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By sane jane

November 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

On the upside, the turkey grinder backdrop completely distracts the viewer from another display of Palin’s inability to string together a coherent sentence. So really, everybody wins. (except the beheaded turkey)

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

We have a debate going on at my job about Palin & 2012. My liberal friends are all clucking & saying “bring it on!” (they actually sound a lot like neocons circa 2003/3004)

I’m trying to warn them against that kind of hubris; never underestimate a politician’s ability to have a second act (nor the public’s ability to forget; after all, we elected The Terminator AND Jesse “The Body” Ventura to governorships).

With four years of practice, even our own linguistically-challenged Alaskan Gov could conceivably resurrect her image.

But not if she keeps putting out stinkbombs like this.

Simply amazing…

By Russ

November 21, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

This is just another situation where the liberal media is trying to show her in an unflattering way. If it had been a liberal democrat in the video the camera man would have shown them from a different direction with a different background. All smears like this do are to make people more aware of how trivialized and insignificant the media has become. Remember, 46%, almost half, of the American public voted for McCain/Palin in the past election. Is the media going to try to smear her for the next four years in fear that she will run again?

By crystlclr

November 21, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

It wasn’t her fault/decision for the interviewer to take candid shots. Interviewer/photographer should have had the fortitude to intervene!! Shame on them… Give her a break!! If you don’t, you’re no better than the interviewer!

By RK

November 21, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

If my wife sees this I’ll be making tofurkey for Thanksgiving.

By Greg

November 21, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

crystlclr: WRONG! Palin was ASKED before the shoot if she wanted that for the background. Her reply “no worries”. Get your facts straight!!

By J.D.

November 21, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

Definitely. I think the interviewer and camera crew should have stopped and relocated to another position.

But then again, maybe they take videos while someone’s using the bathroom too, so you just have to consider the source.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Russ, you’re overlooking the fact that Palin APPROVED of that particular backdrop.

(similar to the whining about that hardcore brass-knuckles journalist, Katie Couric)

(har)

The point is, most other politicians wouldn’t be STOOPID enough to allow themselves to be interviewed/photographed in front of a turkey grinder doing its thing.

Still, let’s assume that your original point had merit and Palin was being manipulated & made to look foolish by a journalist & cameraman. If she can be outsmarted by those two, how would she have fared against savvier opponents like, let’s say, Putin? Or Ahmadinejad?

I’m not convinced that Obama’s the answer, but at least he’s not a world-class doofus.

By Jules

November 21, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

I had a hard time spotting the real turkey on the TV.

By Denise

November 21, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Palin is one incredible moron.

By Fred

November 21, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

I just read the 11 Dumbest Things S.Palin has Said So Far.And now I see this. We are in deep (xxxx) when 46% of American voted for her to be V/Pres.The world N/paper are haveing a fild day about the 46%.The are asking what has happen to American, have they become Brain Dead.Is this Rome repeating itself.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

If anybody should be embarrassed, it’s Palin’s PR person. That’s my line of work & that video above would be grounds for an immediate sacking.

Don’t make the media into a villain here; they’re just trying to craft the most interesting story possible (and I’m sorry, but politicians looking foolish usually qualifies); it’s up to the politician to neutralize those efforts or spin them to their advantage.

Palin didn’t possess even a shred of insight - couldn’t see one single move ahead as to how this would look (much less the 5-to-10 moves ahead that good politicians need to be effective) and allowed herself to be portrayed in this manner.

And that’s precisely why she’s unfit to serve our country at a high level. She’s just not smart enough. Face it.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Does no one else see the contradiction here?

The same commenters here who have screamed about Obama “getting a pass” from the media (which has some truth) are the very people who are suggesting that the media should have “given Palin a break” here.

Is the media supposed to be tough? Or are they supposed to protect? Or does it depend on whether they have an (R) or a (D) after their names? Make up your mind.

Hypocridiots.

