Gov. Palin does interview while turkey is put in grinder, hilarity ensues

In case you haven’t already seen it, there is a video circulating around the internet of an interview MSDNC was doing with Gov. Sarah Palin on her pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey. Unbeknowst to her, there was another turkey in the background that wasn’t so fortunate. Here’s the video:

Tim Blair has a huge round-up of hilarious reactions, mainly from the “outraged” left, many of who have apparently never before bothered to consider where the turkey they eat for Thanksgiving dinner came from … or how s/he got there.

Ed Morrissey finds even more hilarity in a blog post from the NYT editorial board devoted specifically to this “issue” which described the turkey’s fate as an “execution.” His response:

One man butchers a turkey for food (two, actually), and the New York Times gets the vapors. Have any of them ever eaten meat? At all? The editors of the Times should declare right now whether they plan to eat real turkey on Thanksgiving, and/or use turkey in sandwiches from now on. If so, how would they expect to have that available to them without the kind of process seen in this clip? Did they think that turkeys somehow committed suicide and left wills donating their bodies to family dining tables around the world?

Executed. Someone send the Times a vat of smelling salts.

I’ll be home with my family in California for Thanksgiving this year, while my son’s famly heads to Alabama for a Southern Thanksgiving with my daughter-in-law’s family. We will be enjoying all of the trimmings as well as the traditional turkey, and I doubt that any of us will be surprised to learn that someone killed the turkey before we shoved it into the oven. Maybe the New York Times considers that news in Manhattan, but that only gives readers an idea of how out-of-touch the Paper of Shrieking Hysteria has become.

Yep.

Now, will the “outrage” reach the point that millions of liberal dining room tables across America will abstain from serving a platters full of turkey next Thursday? Don’t bet on it. This is just another example of the PDS-inflicted left doing what they do best: acting like, well, turkeys.

BDS Flashback:

Thanksgiving 2003 – Media whines: Cooked turkey Bush holds in hands while being photographed visiting troops in Iraq was for “decorative purposes only”

15 Responses to "Gov. Palin does interview while turkey is put in grinder, hilarity ensues"

Severian says:

November 22, 2008 at 7:02 pm

The leftoids are such idiots. No matter what Palin does they will find something to complain about. It’s as bad or worse than they are with Bush.

I’ve heard some complain that she should have noticed, why didn’t she notice it, jeez, this is a woman who shoots, skins, and field dresses out moose and bear for cripe’s sake! She probably didn’t notice it at all, it’s like complaining that an ER Trauma Center doctor didn’t notice someone worrying over a hangnail in the background. Only effete, whiny urban liberals notice and are upset by such “real life” drama. Sheesh.
Don Singleton says:

November 22, 2008 at 7:05 pm

The turkey is still alive, and it still has feathers on it. I’m sure the guy holding it upside down really wants the camera to stop running so he can do something the turkey does not want to happen, but do they really pluck a bird before killing it? If not how can you say we saw a bird’s “execution” or even “killing” since it went in the machine alive and was still kicking when the tape stopped. Also do they grind turkeys out doors, or don’t they do them in processing plants, not where they are raised.
Severian says:

November 22, 2008 at 8:00 pm

The thing the guy is using is called a “kill cone” amongst other things. It works like this, you take the bird, and lower it head first into the cone, the weight of a bird as big as a turkey holds it in the cone, with it’s little gobbler head sticking out the bottom. You then take a knife and cut the turkeys throat, and the blood drains into the trough. After said turkey has fully expired and drained, you do what you see the guy in the video do, pull it out and move it away, and put the next bird in. Only used on smaller farms from what I understand, it’s much more mechanized and from what I hear gruesome at the big factory processing plants, where things behead the turkeys automatically en masse.

Still, where’s the drama in all this? It’s some guy putting a large, stupid stupid bird into a cone and quickly dispatching it, no muss no fuss.

I mean, c’mon, it’s not like they stacked the turkeys up with bags on their heads and took pictures of them! It’s no avian Abu Graib! No one waterboarded the poor bird!
MissJean says:

November 22, 2008 at 8:48 pm

I had to laugh, now that I’ve seen the “execution”. I thought maybe someone used an axe or a strong grip to dispatch the turkey, like I’ve seen chickens killed.

