(CNN) - It’s the ultimate holiday photo-op for any governor: the yearly pardoning of a turkey to spare it from demise days before Thanksgiving.
But former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin is causing a stir for an interview she gave after pardoning an Alaska turkey Thursday, during which one bird was being slaughtered in the background.
Palin appeared unaware of what was going on directly behind her, though she did seem to take a glance at the unfortunate event at one particular point during the interview.
"It's nice to support a local business and just participate in something that isn't so heavy handed politics that invites criticism," Palin said during the interview. "Certainly will probably invite criticism for even doing this too, but at least it was fun."
"I am always in charge of the turkey so I am where I need to be today to prepare for that," she also said.
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I thank God every day that this woman didn't get elected for vice president!!!
I saw the interview.
The turkey wasn't the only thing being slaughtered......she murders the english language every time she opens her mouth.
A true turkey knows a turkey when they see one,I heard her gobble on and on during this speech.Thank goodness shes gone.
Sarah will do anything to get into the spotlight and being unaware is certainly her trademark.
Give it a break lady and just go away!
This is one lady I do not get, nor do I understand her.
bet she wishes the RNC could have bought her a real burberry scarf to keep... sad
"It's nice to support a local business and just participate in something that isn't so heavy handed politics that invites criticism," - what happened to the pitbull? Oh, yeah, that was just an act.
"I am always in charge of the turkey," - what governing is really all about. Why did people ask her so many stupid questions when she was running for VP? She knows how to do a photo shoot, people.
Really CNN? This is news? It's a week before Thanksgiving and people eat turkeys. In order for that to occur, turkeys have to be killed.
Can we just stop talking about Sarah Palin? Please?
I don't know where to start with this one.
I watched the interview on MSNBC Countdown, they fuzzed out the image of the turkey being decapitated while held upside down to let it bleed out, while Palin blathered on in the forground.
What were her media advisers thinking? While it is real life (and death) on the turkey farm, why did they let the interview go to broadcast, since it wasn't a particularly intelligent interview?
Oh yeah, it's Sarah Palin, gotta fill the airwaves with her face and voice.
We are witnessing the worst post-election selloff of the stockmarket and Palin is STILL getting bad press. Where are the stories of the stockmarket (beginning Nov 5th) being shoved throught the grinder. It appears the stock market knows how to spot a socialist better then the mainstream media. Unbiased journalism truly died in America in 2008....
Bet she knew how that turkey in the background felt!!!!
This trailer trash needs to just go away.
"I am always in charge of the turkey so I am where I need to be today to prepare for that."???What? Does she mean she cooks the turkey? Kills the turkey? Who cares?
"Palin appeared unaware of what was going on directly behind her..."
...and in front of her, and all around her, and down the street, and across the country, and around the world....
And this is the "turkey" that the USA almost picked as the person one heartbeat away from being the president!!
Who really cares what she does anyway ???
Beat it already!!!!!
This woman, besides being clueless, requires a translator to decipher her garbled sentences. What a lousy role model.
Its Karma I tell you!! This woman couldn't manage her staff well enough to avoid getting pranked by that Canadian radio station. Now this.
I am soooooo glad she is not helping to run our country. Sarah Palin is her own worst enemy and, given enough time, will destroy her career.
I saw the entire interview last night with the pardon of the turkey and the blood killing of the turkeys behind her in eye shot view. Palin just kept rattling on and noting that she's in charge of the turkey for Thanksgiving this year and that's the reason why she wanted to come to the turkey farm. Right on camera there is this man slaughtering the turkeys and Palin is laughing not phased by the sounds in the background. Just think we came close to this women being Vice-President of the United States with a heart beat away from the Presidency.
My fellow Americans, we elected the right person for the job. Thank You
Gooble gooble gooble!
Could the metaphor be more obvious?
Unbelievable. Imagine how 'un-aware' she is in running her office....
I wish Sarah Palin would go away. She is the perfect example of someone who is egotistical BECAUSE she is super-ignorant. This is the worst kind of person to have in a position of power in any country.
Yep.. Clueless....
And you know that "pardoned" turkey will just get slaughtered tomorrow....
I saw the interview on CNN...how disgusting....at least some of her people should have pulled her coat or either the news camera people....Another reason why this woman should be out he public eye...need I say more!!!
I sure hope y'all Repubs make her the head of your party. We Dems can rule for the next 8 years if you do. Wink Wink.
The real problem with this video is that there wasn't someone on the second machine. C'mon People! Let's be efficient!
On a better note, yum yum to the Turkey.
I see palin still has not spent anytime trying to learn how to construct a simple sentence. It is almost like listening to someone who speaks a different language. Sometimes I thank the media for not allowing us to forget what could have happened. Thank god there is a god. No Palin.
A reporter was asking Palin about state programs "on the chopping block." You can't make this stuff up.
OMG – really, nothing this woman says makes any sense grammatically. What is she trying to say? Please make her shut up. BTW: Nice Burberry scarf ya got there – part of the shopping spree? Or is it a knock off?
spoken like the turkey she is!
what else is there to say but DUMB!
I think it is about time that someone tell this governor to zip it.
Bobby Jindal please take over your party!
This woman is an idiot, and I'm so glad she's going back to Alaska and not Washington. We've had enough idiots for 8 long years, we don't need any more.
Once again CNN. Why is this news? There are a billion issues with our country right now and you keep bringing up Palin. Please for the sanity of this nation... STOP!
You people are ridiculous. How in the world do you think turkeys get like that when you buy them in the grocery store? Democratcs = total pansies. Deal with it. How do you think we survived as a species? By killing and eating other lifeforms, that's how. Shut up and grow up!
What a turkey and I don't mean the one getting pardoned or the less fortunate ones.
So it's all about fun, but fun for whom?
And this is what flies in Alaska?
*sings* One of these things isn't like the other 48.
I'll leave Hawaii out of it, they seem to have their own issues with natives trying to reclaim the palace and stuff.
You know, I am actually really starting to feel a bit sorry for this woman. I know that its become popular to "Palin-Bash", and as someone who did not support her politics during the campaign, it was easy to see that some of the blunders she made were self-imposed.
However, it does seem that she seems to step in it a bit too much to all be her fault- I think that she must be a victim of always being in the wrong place at the wrong time, as well.
...this matters why?
The video is worth a thousand words!!! Oh My!!!
Now watch the righties try to blame this on liberal media bias.
Hilarious!
It's not the Turkey Slaughter that is disturbing, it's Gov. Palin's sentence structure. "Certainly will probably"? It's painful reading the words that come out of her mouth. She was nearly the next Vice President of the Unithed States. It baffles me.
As I sit here in my Ivory Tower Of Judgement, I noticed that she has aged terribly in the last few months...
lol
Sarah Palin is the most aloof, clueless politician ever...
Please enough already....why does the national media obsess so much over her?
Not that this in itself is news, just shows how broken this woman's entire operation is. This is amateur night stuff.
I hope and pray to the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster that she is the 2012 Republican nom.
Could we please stop hearing from and about this woman. She continues to demonstrate why America voted not only for Obama, but against McCain/Palin.
Palin, please go away.
One more thing- you just KNOW Tina Fey has to come back and do this one....
haha, it IS a fake burberry scarf...bahahahaha
That is why one turkey is pardoned!!! Ah the beauty of pardoning
Palin is the most stupid person! How could she not see what was taking place in the background! How in the world did she become
Governor! Please, keep her out of the news!!
Even if the backdrop wasn't impossibly ironic given the reason for her visit, does there exist a worse background image for any sort of interview than turkeys being slaughtered? Maybe someone clubbing baby seals?
Hysterically inappropriate!
I wonder how many Thanksgiving dinners "animal killer" Palin has ruined?
Once again, Sarah Palin shows how iliterate she is: "It's nice to support a local business and just participate in something that isn't so heavy handed politics that invites criticism," Palin said during the interview.
Wow, can she just talk like she has some sense?
It seems the governor is just trying to redefine "Clueless".
We were almost gobbled by this turkey. I'm so glad she didn't win. The White House would have been the House of Horrors.
Whew America, we dodged that bullet.
There's need to be a compilation video of all of Sarah Palin's Interviews!
A best of Sarah Palin Video would be just HILARIOUS!
Come on! Someone get on that!!!!
LOL
The reason this is news is it illustrates Governor Palin's basic lack of Politics. Image is so very important in Politics and the fact that she would stand with her back towards a slaughterhouse shows that she lacks that subtle little voice that nags at talented Politicians.
Also, the slaughter of Turkeys is disgusting and making light of the fact that they die for us to have a snack is so insensitive and disturbing.
Thank God! she did not get elected. The turkey squeling that she enjoyed is hillarious. Next! what.
PLEASE make her the 2012 GOP nominee for president!!!!!!!!!!!!
She still hasn't learned her lesson. The more she talks – the more we listen – the more we can't stand her. I don't take her seriously anymore. No way is she ever going to be MY President.
All I can say is WOW.
And to LiberalsHateAmerica: Get off it, the market is not Obama's fault, it's been in the crapper for a long time now.
i've got to the point of not even reading anything as to Palin...but this was irresistable. She is clueless. she needs to learn how to speak properly and at least TRY to sound educated.
OK, the turkey slaughter is disgusting, but I'm still amazed that I can't quite decipher what she saying. Wow! She really does talk like this all of the time, and she winked again! Public officials shouldn't wink (especially when an animal is getting slaughtered right behind them).
Matt, very funny and true!
I don't understadn what her quote was trying to say.
It is my understanding she was advised where this interview would take place and had no issue with the scene behind her.
I, for one, am glad Mark Begich won the Senate seat vacated by Ted Stevens or we would have to continue with the Sarah Palin saga. Note to the media:
Please, Please, Please, leave her alone to handle Alaska so we don't have to listen or see her any more.
HAHAHAHAHA... Leave it to a woman to have the stones to do an interview in front of a live Turkey dinner in the making... Stick it to PETA Palin!
Stop stop stop with the Palin stories! Especially non-stories....
That being said – She certainly can mangle the English language!!! Yikes!!!
If that woman, Palin, had a brain she would be more dangerous than she is now. Consider what she said.
"I AM ALWAYS IN CHARGE OF THE TURKEY"
Then you see what happened to the Turkey behind her. With her as a leader, we would not need enemies. Sure glad she worked to get Obama elected.
I don't understand what she was trying to say.
Who cares?! Why has this woman done to elicit such hatred and hostility from so many people, especially the press? Can you all relax now, you got your way, McCain/Plain lost. Since the electin, the stock market has continued to crash, but Obama is still going to be our saviour, so just get over Palin already.
The guy in the background obviously grabbed the wrong bird...
Wow...
Millions of Americans (who voted for Obama) really don't know where that bird on their Thanks Giving table comes from...
Explains a lot about the election results... LMAO
Palin turkeying around ? How appropriate ? Can she do or say anything that doesnt make her look and osund like a turkey or a bimbo ? This idiotic bimbo definition needs to go back to first grade and start schooling all over again. And to think she could have become the VP...shudders.... But the late night comedy could have a bounty of material for their shows !
Clint I'm pretty sure most of us know exactly how our food gets to the grocery stores. The point of the story is the irony of it. So you can shut up and grow up.
It is so unreal how much this woman can be soooo out there. However, what was wrong with the camera man for shooting that spot with the turkey being killed in the background. Do they do this to this woman on purpose because she is that stupid and falls into their traps?
i dont like her and am glad she is not vice pres elect but come on what a dumb story. the media should just ignore anything and everthing about palin
Nice Burberry scarf. She didn't get that at the Wasila Walmart. Maybe from Neiman Marcus courtesy of the RNC? I guess she's not giving that to charity.
CNN this is so NOT news. What is wrong with you people? You all have a serious boner for this woman. Get over it please!!!!
The right wing cool-aid drinkers are probably wondering why u all are fussing so much, after all, that's how the turkey ends up at your table, we just don't see it. Are you guys reallly surprised. This woman field dresses a moose...she'd eat belluga whales if she could hunt it.
Why is the media pbsessed with her? She is like the Britney Spears of politics!
Actually, word on the street is that the turkey asked to be slaughtered ahead of schedule after being forced to listen to Palin give her interview.
See what I mean: Clint just proved my point!
A Turkey pardoned by a "Bird Brain"........rich !!!
Why won't this woman go away? Didn't the election show how much we hate her
"I am always in charge of the turkey..."
That's not a nice way for her to talk about Todd...
O.k, so I am not a Palin fan, but the woman was set up! LOL. I mean the crew could clearly see what was in thier shot, so I believe they taped it just so to make her look like a hypocritical airhead (given the fact that she'd just 'pardoned' a turkey). But, oh well, if the shoe fits...
Killing turkeys shouldn't be a spectator sport, but Palin thinks nothing of killing animals, even when she doesn't need them for food. This woman is the center of her own little universe, so how could she notice what was going on around her when a camera was pointing in her direction?.
Let's see what can I say. I don't like her but those things that we love to have on our Thanksgiving table called turkey comes from somewhere. I am never going to tofu turkey so I have to give her a breat on this one. That is what they do in the country people. No big deal. Eat Meat.
This is too funny! Poor Sarah. I expect a new SNL skit about this soon!!!
Enough with Palin! She is mindless, though extremely ambitious, and no longer relevant. We can do better than Palin as a role model for women, or example of personal/professional excellence. Let's move on!!
It appears to me that she either returned $4,000 worth of hair extensions since the campaign, or she's pulled her hair out in the meantime due to lack of attention. If it takes killing a turkey to get it back, WOW that says too much.
So everyone eating turkey this is how it's done – not pretty is it. The turkey is not Palin it's the media.
OMG!! Leave this woman alone, are you jealous? At least her husband didn't humiliate her in front of America and the rest of the world. (Idid not have a sexual relationship with that woman) Cmon, find something better to talk about.... Like when is Oprah going to get the nod to be on Obama's team, or Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton,and I'm sure OJ'S gonna get a pardon!!!! P.S. I'm ashamed to have voted for Obama when all you people are still dissing Sarah Palin,,,let it rest!
To the guy blaming President Elect Obama for the economy: Did memory fail you or did you neglect to mention that the economy being a mess before the election? Be a good American and wish your president well BEFORE he takes office ..Blame him if he messes up AFTER he’s in there but to preemptively put this on him is not very smart. God Bless President-Elect Obama, God Bless America!
Happy Turkey Day!
Please stop running anything on this lady. Who cares anymore?
By far the best interview she's given! I was so distracted with the turkey beheading that I didn't hear a word she said.
yeah, I saw the uncut version and let's just say that I will be vegitarian for now on. Thank you Mrs. Palin.
Democrats are not pansies, believe it or not, we eat meat like everyone else. Way to generalize millions of people into a single category, Clint.
Oh wow! What breaking news. GET OVER IT PEOPLE! CNN and all its cult followers are in the process of moving Palin into Bush's spot as the scapegoat/punching bag for all of the world's problems. So easy to just blame blame blame. I am sure there are many other important things CNN could have reported on. Funny you never threw Biden under the bus for all the times he stuck his foot in his mouth. Be ready for the USA to get "Tested" in six months of Obama taking office. Their is absolutely no credibility in the media anymore, NONE!
I guess pardoning the turkey is a metaphor for Bush? I think I hear Cheney squaking in the background.
I voted for P.E. Obama and I am glad I did. Now, with that said, we just need to let Palin go. I grew up on a farm and this is how the business is done folks. Steaks don't come from grocery markets, they come from cows. I am done with her...she is the Governor of Alaska, let them deal with her.
While the turkey killing in the background says little about Sarah Palin, her lack of command of the English langauge does. How anyone can see this woman as the Barack Obama of the Republican party is beyond me. She needs to study orators and leaders like Obama and Reagan, and figure out how to come across as intelligent, confident, and competent. She's got confident down, but where is the competence and intelligence required of a national leader?
Also, anything related to Sarah Palin has been deemed newsworthy by the media. They'll eventually find out that we really aren't all that interested.
This Woman is an Idiot! She's the REAL TURKEY
Well at least it wasn't a moose.
@ Clint
But I thot you Republicans wanted us to believe there is no such thing as "species" and that an invisible man in the sky with magic powers just planted us on the Earth after he created it 2,000-3,000 years ago when the dinosaurs were still around and people already wrote Bibles in English.
BTW, nobody's complaining that the turkeys were being slaughtered...that's what you get for being a turkey in November. We're making fun of Palin's complete obliviousness to what goes on around her and her uncanny, super-power-like ability to mangle our language.
