Sarah Palin, turkey candidate.

From HuffPo, today's already infamous "turkey murder" interview.

I'm not linking the video here. It's too grisly. The most tone-deaf candidate EVAR.

And I think I just became a vegetarian.

Comments

[JeffCO]

Hurray!

[zoe]

I am having soy "turkey" after watching that. G-d, I wish she would just go away. Then again, she really is the gift that keeps giving.

[icruise]

I just can't believe it. I really can't. I mean, how can you choose that as the background for your interview and then go on about how you "need a little levity" once in a while. Honestly.

[dan mcenroe]

The guy in the background grinning for the cameras while he bleeds out the turkeys is classic.

"Hey, look at me! I'm on TV with the governor! Hi Mom! Wait until the girls at hooters hear about this!"

[queek]

So does Alaska pay for her turkey not to mention the shopping trip?

And I like how she keeps talking about how Alaska profits while the rest of us pay at the pumps. I say we invade Alaska, jail the local government and make it part of the US!

[wa ching]

Good lord...

[Scott]

That is hilarious. The guy in the background just looks at the camera like "WTF?" for the first little while, then starts nodding when she talks about supporting his business. And all the while she's smiling and gabbing and completely oblivious.

This has to be faked. There's no way anything this funny could happen by chance.

[Gindy]

She might have done more for vegetarianism than anyone ever could have.

[kate]

I don't think it was faked, I believe it was entirely real. The guy getting set up for the kill does look at the camera as he has the turkey placed, "WTF? Is someone going to be done so I can get to work or what?" look on his face for about the first few minutes. Then he walks off camera with the turkey in hand, apparently considering doing the business somewhere else but is instructed to "carry on" -- that's the real hoot.

I could just hear his boss, "Fuck the bitch, go do your job."

The irony is just too much, "I think its great to get our here, everyone needs a little levity in this job every now and then..." or something like that while the bird is jerking in the kill chute and the worker keeps looking back to the camera in an awkward kind of embarrassed, smiling way.

A comedy skitch would never have done as well.

[Elspeth R]

When I watched it on KO last night - they stated that the photographer asked to set the shot up somewhere else, but Palin said where they were was fine!!!??!! I mean, I understand yummy, nommable turkey has to give up the ghost - but dayummmm...on the evening news???

And - that 'pardoning' the turkey speech - really??? It went on so long, I am surprised the turkeys didn't expire from old age by the time she was done!

She sure does love the sound of her voice...whereas it makes my ears bleed and my IQ feels pain.

Elspeth

[heydave]

I have no delusions about where meat comes from, and I'm not going vegetarian; sadly, I've seen worse livestock films. Go local and at least pretend that creature-eat-creature can be humane.

But, my god, this stupid woman is so seriously, amazingly clueless that it's just breathtaking to watch. And then get pissed off that she even exists.

[Capt. Bat Guano]

Is that Ed Gein working the turkey killer?

[Elspeth R]

I am surprised there isn't footage (that we know about) of Sarah pulling a Bob Vila moment and asking to chute up a turkey w/her own hands.
"Hey, Pipette - getover here - I wantcha ta see what it's like to feel the life force drainin' out before I take ya to tha canned hunt next week, you betcha! Can't have ya wussin' out on me, no pup of this pit bull bitch is gonna be shirkin' their gahd given right ta senselessly murder a creature for fun doncha know!!!"

Jeesh,
Elspeth

[Frogspond]

Geebus. Wow. The sucking vaccume that is her brain. Just Wow.

[Duros Hussein 62]

the grift that keeps giving.

Lemme fix that for ya.

Did Piper Cub write that speech for her? Sounds like 7th grade Social Studies to me.

[Mart]

In my job I go to industrial slaughterhouses, this place is rather quaint. One turkey processor I went to kills 20,000 toms and 23,000 hens per day. A pig slaughterhouse I went to handles 10,000 per day. An old dairy cattle to hamburger meat joint, 8,000 per day.

I been a vegetarian a long time and these places don't bother me too much. They are generally very clean. But trust me, Bob Evans ain't doing the butchering down on the farm.

[pansypoo]

just say no to palin.

[kate]

Other holiday backdrop suggestions:

Christmas: Execution chamber in Texas
Easter: Pork slaughterhouse
Labor Day: Prison (because that's where all good Republican supported countries put their labor leaders)
Memorial/veterans Day: Gitmo

[NOTeasy]

Is she gonna fly over Juneau in a helicopter dropping frozen turkees next?