By joey

November 21, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Pailin is the utlimate hottie good looking and stupid.. she is an older version of paris Hilton

By Will Jones

November 21, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

America is ruled today by fascist plutocracy which needs morally compromised “intermediaries” through whom to manipulate the People. Pervert draft-dodgers like Gingrich and faction “legacies” like Bush (Is Waco/NAFTA Bill Clinton Winthrop Rockefeller’s yardbaby? Compare their noses.) are doing the work of Pierre DuPont and the Rockefellers to maintain rule by a transparently obvious treasonous false-elite.

Sarah Palin is one of their “hires.” She is a low I.Q. - “Dull/Normal” - with the ideology and hypocrisy of fascists and traitors serving Roman Catholic Big Oil and the Roman Anti-Christ’s Fifth Column. Her absence of grace is overt and her addition to the Married to the Mob McCain ticket was a test of America’s willingness to support the American Creed and the Founders’ Covenant.

“Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

Bush and Cheney, and their accomplices, must hang for 9/11 (Viz. “The New Pearl Harbor,” Griffin, PhD), and Bush’s father and his cabal must hang for killing John Kennedy. A natural death has already allowed Nixon to escape American Justice.

Their faction’s ill-gotten gains must be expropriated…as it is they who are tanking our capital markets…welfare fascism ended, and would-be Americans enlightened as to their errors in support of treason and fascism and the incorrigible deported and banished.

Constitutional money along with the People’s sovereignty must be restored that the American Dream yet live.

Obama, Elect by the People, is but a first step in the right direction.

Those who speak evil of him and continue to support the treasonous Bushite faction…Rome’s rightwing fascist perverts like Mike Gallagher and Rush Limbaugh, et al…must be recognized as the Enemies of the People that they are.

Come to the Creed America. Annuit Coeptis, there is but one Creator: “The King of America which reigneth Above.”

Jeffersonian Exegesis

P.S. Vote Martin, boot Bush’s “Good Buddy,” and fellow draft-dodger, baldness-hiding Chambliss.

Georgia must lead The Nation.

By Rhett

November 21, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

And her buffoonery continues.

By I'm With Stupid

November 21, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Wow, this is breaking news.

Unless the turkey being killed is the one she ‘pardoned’, I have absolutely no idea why anyone would find this A) remotely interesting or B) in any way a gaff on her part.

So a turkey got killed at a turkey farm and Sarah Palin was filmed standing near it, whoop-de-doo. Don’t you people have something better to do with your time? You know, like sticking pins in your Sarah Palin voodoo dolls or something equally intelligent?

By I'm With Stupid

November 21, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Wow, this is breaking news.

Unless the turkey that was killed was the one she had just “pardoned”, I fail to see why anyone would find anything interesting or even amusing about it.

So a turkey got killed and Sarah Palin was giving an interview nearby when it happened, whoop-dee-doo. Don’t you people have anything more constructive and intelligent to do with your time? Maybe go stick a few more pins in your Sarah Palin voodoo dolls or something?

By Voice of Reason

November 21, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Please, Russ and the rest of you people saying the “liberal media” is just trying to make this bubblehead look bad. SHE makes herself look bad—and STUPID—every time she opens her stupid mouth! Unfreakin’ believable.

You folks can’t see the forest for the trees and want to blame the media and others for your failures and buffonery. HOW could ANYONE with a functional BRAIN have voted for this airhead to be VP/potential Prez?

I’m waiting for the DVD showing the gaffes of GW BUSH and Sarah Palin. That would be TOOOOOO funny.

Palin—and her handlers—put her in this spot, NOT the media. I’m with you, sane jane. And Palin needs to go to school and learn how to string a sentence together. She’s gotten by just being cute, that’s all. (Reminds me of my investment manager’s airheaded, bimbo trophy wife. As their friends say privately, she’s “pretty…pretty STOO-PID!”)

By Sir Winston

November 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

PMSNBC. I am really surprised. I bet that strange looking Maddow fellow aired it on his show. The libs fear Palin. If she is so horrible why do the libs feel the need to tear her down at every opportunity? Peace.

By Left Nut

November 21, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

The problem with this video is….

What, to graphic for all you bed wetter’s?

What did you think happened, the turkeys committed suicide all by their lonesome?

Just because most of you have never experienced ‘farm’ life, you think it is an embarrassment to be filmed next to or participating in this activity?

