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I love Sarah Palin.She’s so much fun.Seriously.First, she pardons a turkey, calling herself a friend to all creatures…Uh…Ok moose hunter.Next, she gives her post-pardon interview in plain view of her “friends” (turkeys) being slaughtered.Beautiful. Posted in Elections, Funny, Humor, Life, News, Politics, Presidential Campaign, Sarah Palin
So Sarah Palin, thinking she was a G went back to Alaska and decided to go to a turkey farm to pardon a turkey. This is an event most big politicians partake in every season. Somehow the Palin managed to screw it up, you’ll eventually see the farmer straight decapitating turkeys in the background while [...]
Download | Play Download | PlayFrom Countdown Nov. 20, 2008, David Shuster brings us Sarah Palin's extremely creepy turkey pardoning and post-pardoning interview from Wasilla, Alaska. The whole thing plays like something out of the Twilight Zone or the latter stages of Fargo. As a couple of my fellow C&L'ers pointed out after watching this, if Sarah Palin is a "friend to all creatures great and small" someone needs to let the wolves and polar bears know about that change of heart...lol. Images of Palin and "creatures" are more likely to be those of high powered rifles and helicopters than any sort of compassion in my book. And she does seem to use those family members selectively for what's politically convenient at the time doesn't she?
ht heathr456The carnage begins about 3 minutes in! Alaska Governor Sarah Palin merrily hams up her official pardon of a turkey for Thanksgiving, but in the background Bubba the Butcher is beheading birds and draining blood into a big, fancy tub. Bubba looks a little sheepish…as if “maybe if I stare really hard at the camera, my invisibility powers will kick in.”Posted in Bizarre, Bizarre Death, Campaign 2008, Holiday, humor, Media, news, News Headlines, Politics, video Tagged: Holidays, Slaughter, Thanksgiving, Turkey, Turkey Massacre on TV