Friday, November 21, 2008

A Thanksgiving Gift from the Blog Gods

Here lies Satire, R.I.P.
500 BCE - 2008 AD
It was a good run:

From FOXNews.com -

Alaska governor officially pardons a turkey for Thanksgiving, then conducts TV interview at farm while another is seen being butchered in the background

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin officially pardoned a turkey for Thanksgiving at a farm in Wasilla, Alaska on Thursday, then conducted a television interview as another bird was clearly seen being slaughtered in the background.

As the former Republican vice presidential nominee spoke with a KTUU-TV reporter about returning to work in Alaska, just a few feet behind her a Triple D Farms worker is seen feeding a turkey into a grinder, periodically turning around to watch the on-going interview.

Palin, who called the pardoning experience "neat" was reportedly told by the station videographer what was going on behind her, but allowed the interview to continue.



8 comments:

Sully Sullivan said...

Hahaha. Obviously something like this would happen to Palin. How clueless can one person be? Especially when that one person governs an entire U.S. state. Jesus.

Anonymous said...

Why the hell does she wink so much? I want to stab her winking eye with a spork.

Merton Sussex said...

You can totally tell the guy behind her is laughing his ass off about the whole thing, too. He keeps looking at the camera like, "Really? Here? We have a whole farm, and you're gonna do this right here?"

At one point, it becomes obvious that as long as they're going to watch him, he has zero compunction about making a show of killing that thing, really SELLING it.

The only thing that would have made that funnier is if he had taken the actual "pardoned" bird right out of her hands, and then decapitated the delicious fucker right behind her while she waved and blew kisses at the camera.

blaine_fridley said...

sully-

"How clueless can one person be?"

It really is quite amazing, man. And she keeps adding to her legacy of clueless-ness everyday.

Katherine-

How many times must I tell you, spork stabbings are not the answer to EVERYTHING.

Anonymous said...

Two quick things:

1. Just remember Palin still may not be a worse governor than Ventura. I mean sure, her kids knocked up, but it's not like she and her friends have trashed the Governors Manor (or Log Cabin, whatever they have in Alaska)

2. The turkey got what it had coming (and I'm not talking about the one that got Pardoned). Any animal that's been bred to be that dumb and taste that good just needs to be killed and consumed…in mass quatities.

Anonymous said...

this is the person that was suppose to stare down Putin? God can one can only imagine..i think the most important thing to ask is, why are you grinding whole turkeys and filiming it to boot...?

The Husky Bro said...

she couldn't see the turkeys being assassinated behind her because she was too busy watching for Russian community organizers

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