I love how the turkey handler is panning to the camera. "Look Ma! I killed a turkey in front of Sarah Palin!"
Main stream media please let her go
She is 200 years behind of us
They quality news reporting in this country is below even our auto industry. They need a talent bailout asap.
With this (and hard reality) in mind, I will have all I can do to avoid vomiting at the dinner table Thursday. God all mighty.
Ok, I dont understand whats wrong? A turkey was killed...so big deal...on Thanksgiving people eat turkeys....
I'm not sure what the point is here... should she have stopped the guy from killing the turkey? Is that what we're going for? Or should she have changed her remarks to speak out against killing animals? What is the narrative exactly? Or is it just a distraction from the markets tanking and the economy going down the drain?
What is cool about this is in my entire life I had never seen turkeys being killed for us to eat for Thanksgiving. Thanks to Sarah, I now know how it is done! Not the history channel, not the Discovery Channel but the Sarah Palin channel. Very educational!
Apparently, neither of the 6 colleges she attended had an English department. What a sad example of the intelligence and leadership void in this country. And when will she realize she IS the joke...
"How do you think we survived as a species? By killing and eating other lifeforms, that's how. Shut up and grow up!"
Clint, I couldn't agree with you more. Evolution...we evolved because we had the determination to be more than monkeys or what have you...if not, then maybe squirrels would have evolved and we'd be the hunted. You're either the hunter or the hunted...
This is as much a story as the cloths she wore during the election. Thank you CNN for being bias with yet another weak story. I don't wonder why that when asked, a lot of democrats that voted for Obama know what Palin's wardrobe was worth but don't know which party is in power in Congress. Go on not reporting on "Obama's run in 57 states" and his non-existent voting record (I can vote present too!). Or if you want more, how about all the "fibs" Biden made in the debate. How about his foreign policy record? *points to kuwait* No, the people don't want to hear that, they'd rather get stuff like "Palin's daughter is pregnant" and this garbage.
Is this as close as we are going to come to a refreshing break from all the dismall economic news?
I don't like Palin but this is a stupid report.
#1 It's good for people to understand where our meat comes from.
#2 now she's no longer a threat to me the media should just let her hibernate up there!
You just know there's someone in the US that is surprised turkeys have a head, legs, wings and feathers.
The turkey farmer actually slaughtered two turkeys during her interview, not one. The turkeys seemed to suffer...my question would be, does this farm practice humane techniques or do they not have those kind of regulations in place in Alaska?
I Can't Stand that woman!!....BUT anyone who criticizes her for this is completely dense....EVERY turkey that is eaten on T-day is 'slaughtered'...they don't just die peacefully in an old folks home and end up nicely on your plate....let's not be so fickle and complacent people!! (Btw, i'll be eating my fair share of Turkey next week)
Beth from Canada' get a clue. The USA didn't ALMOST pick her to be a heart beat away from the Presidency. Obama won in a LANDSLIDE– the race wasn't remotely close. Please don't say ALMOST!! The true Americans saw thru this idiot. Hell, she can't even speak a complete sentence!
Please CNN – your candidate won. You are beating a dead horse. When she runs 2012, you can dig this out of your archives. But for now, what is the greatest president-elect in history saying – about the economy? The Dow has been falling since the election. Call him on your special line and tell him to tell America he isn't going to steal any more money via taxes.
Somebody must have told her that all press is good press. If she could speak proper english, perhaps.
With all the interviews she's been doing, I guess her Governor's job isn't all that much work after all,
also.
Good grief. She can't even get a turkey pardoning photo op right. That doesn't even happen to GW
Of course she was "unaware of what was going on directly" behind her. Isn't that Palin in a nutshell?
Besides, isn't slaughtering animals her favorite hobby? "You betcha!"
I've got to say it - the more this woman talks, the more I laugh. I just wish it was a "funny" kind of laugh instead of a "pathetic" kind of laugh. This woman so utterly clueless.
CNN GET OFF THIS PALIN STALKING! Give her a break and let her to her family. What is your problem?
Sarah Palin isn't what's so confusing here. What's confusing is why CNN thinks there's something wrong with killing turkeys a week before Thanksgiving or why Sarah Palin should be blamed for it. She is pardoning a turkey. Where do you pardon a turkey? You pardon it at a farm where they kill turkeys, DUH. And obviously that means being surrounded by other turkeys being killed because you're only pardoning one turkey, not all of them. Use your heads, people.
Oh come on! It's not like they grow on trees! There's a reason we're higher than turkeys on the food chain.
On a lighter note, I'd like to nail the governess.
wOW what's the big deal? It may not have been the most delicate planning for an interview but you have to a kill turkeys before you eat him- I think this "uproar" that is being reported proves just how far from the farm our society is these days it really is kind of lame
This is just another example of her stupidity. She can't even conceive of being PC enough that she doesn't yammer on in front of the butchering... Can anyone doubt that she said/did some of the really dumb stuff after seeing what her idea of a great photo opp is???
Her kind of publicity is actually great for the Republican party – they are gathering plenty of ammo WHY she should NOT be a future candidate for anything – not even Alaska Gov.
That is so horrible. Was the turkeys family notfied? Was that turkey the sole breadwinner for the family? How many under age turkey children were left behind?
What will happen to the dead turkey? When and where is the funeral?
I want to be there to eat a turkey sandwich and show my support. Someone should start a help fund so we can donate money for the turkey family, maybe a candlelight vigil?
Somebody help!! Don't show any more pictures!! The children, my god the children!!
Can someone tell me how a turkey is supposed to die for us so we can eat it? What is the big deal people?. Leave the governor alone. Where all these meat come from in the supermarket? Do they grow on trees? Do they just showed up in the groceries stores decending from haven? These animals must die so we can survive. That is life.
Hey Clint and Liberals hate America why don't you take your hate spewing BS and call into Limbush's radio show so you can discuss with other hate filled, shallow minded, unintelligent people? Its comments like yours that put and will keep your worthless party in the minority for a long long time....enjoy it because you earned it!
This is just stupid. Not to mention all the mindless idiots who believe everything the media tells them as gospel using this to criticize her.
A perfect metaphor.
The Turkey is the Republican Party.
While Sarah Palin blathers on cluelessly, the party's throat is cut, its blood drains out as it thrashes about helplessly, then it dies.
Hypocrisy knows no bounds for you lazy, elitist cowards. Are you too sophisticated (in your own mind) to watch the death of a turkey? Have you tricked yourself into believing that turkey meat, chicken, fish and beef is manufactured? It's raised and then killed you twits! Two short generations ago, people still walking this earth woke and toiled all day on farms and ranches. They hunted and killed their own game or herds. Wake up and either become vegan or accept the realities of your carnivorous ways (and stop apologizing for it).
I'm tired or her and the media running after her. Call it a done deal and stop giving this kook attention. She didn't get elected (thank God!) and no way she'll ever have a chance of being up for election again, so we don't have to worry about her. That said, it's time to let her and all of this nonsense go away. It's just annoying at this point. I can't wait for the day when we won't hear or see the name Palin in any news reports for years and years and years.
Just as the less than studious governor was unaware of the turkey being slaughtered as she was speaking, she was that unaware of the issues of the electorate in the 2008 presidential campagin. She can't learn everything she needs to know about "real" politics in 40 years, let alone four.
Just beyond the turkey in the background, she can see Russia.
Hey Karen, Do you eat beef??? Have you SEEN the BULLDOZING of those poor SICK animals that can't even stand???? Bulldozed into the slaughterhouse????? Enjoy your steak tonight.....
This is bizarre, as is the Governor herself. Glad I didn't see it on TV.
I give thanks for the country having elected the right people as President and Vicepresident... Happy Thanksgiving and Turkey Day!
Guess what. That's what they do at turkey farms. Does that surprise anyone, other than the media? Where do you think our Thanksgiving turkeys come from!
The election unfolded as it should have as the people spoke. But this poor woman can't get a break. People are now looking for stuff to happen to her. leave her alone already. It's over. Let it go.
Give me a frickin break – who cares if Sarah Palin had in interview and a turkey was being killed in the background!? Really, who even bothers to talk about this, vegetarians I guess? What kind of a CNN story is this? I will admit right now that I am going to eat part of a dead turkey next week, anyone want to interview me about it? I prefer my meat to be free range however, rather than farm raised – industrial meat production is nasty. Happy Thanksgiving!
This is not unlike the Palin we all got to know during the campaign. Not thinking again before she speaks to the media. Oh dear God, don't let her run for President in 2012! Please!
Talk in English Sarah. I don't understand anything you say.
CLUELESS IN ALASKA.....
LiberalsHateAmerica.... Nice name. I'm sure glad there are people like you wondering aimlessly through life making blanket statements about people you have never met.
That should be you in the background, strung up by your feet with your pea-brained head in a meat grinder.
Nimrod...
Everybody understands how turkeys go from the coop to the china, democrats and republicans. What makes this incident so farcical is that she finally got a chance to do something nice and fuzzy, and her "handlers" couldn't even keep her in a photo frame that didn't undermine what she just did for one lucky turkey. Palin has bush-level ineptitude. Please just ignore her–she will go away in time if you do! Does anyone know where I can send a donation to the Alaskan secessionist movement?
To LiberalsHateAmerica
To continue blathering on and on and on about Obama being a socialist is just ignorance.
To spew the thought that Obama getting elected is why the stock market is tanking is just stupidity from someone who obviously doesn't understand what is happening and doesn't care to take the time to get informed. You'd rather just blame the black man and the liberal media like the racist hick you undoubtedly are.
Kiss 2012 goodbye, Sarah.
Oh brother. Who cares?!? So a turkey got slaughtered a few days before Thanksgiving...so what? I can't stand Sarah Palin...but this story as important "news" goes too far!
Makes Forrest Gump look like a Nobel Laureate.
Did she do this intentionally. I think she wants to cause a stir.
Palin has a good life in Alaska. They really know how to live. They are glad to be away from the lower 48. They hunt, fish, visit turkey farms, ride snowmobiles, and have dog races. They all have healthy looking skin because of the weather. If Palin was ugly, the critics would leave her alone.
They forget one Turkey that needs to be slaughtered
I hope she announces soon that she's running for pres in 2012. Obama isn't nearly as funny and as a fan of Jon Stewart, I know dear Sarah will provide him with hours...and hours...and hours of material. And I will just gobble it up.
Clint said we survive by "killing and eating other lifeforms".
Clint obvilously spends too much time as Darth Nilus at Star Wars Conventions.
Clint–Is referring to an entire group of people as pansies a very grown up thing to do? I suggest taking your own advice.
What was she supposed to do? Run over and stop the turkey from being slaughtered? I don't see why this is news or what you people want from her.
Certainly she needs some serious language lessons too, also again.
Palin is an oblivious git, and we did elect the right people (praise be!).
But unless you're eating a Tofurkey next Thursday, you don't have much room to get your knickers in a twist over this. Seriously, do you think turkeys are hatched defeathered, headless, and wrapped in plastic?
Get a life. At least Palin doesn't think that FDR gave his fireside chats on TV in 1929. CNN – tabloid for the Democrats.
Clint nailed it!!!
Clint, I think we all know how turkeys get to the store. The beauty of this story is the IRONY (look it up if you don't know what it means).
Didn't you know? Sarah Palin speaks "Palonics". I'm loving the inventory of her phrases and quotes. Pure jibberish. If we're comfortable electing someone into office that can't speak (and who has a journalism degree), then I'm all for it. But I guess that's what happens when you switch colleges more than five times to end up with a degree from a community college.
Clint, just shut up with your ridiculous statement
So, if I understand this correctly, what you're tellin' me is my Thanksgiving turkey was actually alive at one time and then was killed?
The horror...
Sarah Palin definitely is a character, no doubt.
As usual, she is clueless, not only about what is going on right behind her, but also about how to form coherent sentences in English!!
Do you think barack is going to eat a dead turkey this year? I guess it's okay if someone kills it, as long as he's not there to witness it
SO WHAT? THIS is news?? Why don't you stop dissing Sarah Palin? Couldn't the cameraperson crop the shot differently? If it were Barack Obama, you would have reported that he raised the turkey from the dead.
Quite fitting for her of all people.
You are what your eat.....I am not surprised. Palin represents 46% of the population who ALL think like this. This is why the US is in the doldrums. Get it? Lets not even bother to engage these fools.
LOL Will she ever go away?
Turkeys like liberals think turkeys are more important than humans. And they obsess with a women (read: person) who is a realist and understands that humans eat fowl. I hope she is elected President of the United States someday. She doesn't live in fantasyland like liberals who insist on shooting the bird at every person who earns wealth instead of demanding it from someone else!
She is totally unaware of the concept of irony. Also.
Also, also.
turkeys don't get slaughtered. God magically puts them on your dinning room table
if only the roles in this video were reversed! to think this proud to be an ignoramus could have been one heartbeat away!! Gaaah!!
You Libs are complete idiots....crawl back under the rock you live under.
She did the stupid turkey pardon that most politicials do and she did it where the turkey was going to be killed.... obviously there might be other turkeys being slaughtered at that place.
What her problem is, is that she was not cautious enough to make sure the reporter and crew (lefty libs probably as almost all media is) did not set her up, so that this would be in the shot. You can sure as heck bet they set it up intentionally and turned their camera so you would se this over her shoulder. They did it so you fools would have somethign to clamor about.
Besides...are all you libs eating Tofu next Thursday.... I think not fools....and the turkey you wil be eating was slaughtered at some point.
Someone please tell her to give back the money for the bridge to nowhere, and to pay back the tax payers of Alaska for her kids travel expense.
And then tell her to go away.
Thanks you
CNN, NBC, CBS...you guys are soooo affraid of Palin it's too funny.
Enjoy your steak tonight! You do know how those animals are killed, right? You know, the sick ones are simply bulldozed into the slaughterhouse....
Can she be any more of a national joke?
So sadly typical: an utter lack of regard for, and concern about, the welfare of a living creature. Whether one is a vegetarian or animal lover, this display is atrocious, and bespeaks a cold cruelty that is appalling.
Good riddance to her already.
Obviously the schooling she had did not teach her proper English sentence structure. I hope she stays in Alaska and leaves the "real Americans" alone.
Who cares if she kills a turkey they all get killed and put on our tables one way or the other. I like Palin at least she is REAL....I think she would be a breath of fresh air to all the political BS in Washington. I would never vote for a man with the name obama.....and i do not trust him...he came from a "church" that spoke hate not the love of Christ and you do not attend a church for 20+ years and it not affect how you live your life. I do not care if the man is purple or orange but their are too many questions about him. If he takes office and does not place his hand on the BIBLE they should throw him out!!!! Palin is real and I would vote for her ANY DAY...Lock up your guns people because you are gonna need them./...the Dems' are looking to take them all away!! Dumb ppl....guns don't kill ppl....the idiot behind the gun pulls the trigger.
Clint-take a chill pill! Geez.
I watched the video and the man did not grind or kill the turkey. It still had feathers on it and anyone that has lived on a farm knows that before grinding any farm animals with feathers, remove them first! If you watch closely, the turkey was still very much alive and moving it's wings. The man had to hold the wings at one point. This is like starting an urban legend. I tell people that send me that garbage, check your facts first before sending it out. Same here, the man did not kill the turkey in this clip. Get your facts straight.
I don't see what's the big deal.
Obama08/12
Sarah Who?
I hope the Rupublicans don't have Joe The Plumber demostrate the turkey's final exit.
I think Palin is an idiot too but come on people. The fact that this story is on the front page of CNN is absurd. If you're going to criticize her for this you better not be eating any turkey next Thursday.
You liberals really are idiots and the hate and disdain you show for people is ridiculous. You have more emotional attachment for animals than people. You're a joke. The really sad thing is that if the same thing happened to Hillary or Obama you would excuse it just like you did for Bill's womanizing in the White House. You know its true.
You said it Clint. She is gutsy enough to handle a Turkey slaugher. Obama would probably wince and walk away She lives in Alaska, not downtown Manhattan. Sarah, I hope you got a real good Turkey. When you cook it and serve it up to your family, enjoy the freedom you have. With the economy, some people may not have a Turkey this year!
Come on people where are the real stories? She is real. Not a Barbie doll. Get over it media!
Poor Sarah .. so not ready for prime time!!
It's amazing that all of these liberals come out of the woodwork and attack anyone they can when the press is finally starting to report that Obama is already failing. His staff has been at work for days trying to minimize expectations after realizing that most of the campaign promises were lies, and the more Obama fails, the more the Republicans will be blamed.
Reagan didn't blame Carter when he had to come in and fix the mess-he just fixed it.
