Why do they still have to kill Thanksgiving turkeys, when they’re available in the supermarket?.
“I’m in charge of the turkey, so I’m where I need to be to prepare for that.”
Heh.
BTW – this is the same MSNBC that published a photo of a U.S. Army captain killed during an assault on Falluja.
Update – “MEDIA DIE AS GOVERNOR PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS FROM TURKEYS.” and don’t miss this, either.
As God is my witness….
Palin Derangement Syndrome lives on. As always, those on the Left simply can’t give up their hate. It’s a core element to what passes with them for intellect and ideology.
Beside continued Palin Derangement Syndrome, it’ll be interesting to watch the continued Bush Derangement Syndrome even after Bush leaves office.
Dave……maybe it’s a bad case of PMS also…Palin Madness Syndrome.I agree.If the Left didn’t have their hate,where or what would they be?
Is there anyone on the left not a complete imbecile? I mean really. Seriously?
Just what do they think happens before the damn bird ends up on their fricken plate???
All those folks at Huffpuffington Post will have nightmares tonight after learning the chickens and turkeys they’ve been serving weren’t allowed to die a natural death.
one of the few things I remember from helping out on a turkey farm 30 years ago. If you turn a turkey upside down ,they get disoriented and dont fight.
works well on screaming toddlers too. just for a moment.
Well put Warwick! That is pretty mild compared to prime time telly. I don’t get the outrage.
it should have been Obamas job, he is the next Lincoln. the MSM has it all wrong, she is usurping the job of the president.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011119-5.html
any CBCpravda is all over it , without historic context. please CBC – provide your “reporters” with google.
totally ot . hillary is secretary of state. i said the big o is in clinton’s pocket. who gives a rats ass if i can’t spell.
The idiots at MSNBC (Sarah Palin haters) don’t realize she is thumbing her nose at THEM, simply doing the interview right there at the farm slaughter area.
In her interview with Greta Susteren on FOX she told of bagging and dressing cariboo for the family sustenance.
I have nothing but admiration for a classy lady, with plenty of smarts.
Go Sarah!!
I’m not sure if it was a link from SDA or not, but I remember watching a video of how animals are killed and butchered. The preface to the link led me to believe that I was about to see some video on animal abuse. When I watched it, it was just shots from several different slaughterhouses for chickens, pigs, cows etc.
I did not feel the outrage that the video was supposed to cause. These people who think meat comes from a supermarket just don’t seem to be able to fathom how an animal is butchered. to top it all off, they seem to think that you are some kind of savage if it doesn’t make you ill.
I remember going to my aunts, at a young age, with my mother to help butcher chickens. My mother helped clean and I had to chase the chickens after they ran across the yard with no head.
My mother got paid in chickens, and I got paid in sheer fun.
What? Meat comes from animals?!? Eeeeww!
Hm, if the Huffington Post is actually upset about animals dying (which I sincerely doubt) then yes, they are imbeciles.
What I think most people find so humorous about the situation is that she pardoned a turkey…i.e., allowed it to live, and then in the background, a bunch of turkeys are getting slaughtered. /shrug I found it to be a good little laugh.
What do they expect to gain by hammering away at Palin even though she’s back home, doing her job as Governor of Alaska? She’s probably aware of the fact they’re all a bunch of Turkeys, the non feathered kind.
She’s way too smart for the lot of the mealy mouthed and stale talking heads on the various networks. Perhaps when their Messiah gets into action they’ll have something to occupy their tiny minds besides Sarah Palin.
I haven’t bought meat out of a store for 10+ years. It amazes me when feeding guests the look you get when they ask about the meal and then you tell them that it is off farmer “Joe down the road” instead of the IGA or Safeway. Then they proceed to tell you about their favorite meat shop and butcher. All I ask them is do you know where your meat comes from and what it was fed before the butcher presents it to you in a nice wrapped see threw package.
If turkeys could fly,the Demorats would be an airport!
You can just see the smirk on the camera man’s face thinking, Gotcha…… Palin,saucily smirking, “No, I GOT YOU, TURKEY!
