Pass the Caribou Stew

[BonnieJW]

MODO nails it.

The doomed caribou gazed calmly across the Alaska tundra at Caribou Barbie.

The female caribou could easily have escaped, since it took the Wasilla huntress six shots, two rifles and some help from her dad to bag her prey. (Giving credence to Levi Johnston’s contention that she isn’t all that proficient with guns.)

But, inexplicably, the caribou just waited to get gunned down by Sarah Palin, who came across less like a pioneer woman than Private Benjamin with her camo, her French manicured nails, her cap that says (in pink) Girls And Guns, her 72-year-old father and her TLC reality show crew.

Sarah checked her freezer at home before she flew 600 miles to the Arctic, trying to justify her contention that she needs to hunt to eat. Wasn’t it already stocked with those halibuts she clubbed and gutted in an earlier show?

“My dad has taught me that if you want to have wild, organic, healthy food,” she pontificated, “you’re gonna go out there and hunt yourself and fish yourself and you’re gonna fill up your freezer.”

Does Palin really think the average housewife in Ohio who can’t pay her bills is going to load up on ammo, board two different planes, camp out for two nights with a film crew and shoot a caribou so she can feed her family organic food?


Read the whole thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/opinion/08dowd.html?pagewanted=print

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1. this is a brilliant read. nt

[FedUpWithIt All]

2. The average Ohio housewife cannot afford to pay $40,000+ to fill the freezer.

It's a gossip blog but they have the amounts spent on the planes and the camp...

Sarah Palin’s Hunting Trip To Feed Her Family Cost — $42,400 or $141.33 per lb. of Caribou Meat! Exclusive!

When Sarah Palin took us on a hunting/camping trip with her dad Chuck Heath on the latest episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska, she said hunting was necessary to “fill her freezer!”

Hunting for caribou means “food on the table and in the freezer for a lot of Alaskans,” the former Govenor extolled. She opened her freezer to let us see how the Palin meat pantry was getting bare.

“For many people in remote areas of Alaska, there’s no grocery store nearby, we just got to get out and hunt,” enthused Sarah. The only thing is that getting out and hunting for Sarah turned out to be an adventure requiring three separate airplanes to get her to her hunting spot with her father and family friend Steve Becker.

HollywoodLife.com researched the logistics and cost of Palin’s hunting trip which resulted in a bagged caribou, and discovered that it was a mighty expensive way to feed the Palin family, at $42,400 for the trip.

http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/06/sarah-palin-alaska-hunting-trip-kills-hunts-eats-caribou-family/#255865-10-120610_palin_gallery_21239_2190

The OP article is an interesting read.

[badtoworse]

3. True, she looked like a real jerk to people who really hunt.

But there is nothing wtong with filling your freezer with venison or other game that you personally harvested or fish that you personally caught. Many people in rural areas do that to survive, but it's usually the husband that does the hunting. (There are exceptions - a friend of mine's wife is an expert with a shotgun)

No principled hunter would shoot an animal and waste the meat (I sure wouldn't). If the caribou meat was actually used, what difference does it make who shot it?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. Here's your 5th K&R for a funny story

[peekaloo]

5. "Obambi"

made me laugh.