Don't flatter yourself CNN. Palin knew what was going on behind her.
Remember she is not out to impress you and the rest of the media and lefties so go ahead and have your little fit. I'm sure you will all be enjoying your turkey dinner next week.
What's the big deal? She's standing in front of a business that is in operation. The fact that it's a turkey farm is not philosophically any different from an interview in front of a fast food line, or a vegetable packing plant. If it really bothers you to know that that is where your Thanksgiving turkey comes from, then you need to consider other options. I'm just surprised that the media chose to air the interview in the first place, since the only thing marginally interesting or newsworthy about it is the turkeys being slaughtered in the background. The only proper place for it is somewhere like, "America' s Funniest Home Videos."
Oh, the irony. You people who think we don't know where our T'giving turkeys come from are totally missing the point of this story. And yes, there are much more important stories going on right now. But don't we all need a little humor in our lives? There are many, many news stories to pick from right now – if you don't like this one, don't read it.
Someone needs to pay attention for her who are handling her events from now on because these things should not be happening to a woman who could be president.
I like her and admire her visible strength against a TRUE boys club mentality! She stood up against so many men who wanted to see her trashed for the failure of McCain's campaign and against women who claimed she lacked 'smarts' even though she is a college graduate, an elected official and a good business woman. (Its been said more than once that women can be the fiercest opponents against women they see raising faster in the ranks then they do ... and of course, men are always leery of a succesful woman).
That being said, Mrs Palin, a bit of advice, start letting people go politely and hire a crack team to pay attention to the details! See you in 2012!!!
What's the hidded messsage Sarah Palin is trying to say on this video? She only knows from her heart.
Who cares? this is not news. big deal. Get a life CNN. I love you guys but really? she is not important anymore
This is the future of the republican party. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Another interview screw up.
did palin actually get a degree from any of the 5 colleges she went to? what is she saying?!?! ever!?!?! i have no idea!!!
Clint,
It's not about being total pansies. She pardons a turkey and then they kill the rest. Yeesh! I tried to watch this interview twice and I still don't know a word she said.
Thank God she is not our new V.P. She has not a clue, The choice of that Back Drop was stupid and she should know better.
I love turkey so I hope this story isn't insinuating we should not slaughter and eat them. "darn vegetarians" and if there one thing i learned about Alaska they do things a bit different, like interviewing there governor in front of a turkey being slaughtered a bit odd but hardly worth criticism.
the woman is as dumb as a rock.....
Is it just poor transcribing that makes it sound as though Mrs. Palin is unable to speak in grammatically correct English - or is she actually incapable of speaking in sentences that 1) contain all the necessary words 2) in the correct order? I'm not an English teacher, but to me she sounds as though she can't carry a thought through in logical order to express it in standard English. She sounds to me like a child trying to talk to adults without really understanding the subject nor what she's trying to say.
Let me get this straight, a turkey...being killed before thanksgiving at a turkey farm. Shock. I'm all for criticizing Sarah Palin, but this is a silly story.
Turkey= ugly bird...gooble...gooble...
Have a Roaster instead...
Leave the poor woman alone... I am not a Pailin supporter, but Geez! We have more important things to focus on!
First it was Palin the idiot. Now it's Palin the oblivious.
Palin is just too stupid for me to continue reading about her.
Would we eat as much meat if we actually had to witness the slaughter of our farm animals? Just a question to put out there. BTW, I eat turkey and am not a vegetarian.
The video segment definitely seems ill conceived, but at least she has the guts to witness a turkey harvest and actually kill animals for her meat. I can't do that.
Not that I support her politics in any way.
You Obama idiots will be so mesmerized to hear the One speak coherently that you won't even notice what he says !!!
I see, not a single one of you ever eats turkey!! LOL
Hypocrites.
Obviously, the turkey behind her getting the axe is a socialist.
Another unimportant "news" story courtesy of CNN.
Yeah, she's at the appropriate place for her..... the turkey farm.
It seems that most of the people commenting on this probably still buy gas at a Citgo...if you do and you should not have been allowed to vote. If you need an explaination of this comment, then you also are extremely uniformed...and we wonder why there's so much ignorance in America.
How many of you eat Turkey or chicken for that matter. Sorry if it disturbs some people seeing a bird killed for human consumption, but, how do you think they end up on your table?
City folk are too far out of reality from the rest of the world. Go to your 50.00 steak dinners and your chicken nuggets for the kids in your BMW's. You have no idea what it takes to feed this country.
This is priceless.
By the way, I filled my deer tag last weekend also. About a 150yd shot with my rifle, and dropped an 8-point buck right where he was standing.
PLEASE....... CNN, give it a rest! The last poll showed that 59% of Americans think poorly of this woman.
Why pander to the far-right? They are watching 'Faux News'!
Sarah Palin intelligence and tact are troubling to me. I can't see why or how this women could be elected for any office. There are no excuses for stupidity and this women has had plenty of opportunity to help her self but all she does is make you question her even more. Republicans need to stop with this ridiculous fascination with this idiot.
this woman is an idiot.,
Please tell me that this story is a joke. I mean do we really care that there is a turkey being butchered while she is giving this interview. I mean I am sure she set it up that way. She did it all on purpose so the liberal media can blast her for it like they do everything else. This woman could be helping a homeless kid out and the media would find some way to blast it. Obama could be beating a kid up and media would find some way to praise it.
I thought it was kinda strange how she seemed afraid to touch the pardoned turkey earlier (this was before the interview with the guy grinning in the background). If she's tough enough to shoot a moose, what's the harm in patting a turkey being held by a turkey handler. I think the whole frontier woman is something dreamed up by her to run for office.
I'm no animal activist and I eat turkey so the killing isn't what bothered me, but it was a poorly planned camera angle, so maybe its just bad reporting.
Thank you God this women did not make it to Washington. She has NO grace or style. What happened to her upbringing? AND all her kids are high school drop outs!!!! Please, NO MORE Palin!!!
Why is anyone surprised that she is unaware of what is going on around her?
I am no fan of Palin's but ... so what if her scarf is a fake ... just means she if frugal enough not to fall for a brand name and its advertising. It still looks good.
Was she the turkey who was pardoned? She blends in well at a turkey ranch. What a bird brain!
We came HOW close to having THIS Turkey in Washington? Oh my gosh, I'm still laughing. If Palin did this to the turkey, imagine what she was capable of with ther former brother-in-law!
If this bothers you, I suggest not eating turkey for Thanksgiving. This happens by the millions every year.
Utterly, repulsive!
Can this woman string together a normal sentence for once? She makes Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar.
TURKEY GATE?
LiberalsHateAmerica November 21st, 2008 1:23 pm ET
We are witnessing the worst post-election selloff of the stockmarket and Palin is STILL getting bad press. Where are the stories of the stockmarket (beginning Nov 5th) being shoved throught the grinder. It appears the stock market knows how to spot a socialist better then the mainstream media. Unbiased journalism truly died in America in 2008….
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Huh? The stockmarket has been tanking since September...
We are being rather selective to serve our purposes here aren't we. The truth is, as long as Bush is in the Whitehouse the stock market has NO CONFIDENCE. Has nothing to do with Obama.
This is like a bad dream...
GO
AWAY
SARAH
PALIN!!!!!!!!!!
As a good freind of mine would say "That's unfortunate."
Look, all of us who eat turkey and dressing over Thanksgiving knows that this happens. Same with all of us who eat hamburgers, or pork chops, or chicken (should've started with that one first), or bacon, etc.
Problem is she should've been aware of her background and not stood there. Even if the guy wasn't going to slaughter the turkey right then, standing in front of the set up where the turkey's are killed was just bad planning on her staff's part. Or hers.
And the poor planning, along with poor grammar, and poor thoughts about "pro-America parts of the country", etc., is why more than 55% of those polled don't think she's qualified too be in leadership in the federal gov't.
Gotta say I agree with Ryan on this one. Please STOP!
What did she say? Sarah herself is the Turkey. Alaska put a muzzle on her, please.
o boy! what's next?
Cheney was in charge of the "Turkey" too... look where that got the country...
I think I'll have ham this thanksgiving...
Clint are you an idiot? This has nothing to do with democrats or republicans? I admit this article is a waste of time but you should put your inepetness in perspective
your just like sarah......... a republican loser!
"I am always in charge of the turkey so I am where I need to be today to prepare for that,"
Well she is right on that, most do consider her in charge of this new Republican party.
BTW I thought she was there to keep an eye on Putin and that evil Russia to keep the rest of us save down here.
Seriously? This is the best news you can put out there? WHO THE HELL CARES!?!?! The turkey was going to die if Palin was there or not...I am sure there are more pressing stories out there.
When it rain, it pours...She knew full well what was going on. They told her what was going on behind her, and she dismissed it and told them that she was fine. You they wanted her as Vice President...Thank God for devine intervention!!!
Yea yea we all know where our turkeys come from. The point of this story is the discussion vs the environment it takes place in. It would be like introducing a new hybrid in front of a spewing oil well. More experienced politicians.... or celebrities if you like... understand where an interview is given and politely ask that it should be moved if it interferes with their image. And make no mistake, image is important for all politicians.
No one wants to talk about the stock market, because since the annointed one was elected the market has really gone in the tank. When the Gov. take over everything there will no longer be public trading anyway so whats the stock market matter?
Are you kidding causing a stir???? How many millions will eat turkey next Thursday give me a break. Maybe the Dems. should start being vegetarians as most of the officials do look a bit hefty.
Who cares? Is this all you have to report. Get a real job.
You folks need to take a good hard look at yourselves when you dive into that turkey dinner next week. WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT COMES FROM? Say what you want, but at least Gov. Palin lives in the land of REALITY...
you can't leave this woman alone can you? I guess Obama and his family are not so interesting.
I do not know how you guys , journalists, can deal with this...don't you
have anything else to do that looking for this type of news.....
Go back to school and improve your career and deal with other
type of news that we, people can learn from you..TO ALL.CNN CREW:
go and look for other subjects !!!!!!!!!!!!!! time is a treasure....
Christina
She is just like the turkey. No head an either one.
When will we people stop watching this train wreck?
This was awesome, the guy in the background was hilarious. Who cares it is a dumb bird, you people are dumb. How do you think turkeys get to the dinner table? Hahahaha, liberals are so predictable.
The media needs to focus on the real issues. Palin is over and done and I am sure she wants to be done, too. All this unnececessary attention to her every move is absolutely ridiculous. CNN -keep us updated on what matters. Sorry turkey, this is not news.
Leave it to Palin to turn me off of turkey on Thanksgiving.
Who handles this lady's media?
Palin: "Don't mind the turkey execution behind me. Lets talk policy."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
I used to want to visit Alaska but ever since Palin appeared on the scene I have no desire to go there-–they gotta be all stupid to vote this idiot as the Gov. of the state.
She described the experience as "fun". Yeah, that sort of thing probably is fun for those types that think nothing of slaughtering animals! I guess the turkeys are the fortunate ones since they aren't run to exhaustion and then shot from helicopters like her Alaskan wolves.
This is one of the most ridiculous ticker made by CNN…does this really warrant any attention, mostly when you claim that Palin was not even seeing the scene? Don’t you have any important message to the American people rather than instigate all the idiots who respond with hate to these comments?
This is a woman who hunts animals and guts them. What's a turkey being slaughtered to her?
If you eat turkey you either have to kill it yourself or have someone kill it for you. I can't, for the life of me, understand why people are even talking about this. It's a TURKEY FARM. The animals don't die on their own, peacefully in their sleep. Welcome to the real world.
If This lady had been elected maybe we would start getting some answers as to who's running the ship. This was another great propaganda story. Excuse me Gov can I have a shot to degrade you some. What is real is the trust she has that we – they will do her fair. Course we are all finding out the worlds unfair and speaking up is the only way it will not come back at Ya! Guess we need those manager and spot directors that the Dems have to get THE REAL STORY.
I'm no Sarah Palin fan, but this is idiotic. Where do you think that the turkey comes from that you eat on Thanksgiving? Slaughtering animals for food is a part of normal life! You think that showing where our food comes from on TV is something bad? Ridiculous.
Ms. Palin is a stupid as stupid can be. Why the media even bothers to cover her this brainless woman.
THIS IS JUST PROOF THAT THIS WOMAN IS TOTALLY CLUELESS TO HER SURROUNDINGS, AND HOPEFULLY SHE WILL EITHER BE IMPEACHED AS GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, OR JUST LOSE THE NEXT ELECTION.
SHE NEEDS TO FADE AWAY IN THE NORTHERN LIGHTS ......
Perhaps unfortunate timing, but for the love of PETA, we all must realize that in order to enjoy our scrumptious turkey dinner, this is what must happen. plenty of fodder for the finger-pointers...
When is THAT TURKEY get off the news ! Please.
What’s the big deal? They're at a place that butchers turkeys. What do people THINK happens there? Where do people think Thanksgiving turkeys come from?
I think the guy in the background had the wrong turkey strung upside down. So she went to a turkey farm to pardon one turkey but kill another for Thanksgiving.... At least she is balanced.... If she was president, she would have our military leave Iraq, just to invade Iraq a minute later, and then she would only talk about her withdrawl...
Silence of the Turkeys. The feel good comedy of the year. No this is not from the Daily Show or SNL, nor was it created by the Coen Bros or Monty Python . . . this is the real face of the pro life republican party.
..it just gets worse with her.....
Pat yourself on the back, my fellow Americans, we made the best choice.
The gift that keeps on giving!
You guys are a bunch of whimps. For most of the country this is no big deal. How do you think turkeys get in the grocery store? Get out of the city and see how the rest of the world lives. Get outside and do some hunting and fishing.
It amazes me that some of the people on this message board are saying this is not news and that there are more important things going on in the world. Well, obviously they did read the article's headling and decided to read it the article anyway.
Its kind of contradictory of what you are posting on this blog. I agree that it is not important news. However it is news, this is a public figure. Its kind of funny.
I do think we all have sense enough to know turkeys are killed before they make it to our plates. The point is she just pardoned a turkey and yet a man is standing behind her killing turkeys. Ha-Ha!
Seriously, this is nothing more than a news factoid. It's not being presented as "breaking news"...it's tucked away in the corner for people to point at and chuckle. Stop taking such umbrage to the existence of this story, Palin fans.
Let's see...Palin was unaware of the goings-on around her?!
Well, at least she can see Russia from her front porch, right?!
Sarah Palin is devoid of any skills; she's a former beauty queen turned sports caster, turned moose hunter turned politician, for God's Sake!!!
Oh who cares, seriously, you all are going to eat Turkey on Thanksgiving. Well this is what happens to them. I am not a be fan of Palin, but it's a reality.
Clueless!
In response to Clint - get your head out of the sand. There are a LOT of people that don't go through life killing and eating other animals. It's cruel and unhealthy and in the Western world, in particular, a cause of high methane levels in the atmosphere and a waste of resources that could be better put to use growing food for the world's hungry!
She was doing normal elected official fluff stuff like all the governors, mayors, senators, past ans soon to be presidents will be doing. Why hasn't anyone said anything about the tv station that recorded this or put it on the air. They did this on purpose. This is a part of the food chain and a fact of life for meat eaters. The tv station made it bigger deal than what it is; she didn't. The national news put it in their stories, not her. She wasn't looking for national attention on this, they are, trying to look for a story when there isn't one there. Others have commented that there are more important news that could be taking attention and they're right- this story is stupid and the media is twice as dumb for making it out to be more than what it is.
I think the whole thing speaks nicely as a metaphor for her future in politics...
Please..... Let us just be thankful she did not make it too the White House. As for being the Poster Child for Disconnect representing the GOP...... well, you go girl!!!
Nice.
I think Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert should hire her and her handlers/staff.
And to think that this mental midget was very close to being in charge of policies in the country.
The RNC should be brought up on felony charges for reckless endangerment, and fraud.
Peace.
life is so unfair, this woman is so stupid that wonder sometimes if there is a god, we have millions of smart women in this country and this moron is a govener, what a shame.
I don't think she even knows what a turkey is.
Quick, someone tell Clint that humans were originally herbivores.
Cnn.com, this site, are idiots. The folks who voted for Obama, are idiots. Please, just understand you are idiots and we can stop this and try to get this country fixed. Sarah Palin is a real American and I hope she runs again in '12.
Please continue covering this woman, CNN... she's so gosh dern entertaining! Also, get grip everyone... most of you will be stuffing your mouths with some bird on Thursday, too.