Where the he11 do you think that turkey ball you eat comes from? Lord forbid you saw where that steak dinner comes from.

Here’s a little tidbit that I firmly believe in:

* A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” ………………….. Robert Heinlein……………………………*

By Sir Winston

November 21, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Once all you libs get your rocks off attacking Palin, can we discuss how The Obama, peace be upon him, is filling his White House with Clinton hacks? I feel that this is a far more important story than Plain in front of some turkey grinder. I guess we could assume that Obama is the turkey and the Clinton hacks are the grinder, would that make it more interesting for you guys? Peace.

By Tom

November 21, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Right, Sir Winston, I “fear” Sarah Palin about as much as I fear Larry “Wide Stance” Craig. Both are just national punchlines.

By RaceCop

November 21, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

It is racist to kill turkeys.

By Sir Winston

November 21, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Like the Clinton’s, Tom? Peace.

By John

November 21, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Everytime this woman makes a fool of herself you ditto head Republicans blame someone else. Just face the facts. She is not very bright and will never be. If she is who you want to be your standard bearer, great…go for it. As for me, I prefer someone who is able to speak coherently and not use phrases like “you betcha” I also like someone who knows that Africa is a continent.

If she would just be quiet she would be OK but as soon as she opens her mouth her air-headedness becomes evident

By kar

November 21, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

I have no idea how this is racist but this IS the fault of her people. I’m assuming she didn’t go out alone but if she had an aide, handler or anyone with a clue with her, they should’ve stopped this and asked to reshoot this. Heck, didn’t she hear/smell/see what was going on behind her? Great hunting skills there lady.

By DaninMacon

November 21, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

What is up with Obama tapping all these Clinton folks. It is the change we voted for? Seems like more of the same to me. Obama lied to get elected. There is no doubt about it.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

I’ll be happy to stop talking about Sarah Palin when she stops giving interviews that demonstrate her breathtaking incompetence.

You know, that whole “democracy requires participation” thing. We’re all vetting her. Live with it.

Speaking of, how dumb does Fox / Rush / Hannity / O’Reilly look when they scream “The media won’t investigate Obama!”? They do know Fox & talk radio are the media, right?

If there’s a story, go get it, fellas. Back in the old days (I’m 33), newspapers actually competed to “scoop” one another. Now they just gripe about the efforts of others.

Will say this, though - if Palin promises not to seek high office again, I’d agree to leave her alone (even with these ridiculous interviews). She serves the people of Alaska, so it’s really their issue to resolve.

By I'm With Stupid

November 21, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

John, maybe you can explain it to me - maybe I’m just missing something obvious.

Just what exactly did she do here that made “a fool of herself”? Was she saying something like, “I’m sure glad I stopped the slaughter of all turkeys, everywhere across this great land of ours…” when the guy was killing that turkey? I don’t get what the big deal is here.

By Left Nut

November 21, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

Hey John, Pay attention. The Africa - continent thing was a hoax.

*And you are the governor of what state??? *

Now let’s look at the bed wetter’s track record shall we?

• Cynthia McKenney
• Mayor Bill Campbell
• Al Gore
• Vernon Jones To name just a few!

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

By pat

November 21, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

The same old stuff. she’s an idiot.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

I’m With Stupid,

She makes a fool of herself by being unable to talk substantively on the issues of the day. It has nothing to do with turkey killing (other the utter PR tone deafness of it all. Yes, I understand where my turkey burgers come from, but that doesn’t mean I want the gruesome grinder as a backdrop for my interview).

She displays no deeper understanding of ANY subject matter she “discusses”. She simply repeats empty soundbytes. (and winks)

(this is why she was abandoned by conservative intellectuals, by the way. They recognized her vapidity & didn’t want that representing them)

It’s really no more complex than that. She’s an attractive, charismatic person who hasn’t seriously studied the issues of the day. Period.

Serving the needs of Joe Sixpack does not mean you have to actually ELECT Joe Sixpack.

I’ve got no problem with the Republicans’ best and brightest serving this country; I admire and appreciate their service. But no reasonable person could count Palin among them.

