention, she's not getting away with anything. Mudflats says things are "bubbling" just under the surface. Fun times. :evilgrin:

[Sedona]

32. Just be thankful there weren't any nipples showing

[firedupdem]

37. What the fuck was she rambling on about? I really tried to listen

and not pay attention to the guy tussling with the turkey behind her and I couldn't do it. That was gross!

[Tatiana]

39. Scenes like this combined with the way she carries her youngest child...

confirm that this woman is seriously disturbed. It makes me ill to think she was a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

[political_Dem]

45. I agree.

[ErinBerin84]

46. It reminded me of

how she just completely ignored and had a non-reaction to Biden's emotional story about his family at the end of their debate.

[Politicub]

43. What a fucking nutcase

She is insane. Some guy was butchering turkeys right behind her, and she's just talking and winking away. Cuckoo!!

Is her eldest son named Striker Force? She mentioned something about her son Striker Force being in Iraq. And glad to hear that Trig is a-ok. :crazy:

[Blue_In_AK]

86. I believe she said her son's Stryker force.

[grantcart]

48. Ok that was fucking hilarious

I mean all I could think of was that if I was the Turkey and had to listen to that shrill sing songy voice I would have declined the pardon and jumped in the machine.


If you listen to what she said she said that it was good to get away from the grind and do something with 'levity', everything on the trail was a "blast".


I didn't find it the gross out I thought it would but you have to be seriously fucked up if you think that it approaches 'levity'.


Of course I don't think that is the word that she really wanted but she has this habit of speaking and then about every 8th or 9th word search for a word and put in something that it really doesn't fit. She pauses in the middle of the sentence and has this grimmace as she does her little word search, sometimes she will just come out and say "ah you know" lol.


I hate seeing animals killed, should be a vegetarian but am not, but I didn't find the turkey killing the gross out others did on this thread, I just found her in this weird detached surrealistic ah well ah well you know lol.

[Historic NY]

51. Sarah the next turkey on the block.

[THUNDER HANDS]

53. that was one of the most surreal things I've ever seen

that was like an SNL skit.

[Raschel]

89. I'm sure it will be this Saturday. Maybe something like Sarah talking while a bank robbery goes on

behind her. Or a building on fire. Or an earthquake. Or a tsunami....

[gabby garcia]

55. she's a sociopath.

for real.

[Dappleganger]

56. Keep it classy, Gov. WTF!

[ogneopasno]

57. Wow -- from the reactions I saw here, I thought it was going to be a lot more gory. What I saw was

a guy standing there thinking, "When the hell is the camera going to turn off so I can do my freaking job?"

[Mike Daniels]

102. The attacks on the employee are pretty out of line

Christ, this is what the guy does for at least part of the year to make a living.

I got the same impression as you. He generally went about his business and when he looked back it seemed more like "geez, are they still filming?" vs. any "huck, huck, here I am on the video box, yeppers.". He seemed to go out of the way to make sure the goriest part wasn't captured directly on camera.

[rasputin1952]

58. Incredible...and during the "pardon", the Great Hunter of the North

backed off and appeared scared of the bird...I thought she stared down Kodiak Bears and Moose...:eyes:

Good thing they didn't have a chopping block and an axe back there...;)

[Mid_FL_voter]

59. A. Cooper is getting ready to carry the story on CNN n/t

[spindrifter]

60. Great! She's at the abattoir...like her

Katie Couric interview--she didn't think ahead.

[Mid_FL_voter]

63. Here it is on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8

It's "grosser" than the MSNBC cleaned-up piece, but it doesn't show Palin inside the coop when she grant "Tom" the pardon.

[tekisui]

65. The turkey killer is looking like, "Should I be doing this? Should I wait?"

[WillyT]

70. I Noticed That Too...

It looks like he knows more about stage craft than she does.

Sort of... "Are you sure you want THIS in the shot???"

Unbelievable!

:wow:

[Mike Daniels]

103. He blocked off the view of him slicing the turkey's throat

so he definitely had more foresight than Palin as to how this was going to come across.