Oh, and we're in for a long recession regardless of who's president or not. Sorry you won't be able to get a new car every 3 years 'just because you want one'
Clint you are the one that needs to grow up. You voted for this lady! What a moron! You dont need to do a interview in front of a man killing turkeys! Republicans have her for 2012! LOL!
Hello its thanksgiving. If you are eating turkey this year, maybe it would help to find out how it got on your table. I don't even see that this is newsworthy on the Enquirer.
I don't particularly like Sarah Palin but come on! If you eat turkey on Thanksgiving then turkeys have to die. Death is really never pleasant but if one is not aware of it then they are ignorant in the worst way.
You all are complete idiots.
If you guys stopped posting on the Palin blogs, the MEDIA would get the clue you truly are disinterested and won't send the cameramen up there anymore.
As for the birds,
Only Tofurkey Gobblers need Object to the subject material. This is how it's done, weirdos.
Hard pressed for news stories CNN?
Why is this news? BTW, do people think turkeys commit suicide so we can cook them for Thanksgiving? Maybe watching them be slaughtered will get more people to buy tofurkeys this year.
Poor Sarah, she did not even know what was going on around her. Her handlers and the camera crew should have done better then that. She has enough to think about without managing her shot. She has to think of how best to twist her statements so that nobody can figure them out. Perhaps she is speaking in code and communication with Putten as he raises his head threw our air space.
Oh poor turkeys getting slaughtered there. Pardon them all Sarah!!! Pardon them all!!!
I would have loved to watch her hatchet one herself. She's not an idiot. All you bleeding heart liberal-socialists are. When the markets keep tanking after Obama takes office and people are starving in the streets in record numbers at least she knows how to provide for her family.
When did we become pansies like France? God bless the good 'ole US of A.
Democrats must fear this woman or they would not be so obsessed with her all the time.
Lose the turkey jokes. The real turkey (the bird) is actually an intelligent and senstive creature.
How is this disturbing?
Oh yeah...when Obama eats turkeys, they are not killed. He just wills them onto his plate.
Honestly, this is news?? I am an Independent who voted for Obama, and I just think this story is ridiculous.
The photo op and the trackless sentences are deliberate. Palin understands power, and she is knows how to gather and wield power. The power to save and the power to kill. And while opponents and citizens alike stare agape at her, she wields that power to save or destroy on her WHIM anyone (or turkey) who stand in her way. Get the message?
Following the intellectual legacy of Bush the "decider" - as he grins astride GolfKart One, the Palin's of the world don't worry about details like whether Africa is a country or a continent. All they want is the gun and their finger on the trigger.
Yes, thank you CNN for reminding the nation and the world one more time of HOW GRATEFUL we all are that "Village Idiot" from Alaska is not running the nation from behind John McCain.
Everytime the media hauls this pathetic excuse for a woman and politician out in front of the nation, the media reinforces all that the intelligent electorate suspected about her-SHE IS DUMB!!! So if Palin thinks the media is serving her, she is wrong, the media is destroying her!!!!
so glad she never made it to the VP. She is worthless. I hope she has no animals at home.
clint, you are a republican moron. The point is we have a woman before us who is clueless, and you would vote for that clueless person as our commander in chief or representative of this country. You, she, and the rest of the republican clueless party that ran this country into the dirt the last 8 years are NOT the representatives of our people. DEAL WITH THAT.
Who gives a ____! I am so tried of hearing any kind of news about Sarah Palin. If CNN really wanted to make news about her that she be asking, "What has she done as governor since she's been back in Alaska?" As an Alaskan I can tell you, very little! She cares more about what good for Sarah!
the liberial media must be really desperate on this one to keep bringing up someone they almost lost to, guess they will just have to bite the bullet and under stand that liberals will not be in office afer the next election
Hey, is that Turkey Joe in the back ground?
Being that she's in charge of the turkey and that and that there's another turkey being slaughtered behind her and that and that the economy's tanking and there has to be jobs in there and that and that we might have to cross the border into Pakistan and that it should be a good Thanksgiving after all and that!
You forgot to mention the best part of the yak: "This was neat. I was happy to get to be invited to participate in this," Palin said with a smile. " You need a bit of levity in this job." And that's exactly what she added to the 2008 presidential campaign. Levity.
Well I'm disappointed. After all that talk about her being an experience moose hunter, I was expecting her to slaughter the bird herself, pluck it using her teeth, and clean out the innards with her bare hands...all the while chattin' with the biased liberal media folk. You betcha!
Now, can we ignore her please?
GOD IS GOOD. HIS plan was not to let her non-sense go on.
Clint you need to get out of your narrow view and quit the blame game and see the irony of it all. Palin was there to "pardon an Alaska turkey" and spare its life this thanksgiving but she unwittingly was being interviewed at the same site with a background of turkeys being slaughtered which basically makes the pardoning photo op priceless.
Thank goodness that women is not my Vice President. Stay in Alaska where you belong. You are a clueless women that doesn't know what the VP does, doesn't understand how the government works, is way to pro-choice and not for freedom of Americans, believes in banning books of homosexuals, doesn't know the Bush doctrine, let a lone her own running mate's deregulation. THANK GOD YOU ARE NOT MY VICE PRESIDENT!!!!!
Ah don't bash CNN, it's on everywhere, including Fox.
Just a another stupid Palinism that will keep the country/world laughing at her.
Let's leave Sarah in Alaska where they understand and appreciate her best. The rest of America is more than a little bewildered by her oblivious nature. Sarah is not a sensitive person as witnessed by her hunting inclinations.
Just because that is where the turkeys we eat come from does not mean it is smart or appropriate to use a gory back drop for "pardoning" a turkey and giving an interview. sarah said moments before she's a "friend to all creatures great and small" she is oblivious and tone deaf.
Oh no!!!!!!!!! They showed a turkey being slaughtered. How cruel! You mean to tell me that the turkey I have at Thanksgiving was actually alive at some point???????? Besides, I would have thought that since Obama won that everyone would be at piece, and the turkeys woudl willfully give their lives, I gues you could say, do their patriotic duty.
To all the Palin bashers, you're really reaching on this one.
To Sarah Palin, careful, I hear a PETA commando force led by Pam Anderson has been activated.
To borrow from Jim Gaffigan – "Do you know what they do to them?" "No, but it's delicious."
The slaughtering of that turkey was very sickening to watch, Palin is a clueless idiot. I can't believe she would use that as her photo op (wait, this is palin, yes I can believe it) If the GOP selects her to run for pres they will surely lose again. Nightmare part 2.
I would say the real turkeys are most of the people who have already posted here about this article.
If you want to talk about intelligence...want me to start counting every gaffe that our new Vice President,who you guys seem to regard as some kind of saint,has come up with,or do you not have that kind of time?
One Turkey to another
Look I dont like Palin as a politician. But, could you please stop picking on her. Dont tell Palin to go away....YOU the media GO AWAY!
This goes to show that democrats eat turkeys that are alive and republicans eat turkeys that are dead.
LOL – it doesn't get better than that!
No clue what's happening in the real world!
(and after I swore I wouldn't read another Sarah Palin story on CNN....)
Americans, you are ignorant!
SARAH PALIN is a real woman; EUROPEANS are like her!
America has created a fake image of so cold "emancipated woman". That why you are in deep sh....!
I couldn't help but laugh at this. I was about to complain about the unflattering pictures that the press always puts up in stories of Hillary Clinton but then I saw this and changed my mind. C'mon that turkey is probably the one the Palin's will be eating. At least she's eating locally.
Something is wrong with that woman! I can't believe she can stand there and have a conversation so oblivious to what is going on around her! Amazing.....what is wrong with her?????
I'm not a Palin fan but I find the controversy mystifying. I'll bet all of those who were offended believe their Thanksgiving Turkeys are born Headless and in a bag.
She's an easy target but let's get a grip.
The people bashing this lady are also the people making her more rich and popular by the day. You think she'd be this publicized if it wasn't what the public was watching? You think she'd be getting all these interviews, opportunities, etc if you idiots weren't watching. reading and listening? I love Palin, she is a marketing genius. She wouldn't be where she is without the hateful morons who stalk her. She probably gets her paycheck and says "who's the idiot"?! More props to Sarah.
Most of these comments come from idiots as they like to call others. Sarah Palin is head and shoulders above all of you.
Has Bristol Palin had her baby yet?
Come on everyone – leave her alone – she is HOT!! She is the reason why there are so many jokes on blonds.... lol ::))
She obviously doesn't understand the concept of "political correctness".
Everyone is quick to criticize... but what is the majority of the US eating this coming Thursday? Its just reality folks!
I thought Bush was a buffoon. This chick is head and shoulders above Bushy. Wow. What a clown. I thank God every night before I go to bed that she wasn't elected vice President.
How do you think the Turkey gets to the table if it is not slaughtered?
Palin/Bachman 2012!
Ceiling Cat is watching you kill turkeys...
Anyone who finds this to be a big deal should just become a vegetarian.
What a blubbering idiot. It's really a shame that McCain didn't feel confident enough to win on his own merit that he would actually place the United States in further jeopardy with this attention seeking clown. She did nothing for him or herself. Thank goodness we dodged this scary bullet....She is a walking disaster.
please never go away. you continue to do more to kill the GOP than any democrat ever could.
How many of you are horrified by a turkey dying humanely, yet would fight tooth and nail to protect the "right" to basically decapitate a 6,7,8 MONTH old fetus being nearly born because the mom "doesn't want it"? Would you even be disgusted by a video of THAT???
The former Miss Alaska-cum-Wasilla mayor-cum-Governor repeatedly demonstrates what most of us have long suspected about all those pretty girls in the beauty contests.
BRAIN-DAMAGED!
Seriously, Sarah's got a lock on the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination because, barring a major screw-up or catastrophe, Obama will be a shoo-in for reelection (nearly all incumbent Presidents are), and the Republicans are going to need a sacrificial lamb to run against him.
You know ..... someone who can go down to defeat without dimming any of the party's too few bright lights.
Next up, Sarah Palin will abolish the death penalty & kill a man at the same time.
This poor woman just keeps digging herself in deeper. Why do I care? Why do we care? I'm not sure, but I think it's because it's like "someone needs to tell her...."
Effective leadership and authoritative power – that's what she's all about. When she says something as governor of Alaska, she means business – a pardon is a pardon --ooops!
Palin is not unaware of what is happening. CNN, why would you say she is unaware? She just chose to ignore it. We all know we kill turkeys to eat them. The whole thing was a silly story.
So what??? A turkey loses its head, and somebody gets a great dinner.
Boohooo.
Life goes on people.....
Obviously the corporate news media and the morons they serve (YOU PEOPLE) have no news! How about pick on that liar you all just elected? You won't see that now will you?
This is why McCain needs to burn in a particular hell, one reserved for old men with foolish ambitions. How dare he present this woman to the country as his choice for VP!
And if the GOP thinks this is the future than the future for the GOP is very dim indeed.
Again, this woman seems unable to form coherent, complete sentences, even in her staged photo opportunities. A complete dolt. It isn't so much that a turkey is being slaughtered in the background. It's that a state governor has the time or the stupidity to turn such a prosaic event into another dim-witted publicity stunt. Now she's got "Joe-the-Turkey-Killer" standing behind her.
And some people thought she would be alert enough to VP??? I can't stop laughing.
i'm continually amazed that someone can speak so many words, yet say nothing at all.
As for the video itself, i can't think of a more insane juxtaposition—besides, perhaps, Sarah Palin talking about crime being low in Alaska, and someone being robbed in the background...
She gives women a bad name. Thank God that she is not going to be helping run our country. She needs to go home and keep her mouth shut. Alaska PLEASE keep her home!!!! and God bless you for having to put up wth her!
people who get their feathers ruffled because of things like this have some serious issues. who.......the hell...........cares.......there are bigger problems in the world other than worrying about the governor of Alaska's stance on turkeys...come on people.
get some perspective.
She's an idiot. It doesn't seem where going to have to worry about her being the new leader of anything. Hopefully she will fade out of the news and then completely out of the public and political arena.
Good Ridence, you betcha!
Well, you know, she is very friendly and accessible..
When any of you has the cajones to say this mean filth of yours to her face, I will be impressed.
Ok, so I read people calling her a turkey, white trash, an idiot, and stupid. Wow! Democrats are so inclusive and kind to others...if you happen to be a democrat. Do you people realize how sexist, racist, and utterly stupid you sound when you continue to rail her? It is really sad.
I agree that the turkey being killed during the interview was in poor taste...no pun intended, but come on. Most people will eat turkey for Thanksgiving, and it has to die somehow. For all you that don't, and choose to eat a vegan or vegetarian diet, please do not let me see you cut the lettuce or carrots. It is just too much to bear....lol.
Stop picking on Palin – at least she understands Thanksgiving! McCain gave 28% of his net income before taxes to charity between 2000-2007, while Obama gave less that 1%...1%!!! Palin – 6%, Biden – less than 1/2 of 1%!!! Oh, you'll all be giving thanks when Obama uses YOUR money to provide for everyone who refuses to work and breed like there ain't no tomorrow! Why support pro-death when you're just going to increase taxes to feed all those folks anyway? Vote Dem so you don't have to think...be lemmings all the way to the poles...just incredible...
Palin 2012!!1 How can one person be so silly?
She winked again?
Sarah, get that fixed. Trust me, I do not want the President or Vice-President or anyone else in public office winking at me, unless she is not only cute but also un-married.
she is the only blonde i know that dyes her hair brown...
How long are you going to continue to whine about Sarah Palin? She shouldn't matter to you now.
This person is living proof of the Peter Principle. Her PR people must feel like they're rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
I didn't support McCain/Palin, but I do wish the media would leave her alone. I'm sure there are actual ISSUES you could be reporting on. Thanks.
This is hilarious. Thank God Palin is not the Vice-President!
This woman has to be one of the most idiotic people I have ever seen. Place go away Palin, we have real issues to deal with in this world. We would be in a world of hurt if this goofball actually got into office. She is even dumber than Bush.
CNN just can't keep this woman out of the headlines. Her 15 minutes of fame are up already guys. If she is so pro-life, why didn't she pardon the turkey. Wasn't it her who said ALL life is precious. So was the turkey some kind of sacrificial lamb Sarah?
Turkeys die on Thanksgiving. If you can't stand the heat, let go of the wishbone!
Since this is so news worthy...I guess all of you hypocrits blogging here are vegetarian, otherwise shut up. How do you think the meat, chicken, turkeys, hamburgers etc. you eat ends up on your plate.
I guess it is a crime to film an animal slaughter now, but it is ok to eat it. Grow up idiots....
Can you say, "Moron!" Can you imagine if she was elected? Her prayers where answered, the best person did get into office!
Could CNN's political agenda be any more obvious??
Sarah Palin is history. We'll all be better for it once we forget about her and let her wither back into Alaska where she belongs.
1. If you're disgusted by turkeys being slaughtered, then stop eating them. It would do our society well to be reminded where its food comes from and how it gets there.
2. If Palin represents "real" Americans, then every stereotype of our country is true. She has so much trouble articulatnig a coherent idea.
I'm with Danny in Chicago...
Someone has to put together a "Best of Sarah Palin" video!! That would be better than any comedy show on the market!!
Good for Sarah Palin! I'm sure there will be many people whining about the turkeys but as for me, I can't wait for the feast to begin!
She needs to enroll in a high school grammar course.
Get a life people and get over it.
I agree with the person who said turkeys on the table for Thanksgiving are obiously killed. I watched the interview on MSNBC and according to what was reported, she didn't mind the background and I believe they should have thought about moving the interview to a different scenery.
As for the people who believe Obama is responsible for the stock market that started to dive long before he was elected, you are as dumb as they come. The housing market, lending market, and other variables are the reasons why we are in deep trouble. Please look up the definition of a "Socialist" and understand that the Bush Administration is much closer to the definition than Obama. I guess you must think if you say it enough times, it will become the truth. You are wrong!
Clueless. Witty, glib and totally unaware of anything except what she has to say. Very much like her public appearances during the campaign.
So focused on herself she isnt even aware of what is going on around her.
SHE WITHOUT ANY DOUBT IS THE BIGGEST TURKEY (THAT IS AS POLITE AS I CAN SAY IT)
this is not news. i would have been interested if they were offing olbermann in the background though.....
WOW! Palin gives an interview whilst a bird is killed near her!!!!
NOW THIS IS REAL NEWS!!
Nothing better happening in the world?.any famines or wars you could write about instead of this drivel?
At least the turkeys weren't shot from a helicopter...
