Countdown: Sarah Palin's Turkey Pardoning Fiasco

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 06:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxn2vlhtWo   Posted on YouTube: November 20, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 20, 2008 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 5508

 
What the hell is she thinking?!?!

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Wow - a turkey gets better humane treatment than Gitmo folk

How wonderfully Republican.

"Because it didn't have a trial" - that says it all.

[empire we are]

72. Really?

Hung upside down, decapitated, blood drained down a trough.
Stroll down the meat aisle.

They did share a shit filled confined life, one for its entirety, one for a portion.



Dinner is served.

[Rabrrrrrr]

79. H HA HA HAH AHA! You're a fucking riot. Next time, read my post,

and then check dictionary.com's entry on "sarcasm" and "hyperbole".

[Connie_Corleone]

2. "Have the turkeys stopped screaming, Sarah?"

[Wetzelbill]

6. "Quid pro quo, Sarah"

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. She didn't blast it caribou-style, did she?

[madeline_con]

4. "...and friend to all creatures, great and small..."

Does that include moose and wolves?

[Wetzelbill]

7. I honestly cringed when she read that part.

[ihavenobias]

18. Yep.

K & R

[iamthebandfanman]

38. i liked the *nudge nudge grin* that followed it n/t

[msongs]

5. she says she is bringing a little "levity" to the season - nice touch eh? nt

[Phredicles]

8. Holy snot, is this for real?

It's so hard to tell any more...

[Wetzelbill]

9. it's so bizarre you have to wonder

[Mojorabbit]

10. What is that thing he is putting the turkey in?

It seems more humane to just cut the throat.

[Poll_Blind]

17. Man, I gotta stop eating meat. I was curious too so I looked it up:

  It's called a "killing cone" and it works like this (from some online discussion):

The bird should always be contained in a killing cone, or for large
turkeys, a 5 gallon plastic pail with a "head hole" about 5" around cut
in the bottom. The actual killing can be a one or 2 person job. One
can do it if they are strong and wrap a bungie cord around the legs and
and to the bucket to keep the bird in the bucket. The bucket should be
securely nailed to a 2 x 4 or large piece of would that can contain the
birds muscular contractions.

These contractions are NOT because the bird is in pain. As others have
said the bird loses consciousness soon after the vein is slit. The
contractions are nature's way of squeezing all of the blood out of the
muscles. The reason the vein is cut rather than using a axe or hatchet
is that the brain needs to tell the heart to keep pumping so the blood
is literally pumped out of the meet. That eliminates excess blood
residue in the meat and a resulting bloody bag. When the brain is
disconnected the heart just sort of quivers and does not pump the blood
out, it just drains by gravity.

The bird should never be allowed to thrash around the yard as this can
cause serious bruising of flesh, especially wings and thighs. Please
go and read the tutorial at the link above and print it out to refer to
in the future. Be assured you are not alone in your feelings, over 400
people have printed the tutorial in the last three weeks.

  Well then...back to whatever.

PB

[Mojorabbit]

25. Thanks!

Interesting stuff.

[populistdriven]

55. uncensored version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kjM1asH-8

[nankerphelge]

76. Join us over in the Vegetarian, Vegan, and Animal Rights Group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[pedo]

46. i think he was draining the blood?

any rednecks here who can help educate us liberal elitists?

[Wetzelbill]

53. yes farm hick checking in

He was putting it's head in that thing where a blade quickly cuts it's main neck artery, killing it almost right away, and then they hold it there and the blood drains.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

11. Yeah, well here's one for the turkeys

http://www.youtube.com/v/5nYoahyaPuA&hl=en&fs=1

[madeline_con]

16. Oh, snap! That was awesome!

[1Hippiechick]

85. Something is wrong with the link? n/t

[raystorm7]

12. I feel like I've seen this in a movie before =)

[Heather MC]

19. John Waters, Pink Flamingos perhaps??

Never mind that was a weird sex scene with chickens

[amyrose2712]

60. PAPA U MAO MAO !!! ew!

[Wetzelbill]

27. It kind of reminded me of "Fargo"

[TheEuclideanOne]

13. And in a follow up, Sarah Palin releases turkeys from a plane to set them free

and they learns that they can't fly. (a little WKRP ref)

[CAG]

21. CLASSIC!!! Les Nessman going beserk

[DefenseLawyer]

32. As God is my witness

I thought turkeys could fly!

