The Sarah Palin turkey interview....turkeys slaughtered as Palin babbles (video)

Did she just call turkeys getting killed "levity and fun"? Dude....

Wait, I'm confused.  Which one is the slaughtered turkey flapping around and which one is Palin?

The gift that keeps on giving....

I guess this absolves McCain in a kind of sick way.  Clearly these were her Alaska handlers who followed her down to the lower 48.  Good logistical planning, gang!

Ok, whether you like Palin here is not the issue. This was clearly the fault of the camera person or the producer or the interviewer--whomever was in charge. I mean, don't get me wrong, I was cracking up, but I would've been laughing if it had been Obama too.

It was like one of those funny movies where the person in the front is trying to have a serious conversation and someone in the back is doing something way more interesting. Hilarious.

I heard that Dennis Miller is now jealous of both Palin and the turkey getting stuffed this Thanksgiving.

I have to say that I think that it is more the fault of the camera person or the producer then her but she should have been more careful about where she stood with the background especially on at poultry farm.

She is not the brightest bulb in the pack.

The depth of her consciousness is staggering!  This woman couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the bottoms.

Is this how they dispose of their felon politicians?  Don't let Ted Stevens see this one.

Seriously, you can debate who's fault it is, but this is hilarious.  The cameraman knows what's going on, the sound guy knows whats going on, the turkey wrestler knows he's on camera.  No one cares.  It's Alaska.

No one involved in this situation ever thought to "not use the turkey slaughter as a backdrop."  I love the look on the guys face in the background after he has to off one with some fight left.

Off with their heads! :-)

I only eat three type meats (some of which is poultry)...turkey, chicken, and fish. But after listening to Palin and watching the turkey getting slaughter, maybe I will just become a full-blown vegetarian. I don't particularly care for turkey anyway and now Palin gave me a good reason not to buy it anymore.  Did Palin bless and praise animals and then say killing turkeys is fun or something like this? Like one of the response read, "the gift that keeps giving." Wow, sure can tell the news are running out of things to talk about since the election is over.  Did they really think most of us wanted to see this? I sure as heck didn't.

fadeplayer,

Turkey wrestler? LOL

Ann:  Gov. Palin did not only bless and praise animals--she declared that she was "a friend to animals."  I was sort of hoping she would stop lying once the campaign was over--you know, like maybe it wasn't her natural inclination :(

Also, I didn't check this out and won't vouch for it, but one of the pundits showing a sanitized version of the footage said that the turkey killing was pointed out to her and she was asked if she wanted to be interviewed somewhere else.  Reportedly (I really don't know if this was a serious report) she replied "No worries!"  It actually sounded like a Palin joke to me, and I hope it was.  Unfortunately, many of the Palin jokes only required quoting her, so it is impossible to even have an opinion, and I don't care enough to try to verify or debunk it.

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Actually, according to the cameraman and interviewer they told Palin about the slaughter and asked her if she wanted to move and she was like

"No, that's okay, right here is fine."

So IMO Palin is to blame.

Well-she was there to get a 'fresh turkey'.  Looks like she was getting what she paid for!!

Apparently Palin's camp told MSNBC that Palin herself was asked if she was okay with that specific back ground and she said, "No worries".....She's nuts I tell ya, just nuts!!!!

Same Palin incoherent style (anyone can write a script and it wouldnt be different from the real one) :

1.  Start with what is actually happening.

2.  Add 2 sentences full of a, an, the, also, and you know, this, that.

3.  Babble some more - especially as to what is obvious.

4. Then ------->  Inject an important word like growth, progress, budget, taxpayer AND Alaska. But DO NOT define anything nor explain the relevance of ideas nor how one gets from Point 1 to Point 3.

5. Repeat Steps 1-5.

6. Do it a third time.

7. Then say you are happy though you lost miserably, because you were the most clueless, unprepared candidate for a national office. Smile ! You are representing The Beautiful Alaskaaaaaaa !!!!!!  (smile and wait for audience applause as in beauty pageant.)

This moron just keeps on amazing me with her stupidity. And to think, some people actually supported this imbecile for VP.

babble, babble, blah, blah, incoherent statement, babble, babble. She just loves the sound of her own voice.

Pardon me while I go throw up!!

Maybe we need to thank her handlers for showing the country just how unprepared she was for the second highest office in the country!  It scares me to think that we could be sitting here today waiting for her to take office!

With handlers like these, who needs the "liberal media?"

I was crying i was laughing so hard.

BREAKING NEWS!: The Media Discovers Farming

What a stupid bimbo!!!!

I saw this this morning when I woke up. She is blinded by the spot light, and the guy bleeding the bird is just as stupid.

They will probably blame this on the camera guy.

This is the woman who felt prepared for VP.

Just not aware of her surroundings.

Actually, according to the cameraman and interviewer they told Palin about the slaughter and asked her if she wanted to move and she was like

I stand corrected. Three words: Dee Dee Dee.

I hope no one takes the video personal.  People are just laughing at the sheer absurdness of the interview.  C'mon, a politician giving an interview with any type of animal being slaughtered would get some attention.  It is not an attack of the Republican party or conspiracy by the liberal media.  It's just so weird it's funny.

It's like Hilary Clinton giving a interview at the zoo with two giraffes humping in the background.

I liked the comparison between turkeys and Obama voters - who is dumber ?  After all, the turkey farmer puts chickens in with the turkeys to show them that they don't have to drown in the water trough, if they don't want to.  They have a choice, which they take notice of.   This makes the turkeys smarter than the folks that voted for Obama, imo.   