Has CNN turned into Us Weekly? Why don't they talk about real political issues as oppose to an interview being conducted in front of a turkey dying? People, you bury your heads in the sand when it comes to the economy and now you're burying your heads in the sand when it comes to the preparation of your Thanksgiving dinner. Closing your eyes doesn't stop it from happening. Morons...
Please. For. The. Love. Of. God. Please... No. More... Sarah.... Palin. Stories.....
Hey Iowa mom. Of course the market continuing its decline is Obamas fault. Everytime a liberal tax and spend canidate is elected to the white house, businesses suffer. History has proven that the tax and spend agenda like Obamas is bad for business and the markets.
Once again a Palin bashing......well enjoy your new leadership....hope none of you work for GM or Ford....of course, being in their union, you may be on the clock now and looking at CNN.com and collecting ridiculous benefits....someday you may have to actually earn your paycheck....
A person's speech and writing are clear indicators of their thought processes.
Q: What's the difference between a turkey and the governor of Alaska?
A: Lipstick!
Unaware is an understatement when describing her .Can't believe she was a VP candidate for the GOP party.
Huh?
Morbid. Tasteless. Insensitive.
She is on a turkey farm you clueless people. That is what they do...slaughter Turkeys...duh!
Please stop with the Palin talk and the animal abuse stories. CNN has a habit of airing too many abuse of animals stories which only make me hate people more and more. I can't believe any animal has to die to feed a republican. Palin is a national joke and represents what is wrong with half our population-extremely stupid, self righteous loud mouths.
I am no fan of Sarah Palin and wouldn't want her within 100 miles of the White House, but I feel sorry for her on this one – she just can't seem to get anything right (probably a good reason why she shouldn't be the VP of the United States.)
It was Tina Fey, don't you get it? It's a spoof that will show up on Saturday Night Not So Live.
Gee I don't think Saturday Night Live could have made up something this funny....
I wondered if she pardoned all the moose she shot?
Fact: Turkeys die for Thanksgiving, and Sarah Palin speaks poorly. Neither of these is news. Sensationalism demeans us all.
Please focus on what matters right now: the economy, the transition of leadership and any constructive stories you can share about how Americans and other nations are coping with these difficult, confusing times.
I thought Turkey's came from the supermarket.
and who cares? for those of us that eat turkey how else do you think it gets there? this is newsworthy why? why not report on the actual starving children living on the streets and feed them the turkey... cmon peeps.
Wow....that woman is a walking gaffe cluster . She is only aware of herself and she proves it over and over and over and over...
If I have said it once, I've said it a thousand times. – Can you even imagine this woman giving an acceptance speech – like the one Obama gave? How anyone in their right mind could think this woman is capable of running our country, is as crazy as she is. The way she speaks is, dare I say, worse than Bush.
You mean they kill turkeys in Alaska for Thanksgiving??? How rude..
Almost makes you wanna have a Vegan Thanksgiving!
All said and done , Palin is an honest and good person...but the picture here is just plain funny.....
For all the people who codemn sarah's interview. TURKEY DOESNOT GROW ON TREES!! IT HAS TO BE KILLED LIKE THE ONE IN THE PHOTO!! LETS SEE HOW OBAMA EATS HIS TURKEY, PLUCKING IT FROM TREE.
CNN – YOU NEED SOMETHING ELSE TO REPORT ON....BE PRACTICAL.
Gotta love her! Sarah Palin in 2012.
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
With this woman, we almost did it again.
There are way too many out there who have yet to learn the lessons of the last eight years and exactly WHY we are in the catastrophic mess we now find ourselves.
Keep reminding us of what almost happened.
Since she enjoys killing animals so much, I'm sure she was very comfortable in that setting!! (She also kills the English language!)
It has been so nice not to hear much about her this week, and now this wonderful moment had to be brought to everyone's attention!
Please, enough with Palin; she isn't worth the time, money, or energy!
Im. . . Gobble Gobble. . . Right Where. . . Gobble Gobble. . . I Need To Be. . . Gobble Gobble! . . . Too Bad Your Campaign Was Not Given A Pardon By The American People!
Trust me,
we know Sarah very well here at the State building.
She is an idiot! Talking to her is like talking to a 13 year old Hannah Montana fan. Oh my gosh! and Totally and like yeah and stuff.
This is the real her, Beauty queen politician!
She didnt get the job because she was qualified, she got the job because people look and dont listen. Check out her college records.
She went to like 6-8 schools always on the verge of flunking out.
So rather than flunk out she transferred......every time.
Give the woman a break! Those birds are so dumb they drown looking up to see where the rain is coming from. I'm saving a 25 pounder from drowning this Thanksgiving myself.
V-E-G-I-T-A-R-I-A-N = Old Indian word for 'Bad Hunter'.
LiberalsHateAmerica: The current Republican administration is pouring 700 billion taxpayer dollars on the banking system. They bailed out AIG. Is this your idea of Republican free enterprise? We are all socialists now.
Remember it was Republicans that created a half a trillion dollar deficit. They wage two wars and cut taxes at the same time. And then they call themselves "conservative." Schizophrenic fits better.
I am glad I don't live in Alaska.
My god this was funny. It was almost not enjoyable at all, seeing as Palin WOULD NOT SHUT UP as usual.
I love how the guy in the back is just shoving turkeys into the machine and then turning around to listen to her. Oh god, my sides were hurting.
As much as I find her unbelievably hilarious – not really her actions as much as people actually thought she would be adequate for vice president – I fear her just as much. Again, not because of her immediate actions, but the actions she would take if the complacent, ignorant, backwards morons who voted for her actually got what they wanted.
The Governor of Alaska see America very differently than the rest of us.
She thinks that it is OK for her to go
PALIN AROUND WITH FEATHERISTS.
Actually the Turkeys were fighting each other to be next on the chopping block when they heard she was coming to speak about them.
Abby, give me a break. Did Bush get any kind of warm response prior to taking office? Did he get the benefit of the doubt prior to making any presidential decisions? NO, he didn't. It's the way it works, and because Obama is your guy, doesn't mean he should get special treatment. The hypocrisy and double standard on the left baffles me sometimes...not to say that it doesn't occur across the board, but it's so blatantly ignored by the media when it happens for the left.
Hey, Clint! We'll grow up as soon as you get a brain. The issue isn't the turkey being slaughtered in the background. This issue what's talking in the foreground, which is an empty-headed imbecile who can't speak in coherent, complete sentences, yet thought she was ready to be President of the United States. That's the reason why this clip is news. It shows how stupid and gullible a lot of voters were in the last election who thought she would make a fine leader of the free world. The idea that someone like Palin can come as close as she did to the presidency is downright frightening, even if you don't consider the dire straits this country is in right now.
haha that was awesome. go palin!
Who cares? They were killing an animal. So what? This happens every day thousands of times across America. Why is this unfortunate? What, is CNN a member of PETA now?
To those who "check" these messages before "allowing" them to be seen by the public (who is responsible for you even HAVING A JOB IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!). I hope for YOUR SAKE, that you are simply Interns doing this for College credit. If this is a min. wage job (which I am sure it must be, seeing as your intelligence levels are obviously not capable of obtaining more "thought provoking" work).... maybe you should try McDonald's. You'd get to wear a cool head set!!! and actually talk with people. Instead of pretending to have some "power" sitting behind your DELL.. Allowing The brainless comments (which you can understand) and not allowing any INTELLIGENT posts, seeing as they are above your pay grade!
I don't get it. Why is a turkey being slaughtered an "unfortunate scene"? Palin doesn't see this as an issue because she isn't uncomfortable with the fact that animals are killed and eaten. I think some of you might be surprised to see how many americans are also not uncomfortable with htis concept. Some people even *gasp* kill animals themselves. Can you believe it?
this is disgusting, plain & simple. who needs to see this?
She is horrible.
The way this stupid excuse for a news article is spun is so very obvious. Come on, unless you're a vegetarian or something, it's hypocritical for you to go on about a dying turkey in the background like it's something scandalous. Do you think YOUR thanksgiving turkey grows on a tree or something?
I don't like Sarah Palin, but I know ridiculous bias when I see it. Also, can we quit this stupid obsession with her – both the hate and the love? She's irrelevant. This kind of thing only keeps her in the spotlight.
This looks exactly like a Jimmy Kimmel bit... it's hard to satirize Sarah Palin... just show the original videos... same results.
How is this even newsworthy? That's the problem with news coverage. It's as much entertainment as news. And all of the comments posted to the effect of "boy, I'm sure glad we didn't elect her as Vice President" are laughable. Really? THIS interview is what confirms your decision? Please.
Yeah, who cares. 90% of us have a turkay for Thanksgiving. I think we have a mandate in this one. The people have spoken. Oops.... wait the California Supreme Court may step in an say that turkeys have rights too.
It’s really shameful to see her talk and then funny enough have some people defending her about media scrutiny, they should just leave her alone am tired of her already and I thought the election was done so we can get a break from her ignorance. Why is CNN keeping on bringing her interviews like we have not had enough of her yet
And some people think this woman should run for president in 2012. Unbelievable!
stop giving this woman air time. She's done. Nobody cares anymore. The Sarah Palin show has officially been canceled.
@ Independent Voter:
Ew, an uncut version huh? I will make sure to avoid that before Thanksgiving!
Hey LiberalHateAmerica,
Do Rebuplicans every take responsibility for anything?
You all used to blame Clinton for everything...at least you now have someone else to blame.
One can only wonder what the market would be doing if the guy who said he doesn't know much about the economy was elected.
So, how do you like the new faces of the Republican Party?
Sarah Palin and an unlicensed, uneducated plumber who is delinquent on both his taxes and child support.
so they were killin' turkeys for the thanksgiving as the Governor was giving her interview.
they were killin' turkeys for Thanksgiving in background as the Governor gave an interview ... SO WHAT! ... cooper anderson & ms. brown! do you think turkeys commit suicide??? i'm sick of you guys tryin' your best to trash Sarah. i watch FOX now.
Where did you people think the bird on your table came from? Oh horrors of horrors – actual footage of the carnage done by the millions daily and you poor people had to see it. Do you think hamburger is fried red algae? Ignorance is bliss I guess.
Bad place to shoot an interview but sometime when people are working you have to get an interview when you have the chance. Palin isn't like Obama who had always perfect "photo shoots" for the media. I don't see why everyone likes to bash Palin so much, sure she was not the best canidate for VP but McCain was not a good pick for the Republican canidate. To those who hope to see Palin as the pick in 2012 and think the Dems are going to win you are so wrong.
4 Years of a complete Democratic controlled Washington will ruin this country and many people may regret what they voted for in 08. Our hope is that in 2012 someone like Ron Paul will be elected so we can get true change and return our country to that which our founding fathers created.
Clint, If you are going to insult democrats you should learn how to spell the word. Most of these comments do not express sympathy for the doomed turkeys. I don't eat turkey but still know how others get the ones they eat. It probably just wasn't the best place for her to stand during her post pardoning interview.
Living proof she "pals around" with killers.
Can't CNN find some REAL news to report on? Enough 'jumping' on Sarah Palin!
Hey, she was there supporting a local business and didn't mind that the workers actually worked while she was there. If you actually wonder where the turkey comes from that you eat on Thanksgiving, you need to eat a veggie loaf this year. I was thinking about mashed potato's and gravy. Yumbo.
And this is the future of the Republican Party? I hope not, for their sake. But if they choose to put her in any position of influence or authority, the Dems. will keep right on winning, and I'm okay with that. We need to turn this country around dramatically, and it may take more than 8 years. It took Bush 8 years to destroy it completely, now it has to be turned around. January 20th cannot come fast enough!!
Could this have been a possible foreshadow of America if she had been put as second in command...?
Lmao...
Good one Sarah.
I agree with Danny in Chicago November 21st, 2008 1:34 pm ET on that video idea
It is so great to see Ms. Palin completely humiliate herself, her party, and her aspirations.
This is outstanding comedy. Wonderful entertainment.
She is now where she can be appreciated!
...among the Turkeys!!!
TO RG: BAYBERRY SCARF. LOOKS LIKE AN ORDINARY SCARF TO ME. I WOULDNT KNOW BAY BERRY FROM LINGON BERRY??? OBVIOUSLY YOU SHOP AT THESE HIGH END STORES. WHY DOES IT MATTER, WHOS LOOKING WHO CARES OH OBVIOUSLY, YOU DO. MAYBE IT WAS A GIFT FROM HER HUSBAND, WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN.
You have got to be kidding me. Are you out of your minds, CNN?! Are you so friggin' biased on your political views that you would actually make this a "news" item?!
I am not a huge Sarah Palin fan. But, enough is enough. Trying to make a monster out of her because she's shown giving an interview in front of a turkey being slaughtered is about as low as it gets.
I wonder when you're all at homes celebrating and giving thanks with your family - while chowing down on such a turkey - that the irony of the moment won't even occur to you.
Palin is a dimwit whose command of the English language is just like W. Bush's. And the people of Alaska elected her as their governor. It's beyond me how anyone could have voted for this person to be VP. She need to go away.
How many people that were shocked by the killing of the turkey will be eating turkey that someone had to kill on this coming Thanksgiving day?
I just can't stand this woman...she's palin next to Obama
The only reason I can see for CNN continuing to dog this woman over everything she does must be because they know America hasn't see the last of this woman and libs everywhere are scared to death of her. Must be because so many conservatives agree with her on so many subjects.
King Obama can only reign for 8 years....then it may be Palin's turn so let's discredit her often and early.
she's a monster.
How would you like to try to diagram that sentence?
Fresh Turkey not the frozen stuff, yum.
CNN, don't you have something more important to report. You are a Turkey. So is Obama.
Seriously this is what you people have to rant about??? What are you all eating on Thanksgiving...??? Get over it and enjoy your Tofurkey.
What is with the Palin bashing?
I thought everyone was so inspired and overwhelmed by the Obama win? I thought petty things like disrespecting a woman for the way she talks, where she lives, and what she does, would be beneath such an inspired and changed people?
Inspired and changed.....no, more like self centered and egocentric attitudes from the least mature voters/supporters ever.
This Sara Palin is the perfect example of a person who thinks the job title makes you who you are. She realy believes she knows what she is suppose to know simply because of her title. This in turn makes her ignorant. She is not even smart enough to go and try to learn what she is suppose to know. What a real ignoranr person she is
That is an ironic photo op indeed but most of you have lost any sense of reality. Granted the televising of the turkey being killed in the background is not the nicest to hear but where the heck do you think all these wonderful cuts of meat come from?
Do you think your grandparents/great grandparents all got their food packaged up into little neat wrappers from the store? So she is at the place where the food originates...Shocking! She must be white trash since she is there!
How many of you were disgusted by her being a hunter? Or that she wears fur? How many of you are disgusted that Obama has a leather belt or shoes? Eats meat?
Mrs Palin has attained the dubious status of Media Darling, once held by Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Amy Winehouse, among others. This means that the media is going to follow her around & report on anything they might deem remotely newsworthy, including routine visits to the gynecologist, despite the fact that their Darling isn't actually doing anything IMPORTANT at the moment. Entertainment Tonight can't get enough of her. Hopefully, eventually they'll move on & give the crown to someone else.
Mike, it's about the irony of the story in my opinion. She pardons one turkey while another is slaughtered in the background. Obviously they don't die on their own or commit suicide. I live in Iowa, I know how animals are slaughtered.
Look, I don't like her values but you people cross the line. When will you accept that he last thing Sarah Palin is is dumb or stupid. She is a whip, a very capable governor and was a great Mayor. You cannot possibly hate somebody so much that you are blind about her talents.
You all are ridiculous. Its a TURKEY FARM! People eat turkey.... She lost, get over it already.
Move along. Sheesh the one sided media already won the election for Obama. Go find some real news now. Maybe go take a boat ride around Somalia and see how much a boat load of journalists is worth in ransom.
I just don't like her!
Ofcourse this is news! Thanks CNN for the reminder of how inept Palin is and how close she came to becoming second in command!
"Certainly will probably..." Which is it...certainly or probably? lmao the hilarity with Palin's painful way of speaking never ceases.
Even Britney Spears makes more sense in interviews then this woman. As for the turkey, I am aware of where it comes from. I don't need to see it on TV.
I agree with most in the fact that this woman needs to just go away. If this is the best Alaska has, all I can say is "WOW!".
Q: What's the difference between a turkey and the Governor of Alaska?
A: Lipstick!
