The bat-shit crazy, fake baby birthing church lady Sarah Palin turkey massacre of 2008 may be the most disturbingly funny thing you ever see
Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey today, as do many government officials throughout the country at this time of year. It's just one of our many dumb traditions I suppose.
After the pardoning ceremony was finished, Sarah being Sarah, she just couldn't resist the temptation to speak into a microphone. Yes, she gave an interview, apparently without knowing what was taking place right over her shoulder. Just keep an eye on the character from Fargo in the background as he commences to slaughter turkeys while Palin drones on and on and on, and also keep an eye out for the hilarious captions on the MSNBC crawl at the bottom of the screen. It's awesome!
And thanks to the 8000 or so people who forwarded this to me in the span of about 15 minutes earlier. It's as if I was the first person everyone thought of when they first saw this or something. I'm truly, truly flattered. And keep the tips coming. Love you guys.
Also, notice how when she's going on and on and on talking about her life and what's she's thankful for this year she never once mentions that her little baby girl is about to get married and make her a grandma. Interesting, no?
UPDATE: As commenter "Slamdance" pointed out, MSNBC blurred some portions of this. So if you can stomach it, here's the unedited version of the interview. It's not any more bloody or anything, just packs more of a punch when you see the turkey fighting for it's life at the precise moment that she says "I'm so happy to be here."
God, this is fucking ridiculous. She is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
19 comments:
She is the gift that keeps giving. And why does her Public Affairs team hate her so much to let her be played like that?
Caj,
In the video on HuffPost, "Cooter's" face isn't blurred out. When he sticks the second bird in the funnel to slit its throat, he looks at the camera and starts laughing.
Fuckin' priceless.
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Bat-shit crazy, fake baby birthing, turkey massacring church lady.
Who'da thunk there'd come along a lady that would make Cheney look like an animal hugger?
There just ain't no words.
just watched the unedited version...while gross and seemingly cruel...i was waiting for the reporters to offer themselves up for slaughter....did you listen to the bs that broad was slinging?
she knew that oil prices would plummet??? really...thats why she handed out an extra 1500 per person to alaskans???
so she is not just an expert on energy...she is an economist too??
so what was all that bs about drill, baby, drill??? think the oil companies want to drill now that oil is below 50 bux per barrell?? shoot...they got their, now we"ll get ours....right up the fuckin ass
and of course she wanted to be interviewed right in front of the slaugter area....first to show that alaska has no fuckin health code...second to get controversy so that she stays in the public eye
what a cunt
The comment tags about the interview and the Deliverance extra in the background....priceless!
How come she isn't thankful about her 8 month pregnant daughter or have any concerns about her? Isn't she looking forward to becoming a new grandmother?
Really - I would think the literate people who follow CB's blog and comment would know where meat comes from. Why did she stand in front of the slaughtering? She probably didn't think about it. As demonstrated over the election, Palin is a hunter as are most in Alaska. It's normal to kill animals and eat them - it has allowed us to survive as a species. Unless you are a vegan or hunt your own animals, then this is probably a video you should watch. Let's call it educational. I guess everyone has yet again morphed - from metrosexual to metro-sissie.
Is she for real?! That was hysterical...and sad (for the turkey)
This lady should be banned from anything political.
She is like a robot. A really, really stupid robot. She repeats the same things over and over; like she has 6-8 talking points, and no matter how out of context they may seem given the state of affairs, she just can't help but repeat them. Like she's programmed to say them. Of all the people on my "people I'd like to bitchslap" list, she may be the highest ranking female.
Watching her give that interview there right after "pardoning" a turkey was classic.
Anonymous, as a few people have already pointed out, we all know where meat comes from and are well aware that meat-making is not a pretty scene. It's the juxtaposition of her cheery prattle over a backdrop of grisly slaughter that makes this video delightfully ironic. Even moreso now that it has been revealed that she was aware of what the backdrop was going to be. That little twinkle in her eye is reminiscent of the one Cheney gets when talking about torture.
Uncle: "She repeats the same things over and over; like she has 6-8 talking points..."
She's talking as she always does and as every politician does.
They all have talking points they stick to.
