Sarah Palin Interviewed While Turkeys Are Killed in Background
Video of Sarah Palin Interview, Turkey Slaughter All Over the Net
Sarah Palin and turkey slaughter: Perhaps the scene didn't bother her since she's a hunter
As any hunter knows, blood is part and parcel of a kill. Deer hunters don't haul the entire carcass from the woods; instead, they gut the animal on the spot and carry home a lighter load. It was well known during the campaign that Sarah Palin is a moose hunter. Likely, the somewhat disturbing images of the turkeys being slaughtered wouldn't phase her.
They didn't call Sarah Palin 'Caribou Barbie' for nothing. She has a hunter's instinct and a pioneer spirit. Perhaps the turkey carnage going on in the background was just less disturbing to her because she hunts and is used to seeing animals bleeding. At any rate, no one in the press has given her accolades for not fainting dead away at the sight of turkey death. Unfortunately, Sarah Palin's nonchalance is instead interpreted as cluelessness, a carryover from the campaign.
Is Sarah Palin responsible? Shouldn't the videographer chosen a less graphic backdrop other than turkey slaughter?
How many times have we seen a newscaster broadcasting while antics are happening in the background? Though Fox News did report that Sarah Palin was told about the turkey slaughter going on behind her, she chose to let the interview continue. However, before she even started the interview, one would think a videographer would have seen the bloody sink and chosen a different angle to spare the public from seeing turkey blood. The executioner did appear to ham it up for the camera and perhaps he should have had the forethought to not kill turkeys while the interview was being taped.
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2008/11/21/palin-conducts-tv-interview-turkey-slaughtered/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8
http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/thanksgiving/2008/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/20/sarah-palin-holds-news-co_n_145375.html
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Post a CommentIt is what happens at Turkey Farms you nitwits. Grow up and enjoy your tryptophan next time you chow down on your Thanksgiving turkey.
I personally don't care for Mrs. Palin, but I believe that there is a third perspective here that might apply. As a professional politician, and, like it or not, a successful one, she has to be able to keep a straight face through even the most disturbing events. Consider some of the things a governor is occasionally called on to do: visit disaster sites, tour hospitals, and sometime even travel to war zones. In each of those situations, terrible things, death and the like, have recently happened or are still happening. Now and then, a governor must even bear witness to an actual execution, and through it all must appear totally collected and composed, no matter the sense of abject horror swelling up inside.
Execution? They were convicted of crimes and sentenced?
People who eat meat, yet have a problem with the slaughter of animals for food, are mentally lacking. I eat meat and while I do choose to pay other people to slaughter and butcher my food for me, I don't have any issue with it, anyone who does is hypocritical.
I couldn't bring myself to look at the video after reading it, but thoughts run both ways. Maybe it's callousness or bad judgment on her part; on the other hand, maybe she was so focused on the interview that she didn't pay any attention and didn't know what was going on around her.
Come now, it isn't as if she gave the interview while slaughtering the turkey herself. Would the media be making such a big deal of this if she were a man? Likely not.
Interesting, but then all the ones we eat are killed :) Sheri
Oh boy. This isn't going to fare well for her.
What a terrible lapse in judgment; especially when today's media is so highly visual! Well written (as usual).
I didn't see anything wrong with it myself, but I could somewhat see how city folks would be upset. I couldn't really tell, but did the turkey's still have their heads attached? When I raised ducks, I would always kill them by chopping off their heads