Please CNN what do I have to do to make this woman go away and you stop reporting on her. I mean if I wasnt laughing so hard I would be crying ...... Look shes probably not a bad govenor with a population of 666,000 and a permanent budget surplus. But this woman is a joke on the national scene. I mean to give one turkey a pardon while the other one is being butchered is hysterical . PLEASE shes not very bright. Please she needs to go away. If I send money will you stop reporting on her?
Com' on guys leave her alone now.
This story is only offensive to the big city folk that are not used to this sort of thing. Gov. Palin is a country girl and she is not trying to hid it and she shouldn't.
Come on people, get out a little and get a life.
"It appears the stock market knows how to spot a socialist better then the mainstream media."
Let's see....that would be the stock market companies that were funded with taxpayer money/nationalized (socialism) with 70 billion bucks by Prez Bushtin and allowed to become banks so they could borrow your money Mr. Liberalshateamerica"? It was startling to hear the republinumbs calling Obama a socialist when Bushtin was nationalizing the banking/equities industry. I think only Gov. Pailout believed that one!
What is with the Palin bashing?
I thought everyone was so inspired and overwhelmed by the Obama win? I thought petty things like disrespecting a woman for the way she talks, where she lives, and what she does, would be beneath such an inspired and changed people?
Inspired and changed.....no, more like self centered and egocentric attitudes from the least mature voters/supporters ever.
You've got to be kidding! How is this newsworthy? I can understand a story if she was a vegetarian or something.
Most of us eat turkey and someone has to kill it first. It looked pretty humane to me. It's not like he chased it around the yard with a baseball bat or something. I am thankful that the turkey gave its life to find it rightful place next to the stuffing and mashed potatoes…
She is one insensitive, stupid woman.
It's a gaff, a fairly innoscent gaff. But a very funny one nonetheless! Any political relevence? none.
What in the blazes does this story do on CNN's site first page? (Other than to show its true colors as the partisan, anti Palin/Republican counterinsurgency squad that it has become?).
You know, it's not as if "under a hail of gunfire" should serve as an example of good grammar. At least Palin will remember this event precisely as it happened.
I simply do not have words for the spectacle of Gov. Palin and the
turkey slaughter last night.
Even the most avid Republican who LOVED her during the general
and after, has to admit – she simply is not White House material.
She is a very attractive woman, but that is all.
She is not an accomplished politican and her mothering skills could
use some help as well.... Poor little Piper and Trig!!!!
Please – let her go back to her life in Alaska and raise her children.
The public scrutiny of the past three months should also have Alaskans scratching their heads as to how they ever elected her Governor of their great state. I feel so sorry for all involved.
Thank God Barack Obama and Joe Biden were elected.
Palin "has no issue" with where the turkey-slaughter interview took place? That implies she was ASKED about the scene behind her.
I'm sure some obviously more sensitive person, perhaps the cameraman or the producer of this interview segment, asked her because they knew the interview would be televised perhaps during the dinner hour (6 PM news). That more sensitive person figured there ARE some people who have their TV turned on to watch the news while they're eating dinner with their family - which includes small impressionable children, presumably.
I hate to think what kind of teacher Sarah Palin would make, if she'd gained an Education degree in those 6 years of college and then qualified for a teaching certificate. Yeah, hands-on demonstrations on field dressing a wild animal or a domestic food-source beast in her home room at the local middle school...
If you want to become a vegetarian , you may want to learn how to spell it!!!!!!!!!!
If this doesn't make you a vegetarian, you have no heart.
Palin conducted this controversial interview to keep herself in the limelight. What a jive turkey she is.
"Palin appeared unaware of what was going on directly behind her.." she was when she was running for office as well.
This woman needs to go back into obscurity!
when will Palin come to her senses and realize that she is pure entertainment. The more the camera is on this woman the more she keep looking like a fool. Every time I see her now I feel so sad for her that she does not realize the disservice the media is doing to her. Look at McCain...he has been barely seen on tv since the election.
I wonder who is smarter......?
God, please please give her some wisdom. We beg you!
One would think that the half wit would want to save one of her own kind.
I am so glad this twit is toast.
Americans will eat about 45 million turkeys this Thanksgiving. Where do you people think theycome from? Get over it!
You Dem's are lame. Do you see those of us that were NOT for Obama still dragging him out? I have respect for the Office, not the man that will be in it soon, so I keep my mouth shut. I am betting those that are still whinning about Sarah have either no life or a low IQ and can't get on with worrying about real issues like "the economy, stupid!" I really hope to GOD that Obama delivers on all his promises, but if not, I will be the one laughing. So let's just get on with it, CHANGE things, please! This is about as newsworthy as Obama getting his old phone account looked at by Verizon employees.
I want to see what the big 3 are going to give me for my money, I want to see Warren Buffett in charge of the economy. I want to know if Caylee is dead and why did Casey do it. I want snow for christmas and Santa to drop food in the Congo. And I am looking very forward to having that stupid turkey on my table this year, fried.
Independent Sarah supporter and proud.
Say what you will about Sarah Palin and how she energized the GOP, bottom line is that we deserve better than even considering her as anything other than what she is, governor of Alaska. There are too many other worthy GOP folks who worked their way up the hard way. We as a country should just forget this unfortunate chapter and let her just go away...we have too many real problems that need to be addressed by professionals, not this flake.
This is what the news has come to???
Palling around with turkeys – Priceless!!
Is she related to jessica simpson, because she is so clueless.
I heard she knew this was going on (her aides had warned her). Give that woman a helicopter and make it interesting!
ENGLISH.....Learn to speak it as if it was your first language.
Sarah Palin Has The Intelligence Of A Turkey! She Can Definately Speak Their Language! All She Did Was Gobble During The Entire Interview!
Career suicide before our eyes, people. A candidate who was already a national joke turns herself into a total laughingstock. What a complete turkey of a politician. She is clueless, ignorant, yet completely unaware that we're all laughing at her. Keep it up, Sarah. What's next? Seeing you filmed shooting polar bears or something? Give it up, already. Your career prospects are as dim as for that poor turkey with its head in the grinder.
You call this news? You're just as ignorant as you THINK Palin is.
How many of you are horrified by a turkey dying humanely, yet would fight tooth and nail to protect the "right" to basically decapitate a 6,7,8 month old fetus because the mom "doesn't want it"? Would you even be disgusted by a video of THAT???
CNN, NBC, CBS...you guys are soooo affraid of Palin it's too funny.
Enjoy your steak tonight! You do know how those animals are killed, right? You know, the sick ones are simply bulldozed into the slaughterhouse....
Hey Karen, Do you eat beef??? Have you SEEN the BULLDOZING of those poor SICK animals that can't even stand???? Bulldozed into the slaughterhouse????? Enjoy your steak tonight.....
Hey Karen, Do you eat beef??? Have you SEEN the BULLDOZING of those poor SICK animals that can't even stand???? Bulldozed into the slaughterhouse????? Enjoy your steak tonight.....
TOO FUNNY!!!!!!
I guess all you bleeding hearted libs will forego your turkey this Thanksgiving!!!! I love her....
Ok, grant it Palin is not the best public speaker but why does she have to be? Does that even matter at this kind of event? It's a local tradition! You cannot tell me that the huge majority of Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Asians, and other people of the world do not, themselves, participate in some kind of tradition or other yearly undertaking that some person a thousand miles away wouldn't find the least bit odd! Why do you people think she was unfazed by this? It's because Palin was not raised to be afraid of something as trivial as killing a turkey. Did you really expect her to do something about it? Why would she? Lastly, why do you care? Why is this even in the news?
I am thankful Palin is not our VP-elect. But I am sorry for the citizens of Alaska that she is their Gov.
I love the fact that some people are defending her. We aren't upset that they are killing a turkey, they are laughing at how stupid it is to do a press conference with that behind her. Hello?!?!? Too funny because she proves what we knew about her all along, just how stupid she really is. Too funny!!!
I know where thanksgiving turkeys come from, but I have no idea where this dumb person came from. However, my thanks this years goes to McCain for picking her. Thanks McCain!
OH I GET IT!! Its a metaphor like the turkey represents The Mccain-Palin ticket.. . . .. and the turkey got slaughtered!!!
I agree with Mike, are these people kidding!!! Maybe we should all just eat tofu on Thanksgiving.
I wonder what Easter Egg hunts at the Governor's mansion are like....
This isn't about food processing and knowing where meat comes from. Yes, meat eaters understand that turkeys are not born headless and featherless in the freezer aisle. It still doesn't mean we want to see the slaughter. I mean, everyone knows where babies come from and that birth is a beautiful fact of life – that still doesn't mean it's appropriate for a politician to give an interview right in front of a live birth.
It just reinforces how jaw-droppingly clueless she is. Nevermind the fact that she blathered and rambled for 3 minutes without uttering a single coherent thought. To think that this person was almost our vice president is simultaneously hilarious, frightening, unbelievable, and sad.
Republicans are missing the point once again.
We all know where our turkeys come from – we're just not used to seeing hick politicians give INTERVIEWS in front of a LIVE SLAUGHTER. If you think that is normal, than it is not surprising why your party is the laughing stock of the rest of the country / world. Being "folksy" can be charming at times, but this is not one of them.
Getting slaughtered is something Palin knows a lot about- it happened to her and McCain during the election HAHAHAHA!!!!
LOL at the folks that still think Palin ran for President.
LOL at the folks that think Obama will fix everything.
LOL at the folks that blame Bush for the troubled economy.
LOL at the folks blaming the liberal biased CNN from running this so called story.
LOL at the folks who hate on the other posters because they are left wing liberal wieners or far right wing nut jobs.
LOL at the folks who have nothing better to do today but post comments like this that waste precious space.
Are you sure it wasn't the sound of her voice that made the turkey off himself??
"It's nice to support a local business and just participate in something that isn't so heavy handed politics that invites criticism,"
What the heck is she saying? Does she speak english or is she from the "other" America?
I dislike Sarah...but this is a no issue. Meat comes from slaughtered animals. CNN...stop trying to make a story when there is none. The election is over.
Media died at 2008. People are losing their jobs, their money, losing their pride and media shows us Sarah Palin with at turkey being slaughtered behind her? Maybe next time while enterviewing Obama should do it at abortion hospitals and showing an innocent baby being killed.
I believe media is so scare of this woman and by the way I am pretty sure it was a set up.
Palin appeared unaware of what was going on directly behind her...or infront of her or beside her...as she was while running for office.
CNN her 15 minutes of fame are UP!
You people are a bunch of prudes. How do you think they die? Get over it or boycott your turkey this year.....ah no Ill eat the turkey. Why aren't you bashing the guy doing the slaughter? Leave her alone....she's done nothing to you? You woman are mad because your jealous of her looks. Get over it.
Now, I'm not a Palin fan but this is irresponsible reporting.
The Palin pooches continue to rush to the the defense of this idiot. Yes, yes we know how the these tasty critters get to our table. Like Palin, her pooches are absolutely clueless to the irony and hilarity that is taking place behind her.
A savvy politician knows not to stand in front of a dumpster when discussing garbage hauling.
What's happening in the background distracts from anything relevant she might have to say.
For goodness sake, give it up already. So she's on a turkey farm and they are killing a turkey behind her. How else do you people think all those millions of people who eat turkey on Thanksgiving get the frozen turkey if it isn't killed?! And who cares that she's there? I personaly don't. Show me news worth my time reading and watching about.
Why is this even news....
Good god people. Yes, it's palin, she's not that cool, but just leave her alone! If you eat meat than you shouldn't say anything mean on these posts.
You naive boobs!!! Where do you think meat comes from, the sky???
You would think that during a photo-op for pardening a turkey they would stop working for a minute. That being said, I will have to agree that the turkeys – or other animals we eat – were once alive (so were the plants. actually we commonly eat plants while they are still alive!). Someone had to do the "dirty deed." I have killed my share of animals for eating. I realize that not everyone can do that but don't ostracize those who do. Now, with that being said I need to get back to butchering the deer hanging in the garage. Bye.
Come on. How did you folks think Turkeys ended up in those plastic bags defeathered and frozen? That's been going on far longer than Palin's bid for Vice President.
I LOVE SARAH! She is the funniest woman I've ever heard and watched! I have been laughing at this woman since she first appeared to us! She's a comedian from Alaska right?
She's great. Best impersonation of the dumbest person alive I've ever seen. Really. No one better.
Was that "Billy Bob the turkey-beheader" with Sarah the Pinhead?
Who cares! The only people offended by this would be the animal lovers and vegetarians. Believe me, we didn't like her anyway.
"Someone has to "speak up" on economy". This is the heading for one of the most pressing issues put forth by CNN. As mentioned before, I am not intrested in Huckabee's bid for 2012 (if we get there). Palin's pro-life stance while Tom Turkey goes to his grave touches the nerve of many but still I am not interested. I am no Scrooge but Santa Claus melodies being belted out since early November on some radio stations are not music to my ears. ECONOMY anyone?
vic
I thank God every day that this woman didn't get elected for vice president!!!
Can I 2nd that
WE NEED TO REALLY TAKE A STEP BACK IN THIS COUNTRY!!!! WE WORRY ABOUT TURKEYS AND CHICKENS BEING KILLED OR "SLAUGHTERED". WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THE MEATS THEY BUT IN THE GROCERY STORES COME FROM? THE FOOD FAIREY?????
WE NEED TO STAND UP, GROW A BACKBOE, AND GET THIS COUNTRY BACK UP TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE.. IF THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT GOING TO DO ANY BETTER IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS THAN THE LAST MONTH, WE'RE REALLY IN BIG, BIG TROUBLE...
It looks like her fortunes appear to be changing for the worse. First Stevens loses, and then this.
Maybe we will see a quick and final good riddance to this shameless opportunist.
She just turned me into a vegetarian. What a jerk. It's not enough that she supports the horrid slaughtering of wolves, now we get to witness the slaughter of turkeys, while she gabs on and on, as if nothing is happening?
To all of those out there who claim "why is this news"? It isnt! Its just freakin funny. Im sorry your candidate lost, but get over it and learn how to laugh. Its ok to find humor in life right wingers. "1-20-09" then end of an error".
Typical biased liberal media...just keep printing ANYTHING that can have a negative tone for her and keep blowing smoke up my arse when it comes to your no do no wrong picks. Hypocritis!!!
Irony, thy name is Sarah Palin...
Rule #1 of television interviews – don't do one when live animals are being slaughtered over your left shoulder, especially if the purpose of the photo op was to pardon a live animal.
Rule #2 of television interviews – if the video clip of your interview comes with a warning about "graphic content", fire your PR staff immediately.
As Thanksgiving approaches we have many things to be thankful for and one of them is that Palin did not become our Vice- President. Amen
Ha ha ha ha!
Enough of Palin already. Come on now.
Only a story CNN would even think about running. Sarah Palin is a conservative and she is excoriated because she happened to have her picture taken while a yummy turkey is being slaughtered. Who the freak cares? When that idiot Stephanaphoulous (sic) corrected Obama about his "Muslim faith" it went unnoticed or unchallenged by the media. The media is liberal and they suck the toe of Obama. Give me a break
This woman is dammed if she does and dammed if she doesn't . It's a Turkey, it's Thankgiving. If you eat it , it has to be killed first. In Alaska, it looks like they get the Turkey fresh and not from Krogers or Food Lion. My steak doesn't come from steers and my canned fish doesn't come from the ocean. Whats wrong with people??
I'm terrified! Was the turkeys family notfied? Was that turkey the sole breadwinner for the family? How many under age turkey children were left behind?
What will happen to the dead turkey? When and where is the funeral?
I want to be there to eat a turkey sandwich and show my support. Someone should start a help fund so we can donate money for the turkey family, maybe a candlelight vigil?
Somebody help!! Don't show any more pictures!! The children, my god the children!!
I see she never returned the RNC's Burberry scarf. Unless there is a Burberry store in Wasilla... Nah, she's just a typical Republican thief. Profits before People. Party before Country. The Me First crowd.
Clint: our species is totally capable of surviving without "killing and eating other lifeforms." Read a book on nutrition and get a clue.
That aside, I think Sarah Palin could have requested a more festive backdrop for her interview.
@LiberalsHateAmerica
Get over yourself you phony patriot.
1) Who cares about Turkeys being slaughtered. That's what they're here for.
2) The poor judgement here is by the camerman, not Palin. He was probably setting her up anyway.
JT – LMAO! Democrats don't distinguish between human life and turkey life!
But actually, with Democrats, it is often hard to tell.
Oh, please. All you people eat turkeys throughout the year, where do you think they come from? You are all hypocrites, eating turkey (and other meats) while whining about this non-event? get a life!
ewwwwwwww – gross! Palin again!!!! I'm going to be sick....
