Pictures That Make the Rude Pundit Feel Like He's Dropped Acid and Stepped into a Shark Tank

[meegbear]

So there she was, the Future of the Republican Party, standing there yesterday like the spank-worthy centerfold of the LL Bean Christmas catalog, at a turkey farm, having just pardoned a fair fowl from becoming a crispy-skinned main course, as is the Chief Executive of a state's wont. And then she talked to the press. In front of a trough of blood and guts. While a farm worker was killing turkeys.

The Rude Pundit loves that worker - let's name him "Johnny Moustache" - for constantly looking at Palin and over to the side, where, one may assume, someone's telling him he needs to get to work, that the turkeys won't slaughter themselves. The Rude Pundit loves Johnny because the expression on his face says, "Are you really that fucking stupid? Are you really our fucking governor? Were you really almost the fucking vice president? Well, fuck me."

One could say that the media there set up Palin. And, goddamn, you gotta hope that's true, that some producer said, "Let's see if this bitch is as much of an idiot as everyone says she is," that the reporter intentionally asked if there were programs in Alaska "on the chopping block" and what Palin was going to cook at her family's Thanksgiving dinner. She's in charge of the turkey. No, really.

If you watch the un-blurred video of it, you will truly understand how hilarious it is. While Johnny offs the deliciously plump birds, Palin holds a cup of coffee and smilingly pontificates about life on the campaign trail, building up services in Alaska, the effect of oil prices on the state, how her kids are happy, how "neat" it was to come to the farm, how "You need a little bit of levity in this job," how she's there to "promote a local business" and not do something that "invites criticism." MSNBC reported that the photographer asked if she cared about the background; Palin said, "No worries."

And is there anything else you need to know about the end of the Republican Party than what's contained in this video? The disengagement from the reality that's right in their fucking faces?

(In case you don't watch it: what Johnny Moustache there is doing is sticking the thrashing bird into the funnel, cutting its throat, and letting blood drain out, occasionally pushing on the still kicking bird to squeeze more blood out, priming the pump, if you will. Welcome to the reality of Thanksgiving season. Gobble-gobble, motherfuckers.)

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[tekisui]

1. Joe the Turkey Slaughterer.

:rofl: Surreal and absurd.

[liberal N proud]

2. She is the turkey

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. This is beyond...

Anything my fevered and diseased brain could have ever come up with. It's like sick ezine shit written by a particularly disturbed 14 year old.

It's beautiful.

[hisownpetard]

12. I think Quentin Tarantino directed.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. FARGO !!!!! Cohen's film..

that's what I was thinking of as I watched this.

And the best part of the video is all the words she used that had a double meaning given the scene behind her.


" What other candidates have to go thru, it's pretty brutal, ya know"
( Behind her, man cuts turkey throat)

Reporter: " Are you concerned about any state programs being on the chopping block?"
( As man stuffs another bird into the Cone of Fate)

Palin " You need a little bit of levity in this job",
as the decapitated turkey is shaking the
whole platform and the guy is struggling to hold it in.

" At least this was fun"

"I'M in charge of the turkey, I am where I need to be today to prepare for that:
and she WINKS !!!!!!!!!!!

Everytime I see turkey I wll think of her.

[Double T]

4. After Palin's turkey sacrifice to the CONServative gods...........

I will be going strictly vegan. The be-ah-ch has the audacity to smile and laugh while multiple murders are being carried out directly behind her; no conscience at all.

[madaboutharry]

5. I think she simply isn't bothered by it.

She hunts and kills animals. The slaughter of the turkeys was well within her frame of reference.

That said, this episode is an example of her inability to think and look outside of her own view of the world. She is tone deaf. And clueless.

[CBGLuthier]

6. She may very well be

the stupidest politician on the face of the earth.