Another horror instigated by the Right wing conspiracy. A Turkey holocaust.
Seriously though that was mild compared to chopping there heads off which I do every year to chickens for grain fed animals, from the REAL farm.
Try working with pigs around, trying to eat the still blinking heads.
Bush/Palin Derangement Syndrome will continue, as will the endless series of trigger-happy Cheney jokes, because they will not turn on Obama.
The HuffPo and its readers’ reactions to the video say a lot about lefties.
First, there is no unpleasantness in the world except for people who may inconveniently point out the unpleasantness; i.e. animals may be slaughtered for thanksgiving dinner, but that’s OK as long as no one actually shows the lefties that animals are slaughtered for thanksgiving dinner. Anyone showing the unpleasantness or recognizing the reality of it is bad and evil. Lefties will just take the sanitized results of it (pate de fois gras, the right to protest without being shot or tortured) thank you very much.
Two; farmers, fishermen (Palin’s husband), hunters (the Inuit, other natives), miners, loggers, soldiers, policemen i.e. anyone who really gets their hands dirty providing the essentials for a safe, modern industrial society are objects of revulsion, scorn and derision for lefties. These workers (with whom all lefties are in “solidarity”) are useful as the recipients of lefty largesse i.e. redistribution of their hard earned wages (with an appropriate “entitlement” for the burdensome responsibility of redistributing), but God forbid that one of these workers should actually be seen working or horror of horrors deign to run for a position such as Vice President without worshipping at the altar of lefty dogma. Best that they keep their proper place and not get uppity don’tcha know!
The HuffPo and its readers’ reactions to the video say a lot about lefties.
First, there is no unpleasantness in the world except for people who may inconveniently point out the unpleasantness; i.e. animals may be slaughtered for thanksgiving dinner, but that’s OK as long as no one actually shows the lefties that animals are slaughtered for thanksgiving dinner. Anyone showing the unpleasantness or recognizing the reality of it is bad and evil. Lefties will just take the sanitized results of it (pate de fois gras, the right to protest without being shot or tortured) thank you very much.
Two; farmers, fishermen (Palin’s husband), hunters (the Inuit, other natives), miners, loggers, soldiers, policemen i.e. anyone who really gets their hands dirty providing the essentials for a safe, modern industrial society are objects of revulsion, scorn and derision for lefties. These workers (with whom all lefties are in “solidarity”) are useful as the recipients of lefty largesse i.e. redistribution of their hard earned wages (with an appropriate “entitlement” for the burdensome responsibility of redistributing), but God forbid that one of these workers should actually be seen working or horror of horrors deign to run for a position such as Vice President without worshipping at the altar of lefty dogma. Best that they keep their proper place and not get uppity don’tcha know!
Reality — eewwwww! Keep it away from me! Have you sent your children out of the room yet? Reality is so gruesome — just so totally, you know . . . outre! Give me the sanitized, feel good, illusion any day.
Idiots!
Justthinkin, your “If turkeys could fly” comment reminded me immediately of the most funny sitcom episode in the history of television: The WKRP Turkey Drop
http://radio.about.com/od/thanksgivingradio/a/aa110108a.htm
unbelievable these idiots
Now imagine if someone composed an art exhibit where the artist read poetry while the turkey was being slaughted in the background. That would be brilliant in the eyes of the urbanite left.
I love one of the comments in the HuffPo piece: “If it makes you feel more comfortable, pretend she’s standing in front of an abortion clinic.”
Remember the wailing tree huggers video of a while back? I can just imagine the wing nuts at PETA after seeing the turkey bleeding. Too bad there isn’t a camera on that gathering of bird brains (pardon the pun).
Mark Steyn at NRO links to Tim Blair while providing a few hilarious comments of his own.
That has to rank as the most sanitary “slaughter” of livestock I’ve ever seen.
Too many city bred folks around, not enough country, I guess. MSNBC should be around at neutering time on a farm, as I was as a kid, and watched the farm dog hastily eat up the rough surgically removed testicles like so much tasty treats.