[Divine Discontent]

41. Oh, the humanity!

[raystorm7]

14. KO must be foaming at the mouth to tell this story ... LOL!

[snake in the grass]

15. Although I find this typical Palin...

...I don't really understand the scandal. People eat turkey at Thanksgiving. Where do they think the turkeys come from? If you eat meat, you have no reason to be disgusted by this video.

[Heather MC]

22. I love meat, I find this Video uncontrollably funny, Think about it, this moron

goes out to SAVE a turkey, then is dumb enough to take an interview with the turkey killing machines behind her. then in the course of the interview says she is incharge of the turkey this year.

Makes you wonder if those two beheaded turkeys were for her to take home, after the press left

[snake in the grass]

35. I guess...

...my humor chip wasn't functioning today. Yes, that is incredibly stupid of her. Then again, I wouldn't have expected anything else from this hominid.

[Wetzelbill]

28. it's the idea that she pardons a turkey

says she's a friend of all animals, yet is dumb enough to do an interview where turkeys are being killed in the background, bloody enough that it had to be blotted out. She doesn't have a lick of sense.

[JeanGrey]

74. I don't find it typical anything but people acting stupid about

where food comes from. That looked like a nice big tasty turkey - I'd take it.

[snake in the grass]

78. That's how I saw it too.

However, now I do appreciate the irony of presenting this particular backdrop after ceremoniously pardoning a turkey. Palin is really dense.

[JeanGrey]

81. Oh I'm sure she knew ahead of time they were going to do it

and approved it. Come on. And if she did she probably wouldn't have cared. The woman is a hunter so she knows the score.

[the blues]

20. ...she replied, "No worries!"

Nope. Not since November 4th, anyway.

[hendo]

23. Yes kiddies

your turkey has to be killed before you eat it for thanksgiving.

edit: some people are really reaching for scandals. just let her fade into obscurity.

[Wetzelbill]

29. I wouldn't say it's a scandal

It's just stupid to pardon a turkey, say you're a friend of all animals, then do an interview in while turkeys are being killed in the background. You don't see how dumb that is?

[hendo]

88. it would only be stupid

if the turkey that she pardoned was the one being killed.

It is an attempt to create a scandal out of nothing. Everyone knows that this time of hear turkeys get killed in droves, its almost Thanksgiving.

[JeanGrey]

82. Apparently we won't let her fade.

[hendo]

89. Yeah, I guess not

All that this media attention is going to do is keep her in the public eye. The election is over, its time to move on. We should be boycotting videos of Palin, not giving them hits. I would hope that MSNBC is intelligent enough to just let her fade away like a bad dream.

[Windy]

24. I'm sorry...don't mean to offend, but I was laughing so hard at that I had tears!

My God she is just dumb... no common sense whatsoever...

[Wetzelbill]

30. that's exactly it

We all know turkeys get killed, duh. But she's so stupid she pardons one and then does an interview while they're being killed in the background. No sense at all.

[ksimons]

48. exactly! It's like the Big 3 showing up to beg in luxury jets - stupidly bad

love your line juxtaposing the two - shows she really doesn't have a sense of journalistic big-picture. next she'll be shown sitting having a 4 course dinner in front of a line of starving children as she hands out cups of rice, waving a napkin of support LOL

[Wetzelbill]

52. authoritarian thinkers like Palin

compartmentalize their thoughts. Regular people, like you and I, might have some embarrassment or see something hypocritical if we did something like say, campaigned on moral values while we were having an affair. But to authoritarian thinkers one doesn't have anything to do with the other.