Or maybe I’m just an elitist.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

How would you like to be Bill Kristol?

He was instrumental in setting the stage for the invasion of Iraq. And he discovered (and then tirelessly promoted) Sarah Palin.

That’s quite a legacy.

By Ginger

November 21, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

The change the American people voted for, and the change we are getting, is from the last 8 years of overspending, under-taxing, warmongering and just general idiocy. If using part of Clinton’s team brings back the prosperity of the Clinton years, how can you possibly have a problem with that? I’m perfectly happy with Obama’s picks thus far.

By gblackwell

November 21, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

to:Greg.

I watched the video!!! Enough said!!

By Ginget

November 21, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Left Nut says:

“Hey John, Pay attention. The Africa - continent thing was a hoax.”

Perhaps, Left Nut, you should pay better attention. It was not the Africa - continent thing that was a hoax. The hoax was the outing of the fictional McCain aide who leaked it.

By JR

November 21, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Fred, you are the poster child for the intelligent liberals! Maybe Obama will buy you a first grade English primer.

“I just read the 11 Dumbest Things S.Palin has Said So Far.And now I see this. We are in deep (xxxx) when 46% of American voted for her to be V/Pres.The world N/paper are haveing a fild day about the 46%.The are asking what has happen to American, have they become Brain Dead.Is this Rome repeating itself.”

By Puncho

November 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

No, she really is dumb as a rock, and that horrific voice doesn’t help! I truly cannot believe people were gullible enough to actually vote for someone who obviously doesn’t have a clue!

By reebok

November 21, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Caribou Barbie really is dumb as a box of rocks. Of course, it’s the media’s fault for reporting it.

By RaceCop

November 21, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

It is racist to question Obama’s Clintonoid picks. Obama meant to say change back to Clinton. Everybody knows it. You are racist if you don’t.

By I'm With Stupid

November 21, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Sara Jane, thanks for clearing that up for me. I guess we are in agreement then: this isn’t news, this is just haters hating.

Sad to see so many people go out of their way to post their pointless, bile filled remarks, when they could have been doing something useful with their time. I guess it is easier for people to waste their time making anonymous, moronic comments at AJC.com than it is to get out there and make the world a little better place to live.

By EAV girl

November 21, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Media v. Palin

Sorry to say it, but the Media is winning this one.

By Denise

November 21, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

Kar, in response to your question, “heck, didn’t she hear/smell/see what was going on behind her?” I would say “NO.”

As usual, she was too wrapped up in her seemingly eternal narcissistic adventure, which sort of precludes being aware of anything going on around her which is is not directly working toward the interests of Sarah Palin.

By Matt

November 21, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

If that newscaster filling in for Olberman isn’t the biggest lil’ b*** you’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. He better not ever have another bite of meat again in his life. Not one shred, because (gasp) some animal may have had to lose his life to make it. Grow a pair of balls, and get over the fact that a lady is attractive, has a successful career, and has a solid family life all at the same time. This country is so envious it’s funny.

By benton

November 21, 2008 7:18 PM | Link to this

Actually, the activity going on behind Palin was not “unbeknownst” to her, as this story claims. Before giving the interview outside, the newscaster asked Bubble-brain if she wanted another background. She said, no, this one was fine with her.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this

I’ll admit it, she freaks me out. I’ve followed politics with a cynical indifference for the majority of my life & have never had such a visceral response to such a politician.

She’s so breathtakingly incompetent it actually wakes me from my detached state & worry. Somebody that dumb, so clearly a prop for some sinister dudes (Kristol and Fred Barnes, discovered on a Weekly Standard / National Review cruise up in Alaska).

It’s wrong, and it’s dumb. And you guys are falling for it.

Look, I’m not advocating Obama. There are a million unknowns and he’s already shown a few blind spots, but he’s earned the right to take a whack at it.

So I confess my hate. Will you hard core right wingers admit yours? Immigrants, blacks, homos?

Get over yourselves.

By Lee

November 21, 2008 8:30 PM | Link to this

Or, maybe those fine folks in Alaska realize where those Butterball Turkey’s come from in your grocer’s freezer and don’t think it a big deal.