[Window]

14. No shit. She is seriously fucked up.

[IDemo]

17. I gotta take exception on that one

[143tbone]

7. What's with her hair? It looks like her hairline is receding. n/t

[Idealism]

8. I wonder if she picked that Burberry scarf up at Neiman Marcus

[Blaze Diem]

10. Picked up...haaaa

Must have been stashed away in Piper's $900 L Vitton purse.
A few things she couldn't locate when asked to return the grifted goods.

[Blaze Diem]

9. "Joe the Turkey Slaughterer"..LOL He have a book deal yet?

I want to see him giving his opinion on world politics, as did Joe the Plumber..
24/7 on MSM.

Letterman, Colbert, Faux..lets meet this guy, ya know, hear what he has to say about the Middle East, Darfur, all the things his Gov Palin educated the GOPers about in her run for McLame's VP

Sarah Palin. aaaggghhhh, This woman's a freakshow.

[Moody]

11. That is disgusting. I can't watch the youtube... pass the tofu. nt

[jmg257]

13. Mmmm...turkey. Yum! nt

[BrklynLiberal]

15. Sick...just sick...

[Gregorian]

16. The new definition of irony- republican.

Except the joke's on you. Turkey!

[Liberal Dose]

18. She's obviously doing her own hair & makeup these days. Or does she have bedhead on purpose?

:shrug:

[sutz12]

22. "Bedhead" is intentional...

Makes her look like her constituents.

Freshly fucked.

;)

[Cults4Bush]

23. That is a DUzy !!!!

lmfao!

[babylonsister]

24. LOL!

:thumbsup:

[Cronus Protagonist]

19. It's the perfect metaphor for the Republican party

Dog and pony show in the front, blood guts and death in the back.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

20. i thought this was a bad bad joke when I first

saw it. It is so "out there" that I am having a difficult time accepting that it actually happened.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. Caught it on the news this morning.

Apparently the anchor was an animal lover because she was really putting the screws in. Narrating it like the burning of the Hindenburg.

[Javaman]

25. palin: the stupid sponge.

she went from (can't even believe this still happened) VP nom to talking head morning reporter for dumb fuck stories in the blink of an eye.

If you still think that she is a future threat, I have a bridge to sell you.

[Sheepshank]

26. seriously

...it did not occur to her to turn around and have a quick look at the back drop to see if everything seemed in place and appropriate? OMG what a fool. The poor Turkey fought a valiant fight...tried several times to counter the blood drainer device. Maybe it was appropriate given Twilight opening weekend?

What the hell was she talking about? Sounded like a yappy dog. I was way too engrossed with the backdrop.

[NNN0LHI]

27. I felt like I was watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

These freaks that make up the Republican party make me

:scared:

Don

[stuntcat]

28. gobble gobble indeed :(

I will not watch that video.
I'll never eat meat again, the mass-killings are a shame on my whole species. ..Well Sarah fucking Palin is a shame on my whole species too.

[TrogL]

29. Killing foul == levity?

I spent a day on a farm killing chickens. At the end it was a matter of laugh or cry. We'd chop the heads off and by some wierd quirk in chicken anatomy the headless body would run around the chicken yard bouncing off stuff for about 30 seconds before it finally bled out. That's probably why the guy standing behind her is using that restraining device.

I still have nightmares.

[burythehatchet]

31. ergo, "running around like chicken with its head cut off"

I witnessed a chicken's head being cut off when I was about 6 or 7. More than 40 years later I still can't forget it.

[ColbertWatcher]

30. "Johnny Moustache" ? Shouldn't that be "Johnny the Turkey Killer?" n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

32. Is it common for governors to pardon turkeys?

Or has that always been something only the President has done?

I don't remember any other elected official doing this.

Although, after googling "governor pardon turkey" I find that Alabama has been doing this since 1949.

Do all governors do this?

[Seldona]

33. I knew The Rude One would have a field day with this.

Like many others have said before me, that video is the perfect metaphor for the repuke party. Blather up front, blood and guts in the background. Not a care in the world about it either.