Palin Pardon?Turkey Bleeds in Background

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Palin Pardon?Turkey Bleeds in Background
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Fri, 11-21-2008 - 12:05am
Palin pardons turkey as bird bleeds out on camera
11/20/2008 @ 9:43 pm

Filed by David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster


http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=12984

In 1963, President Kennedy decided to let the White House turkey live instead of making dinner of it. George Bush Sr. was the first president since to pardon a seasonal fowl, in the waning months of 1993, and his son followed suit through his presidency.

Now Alaska Governor and failed Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin has mimed presidential tradition, but her effort at winged mercy was 'cut' short. As she staged an impromptu press conference after pardoning one lucky bird, a worker at the Triple D Farm and Hatchery in Wasilla sliced a turkey's neck, bled it out and twisted its head off behind the governor, directly in the camera's line of fire.

A reporter asked Palin if she was okay with the backdrop. The Alaskan Governor answered, "no worries." As the bird's head was removed, the man looked over his shoulder at the governor and reporters and flashed a toothy grin.

"I was happy to be invited to participate in, in this, and, uh, and, you know, for one, you need a little bit of levity in this job, especially with a, uh, so much that has gone on in the last couple of months that has been so, um, political, ah, obviously, that it's nice to get out and, and do something to promote a local business and, and to uh, just participate in something that isn't so, um, heavy-handed politics that, uh, invites criticism," said the governor in what appeared to be a single sentence.

"Certainly we'll even invite criticism for doin' this too, but at least this was fun!" she pronounced.

This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast Nov. 20, 2008.

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Registered: 11-19-2008
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 12:47am
Why is this even a story? It's not like Palin strangled a turkey on live TV. Are the Palin-haters under the impression that turkey's surrendered their lives voluntarily and committed ritual suicide for your Thanksgiving?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 2:52am
LOL, of course! Turkeys understand the holiness of thanksgiving and dutifully march into the slaughterhouse.
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 6:35am
my turkey walked up to me and invited himself for dinner

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 7:50am

Will you make him put the gun down before you eat?

That siggy keeps reminding me of this ad that ran on Greek TV. The ad is for a cable movie channel, the idea being that the cop in this little Greek village has been watching a few too many American cop movies. A chicken is called a "kotta" in Greek, which the guy mangles into English as "kot". I don't know if it makes sense if you are not Greek, but here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6Ay416N7A&feature=related




Edited 11/21/2008 8:21 am ET by sild
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 7:57am

well when he arrived with the gun (bigger than mine) I decided to eat a frozen one ;-)


and lol at the commerical.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 8:14am

The words are simply Greek subtitles of the "English."

So I guess we can change the old gorilla joke to:

What do you call a Turkey with an AK47?

"Sir!"

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Registered: 11-20-2008
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 8:38am

I don't hate Palin but she seems to have two of the same problems as the current White House incumbent. She can't speak extemporaneously without butchering syntax AND she lacks a sense of place and propriety. Considering that the nation is foundering in a morass of financial meltdown and geopolitical mayhem........

The idea that Palin and some of the less-savvy GOP consider her fit for national service is more appropriate to Halloween than Thanksgiving!

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 12:48pm

I don't understand the fake pardon aspect of this, unless it's to prove a point that the birds that got "pardoned" by former presidents probably got the same treatment as this one got once the cameras stopped rolling. I doubt very much that the those turkeys are lounging back in some turkey hammock someplace sipping on Mai Tais.

I don't find seeing what happens to a turkey before it ends up on someone's Thanksgiving plate particularly distressing (in fact, I think EVERYONE should see exactly where their meat comes from and how it gets there)....However, I don't quite understand Palin's point (or rather, why she felt that SHE should be the one to make it)....The fact that she called it "fun" makes me wonder. I've known a lot of farmers and I am quite an avid fisherperson(man? ;o)....I can't say that I've found anyone that enjoys taking the life of their future meal or considers that part of the job "fun". Rather, it's just reality that this unfortunate task must be done if one chooses to include meat in their diet.

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Registered: 06-17-2008
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 1:02pm

In everything that I have read and heard, that is I think the most pithy

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. 

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Fri, 11-21-2008 - 4:05pm
Regarding the turkeys pardoned by Presidents, I know at least one pardoned by President Bush went to Camp David. But these birds do not live very long, I don't think much past a year or two. Too many health problems.
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