Follow up to my previous comment in watching some other news media besides CNN; sorry this is not directed at CNN, of course they do not want you to read other media this will be taken viewers away from them...(but you need to) if you don't like the way they report the news. Case Closed!
Matt
As opposed to what you believe- that we all formed from mud? but who created the mud? how'd the mud get here? Liberals view of evolution is like saying the Sisteen Chapel just happened over time without any design behind it. Palin is a not a fundalmentalist, as MOST Christian Americans are not. Many believe in intelligent design. Noah's ark, adam and eve are just stories meant to teach a lesson...
You liberals have been drinking the socialist kool-aid served up by the media for far too long. (apparently the stock-market isn't buying barry's socialist vision of unicorns and flowers either)
Media setup?? The progressive MSM has certainly proven themselves capable of deceptive reporting practices to meet their own agenda....
Let's see a series of these. Maybe the next interview could take place at a beef packing plant?
That's not a turkey farm – that's the front lawn of the Alaska Governor's Mansion!
When will she ever go away or learn how to speak in complete sentences????
. . . . wow, I have two responses first that was an extremely dumb idea on both the local news organization and governor Palin to film the interview right outside the slaughter house *While* they are slaughtering the birds. And second how they are killing the birds seems extremely inhumane surely there is a more humane way to instantly kill the birds than stuff their heads into a grinder while they are still alive.
If surely hope that this is not the way larger food producers are slaughtering them because it is surely making me think twice about eating turkey this year.
She is so full of herself - and completely unaware of what others are experiencing.
It's all about HER.
What a bunch of sissified treehuggers. Did you think the turkeys in the grocery store volunteered for the duty? Morons...freeloading, government dependancy, democrat morons. The strongest survive. We'll be proving this in another 20 years or so. I'm sick of paying for all of you people. GET A JOB, MAKE YOUR HOUSE PAYMENT, QUIT GETTING KNOCKED UP WITH KIDS YOU CAN'T PAY FOR! Losers!
I'm always surprised when people defend Palin. The issue isn't that this is a big issue – it's just that it's further proof that she's not all that aware of what's happening around her and she certainly wasn't ready to run a nation. Now I know – what's a turkey farm have to do with running a country – well if you're pardoning a turkey for a family friendly photo-op it might be bad form to have one killed behind you.
She should have been aware of the potential shot (esp with her journalism experience) and made sure she wasn't being interviewed in front of something so paradoxical. Or at least her staff should have been aware – does she have a press liason? Seems like she needs one.
And for those thinking this is fine – try watching this same video with kid and see how innocent this shot is.
As much as I don't like Palin...
C'mon CNN. This isnt a story. This isn't news. This isn't worthy of note.
Next you'll be reporting "Palin Jaywalks." Dun, dun, DUNNNN! "Film at 11."
Please stop Foxing It Up, and remember the professionalism and demeanor of Bernard Shaw, rather than the sensational claptrap of the Faux News Machine.
Maybe you can strive to be the "Televised News of Record," rather than the... I don't even know what to call what CNN is becoming.
It's not sexist to say this lady is an idiot. Her judgment is particularly questionable, especially for an elected official.
No one is picking on her, because she is a female. Could you see Hillary Clinton doing something so stupid?
Irrespective of the events captured on video, this is tele-journalism at its worst. This is not a news item, this is visual distraction from actual events that are to be reported by the media in their constituionally-defined role in our democracy.
What is the Governor's policy on...anything today? Reporters, go do your work. This is People Magazine-style distraction. Once these video-tidbit gatherers decide there is a narrative about the personality of a public official, they run towards it, rather than digging for information related to the public official's policies, which affect our lives. More empty crap from "TV News." You are all fired.
...wow...the point isn't that the turkey was slaughtered...yes, even Dem's eat meat and we know if we don't buy it at the store then we have to kill it ourselves.
The point is that we came far too close to electing her into the VP position. The point is that here is someone delivering a 'pardon the turkey' bit for the news (yes, we KNOW she's yesterday's news, but she doesn't get it yet), and while she delivers that clip she doesn't realize what is going on behind her. This is why when the Pres. pardon's a turkey, it's not at the turkey farm where the cameras can catch an actual slaughter, but it's at a different site (East lawn, etc.).
It's that kind of ignorance that she surrounds herself with. An aide should have looked at the background and had the cameras set up where that action wouldn't be taped. She and the people she surrounds herself with are that dense! Incredible!
Can anyone translate that meandering, nonsensical sentence quoted from her to English?
60 days till the end of the Bush administration.
Who cares? Your great grandparents pretty much killed all thier own meat to eat. Obama 2012 Hillary 2016!!
I thought this was funny. How did she not realize her background
You people are idiots. It's a turkey farm, and that's what happens. I have a right to be offended; I'm a vegetarian. I'm guessing most of you are not–this is what happens to your food. If you can't handle seeing it on TV, don't eat it.
But don't blame Palin for not being surprised whena turkey gets killed at a TURKEY FARM.
All those who are horrified can back it up by foregoing their turkey dinner next Thursday.
Palin is the reason why Bush is evil. Palin and Bush caused that turkey to die.
Obama '08
and if she'd been elected president, that would be common sense, decency, and respect for others being slaughtered behind her.
Oh... wait... she already did that.
Look at yourself charlene before you despise her or others .As the bible says check the log in your eye before others.Maybe you are worse than others.Shame on you.Change as Obama says.
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING? If my small kids had been in the room and had seen that they would be horrified. They are too young fo me to try and explain the whole slaughtering process. How can someone be that clueless?
Why would this be hard for people to watch all of the sudden? What do you think is on your plate each Thanksgiving?? Billions of animals are slaughtered each year for consumption, clothing, etc. Maybe the point is...if it bothers you...maybe you should consider not eating meat or wearing animal skin/fur/feathers??!! Seems like a simple fix to me.
I stopped eating animals 13 years ago and I feel so good about that decision.
just so everyone knows, fox is also running this story...
Why bring her up again? She was well on her way to be forgotten. And that is truely the best way for her.
Gee – Maybe folks will know where turkeys come from now. They're not grown in Walmart freezers. It figures the media would make a big deal out of this.
Why did CNN feed us this information?
Please, please, please!!! Leave Palin completely out of the limelight! The election is over, everyone knows that Palin is an idiot, and now the media needs to let her slip back into the oblivion she came from. She is bad for politics and extremely bad for this country. Imagine what the state of this country would be under a Palin administration. Granted, Bush has done a horrendous job in his 8 years, and as hard as it is to imagine, it would be worse under Palin. I truly think it would be the total distruction of this country. It's sad that there are so many ignorant people that like her, it really gives a telling tale as to the intelligence of this country. It's a real eye opener as to how important a good education is for America. Enough of Palin!!!
How dumb can liberals be? I can't wait until Obama starts to disappoint you, you all will turn on like a bunch of rabid wolves.
Palin seems to have taken some glee away from the slaughter. You don't have to be vegetarian or vegan to appreciate and respect the life that was taken to feed you. To joke about it as she did is callously disrespectful.
Yeah, we know where the turkey comes from. Doesn't mean we want to see that crap on television.
Either of them!
Was the turkeys family notfied? Was that turkey the sole breadwinner for the family? How many under age turkey children were left behind?
What will happen to the dead turkey? When and where is the funeral?
I want to be there to eat a turkey sandwich and show my support. Someone should start a help fund so we can donate money for the turkey family, maybe a candlelight vigil?
Somebody help!! Don't show any more pictures!! Think about the children, my god the children!!
she's such a loser !!!!! I hope she does run in 2012 !!!!
A true reason to give thanks in a down season: Sarah is back up in Alaska where she belongs.
Inappropriate is the only word I can come up with to describe this event. I could only imagine what the white house would be like if she were in it. Thank God that didn't happen.
Give thanks she's not helping pick the Cabinet. Forget about the turkey.
Is no one aware that this is how the turkey makes it to the table?
I'm curious as to why none of you liberals out there are calling the camera crew idiots as well... it is more their fault than it is Palin's that this was captured in the interview, and why you people feel the need to insult her because of it is simply amazing. This was a local news story, so I'm also unclear as to why you idiots think she's hogging the national spotlight again. Seriously, you liberals need to wake up and move on with your lives.
That was a rogue terrorist turkey from none other then Turkey. She gave it the death sentence because she was Hungary and didn't mind all the Greece that's left behind.
That idiot trainwreck Palin makes the headlines again.
I guess next she will go and pardon a moose! oh well, that's life & death – its just that some folks don't care to watch it on their TV – thats why we like sponge bob for heaven's sake.
next article.
That turkey being killed is symbolic of the McCain campaign which she helped to kill...
Or it may be symbolic of her political career which will never go further than governor of Alaska, where she really does not do much expect attend ice sculpting events and snowmobile races, and is only poular because she increased the amount that Alasakans receive every year for oil windfalls.
Oh she knew what she was doing. I think it is hilarious. If you eat meat you know they have to die somehow. If you are a meat eater (like myself) how can you be offended? This video isn't going to stop me from stuffing my face full of turkey this holiday season. Heck i am going to eat ham as well. Just be glad she didn't pardon a ham!! lol
At least no wolves were aerial-gunned in the making of this interview ...
Come on, did anyone really expect her to pardon every turkey on that turkey farm? The reality is, most of us will eat turkey on thanksgiving, and now we know exactly how it will be slaughtered. It was funny that the camera man didn't choose a better spot for the interview, or that the eager worker in the background couldn't wait for the interview to finish before doing his job.
Can anyone please tell me why she's still in the news? Why is she still relevant?
she IS a dumb as she sounds and looks. why oh why do they keep sticking a mike in her face. the woman makes no sense when she talks. dumb as a stump.
I wish she would have helped out that small business a little more and done some turkey slaughtering of her own! That would've really gotten you yella-belly libbies a squacking!!
Personally.., I like to shoot mine.
Palin is just about as bright as that turkey. Proof again she is not presidental material
This story is stupid. How do you think that people get turkeys for Thanksgiving? They just suddenly appear at the dinner table cooked with all the stuffing.
The Liberal Media will do anything to try to embarras Governor Palin.
Obama mucked up his first news conference but no one called him on it.
This story is a non-issue!
It's a TURKEY !! It needs to be dead for you to eat it. How weird can this get. Most people do not have turkeys as pets (if they do, that's their business) - Most people EAT TURKEY !!
Idiot.
Can her political career end as soon as possible please? She butchers the english language and knows nothing about domestic issues or foreign policy. The image she provides for Americans is worse than Bush could ever give to this country.
Are you folks at CNN so scared of Sarah that you have to take every opportunity to attempt to degrade her. It's a TURKEY FARM!!! What do you expect to be going on at a TURKEY FARM right before Thanksgiving? Everyone who is raising a stink about this must be vegans... or do you only buy free range suicidal turkeys for your holiday meal? Sarah Palin is an Alaskan. We hunt, we fish, we love animals... they're tasty.
Isn't that the point? She pardoned a turkey and what happened behind her is what happens to billions of animals. Turkey farm, a week before Thanksgiving and there are turkeys being killed? Only Sarah Palin would let this happen!!!! CNN you guys are a big joke with your ticker.
I know turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving dinner, but that was rediculous!
I cannot stand to hear her voice anymore. She, on the other hand, loves nothing more! She did not take a breath!
What the Left never got about Gov. Palin, is that Alaska is culturally different from much, not all, of America. There is a different culture there. Guess what? They don't care if you don't like the way they speak, and they don't care if a turkey is getting slaughtered right next to them. I loved having Palin around, and I'd love to have her back. You culturally insensitive bigots just don't get it and the rest of us don't really care that you don't.
This message is for "Clint." I think that this is the "Clint" that I personally know. If so, how did this become a partisan news story? This is not a Democratic or Republican thing. This may be a weak news story, but this whole thing of turning every story that you don't like into a partisan issue is ridiculous. It's also probably part of the liberal media bias that you keep going on about. CNN had the most comprehensive and fair election coverage on the planet, bottom line, but they were always in Obama's corner, I suppose. Go back to watching Faux News if you want real bias.
IF THIS IS ALL WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT ONLY PROVES THAT "SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE SO SMART WE'RE REALLY STUPID"....
Wow, you liberals on here are really hysterical – just listen to yourselves. Do yourselves a favor and take a Xanax. For a group of people who like to harp on the fact that she wasn't elected and we should all just forget about her, you certainly like to bring her up at every opportunity. I love how all the "tolerant" folks on the left lash out anyone who disagrees with them. Get a grip!
There are a lot of people on this blog that just don't seem to get it!! Its not the fact that "us liberals" or "those of us who voted for Obama" are surprised that Turkeys get slaughtered.
I think that is where you conservatives seem to just completely miss the point. Goes right over your heads. The issue here is that Sarah Palin can not seem to do ANYTHING right!!! And if you think this was a great idea to give an interview of her nonsensical babbling while they slaughter turkies in the background your a fool. Most people who even tuned in to watch didn't even know Sarah was babbling nonsensically because they were only aware of ONE THING... the beheading of turkies in the background.
Forget the turkey, her hair sure took a hit now that she's no longer having thousands spent on it.
LiberalsHateAmerica, the stock market "tanked" weeks BEFORE the election; PEOTUS Obama had nothing to do with it. Take your misplaced finger pointing and look at the Republicans. So, you mean to tell me that you would have rather have this person as your VP than the intelligent duo we elected? If you do, shame on you.
* "1-20-09" The end of an error.
She does have something to lose–her dignity. It's gone by the way.
I dislike Palin like so many others, but I have no problem with this.
It is a bad photo to look at.. but most Americans eat meat, and love turkey. A Vegetarian Palin supporter would probably not be too happy though!
PEOPLE IN THE US ARE STUPID-
HOW DO YOU THINK YOU GET YOUR TURKEYS FOR THINKSGIVING?
The poor lady just can't win. Jesus Christ, it's a turkey farm, and she went there to PARDON a turkey, not kill one. Why is this news? Seriously, I feel bad for her, she's just doing a yearly tradition and suddenly it's news because they kill a turkey on a turkey farm.
The person you should be blaming is the cameraman who didn't say "Ma'am, you might want to turn around!"
First, let's take a long look at the reality. This is clearly being done to keep her in the spotlight. Any press is good press. Second, for those of you who blame the media for spreading lies, what about the stories coming from Kansas (and other places) that Obama is a Muslim? No proof, no documentation, but it's OK because the Christian faith is so perfect? Get a clue...
Spectacular coverage CNN, this is a perfect example of how low journalistic standards have become in this country.
Why bame Gov. Palin for CNN's Camera Man's mistake for not getting a better angle? It appears as though CNN is at fault here. Ths is a prime example of a left wing news channel trying to find fault with Gov. Palin. Do you really call this a good story? I can see why CNN's ratings are going down the tubes.
You guys are clowns. And you wonder why the press has recently fallen below used car salesmen to last place in the credibilty poll. What a waste of time, writing and reading this dribble. With everything else that is going on right now THIS is what you report on?!?!?! And you idiots criticizing her must all be vegetarians. Either that or you think that turkey is a PLANT! Get a life!
Come one people, let it go.... How do you think those turkeys get to the grocery store, anyway?
Come on. Yes, we liberals know where our food comes from. But, how many people want to go to a slaughterhouse and witness the slaughter. Anyway...
It's not so much a disturbing video, after all we can't see the turkey getting mangled in the machine, it's more a funny video. She, like always, has no clue as to what's going on around her. She's so egotistical, and self centered, that she's oblivious to how the nation will react to this hilarious scene. I mean, look at the guy's face in the background. HA!!!
As a former beauty pageant contestant, she loves the spotlight. She can't help it. Once that camera light goes on, she's the center of the universe.
It's a demonstration of her stupidity. A half-competent handler would get the operation to cease while the cameras rolled. It's like giving a anti-alcohol abuse PSA in a bar. If you have half a brain, you're going to think better of it.
I'm pretty familiar with the fact that my meat comes from a packing house. I just don't want to see its operation on my TV.
She's a goldmine.
NICK–wow, you are clueless yourself–I guess if she sneezed and then used a kleenex to wipe her nose, you would be decrying her wasting of valuable natural resources and want her impeached as Gov of Alaska for not using a cloth hankie instead. Fool.
Pro – life.
For Sarah Palin, pro-life is thinly disguised premise that adheres her to the Christian right radicals. She supports the aerial hunting of wolves – watch those videos for some REAL horrifying inhumane acts.
Now, she's amidst slaughter and she just keeps... chatting away.....