That's why Palin sees nothing at all odd about pardoning a turkey and then doing an interview while ones are getting killed in the background. While the rest of us can correlate that, or the begging while flying in luxury jets or the dinner and starving children, and realize how bad these things look, people like Palin etc, have no clue. They don't get it. It's truly weird.

[Tutankhamun]

26. That guy is really hamming it up for the camera.

He even smiles, nods and laughs when she says that a little levity is necessary, and he cracks up and nods vigorously when she laments that people will even find something to criticize about the event.

This whole fiasco probably just converted a few people to vegetarianism, thereby saving a few turkeys.

Let's give Sarah Palin her due; her turkey pardoning event may have done more to prevent the deaths of turkeys than any other in history.

And it was fucking hilarious.

[LuckyEmily25]

31. Happy thanksgiving

I am almost sick of collaborating with this nonsense obviously sarah palin is a media whore lets take this same message else ware. SHE IS "PARDONING" a turkey while one is is being ready to be killed behind her. Have we ever stopped to think that these blogs are doing no good! no good! What is the point. PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME!

[iamthebandfanman]

39. well it did ensure one thing

and thats if i come down with an illness thats terminal, im flyin to alaska and stickin that guys hand down in that thing.

one finger at a time.

ill be sure to keep him smiling for the cameras.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

33. Governor.. any state programs on the chopping

block?

how did they keep a straight face with that line?

[1corona4u]

56. I thought the same thing....

[gristy]

34. holy shit

[earth mom]

36. OMG, that was unbelievable. From Neiman Marcus to killing turkeys...

[republicansarewhores]

37. "No worries".

She's a fucking psycho.

RAW

[Divine Discontent]

40. TOTAL dumbass - she's such a bizarre woman. I can just smell the turkey poop on her shoes, now.

give her a little bit of an edgiecation an' she thanks she cun run the white house!

sheesh... scary scary vapid woman. she woulda loved nazi germany, you can just tell.


GOBBLE GOBBLE, SARAH!

Many different Yes We Did items in the Obama/Biden section www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable

[WhoIsNumberNone]

66. I don't think the Nazis would have let her be a Gauleiter though-

Women were barefoot and pregnant in Nazi Germany. She might have enjoyed being the commandant's wife at a concentration camp though (ala Ilse Koch)

[Divine Discontent]

67. ah, true... eom

[JustJon]

42. Whereas. Therefore. Also. Too. M'kay?

Man, she needs to splurge on a speech writing staff.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. She is incapable of thought or empathy. Cold. (Re: " What the hell is she thinking?!?!") . . nt

[caseymoz]

44. She has all the brains of a frozen turkey

[BeamMeUpScotty0086]

45. Turkey in machine: "I'm Brian, and so is my wife!" n/t

[shadowknows69]

47. That was like porn for butchers

"No worries". I think Sarah likes blood too much.

[bulloney]

49. This was actually a replay of her address at the Republican Convention, wasn't it?

Sure looked and sounded the same. A bunch of dumb turkeys strutting around making primal sounds at anything she said. Probably smelled the same.

She acted like holding that turkey was too gross for her. I thought this was a woman who could shoot and dress a moose.

[shadowknows69]

50. It's live animals she doesn'tlike

Which is why she shoots and guts them.

[pokercat999]

51. I finally figured it out.

There is life on other planets. The beings there look and act very much like us humanoids that are native to earth. When the citizens of the other planet find a really stupid resident among them they are too caring to harm them but just can't live with them. In an effort to find what we would call a humane solution they simply ship them to earth. Here (in the good old USA) the new residents usually become involved with politics and quickly become members in good standing of the Republican Party. One huge problem is that sometimes (being really stupid) they actually "join" the Democratic Party and we are faced with the results, like the aliens that were members of PUMA.