Obama fans - don't answer right now: wait a year, and then tell me I'm wrong.

Blah, blah, blah Turkey, blah, blah, blah Obama, blah, blah, blah Dumb, blah blah, blah, Terrorist, blah, blah, blah, Socialist

Did you even watch the video George?  Lighten up, it was hilarious.

George,

I liked the comparison between turkeys and Obama voters - who is dumber ?  After all, the turkey farmer puts chickens in with the turkeys to show them that they don't have to drown in the water trough, if they don't want to.  They have a choice, which they take notice of.   This makes the turkeys smarter than the folks that voted for Obama, imo.  

Obama fans - don't answer right now: wait a year, and then tell me I'm wrong.

Whatever.  What does this make individuals who voted Bush in office for two terms after he proved himself unworthy concluding the first term... a complete failure?...Some of which....the chickens crossed the road to get to the other side away from Bush to Barack Obama. The ones who voted two terms for the current president had longer than one year to find out Bush was a total screw up. It took them nearly eight years to find this out and some still remain disillusioned. In this time frame Bush and his cronies has managed to instigate a war, which cost this country trillions of dollars and thousands of our troops to be murdered ...and a high deficit even when the Clinton Administration left this country  a surplus when they handed the baton to Bush...we're drowning in debt, in simple term, Bush caused the economy to fall through the floor, other countries to lose the little respect they had left for the United States...created countless enemies, and need I go on.  Now who would say is smarter now? The turkeys who voted for Bush, some of which are still disillusioned or the chickens... and turkeys who had enough after nearly eight years of Bush doctrine and were chicken they would suffer another four possibly eight if they voted for the McCain/Palin ticket who are Republicans too like Bush and therefore crossed the road to be with the other chickens, some of whom did not vote for Bush at all anyway, and who wanted "CHANGE" and not "MORE OF THE SAME?"  Nice attempt though, however, completely inaccurate.... The proof is in the pudding...our economy and country's turmoil...under whose watch?...Not Barack Obama or a Democratic President. Now you wait a year and tell us if you was actually right or disillusioned too like some of the other turkeys.

Dharma Girl,

Ann:  Gov. Palin did not only bless and praise animals--she declared that she was "a friend to animals."  I was sort of hoping she would stop lying once the campaign was over--you know, like maybe it wasn't her natural inclination :(

Thanks for the additional information and my parents always taught me and my siblings that once a liar always a liar....if one lies, they'll steal, and if they steal, they'll kill. Unfortunately most times this is true and Palin verified it is. I think I'll go full vegetarian. What the heck....I only eat three type meats and am not a heavy meat eater anyway. I was thinking about this way before viewing this video. My youngest daughter loves animals and pets. At a very early age I suspected she'd become a vegetarian.  A little over a year ago out of no where she asked, "Ma, what makes our lives so much better and important than animal lives?" She was 12 going on 13 or maybe 31 then. I couldn't respond, but I knew where she was going because of the previous suspicion I had. Then, she told me she doesn't want to eat meat any longer...she wants to become a vegetarian....She actively plays sports...run track (Spring), on the basketball (now) and volley ball team (Fall), so I kinda convinced her to eat turkey, chicken, and fish, for I felt she required some type foods for energy, but not necessarily meat and nutrients in meats can be food in other type foods... which is the reason we only eat these three meats. Other meats I didn't particularly care for anyway. If we go full vegetarian, I can assure you my daughter wouldn't have any problem with this and I wouldn't either, albeit it might take me some time to get use to.  Thanks again.

Who is going to be the first to note that the NY Times and all the other have been "had" just as Palin was?

LOOK AT THE CAMERA FRAME.

Palin frame left, BG right the "slaughter." This is intentional framing. If the anchorette or cameraman had wanted anything without slaughter in it, all they had to do was re-frame.

They WANTED what was seen and they did not WARN Palin because they were doing a "gotcha" piece.

Need more evidence? Listen for the anchorette's snarky question about state programs possibly being "on the chopping block."

Poppa...

You just don't get it, do you?

Palin had every opportunity to hold this Q & A anywhere she wanted.  She chose to stand where she did.  Palin even looked over her shoulder!  She framed the camera shot.

The camera operator and reporters showed their genius; everyone with a slight understanding of journalism knows that you provide the context (i.e., the background) in order to make for a complete piece.

As for the 'chopping block' comment... absolute genius!  That reporter needs a significant Christmas bonus for including that phrase.  Like it or not, television news is part entertainment. 

When are the conservatives going to realize that not everything is "gotcha" and most of it is just idiocy?

Possibly never brkfstclbivr.

Ann, you are very welcome, although I am not sure what I did to help.  Thank you for your posts, I have been enjoying them.

I don't eat meat (and I didn't watch the unexpurgated version of the video--or all of the 'sanitized' version) but I don't proselytize (at least I don't mean to) because even if I am right that not eating meat is better for someone else, I know they need to come to that understanding for themselves.  I was raised by heavy meat-eaters, with beef ranching in the ancestry, and I know it takes some strong conviction to change that kind of habit--something nobody can provide for someone else.

This thread is a perfect example of the confusion that seems to reign around anything Governor Palin gets involved in.  I am still shaking my head over assertions that she is intelligent, competent, "popular" (that one especially), or even that she should be allowed out without a guardian, but I guess people will see what they want to, no matter what.

"Possibly never", indeed.