Palin was ASKED if it was OK to slaughter turkeys in the background. Her response? "No worries"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Palin pardons turkey as bird bleeds out on camera
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Published: Thursday November 20, 2008



http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_talks_as_turkeys_slaughtered_behind_1120.html

In 1963, President Kennedy decided to let the White House turkey live instead of making dinner of it. George Bush Sr. was the first president since to pardon a seasonal fowl, in the waning months of 1993, and his son followed suit through his presidency.

Now Alaska Governor and failed Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has mimed presidential tradition, but her effort at winged mercy was 'cut' short. As she staged an impromptu press conference after pardoning one lucky bird, a worker at the Triple D Farm and Hatchery in Wasilla sliced a turkey's neck, bled it out and twisted its head off behind the governor, directly in the camera's line of fire.

A reporter asked Palin if she was okay with the backdrop. The Alaskan Governor answered, "no worries." As the bird's head was removed, the man looked over his shoulder at the governor and reporters and flashed a toothy grin.

"I was happy to be invited to participate in, in this, and, uh, and, you know, for one, you need a little bit of levity in this job, especially with a, uh, so much that has gone on in the last couple of months that has been so, um, political, ah, obviously, that it's nice to get out and, and do something to promote a local business and, and to uh, just participate in something that isn't so, um, heavy-handed politics that, uh, invites criticism," said the governor in what appeared to be a single sentence.

"Certainly we'll even invite criticism for doin' this too, but at least this was fun!" she pronounced.

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Nov. 20, 2008: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Palin_talks_as_turkeys_slaughtered_behind_1120.html

[dkf]

1. It was gross. I had to turn away from the TV and

I could hear squawking. So sad.

[cali]

2. huh? how did bush sr. play the role of turkey pardoner in chief in 1993?

he was not president then. bill clinton was.

[Buzz Clik]

3. Palin doesn't quite have "the gift", does she?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. This may come as a shock to some people

but Governor Palin is about as brainless as the bird behind her ended up.

[groovedaddy]

5. Thank God this woman won't be in the executive branch come Jan. 20!!! n.t

[xultar]

6. In the UK they use electricity much more humane. Pailin is sad.

[patrice]

They say the vote revealed that one factor in her defeat was problems in the Suburbs. You can now

cube that factor.

[underpants]

7. What was Dwight Shrute doing in Alaska? and what's with the mustache?

[sufrommich]

8. She's the political equivalent of the rabbit lady in

Roger and Me.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. You're right...

...I remember Moore talking about whether it was a good idea to include that footage or not. In the final analysis he decided that he wanted to show things the way they really were. For me, it meant that I never watched the movie a second time, but he successfully made his point. Palin made hers too, although I'm sure that she doesn't realize it.

[yardwork]

24. I thought the rabbit lady was ok. Palin is not ok. She's a psychopath.

[sufrommich]

25. I thought about that after i posted it. The rabbit lady was doing

what she needed to do to survive. She was,however,as oblivious to irony as Palin is.

[yardwork]

26. Fortunately, the rabbit lady wasn't governor of Alaska.

[sufrommich]

27. Well, now we know she could have been! lol nt

[yardwork]

28. LOL!

By the way, I can't resist pointing out that Palin's got her makeup caked on with a trowel in that video.

[patrice]

9. You'd think it would have occured to her "I just PARDONED a turkey and you want to MUTILATE and kill

turkeys behind me while I speak. Won't that confuse people about why I'm talking to them in the first place, i.e. 'pardoning the turkey'".

[kikiek]

10. Just another symptom of how self absorbed she is. It doesn't bother her, and she can't think beyond

herself. Not to mention she thinks any publicity is good publicity. She fears fading from the headlines.

[FloridaGrl]

12. What the heck?

Terrible location for an interview. Can this lady get anything right?

[nomaco-10]

13. More frightening than the turkey background slaughter scene....

is the fact that this woman could have been one heartbeat away from being leader of the free world. Hell, I'll even go further and say, the very fact that she was even chosen to run as a vp was scarier to me than the cuban missle crisis.

We can laugh about it now, but there was a period of time, short though it was, I was holding my breath.

[Ino]

14. Did you catch this part...

When she was reading the pardon and got to the part about being a friend to all animals, she jabbed the turkey guy with her elbow and grinned, as if saying "we know THAT's a load of BS!"

[MiniMe]

15. I'm surprised that she didn't run over to field dress the turkey

[patrice]

16. I'm thinking this woman has impulse management problems. Always watchin' for that "door".

SHE COULD HAVE BEEN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!!

Scarey, scarey shit that . . .

[No Elephants]

17. Actually, SHE COULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

[patrice]

20. Yes. There would have been a GOOD probability she would be pResident.

[fasttense]

18. Well, I guess it beat her gutting a moose.

But really, what would it have taken to move the interview over a few feet?

She really has very bad PR instincts.

[Doodler71]

19. She is dumber than a stump.

[Wolfies Revenge]

21. sick vile disgusting waste of a human Palin BEYOTCH

[patrice]

22. Wolves 10 Sarah 0 - Go Wolves!!!

:hi:

[LibDemAlways]

23. How anyone could watch this woman for more than

a minute and not come to the conclusion that she is a complete whack job is beyond me.

This is a person who has no problem posing for a photo with her young daughter and a freshly killed, bloody moose. She advocates shooting wolves from a helicopter.

Animal life means nothing to her. I'm surprised she participated in this publicity stunt at all, but totally unsurprised that she was fine with the carnage behind her. It certainly would have been more in character for her to show up to personally behead the turkey. Much more her style.

[Neshanic]

29. WHAAA?! She's freaking cerifiable.

[LynneSin]

30. First - WTF - she is NOT the POTUS

and even if the country freaked out on 11/4 and manage to vote McCain/Palin she would still not be the POTUS but the VPOTUS-elect. So why she was doing this tradition was just stupid.

But hell at least POTUS (or sham ones) who did this took the time to move the pardoned turkey someplace where there isn't a madhouse slaughter going on in the background.

This whole thing just made her look even more stupid then what the entire world believes she is.

[StrictlyRockers]

31. Dumb as a stump. Fascism with a pretty face. She scares me.

[shagsak]

32. You really think Obama can beat her in 2012?

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