In Videos: Sarah Palin Interview with Turkey Slaughter in Background
While watching TV last night, I caught the news snippet of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardoning a turkey and then talking to reporters about something afterward.
I have no idea what she was talking about, though, because I was too busy gawking at the turkey slaughter going on behind her. The video, after the jump. Don't worry, MSNBC, where the clip originated, has blurred any gory details.
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The non blurred version is on youtube. Not really very gory at all, I think MSNBC was just being provocative. The blurring makes you think what's going on back there is much more gory than it really is. I do agree though that it's pretty ridiculous to be holding an interview in front of the area where birds are being slaughtered. She is pretty clueless.
simon at 1:35PM on 11/21/08
Was there a part about cruel and unusual punishment about having to listen to that grating, rambling woman?
"I don't think it has changed me at all." Correct, your just as out to lunch as before only now on my tv all the damn time.
I want to write the FCC and complain. I am offended for the turkies.
If she could miss that she is a bubblehead. If it weren't so predictable it would be sad.
JerzeeTomato at 1:40PM on 11/21/08
Thanks, Simon. Just added the raw cut to the post above.
I think it's fine that she did the interview in front of the slaughter. At Serious Eats, we've always been proponents of of knowing where your food comes from.
Adam Kuban at 1:43PM on 11/21/08
Adam I have no problems with seeing someone slaughter a turkey, I protest that woman. She is unappetizing.
JerzeeTomato at 1:52PM on 11/21/08
I love the guy doing the butchering, gawking into the camera....classic. I didn't hear a word she said, either...I was transfixed watching them plop the gobblers upsidedown into those funnels of death.
juliebugsmama at 2:00PM on 11/21/08
This is like a Monty Python sketch come to life! Cue the Terry Gilliam cartoon already...
JudgeFudge at 2:05PM on 11/21/08
Yeah, this has nothing to do with knowing where your food comes from. It has everything to do with her being an oblivious bobblehead who can't help herself from committing blunder after vapid blunder. Even though this is relatively harmless, it's a pretty good insight into her personality. As if we needed any more confirmation as to how incompetent she is. Unless of course, this is some sort of coded message to Ted Stevens... Can she pardon more than one turkey? In which case, it's brilliant.
simon at 2:08PM on 11/21/08
And now some pageant walkin....
JerzeeTomato at 2:48PM on 11/21/08
Not a big deal. I don't think people in Alaska are as sensitive about seeing a turkey farm in operation.
simon and JerzeeTomato- the election is over, the messiah has prospered, you can stop pretending Sarah Palin is "clueless" now.
chaddius at 4:11PM on 11/21/08
chaddius - *wooooooosh*
That's the sound of the point flying over your skull.
fascfoo at 4:23PM on 11/21/08
I don't give a fig about the election. My distaste for all things Palin will go on till I feel like giving them up.
And now some pageant walkin....
It is my right to have disdain for a women who does embodies the word clueless. Exhibit A: the turkey of a video.
Also the burberry scarf was a nice touch at the slaughterhouse, don't you agree?
I am not going to even ask who this messiah is. Are the chocolate pudding people back from the mothership?
JerzeeTomato at 4:42PM on 11/21/08
Sorry, fascfoo, that's you missing Chaddius' well-taken point. People in rural areas aren't embarassed, let alone horrified, by the reality of what it takes to produce meat. The food industry is as good a business to pose in front of as a steel plant or anything else; it employs a lot of people and it feeds even more. Anyone who attacks her for this video and then eats one bite of turkey this Thanksgiving is a hypocrite.
Sky Full of Bacon at 5:23PM on 11/21/08
Adam: "I think it's fine that she did the interview in front of the slaughter. At Serious Eats, we've always been proponents of of knowing where your food comes from."
Thank you.
pecorino at 5:28PM on 11/21/08
My favorite line is when the reporter asks her if she thinks anything will be "on the chopping block." "Oh you mean BESIDES the turkeys?"
pearltellszoe at 5:43PM on 11/21/08
If you're willing to eat it, you should have no problem watching it being slaughtered.
CassieRose at 5:50PM on 11/21/08
Sky Bacon,
No. I am also a big proponent of knowing where your food comes from. I take offense to people who eat meat, but are unwilling to give thought to the fact that a living, breathing animal died for this plate of food in front of them. I grew up in a pretty rural area and have killed my fair share of chickens for dinner. I got chaddius' point - my problem is that his point is irrelevant to this video.
Am I the only one who sees the tactlessness of pardoning a turkey and then conducting the rest of the interview in FRONT OF THE TURKEY SLAUGHTER STAND? No? Just me? Not to mention seeing the juxtaposition of her standing there in her neiman marcus jacket and her winter themed starbucks cup and the slaughter going on behind her just serves to highlight her aloof cluelessness; it's almost as if this video encapsulates what so many people dislike about Palin. What the poster's above me have accurately gleaned from the video, chaddius completely missed.
fascfoo at 6:41PM on 11/21/08
So she pardoned a turkey at a turkey farm. Where would you expect to find turkeys, Bed Bath & Beyond?