“Try working with pigs around, trying to eat the still blinking heads.”
Har!
Pictures of NYTimes staff on the killing floor!!!!!
I find the background distracting, but gruesome? Hardly…we’ve done chickens…wish we had a sytem like that!
Gov. Palin is not going to fit into any mold that the lefty media have for her.
Ticks them off royally.
Ha! Hope the Huffin puffers eat tofu for Thanksgiving.
Chris @ 7:00…kinda puts it all in to perpective.
Had to shoot a cow just yesterday, yes she was trying to die a natural death, could have taken two more days as the birds had pecked her eyes out since she was down, the coyotes had eaten her entire rear end out, yea nature is mean and cruel and not as quick as a 308. Sorry you millie news people, things die so we can eat and in this case animals will clean her up, boo hoo. Sarah Palin is a class act all around, not the kind of people the fat loser lesbos like at all, then again the cranky faced new people don’t even like themselves.
were are all the usual lefty trolls on this one????
Well, there you have it Sarah Palin the average everyday woman. I giggle at the supposed faux pas she committed. Anyone who has lived in the real world realizes that this is just part of life. I have to say I never enjoyed killing chickens. I don’t think of killing animals as necessarily a pleasant experience, but I don’t see what is so awful about it either. After all, thats where all these freaking lefties get their food from.
I can still hear the lefties on Huffpo saying look at the maroon. What a bunch of morons.
I love this story. The woman hunts and used to run a commercial fishing business – of course she’s not squeamish around a farmer going about his work.
A country of adults of wouldn’t have any need to hide the sight of a farmer preparing for Thanksgiving – but we don’t live in a country of adults anymore. Whatever urban liberals are, they aren’t adults.
MSNBC actually warned people to not let their children watch. Cripes, when I was a kid I did that kind of work.
Maybe next year she can do an interview in front of Kate gutting her deer.
I’m a always a little suspicious of vegetarians, do they love animals or do they hate plants?
Joseph Campbell said that vegetarians were people who like to eat things that couldn’t run from them.
In our increasingly urban mania (Steely Dan once had a lyric, “I crawl like a viper through this urban dream”) we do not realize that the basis of life on this planet is the food chain.
And we are spiritual beings to be sure, but we are also part of the natural world, and in this world life feeds on life.
When we were younger, exposure to this reality, adjusting to it, being equal to it, being able to operate affirmatively in it, was automatically part of becoming a grown person.
Today we would have to say that a lot of our metrosexual citizens along with their media bunnies are “naturally challenged.” They are preserved from having to look at the realities of existence squarely.
And then like all neurotics and leftists, the first thing they do is try to make a virtue out of their weakness.
In some movie of John Wayne’s he said to Maureen O’Hara, “You’ve got to be a man before you become a gentleman, and he loses on all counts.”
Why did they block out the gory bits? Where do people think their Christmas turkey comes from!
Joseph Campbell said that vegetarians were people who like to eat things that couldn’t run from them.
Related – “How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a carrot?”.
Eat dirt – it’s the only true ethical and moral choice.
Like many people, both right and left, I was never impressed with Sarah Palin, and I think it’s time everybody (except Alaskans, I suppose) forgot about her. Her nomination for v-p is considered a major reason why the Republicans lost the election, and I don’t understand why anyone would think that makes her a good presidential candidate.
I’d say, “that dog won’t hunt”, but I’d get into more trouble than a pig wearing lipstick …
I only eat things that have a face–even better if it has a name!!
nv53, it’s very possible that you are Canadian and naturally may not be tuned in to the inner workings of the Republican Party.
Right now, the Republican Party is conflicted within itself. About 10% are called Reformers and 90% called Traditionalists.
The Reformers are primarily Washington insider policy wonks, editorial writers along the Washington-NY corridor, and the readers who favor them. They are the ones suggesting that Palin dragged down the Republican ticket.
The Traditionalists, who represent around 90% of the Republican Party, believe that Palin was the only bright light in the campaign. She brought out all the crowds and all the enthusiasm. You have to remember that McCain has been considered a RINO in Republican circles. He has almost become a Democrat on two occasions. He has voted against Republican initiatives time and again.