What was disgusting was the news anchor admonishing us to “get the kids out of the room.” Have we grown so sissyfied that we cannot stomach where and how our food is processed?

At least Palin knows how to cook a turkey. I’m betting Hillary Clinton has to read the directions to heat up some Pop Tarts.

By sane jane

November 21, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

I don’t know that Hillary could identify a pop tart on a plate of pastries.

By This_name_used

November 21, 2008 10:07 PM | Link to this

Amazing… Regan was attacked by the media just like this. We all know the liberals hated him more than anyone in history. But he was the most effective president in modern history. I hope and prey she can pull it off.

Growing up in the country it was quite normal grow your dinner. Vegtable gardens, growing chickens, cattle. It is quite normal to “harvest” your food. Heck we learned to ring a chickens neck in school! Ever have a nice roast beef dinner and then pass the steer’s horns arround the table? See that hole? that’s where he was brought down with Granddad’s 22.

Americans have grown too soft. Most think food comes from the store. The poor have TVs, cell phones, now thanks to the drunken salors in congress are facing forclosure on a house they shouldn’t have had in the first place! Yet the liberals think this is normal. What the heck happend to this country?

And our media is bashing Palin because she was near a turkey being slaughtered. Why isn’t the media blasting the people responsible for this mortgage meltdown?

As I see it, Palin was doing something most Americans wouldn’t be ashamed of yet the media would rather blast her. Seems to me it’s the media that should be ashamed for it’s failure to do it’s job!

Palin 2012!!!!!!!!!

By This_name_used

November 21, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this

Amazing… Regan was attacked by the media just like this. We all know the liberals hated him more than anyone in history. But he was the most effective president in modern history. I hope and prey she can pull it off.

Growing up in the country it was quite normal grow your dinner. Vegtable gardens, growing chickens, cattle. It is quite normal to “harvest” your food. Heck we learned to ring a chickens neck in school! Ever have a nice roast beef dinner and then pass the steer’s horns arround the table? See that hole? that’s where he was brought down with Granddad’s 22.

Americans have grown too soft. Most think food comes from the store. The poor have TVs, cell phones, now thanks to the drunken salors in congress are facing forclosure on a house they shouldn’t have had in the first place! Yet the liberals think this is normal. What the heck happend to this country?

And our media is bashing Palin because she was near a turkey being slaughtered. Why isn’t the media blasting the people responsible for this mortgage meltdown?

As I see it, Palin was doing something most Americans wouldn’t be ashamed of yet the media would rather blast her. Seems to me it’s the media that should be ashamed for it’s failure to do it’s job!

Palin 2012!!!!!!!!!

By margaret snatcher

November 21, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this

I like her, I don’t agree with anything she says, but I think she is a hoot. She represents some small towns and that’s awesome. I like Obama as well, I hope and prey everyone will root for success regardless of party. Let’s celebrate our differences, without each other who would we have to argue with. Finally, Sir Winston is a tool!

By Dan

November 22, 2008 6:57 AM | Link to this

Whats your problem? Do you think turkey comes from a box? If you deem it inappropriate or insensitive then the question is why did the inept NBC reporter choose another backdrop. Why did the NBC editor not block it out. Now you have Gov Palin beng responsible for NBC’s journalistic responsibilities.

The Spanish Inquisition lasted 17 years, how long is yours going to last

NBC has turned into the David Dukes of journalism.

By JRon

November 22, 2008 7:02 AM | Link to this

The camera-person is a well known comanist. She set up the shoot to make our govenor look bad nationally and to get the news of obamas desaaterous cabinit appointmant off the news.

I hope and prey this is exposed.

By Charles

November 22, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

Mr. Galloway obviously has nothing more relevant to GA politics to write about than this insipid commentary.

By Is this thing on

November 22, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

The media will broadcast any spin to make this great American lady look bad. Governor Palin obviously scares the liberal media to death or they wouldn’t continue their immature spin and attack efforts to make her look bad.

The turkey processing is happening behind Gov Palin’s back…. and she is criticized for it? Do you think she has eyes in the back of her head?