Fascfoo, your point is based on the assumption that she should have, anyone should have, found the slaughter distasteful and something to be hidden away, out of sight. But if she doesn't share that point of view-- as I don't-- then she's not "clueless" for not having the reaction of those who do. Again, it's no worse to stand in front of a food processing plant than a steel mill-- if you assume that both are worthy industries.
Sky Full of Bacon at 6:48PM on 11/21/08
I would like to see Sarah Palin going head first into one of those funnels.
I truly dislike her.
FastFoodCritic at 7:51PM on 11/21/08
Seriously... just the sound of her voice irritates me.
FastFoodCritic at 7:55PM on 11/21/08
This video would have been better if it featured Sarah Palin shooting turkeys from a helicopter.
ReneeRobinson at 8:24PM on 11/21/08
And another thing... she is NOT attractive. I don't understand why people continue to speak of her as a good looking woman. She looks like a man who went thru a sex-change operation, and the closer you look the scarier she appears.
FastFoodCritic at 8:39PM on 11/21/08
Again for those who cannot read I could care less about where she is, it is what she is saying which sounds like blah blah blah and government and blah blah blah campaign trail blah blah. I bet the turkey was a better speaker. Forget the turkey listen to the words coming out of her mouth. It is inane, rambling crap. That you can listen to from months ago, the woman is a bobblehead doll.
JerzeeTomato at 8:42PM on 11/21/08
Hmmm turkeys being killed near Thanksgiving is news?, lol, just goes to show which direction MSNBC leans....heck, they lean anymore ,and they will fall over!, as for Mrs. Palin being attractive...ohhhh mamma!, wish i were able to attract women that look like her!.
jword2001 at 9:29PM on 11/21/08
I felt that whomever set up and filmed that segment chose the exact spot to be controversial. I'm no fan of Palin's but any criticism should be for the tv station/network that set this piece up.
BTW, I voted for Obama, but I'm feeling very disappointed by his corrupt, lobbyist/insider selections for his cabinet. Those who fancy themelves thinking beings, would better spend their time speaking out against Obama's flip flopping on his campaign promises, than in rolling around in the "bash Palin" gutter.
Mares at 9:42PM on 11/21/08
@Mares:
"According to MSNBC, a photographer asked Governor Palin if she wanted to find a different location to shoot, but McCain's former running mate simply said, 'No worries.' It isn't clear, however, if Palin - an avid hunter - was aware that the nasty business was actually being caught on camera." [NY Daily News]
Adam Kuban at 10:48PM on 11/21/08
This may sound stupid, but... Why do turkeys need to be pardoned??? And why is it news, much less breaking news (a term never used for press events)?
I seriously dislike her, but I can't really see where she messed up here. Yeah, it's a little gruesome - I for one don't want to see turkeys killed, that's why I'm veg - but I agree with the SE gang on this one. No harm, no foul. (Notice how I avoided the pun there.)
piccola at 11:08PM on 11/21/08
"This may sound stupid, but... Why do turkeys need to be pardoned???"
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Maybe they've been bad turkeys.
Bad Turkeys. BAD... now off with your heads and into the oven.
FastFoodCritic at 5:02AM on 11/22/08
Turkey pardoning is a silly tradition, annually undertaken around Thanksgiving every year by the President and now apparently by governors as well.
My take on this is that MSNBC was highlighting the fact that Governor Palin doesn't realize how ridiculous it is to take part in a lighthearted, whimsical turkey pardon while standing in front of the turkey slaughter. I eat turkey. I'm not offended by the slaughter but I am shaking my head that a light bulb didn't go off in Palin's bespectacled head where she realized that a turkey pardon and turkey slaughter in the same frame just doesn't jibe.
holdthemayo at 9:46AM on 11/22/08
Did she pardon herself?
dhorst at 10:42AM on 11/22/08
I would like to see Sarah Palin going head first into one of those funnels.
I truly dislike her.
FastFoodCritic at 7:51PM on 11/21/08
Seriously... just the sound of her voice irritates me.
ReneeRobinson at 8:24PM on 11/21/08
And another thing... she is NOT attractive. I don't understand why people continue to speak of her as a good looking woman. She looks like a man who went thru a sex-change operation, and the closer you look the ..."
YOU are seriously and UGLY person.
Jamson64 at 1:44PM on 11/22/08
Did she pardon herself?
dhorst at 10:42AM on 11/22/08
Over what? Troll
Jamson64 at 1:45PM on 11/22/08
OK. This thread has gotten nasty and ridiculous. It's clear that it has run its course. We're closing this one.
Adam Kuban at 2:34PM on 11/22/08