Sarah Palin’s Dead Turkey Interview
by Kara Swisher
Posted on November 24, 2008 at 3:13 PM PT
How much do I love the Internet?
Muchety-much after seeing this interview that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave plastered all over the Web, in which the former Republican VP candidate gives a local Anchorage television station an interview as a Thanksgiving turkey is being slaughtered right behind her.
Actually, I cannot exactly tell what the hapless workman is doing to the poor turkey in question, because he keeps coming in an out of the frame, carrying the feathered bird by the feet, not sure if he should be doing whatever he is doing as Palin speaks.
But the worker does leave and then return in the course of the interview and then turns on some funnel-shaped device that seems to shake up the bird in an awful way. Twice!
Still, ever the trouper (and sanguine hunter, it seems), Palin obliviously keeps up the turkey patter, having just “pardoned” another turkey earlier.
Such is fowl fate.
Here’s the video (and, after seeing it, tofu might look more palatable on Thursday or you can give to Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project, which commented on the Palin interview):
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Comments
Yes, thank you for providing this video. Poor Sarah Palin. She can’t win even when she’s doing absolutely nothing wrong.
Hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. will be eating turkeys this week, and these millions and millions of birds have all been slaughtered in some manner that most of us would prefer not to visualize.
So, the “news” here is that Sarah Palin gets ridiculed because the cameraman inadvertently (or deliberately?) juxtaposed her and a turkey slaughter.
Could it not be that it’s Sarah Palin who lives in the real world, and bloggers who can’t think of anything else to write about need to either turn vegetarian or visit slaughter houses more often and face up to reality?
Posted by Terry Traub at November 24th, 2008 at 8:16 pmAnd what, pray tell, does this article have to do with personal technology?
This is a blatant attempt to take a cheap shot at Sarah Palin, a woman who has achieved much inspite of what the left-wing loonies would have you believe.
If I wanted hateful political commentary I would go to the Daily Kos. All Things Digital should stick to what they do best, Technology not Politics.
Posted by Tony Clark at November 25th, 2008 at 9:15 amclearly the puffed birds in the above comments just can’t appreciate this brilliant coverage of the technology of turkey termination.
Posted by Bruce Evans at November 25th, 2008 at 10:02 amFor GOD’s sake!!! People – wake up. Where do you think that bird on your table comes from? 12,000,000,000 animals are killed for food in US alone each year. It ain’t pretty!
Posted by Nick Pokoluk at November 26th, 2008 at 8:39 am