The camera man and the news lady interviewer (term used loosely) are looking right at the slaughter process and continue the interview, but they are not criticized for their cruel insensitivity? Who’s at fault here? Give me a break!

If this isn’t yellow journalism in its purest form, you’ll never see it. Shame on MSNBC for airing and promoting this sick hit job on a the most popular Governor in America.

And AJC, try to fine some real news once in a while.

By Will Jones

November 22, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Looks like G-d was helping the “media” make Palin look bad when she and her husband got a Down’s Syndrome child instead of the healthy baby Divine Providence could have supplied…the State of Alaska’s conclusion that she abused her office as governor helped the “media’ make her look bad as well.

Maybe…just maybe…she is, in fact, bad. On this “Devil’s planet,” the Children of G-d must work at being good.

The coalition yet supporting this graceless beauty pageant loser spouting Hitler’s views on women’s reproductive “rights” falls within her “Dull/Normal” quintile under the Normal Curve for human intelligence: Mammon-worshipping philistines untroubled by the stark proof that Bush and Cheney committed 9/11 to send us to die shedding innocent blood for heroin and oil, that Bush’s father, with Nixon and a hit team from the Knight of Malta-led Roman Catholic CIA, killed John Kennedy forty-five years ago today, that homosexual closet-queen hypocrite and draft-dodger Bush’s Knight of Malta-grandfather supplied the money from America’s Roman Catholic collection plate to the author of “I Paid Hitler,” or that the Bushes have been fronting for the Rockefellers since they built the Oil Monopoly on unredressed murder and arson in 1870’s Cleveland, Ohio.

America is a “dream” founded by Whigs. Individuals are supposed to be sovereign under the Universe: Annuit Coeptis. All individuals have the same E Pluribus Unum right. Reason and grace guide Our Novus Ordo Seclorem society. “Whig” means “anti-Roman Catholic”. That Palin’s views are those of Hitler and the gay Hitler Youth pope cannot be a good thing for those who wish to be American, and free.

This New Secular Order shall not restore the utopian dream of The Founders until the Anti-Christ/Amalek cancer feeding on our substance and destroying Our Republic, represented in politics and at the voting booth, by the likes of graceless inbred whitetrash morons, is identified by Good, Righteous Enlightened Patriots…and expropriated and extirpated through persuasion, education, and due process.

May it happen soon. Obama is but a first step in America’s national redemption.

Bush and Cheney must hang: Death for Treason.

Jeffersonian Exegesis

P.S. Fred Barnes can call himself something else now but he was born and bred a virulent Roman Catholic…and continues to support their American Fifth Column…as does Palin.

By Stephen

November 22, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

The problem that I have with this video is not the fact that the turkey is being slaughtered,since that is a given with Thanksgiving upon us. However, if you listen to what she said…if you are an intelligent/educated person, then you would have to question her intellectual capabilities. How much longer is her 15 minutes going to last???

By howcanyousaythat

November 22, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Who excuses Palin no matter what most of the time? Men. Why? They are mesmerized by her sexual (read breedable) attractiveness. Women are statistically much better able to ignore sexual attractiveness, which gives them the opportunity to actually evaluate someone’s merits. So guys, try to stop thinking with the organ below your waist, and try to stick to the one above your neck. We’ll all be the better for it.

By howcanyousaythat

November 22, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Who excuses Palin no matter what most of the time? Men. Why? They are mesmerized by her sexual (read breedable) attractiveness. Women are statistically much better able to ignore sexual attractiveness, which gives them the opportunity to actually evaluate someone’s merits. So guys, try to stop thinking with the organ below your waist, and try to stick to the one above your neck. We’ll all be the better for it.

By Heather

November 22, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

I have to admit, after a few minutes of listening to Gov. Palin speak, I want someone to put my head in a grinder, too. The turkey probably begged for it.

By Copyleft

November 22, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Her speech style is bizarre, isn’t it? The danger is that if she ever stopped to take a breath, oxygen might get to her brain… and then she couldn’t be a right-wing spokesmodel any more.