[Colobo]

64. It's bizarre. That woman is wrong for Alaska and for America.

[nc4bo]

71. I think Palin just served the yellowbellied, wussy citizens in UnAmerican states

a huge fuck you just in time for Thanksgiving. Give us wimps something to think about as we prepare our feasts for the holiday.

It was planned to look as it did, I can't not believe this is what she wanted. Her chatting away happily. Turkey slaughter in the background with a sadistic looking dimwit holding the knife while chewing his whatevers...

She knew this interview would escape Alaska and make a beeline straight for the lower 48.

Sarah Palin's idea of the old shock and awe!

[ClarkUSA]

67. Palin is a proud killer of sentient social animals, so I'm sure she could care less.

She's a fucking joke.

[Thothmes]

97. Most of us are proud eaters of those sentient social animals.

and generally care less how they got our dinner plates.

[Greg K]

105. you eat wolf meat?

[Thothmes]

111. Not wolf, but I have eaten dog

[michaz]

116. Why?

[Thothmes]

119. Did'nt know what it was at the time

In 1967 was a student at WSU in Pullman WA. Was invited to the "First Fruits" festival at the Nez Perce reservation at Lapwai, ID. It was served along with buffalo, antelope, deer, bear etc. No normally part of the Nez Perce diet, but not uncommon in the depths of winter when other game was scarce. Thats was how it was explained to me by one of the Nez Perce attendees.

[Berry Cool]

73. The only thing she regrets is

they didn't let her shoot the turkeys from a chopper.

[Neshanic]

74. If you look closely the last turkey offed was wearing Jimmy Choo shoes.

[Erin Elizabeth]

76. I need to thank her for this.

I was a vegetarian for years partially because I couldn't any longer stomach how many of the animals we eat are killed and after a few years, I went back to eating meat and that did it. I'm back to it. Yup. No turkey for me, no thanks. That made me feel sick.

And she's an UTTER dipshit. How does anyone listen to her for more than ten seconds without wanting to ram hot screwdrivers into their ears? Or hers?

[zulchzulu]

77. I didn't think she was that bad with her turkey routine...but let's face it...

... what would anyone think happens on a turkey farm in the last weeks in November?

Heads will roll on this story!

:rofl:

[dascientist]

80. IRONIC

[AtomicKitten]

83. I couldn't watch it but it was translated to me as something I wouldn't want to see.

Again, is it incompetence or jackassery, or is it both?

As I live and breathe, she's Junior in a skirt.

[slutticus]

87. It's like a scene straight out of Southpark. Unreal.

[Robeson]

91. I was thinking about what to post, but you pretty much hit it. Thanks for the help.

[MrSlayer]

92. Yeah but they blanked it all out.

So actually no, I didn't see it.

[bdamomma]

94. it seemed not to worry her.

wolf killer that she is.

[Are_grits_groceries]

100. She wanted this on the news.

I grew up on a farm and I know how Babe is "prepared." I'm talking about "the neighbors get together and all help out" kind of thing.
Sort of like a barnraising. I know that nothing goes to waste.
That said, I think Palin is a psychopath, a sociopath, into S&M or something. That isn't funny even if you are trying to gross people out.
She was getting her jollies I'll bet.
She probably changed colleges so many times because pets kept coming up missing near her.

[chemenger]

108. She gives new meaning to the phrase "Shit-for-brains"

Fortunately however, the slaughtered were turkeys and not American soldiers.

[Honeycombe8]

113. It was very upsetting. I don't think I'll buy a turkey this Thanksgiving. The gore. The horror.

I knew turkeys were killed, of course. But it's different somehow when you actually see it. I just wasn't thinking about the turkeys before. Which is mind-blowing since I don't eat beef or pork for ethical reasons.

[geek_sabre]

115. much more humane that what you'll find in a lot of factory farms around here. nt

[polichick]

117. It's been reported that she was asked about the background...

...and she thought there was no problem ~ imo she is one sick fuck.