Shel: "cheery prattle over a backdrop of grisly slaughter"
Again, for cheery prattle - she always talks this way- and grisly slaughter - no big deal to someone who hunts and butchers her own meat (not so grisly to her)
Anonymous:
"no big deal to someone who hunts and butchers her own meat (not so grisly to her)"
Again, you're missing the point - much in the same way that she is unaware of how ridiculous this sort of thing is to her image. It doesn't matter if it's "no big deal" to her. We get that. Seriously, we do get that.
If a gerontologist turned politician gave an upbeat speech to a tv crew about the recovery of the economy while a medical team tried to resuscitate a corpse in the background, most reasonable people would find this bizarre and ridiculous. If you don't see the irony of this sort of thing, I guess there's not much more to say other than repeating this: we get that she hunts and that animal slaughter is no big deal to her.
i have no idea what she said, i couldn't stop watching the turkey.
Honestly, this video shouldn't really start up the whole meat-eating versus vegetarian discussion...what it should do is make everyone get down on their hands and knees and give thanks that this woman was not elected as vice-president! She is the one person in the entire world that makes W look semi-intelligent!
Shel,
She is oblivious to the slaughter of a turkey because it is common in her community - not just to her. People watching this local news interview will not be phased by the backdrop.
Maybe it is ridiculus to people who live in an environment where meat is bought at the supermarket. But what about a community or region where many if not most people hunt and butcher their own meat? People who have wrung the neck of chicken? Slit the neck of a cow? I lived in Africa for a year and this was common - didn't phase anyone. She was not concerned what the media centers (New York and DC) of this country thought about the interview location.
anon....i have been to slaughterhouses...some humane, some not...watching an animal get it so a human can eat doesnt bother me
but it makes this crazy cunt wet...and that is fucking sick
there is a pic of her hunting with piper...they have come upon the elk that she has shot...and it wasnt a clean shot...and she is standing over the animal while it is still alive and in pain
one that has no respect for the animal...can have no respect for humans....
Hey anon at 9:06
Some people butcher animals so they can hang the heads on the walls, like Sarah Palins father. The walls and floors were covered, obviously you didn't see the video.
The point here is that she is so desperate to have face time on television, she doesn't have the sense to consider her surroundings for the television audience. No different than reporter in Iraq doing an interview while soldiers around him/her get their heads blown off. Now she claims she didn't know, so the cameraman who informed her before she started shooting is a liar and it is all the medias fault.
The most interesting aspect of this is that she is a laughing stock, a national joke...and she doesn't get it.
I like that the simple girl from Wasilla appears to be wearing a $295.00 Burberry Scarf for this event...
http://www.burberryusaonline.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2843441&cp=&searchId=39078372264&keywords=scarf&sGroup=Women%27s+Accessories&parentPage=search
anon said: "She is oblivious to the slaughter of a turkey because it is common in her community - not just to her. People watching this local news interview will not be phased by the backdrop."
Once again, I understand that she is oblivious to this sort of thing. That is my entire point too. Not that I should need to explain, but I grew up on a small farm/working cattle ranch and we raised and slaughtered our own animals. I have also hunted and butchered my own kills. As an adult, I have illustrated medical and veterinary textbooks and journals and I've worked as a medical photographer. Gore and humane slaughter does "phase" me in the least. I see nothing wrong in giving a news interview about slaughterhouses or turkey farms with that scene in the background. But just because a person is exposed to this sort of thing for a lifetime doesn't mean it's appropriate to disregard the context.
Example: We all pee. Frequently. Peeing is no big deal. Some of us have even peed in bottles or worse when we were unable to get to a restroom in time. Yes, we even get that peeing doesn't phase people who pee a lot. Even Aunt Millie pees. With a few exceptions, most of us still don't pee in front of everyone at Aunt Millie's Thanksgiving dinner table. Why do you suppose that is?
I'm no politician, but as desensitized as I have become, even I have enough sense to avoid standing in front of a man slaughtering animals while giving a news interview about family, hope, and the future. Or to pee at the dinner table. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the level of desensitization a person has experienced. It has everything to do with tact and awareness. If she is trying to move into the circles of world leadership, she needs to learn both.
But I'm guessing it might be easier to teach a dog algebra than to teach Palin and her apologists about awareness, tact, analogies and irony.
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