I'm sure SP is one of these aliens, if not, the human species is in more trouble than I thought and life ending global climate change may be a blessing.

[Ganja Ninja]

54. This is like something you'd see on the Daily Show.

You almost expect Rob Riggle to be the guy slaughtering the turkey.

[Auggie]

59. Classic comedy bit. Something you'd expect from David Zucker and

Jim Abrahams (Police Squad, Airplane!). All that was missing was Leslie Nielson.

[underpants]

57. Totally and completely oblivious to the world even 15 feet from her

Hilarious

[IsItJustMe]

58. This is not a scandal. It's just a lack of good sence to go and pardon a turkey and then show them

killing other turkeys. It's just ignorant. Pig shit ignorant, I might add.

[benld74]

61. WKRP Flashback

AS God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly!

[Doodler71]

62. She's a genius I tell you... genius!

I pardon you, now go ahead and chop the heads off.

Once again proving her complete disconnect between brain and mouth.

[lebkuchen]

63. As of today, I'm a vegetarian

If the Thanksgiving turkey markets take a hit, we'll know why.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

64. Tina Fey! Is that you? I thought you were retiring this bit!

Seriously- doesn't this feel just like a Saturday Night Live skit? I love the part where Caribou Barbie says she's a 'friend to all creatures great and small'. Except for the days you are shooting them from an aeroplane, right? And the part where she's talking about needing levity in the job as the turkey is getting bled in the background. Sheer comic genius if it had been Leslie Nielson.

[ProgressiveFool]

65. Maybe we could get an upside-down turkey avatar as an international symbol of avian distress

I have to admit I went around my office at work and turned some of the ubiquitous and annoying Turkey Thanksgiving decorations upside-down on the walls. We'll see if anybody gets it.

[trickyguy]

68. She is one big god-damned turkey who should not be pardoned.

[empire we are]

69. Please

The video should not have been fuzzied.
Palin is a douche but she is connected with the actuality of MEAT.
We need to see more of the death we eat.
Gandhi would no doubt have been booted from DU.

We are divorced of the death we inflict.

[pepperbear]

70. and sadly, that is NOT tina fey ladies and gentlemen. sometimes it just writes itself. n/t

[Joey Liberal]

71. Palin is one sick bitch nt

[dsharp88]

73. DON'T BUY A TURKEY

Let the Repubs enjoy the slitting of the throat, the draining of the blood, and the trashing of the animal's legs as its life oozes out. Hell, it's what they live for. It's a Republican's greatest orgasm to watch Sarah Palin alongside sadistic killing. Or perhaps second to seeing CIA torture tapes from Guantanamo.

Please protest by not enriching the livelihood of these right-wing slaughterers.

[1Hippiechick]

77. This video broke my heart. I didn't hear one word that blithering booty-pageant blathering idiot

said. All I could do was feel shock and pain for that poor turkey. It truly saddened and nauseated me.

[meuniermr]

80. Somewhere John Cleese

is wishing he had thought of this as a sketch years ago.

[cushla_machree]

75. I didn't see anything wrong with this video

The wrong part is, she choose the backdrop and seems to be smirking about it. Like oh, isn't this funny, killing animals. Take that, liberals!

Its not that the turkey's are dying, its that she choose it as a backdrop for no reason! They guy keeps glancing back...thats what creeps me out...like he isn't sure if its ok to start massacring the turkey with the cameras rolling. then he's finally like F-it, here i go! and palin's smirking away.

[JeanGrey]

83. Killing animals? Oh my god. This always floors me when

people act shocked that animals are actually slaughtered. It's unbelievable.

[lumpy]

84. I didn't absorb one damn thing she was gobbling.

Is she on meth or something else that causes the mouth to runneth over?

[Iris]

86. No worries is right. Unless you live in Alaska!

[Demeter]

87. I Couldn't Watch It--Too Cringe-Inducing

and more proof of my theory that one MUST be humor and irony impaired to be a member of the GOP.