By Wackolibhack

November 22, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

It is Bush’s fault that we all murder turkeys. All turkeys used to live long wonderful lives before Bush. It is Bush’s fault that bed wetting libs like me cannot get over ourselves and that we hate Plain for no other reason than she did not abort her retard baby. I hate Bush!!!!

By Uglypeoplesuck

November 22, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

howcanyousaythat is obviously an ugly bull lesbian. Ya know, the real butch kind. Not a hot lesibian.

By Terrance H.

November 22, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

BRaceCop wrote: It is racist to kill turkeys.

Uh no, it is just racist to kill WHITE turkeys exclusively, or BLACK turkeys exclusively.

But since that turkey farm seems to be non-integrated, and houses white turkeys exclusively, maybe it is racist… :-)

By Socialist Sissy Saxby Must Be Defeated

November 22, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

VICE PRESIDENT of Kentucky Fried Chicken,-or should I say Alaska Tortured Turkey?.. VOTE MARTIN—U.S. SENATE—

By Give us our country back--Throw the Republicans out

November 22, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

PALIN IS A JOKE, McCAIN IS STUPID FOR SELECTING SUCH A TURKEY, -PALIN DOES’NT HAVE A CLUE.

By Duke

November 22, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Maybe American television viewers- and voters- are old enough to hear this now. That is where food comes from.

By Duke

November 22, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Maybe American television viewers- and voters- are old enough to hear this now. That is where food comes from.

By Denise

November 22, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Duke,

My father raised swine in addition to our raising our own beef and keeping chickens. I currently just keep chickens for meat and eggs. I have plucked my share of chickens but don’t particularly relish the idea of seeing them get their heads lopped off—nor did I particularly want to see what I saw in this video.

The point is that most people nowadays don’t live on farms. They live in cities and usually never witness this sort of thing. Sarah Palin is so self-involved and so friggen obtuse that she never bothered to think about what in that backdrop might offend the sensibilities of others.

Any politician who is so clueless as to not even consider how a scene like that might affect an average person is a moron. After all, the primary activity of any politician is finding ways to connect with the public. I really think she should go back to sportscasting, which is what she trained for. After all, it requires little intellect or sensitivity. It only requires that one stick to the written script.

By Mr. Egg Shells

November 22, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Densie is a namby pamby lib. One line summed up her support for libs and explains her failure in life. See, if you live your life walking on eggs shells out of fear that one “might offend the sensibilities of others,” you are doomed to be one of life’s little sob stories. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet, sweetie.

By Idiot Hunter

November 22, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

Lemme guess Denise, you were a Women and Gender Studies major, right?

By Denise

November 22, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this

Eggshells and Idiot:

I am just a person who was taught that the hallmark of good manners is the ability to make others feel comfortable. I’m terribly sorry if you two were raised by wolves and never taught anything like that.

By REAGAN DEMOCRATS FOR MARTIN

November 22, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this

PALIN is Dick Cheney with Lipstick!

By $150,000 Republican Wardrobe just was'nt enough to impress the voters

November 22, 2008 9:00 PM | Link to this

…$axby economics…a trembling turkey in this tricky economy!

By Alexander Hamilton

November 22, 2008 9:05 PM | Link to this

Who is raiding the U.S. Treasury?

By Wackolibhack

November 22, 2008 9:08 PM | Link to this

It is Bush’s fault that we all murder turkeys. All turkeys used to live long wonderful lives before Bush. It is Bush’s fault that bed wetting libs like me cannot get over ourselves and that we hate Plain for no other reason than she did not abort her retard baby. I hate Bush!!!!

By ....Mr. and Mrs. Moe Ron

November 22, 2008 9:18 PM | Link to this

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

By Dickowacsuckconservativebulsheets

November 22, 2008 10:35 PM | Link to this

It is Bush’s fault we sing dao dao Obama come and we have inaugaration day. I love Bush goodbye bushy, moey for the poor yippee bush i gone yippee

By Penny Nichols

November 27, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

I’m all for Ms. Palin entering national politics. Her insight into the difficulties this country is facing and ability to articulate her views is what we need right now. She is the best the Republican party can offer and will provide wit and wisdom along with comedy relief. Comedians the world over will praise her name.