The only ones who might (legitimately) be upset with such a post would be small children. Maybe someone should tell the hysterical adults, “It’s okay, honey. Ol’ Tom Turkey is just sick and the nice man is holding him while he pukes.”
Mark J. Goluskin says:

November 23, 2008 at 12:23 am

I almost forgot about President Bush and the turkey incident. Hey, maybe he should have had Sarah Palin “execute” the turkey and have her cook it and then take it to the troops. Oh, and of course film it all! What idiots the Dinosaur, Drive-By, Mainstream, Obama-Worshiping Media are!
Trish says:

November 23, 2008 at 1:26 am

We have become such wusses. Back at the first Thanksgiving, people did their own meat “executions”–and cooked with things like blood and chicken feet all the time.
(The outdoors humorist Patrick F. McManus once wrote a hilarious short piece about his grandmother forcing him to help her make blood sausage.)
Steve Skubinna says:

November 23, 2008 at 4:21 am

I suspect Palin knew what was going on around her. It was a turkey farm, after all. She likely didn’t think anything of it – it is, after all, a natural aspect of life. She gave it no more thought than if she’d been standing in front of a harvester gruesomely decapitating helpless corn stalks.

Life in Alaska – it’s so primitive there that they actually take live turkeys and make them all dead so they can get eaten. Not like in the comfortable coastal enclaves where they grow their turkeys already dead and plucked in shrinkwrap and styrofoam trays or in nice slices in a Swanson package. I am really beginning to sympathize with Heath Ledger’s Joker… the sooner civilization in the cities breaks down and they start eating each other, the sooner I can munch nachos and laugh.

Trish, I remember that McManus piece about the blood sausage. Like most of what he wrote, laugh out loud funny.
T-Steel says:

November 23, 2008 at 8:45 am

*SIGH*

I agree with Trish. We HAVE become such wusses. And it irritates me even more that a bunch of folks on the Left had to lead this charge about “the turkey”. Makes all of us who reside in the Left spectrum look stupid.
Great White Rat says:

November 23, 2008 at 8:50 am

The best comment on this I’ve seen is from an unidentified reader at NRO’s Corner, who sent this to Byron York:

She should tell the media that she apologizes and she’ll do her next interview inside an abortion clinic.

Let’s see if the NYT comes down with a case of the vapors over that.
Severian says:

November 23, 2008 at 10:44 am

Outstanding point GWR! The left gets the vapors and shrieks over a turkey getting “executed” (and turkeys are about the stupidest thing on two legs), yet think nothing of horrendous practices such as partial birth abortions and leaving surviving infants to die in the trash. After all, slitting a turkeys throat is much more horrible than sticking a tube into the head of a living infant and sucking its brains out.

But then, the leftist environmentalist wackos think more of things like a tiny fish or frog than they do about people, so it’s par for the course I guess.

Human life is only worthy of preservation if it’s a radical extremist who’s killed a cop or a noble “freedom fighter” Islamist goon who’s blown up an orphanage.
alchemist says:

November 23, 2008 at 11:38 am

I could care less about the Turkey, but it’s generally a bad interview tactic to have something going on behind you. I had to watch it a second time to catch what she was saying.
Sister Toldjah says:

November 23, 2008 at 11:50 am

“Bad interview tactic”? Are you that far gone into liberalism, alchemist, that you think Gov. Palin specifically set it up so someone would be behind her putting a turkey into a grinder while she was involved in an interview about pardoning turkeys? And as Sev and GWR pointed out earlier, what’s with the liberal “outrage”? Why can’t you guys show outrage on issues that really matter, oh like PBA, for example?
Mwalimu Daudi says:

November 23, 2008 at 12:14 pm

It was MSDNC that did the interview and chose to put the cameras there, alchemist. As FDR once said, nothing in politics happens by accident. The hyper-partisan MSDNC knew what was going on and wanted to start a controversy. It is what they live for these days.
forest hunter says:

November 23, 2008 at 7:13 pm

I had to watch it a second time to catch what she was saying.

Which says a lot about your observation skills and lends itself to why you’re as distracted and enamored with the methodical liberal hypnosis as you appear to be.
Lorica says:

November 24, 2008 at 1:18 pm

I think this was her “shotgun” Cheney moment. She was sending a message to all of her enemies in the GOP. Sarah “Corleone” Palin leaves turkey heads in her enemies beds instead of horses heads. She is telling them they are next if they don’t get behind her. – Lorica

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