Had we closed our primary process to Democrats, he probably would not have been nominated. Had the primary process simultaneously run in the Midwest and South, he would not have been the nominee.
The basic reason that Republicans are so enthusiastic about Palin and now consider her a possible nominee in 2012 is very simple.
She believes in a strong defense, limited government, strict constitutional interpretation, minimum regulation and taxation, and that the Founding Fathers drew up the mission statement for our country and were profound. She also believes that there is a spiritual dimension to our political considerations. As you know, our Declaration of Independence says that we are created by a Creator, and she believes this along with most of us.
I hope this explains why there is actually a great deal of enthusiasm for Palin in conservative circles and why she does not receive the kind of favorable press that the policy wonks like to espouse.
That’s a great suggestion, CanuckInMI
The deer gutting and skinning being somewhat fresh in my memory, a little turkey beheading is rather tame stuff in comparison!
More reaction to Palin at the Turkey Slaughter:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/as_bad_as_it_gets/
Obama won because Republicans stayed home. Without Palin, even more Republicans would have stayed home. It is not that hard to figure out. I defy you to find one difference in policy between the anti free speech McCain and Hillary “The problem with the internets is that there are no gatekeepers” Clinton.
Chris:
Someone else at NRO (http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjFhOTdkZTBmY2Y1NDg3NDczMzE2MGJkMTVjOGQ3ZjQ=)
She should tell the media that she apologizes and she’ll do her next interview inside an abortion clinic.
I think that pretty much sums it up.
Surely Andrew Potter has something totally irrelevant and neurotic to add on this topic, doesn’t he or is he still trying to impugn Mike Duffy for the Conservative defeat in the Canadian election?
she’s not very subtle in telling the media they should get stuffed.
The can’t help but marvel at the difference between the State of Alaska and the Province of Ontario in the turkey killing video. That guy doing the killing would be in such deep do-do for running an illegal slaughterhouse and selling any kind of meat not provincially inspected.It would mean a huge fine…..all to protect the “consumer” from tainted meat.
Under new legislation about to be passed in Ontario OSPCA officilas with as little as 2 weeks training will be allowed to enter a persons property WITHOUT a warrant and seize just about anything that they like.
And in more protect the environment legislation about to be passed any deadstock (including innards) must be transported in a sealed truck and covered. That’s so no blood or guts gets into the water…I didn’t realize that was a problem what with cities dumping billions of litres of raw sewage in lakes and rivers.
Is it any wonder we are now a have-not province with all the catering to the left wingnuts?
“she’s not very subtle in telling the media they should get stuffed.”
I expect SNL to show her fisting an erotically stuffed Turkey on Saturday night.
‘Can’t help really liking that Sarah Palin. Natural as the pure-driven snow. No wonder the femi-nazis don’t like her: she’s purty, she’s spunky, she’s feisty, and she’s got a sense of humour, not to mention a sense of proportion.
She’ll be in the kitchen taking care of the turkey, while her mom and sisters bring the other food.
I’m kind of glad that John McCain lost. It means that Sarah Palin is back in her home state, running the Government, the Governor’s Mansion (is there one in Alaska?) and her family, instead of having to hire a few nannies to keep the White House fires burning.
She said campaigning was “a blast.” She’s a stronger person for it, but it doesn’t seem to have changed her. She knows who she is, whether she’s Trig’s mom, Alaska’s governor, or VP candidate. A breath of fresh air, especially when you compare her to Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton…
I really like her and think she is great.
IMHO I think the left and the MSM are really torn up and don’t know how the handle someone who speaks their mind without being PC all the time. Anyone who is not from a city or worse a middle class person who has an actual job and works for a living makes them uneasy.
The lefty poster’s response is to attempt to shut up someone like Sarah Palin by calling this woman every filthy swear word their twisted minds can think up. They really fear her or Kate or Harris or Harper because they are strong responsible people with common decency and ethics unlike themselves.