She is a woman contrasts. Fevor for Pro-Life at any cost / photos of live slaugher.
As a staunch Republican, the only thing she wants to regulate is a woman's personal body.
Republicans talk out of both sides of their mouth – depending on the idiot they think they are talking to.
Why is it she never knows what is really going on around her? I see a trend developing here.
According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a president who speaks English as if it were his first language.
"Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement," says Mr. Logsdon. "If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist."
The historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete sentences in his speeches, the public may find itself saying, "Okay, subject, predicate, subject predicate - we get it, stop showing off."
The president-elect's stubborn insistence on using complete sentences has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
"Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can't really do there, I think needing to do that isn't tapping into what Americans are needing also," she said.
Kind of like the Republican Party...DOA.
PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY EAT TURKEYS AND RED MEAT EVERYDAY!
HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GET BROUGHT TO MARKET?
How stupid are we?!!! Do we REALLY think that these "pardoned" turkeys get to live? Of course they kill them! That's how people make money. By killing food that ends up on our tables. These turkey's don't go to some spa to live out their days. However, my turkey gets a nice golden tan. With all the hungry families in our country right now, I think it would be worse to let someones dinner live. Who freaking cares about a turkey!
I'm surprised that she didn't give an interview in which she herself was slaughtering the turkey, wielding a bloody ax as the feathers flew and she prattled on and on about things that don't make sense.
I wasn't aware they had a Burberry in Alaska, wonder whose tax dollars paid for that scarf?
How do you city folk think that FOOD gets to your table?????????
You city folk are soooooo ignorant about life in general.
Gees, get a life.
Al Quaeda was salivating at the prospect of dealing with her. Oh well, their loss is our gain. We were smart enough NOT to put her in charge of anything.
She can continue being the PROM QUEEN for the Repubs. Give me a break.
Ahahahahahahaha – what's next, will she give a 4th of July interview while her hubby burns the flag in the background? Maybe give an interview on the endangered species act while she dresses a moose? Oh the possiblities! Honey, you aren't doing much to impress the world with the political savvy of the average Alaskan.....but bless your heart you are making us smile in these rough times and for that I thank you, and I'm sure the nation's comedians will appreciate it too....!
The media has it all wrong and don't understand! Gov. Palin said "This is fun" because she envisioned the turkey as representing the mindless twits who make fun of her being cut off from their source of stupidity-their heads!
Interesting interview. Why is everybody slamming it. Have you ever seen a fishermen catch and prepare a fish. The interview is fine if you listen to the actual questions she was asked. She is a very sharp lady. America lost out on a great Pres & VP.
She knew very well what was going on behind her. She is detestable !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama eats Turkey – stop picking on people for stupid reason – it shows your own stupidity.
Oh big deal you libs. Yes, turkeys DO get killed before you eat them. I guess most of you on here are granola-eating tree huggers. SAVE THE TURKEY, KILL THE UNBORN BABY!
Boo hoo, why don't we all cry and be depressed you libs, "ugh i can't stand that woman", "ugh, i hate her accent", "ugh obama is god", "ugh sarah will do anything to be in the spotlight."
This is tradition you idiots. How the heck do you think your turkey was killed. I'm so glad Obama won. Now we have a racist president who thinks "trickle up" economics works"! Yeah, he is Ivy League...chuckle, chuckle.
This woman is a complete imbecile!
She can field-dress a moose, so being interviewed while turkeys are being slaughtered behind her is nothing.
Look – at least she pardoned one of her brethren while the others were offed.
Reading many of the comments here, I can now see how nearly half of the country voted in such a way to put Palin one step from the presidency.
The fact that turkeys are slaughtered in order to become Thanksgiving dinner is not news and not what many intelligent voters find so amusing.
What IS amusing, is that visiting the farm and pardoning the turkey was a political photo op for Palin. And despite being told what was taking place behind her, Palin didn't have the intelligence or political savvy to see how her "pardonning a turkey" photo op would become a joke if she continued the interview with someone decapitating the rest of the turkeys in the background.
Say for instance, Anderson Cooper was reporting live from Iraq in the middle of a battlezone with soldiers scurrying about carrying out their orders when right in the middle of AC's sentence, we see a soldier blown to bits.
What would you say then? Pull our troops out? What do you think happen in wars? Yes, we know there will be casualties, but it doesn't mean we want to see it on tv.
I think the point of the article was to point out that even though she is pardoning a turkey, doesn't mean that we need to see one killed.
It's all about LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!!
"Palin appeared unaware of what was going on...." When did she ever appeared to know what was going on? This woman just don't get it. I think she is a severe case of Craneal Rectosis.
Unreal, the gall of that woman to be seen at a local business who's product will be on many tables next week.
Not my table mind you.........I SHOT my turkey with my bow last week.
Must not be a huntable population up there in AK......
maybe its because we all eat meat but it doesnt mean we want to see how its killed, there is a reason people have them jobs they can stomach it, just like doctors but we dont sit around watching it on tv unless your watching some medical surgery type show which i choose not to watch, i dont even like scary movies. Now i will not look at my turkey the same, thanks Sarah for that thought in my head on thanksgiving.
Palin is Hurtin' for Certain.
And to think, the fate of the United States of America almost fell into her hands...
That is, once hubby Todd took care of McCain using his snowmachine.
GOVERNOR PALIN LIVES IN REALITY!
Then you have the arrogant people in the US who eat red meat every day and do not think twice – ILISTIST!
You know, I eat meat, and I know where it comes from...but the convulsing bird was a bit much for an interview backdrop...as well as the bathtub full of blood, and the guy's clothes covered in blood. Just a bit gruesome. I took this as another secret wink to her bloodthirsty base.
This just proves what a bunch of morons people really are. I hope you Palin bashers, especially those patting yourselves on the back because we "made the right choice" can be proud that the woman on Glenn Beck's moron trivia today also voted for the same guy.
Grow up people. It was a stupid fun interview for Thanksgiving.
I see this story not so much as a reflection on Sarah Palin but on the interviewer and camera man, who could clearly see the turkey being slaughtered in the background and didn't think to move to a different location or to ask the worker to hold up for five minutes before continuing to slaughter turkeys.
I just LOVE Sarah Palin!!!! She has main stream media baffled!!!! They just can't understand America!!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
Notice, at this particular farm, they are FREE RANGE TURKEYS....they have a great life up to this point. For all you BEEF eaters, please go check out what happens to the poor animal YOU eat!!! And how many chemicals are pumped into them before you eat them.....such hypocrites!
I get a kick out of you loser Republicans coming on here trying to sound like a bunch of toughies in order to rationalize this nonsense.
As Bob Dylan once said, "When somethings not right, it's wrong".
And, Sarah Palin and the rest of you right-wingers are VERY WRONG.
"Unfortunate event"? It's so typical of such Americans to even find this newsworthy. People, this is reality. Meat doesn't magically materialize in neatly wrapped plastic for you to buy and eat as you push 225 lbs! But these same "intellectuals" who do not think about this while they buy meat, do not ponder where their money comes from, where their tax dollars go. They are as blind to the realistic slaughter of animals to feed them as they are to the even more gruesome and inhumane slaughter of human beings around the world to prop up their very spoiled and ignorant way of life. These could not even find Darfur, Bosnia, etc. on a map! THAT is the true shame!
This story is a waste of page.
This is how you get your food!
People in this country are so uneducated and petty!
THE MERE THOUGHT THAT CNN THOUGHT THIS WAS NEWSWORTHY CEMENTS THE FACT THAT CNN DECIDED TO BE UNFAIR DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND CONTINUES TO BE..CNN YOU HAVE PROVED THAT YOU REALLY DO KNOW HOW TO PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIG...
What is wrong with you people complaining about the turkeys and what going on in the back ground? Think about it the next time you eat your next meal that has meat in it!! They are at a turkey farm!!! they butcher turkeys, are you guys dumb!! It called life, this should not even be in the news.
This article is ridiculous.
this woman is beyond belief STUPID.
Good grief, do all you City Slickers think that your fowl and red meat are made somewhere in a factory? Birds, pigs, cattle are slaughtered, grow up and get over it. Better yet, go visit a farm and take your kids with so you can learn how your food is produced! Stop protecting your kids from the realities of the world.
Evidently most Americans think turkeys come from the freezer in the grocery store! Before that they were picked from a tree when ripe and then shrink wrapped! WOW! Get your head of the sand and get it together! Don't live your entire life without a clue! And you VOTE?
The left and country club Republicans have a common enemy – Sarah Palin. They both want her off the stage, along with any other evangelicals. Mike Huckabee is getting it too now.
As for the turkey, I'd like all though who object to the turkey slaughter to refrain from eating turkey – or any meat or fish – this Thanksgiving.
Get real.
Sarah,
keep it up, don't change who you are to please the socialist tofu munching tree huggers. Give them somebody to talk about and hate. Keep their little minds off what little obama is going to be able to do when he takes over. Who will they blame when nothing changes over the next few years?
Palin – 2012, when America takes itself back
THIS WOMAN IS A TURKEY!
She is a turkey and she got upset , because she thought that the turkey behind her was trying to take her place as the biggest turkey of all times. There republican turkeys.
I am a member of Peta and am aware 24/7/365, not just Thanksgiving time, in other words, of the unnecessary suffering of animals for human pleasure, however, I have to say what is everyone in such an uproar about seeing this poor animal suffer? Most people eat meat – do they not think animals suffering constantly for human consumption or is it just that people think it's okay to eat animals as long as they don't have to witness them being killed. What hypocrisy. QUIT EATING MEAT! It is NOT necessary, in fact, vegetarianism is a MUCH healtier diet, you will live longer and animals won't suffer.
The stupidtity of people who get on her case for being in the vicinity of a turkey being slaughtered is what is so "entertaining". My grandmother lived on a farm, and they killed chickens for food by wringing their necks–thats how it was done in the early part of last century– but most of you would be condemning her for that.
The cameraman should have been able to see what was happening behind her and TURNED to a different angle..that didn't need to be seen by folks..hopefully no KIDS were watching the interview...I had no plans on voting for McCain/Palin but it seems the press is just clamoring at anything to make her seems more and more like a joke!!!
I'm sorry, but that is hilarious.
And, who does she surround herself with? She needs a new team of handlers, again, if you ask me.
... and I'm still laughing.
Oh well, I guess she'll have to get "mavericky" in Alaska. We dodged that bullet.
Thank you Lord.
Palin kills and slaughters animals for fun; killing for food is pale in comparison.
For some of us, this is disgusting. This is one of the many reasons why I have chosen a much healthier eating lifestyle: vegetarian.
We are all lucky we weren't subjected to seeing her slice the turkeys' head off.. She loves to hunt and "dress" moose.. She loves to shoot wolves
If this is life in Alaska and she representative they should let them secede... Ugh...
This isn't a matter of people realizing where our turkeys (or other meats for that matter) come from. This is a matter of someone who is blatantly CRUEL towards animals, and this is yet just another example of what kind of coward she is. Sure, many, many eat turkey and other meats (I am a vegetarian for those that may ask) but MANY are hoping and praying that one day barbaric acts like slaughtering are either a thing of the past, or are done w/ MUCH stricter humane laws and practices in place. I'm an independent who has been glued to CNN's site since Palin was announced as a running mate to McCain. Honestly – I never really understood politics, or what a Democrat/Republican even was – but I was SO horrified by Palin in general that I took a serious crash course, and I am SO beyond thankful that this person did not make it in to office. SHE is the reason McCain didn't my vote – so when she says she's sorry if she cost him even one vote – well, here's that one official vote from NH!
Sarah – show some dignity and go away, and while you're at it, leave these poor animals to live a life they deserve – you're no better than they are!
Obama supporters bashing Gov. Palin again.
When will you guys get a life?
There's some symbolism for you
What's is happening behind Sarah Palin is nothing compared to what has been happening to her. Don't you think it is about time to leave her alone. I pray to God she runs in 4 years maybe just maybe you people will be enjoying Thanksgiving in the right spirit.
Give her break, she had enough negativity
To Kim @ 2.36 – Kudos for the observation.
Like everything else about her, its a fake!
Col. Sanders does this eight million times a day. The big media isn't liberal, but it does have a big-city snobbish since all major media is based in Atlanta, New York or L.A.
She makes "dubya" look smart.
This woman can't do anything right.
Boy!!! am I glad I don't have to put up with her in my living room ( tv ) anymore.
It's not a cruelty to animals issue here. It's the irony of Sarah "pardoning" one turkey whilst another gets the axe in the background. No matter. I'm sure the "pardoned" turkey met with the same fate after the cameras stop rolling. Too funny!
@Sarah in the South November 21st, 2008 2:36 pm ET
Sarah you TOTALLY missed the point. I can see that you think like Palin and would give this outrageous interview also.
It's on FoxNews also you conservative whack-jobs.
It's not simply a CNN story.
God, grow a brain.
Vacuous – Palin is the ultimate example.
Well done America for NOT voting for her. I am just so pleased that the press continue to court her, as every day gives further evidence of her total inability to understand her own shortcomings – and there are many.
Pity God didn't speak to her today...
We city folks know how food gets to the table, we just don't want to see it, along with our kids, while we're at the table.
Sarah is a joke.
OK, I'm not a vegetarian, and I completely understand that animals have to die so we can live. I get that. I don't want to watch it, though! I don't want to see an animal get butchered, while Palin speaks.
She should at least have more consideration for other peoples feelings on the matter. What would have happened if my 4 year old son saw this on TV? Yes, animals do get butchered so we can live and that's life, but in my child's eyes that's a horrible sight to see! I mean, this is on the NEWS!!! Seriously, the woman doesn't think about anybody else except herself!
So, she's either a complete moron (totally clueless to what goes on around her) or she actually ENJOYS watching animals get butchered, so she's a borderline sociopath. Which is it, Sarah?
I keep reading where people are restating that that's how we get turkey's on Thanksgiving. As if we don't know. But what I'm most appalled by is holding an interview in front of the slaughter itself. Who would want to watch that one week before Thanksgiving? It's not the turkey killing that so unbelievable, its her choice to hold an interview that is.
This woman has been slaughtering bunnies from the age of 10.
Of course she moved on to bigger and better things, moose.
She is a total walking idiot as we saw recently, so to think this
is something that would phase her, or the likes of her is foolish.
To have little children see something as grumsome as this is
a shame and could have lasting effects on them.One good one would be they become vegetarians. Thank God the Country made
the right choice or she might be out there shooting our dogs and cats given the opportunity. The jerk behind her actually enjoyed doing
what he did, hope he stays in Alaska as well.
hey MODERATORS–I have submitted I dont know how many PRO PALIN comments, and you dont post any of them
CNN- ALL BIAS, ALL BULL ALL THE TIME.
People are always trying to bash Gov. Palin! She is more like normal people than Obama.
This country is a SAD place now.
only in america where opportunities are there for incompitent right-wing redneck miss congeniality idiots like her...and for the media to report of instead of American families losing their jobs, global warming, and poverty...
So glad Sarah Palin lives in Alaska.
I've always suspected that fundies and uber right Republicans– like Sarah Palin– were irony impaired.
Her next gibberish interview will either address the situation in Iraq, or the meltdown of our economy, filmed live on the killing floor of a rendering plant. You betcha it will!
I'm with Danny upthread: where's that "best of Sarah Palin" video? Lord knows we need the laughs.
Can we talk about something that means something?
If she is this unaware of her surroundings, the people of Alaska should be concerned that she is in charge of their state. Likewise, if she was aware of her surroundings and still didn't get that it was in bad taste to conduct an interview in front of dying animals, maybe Alaskans should be MORE afraid that she is running their state.
I can not believe this is even worthy of being considered 'news'. Are there not more important things for 'reputable' news sources like CNN and others to report on? The election is over and it's time to stop dragging Palin through the mud. This is downright pathetic. We are talking about a turkey, an animal that God put on this earth for us to eat, which will soon be on almost everyones dinner tables. There is no way to sugar-coat how it gets there. Deal with it.
Hey, CNN Politics, ...GET A LIFE! What is the problem with you people? ....and, fyi, I voted Democrat this year.
Oh my, my...even when she's off the scene she's still causing a stir. I don't wanna see her take a big hit than she already has. Let alone the party's(GOP) image is so bad it makes Britney look good for crying out loud, LOL!!
Well, God gave her what she wants and is up to her if she can do her thang...
wow, you mean they actually KILL animals for food? Who would have known.
Linda, "Al Quaeda was salivating at the prospect of dealing with her. Oh well, their loss is our gain. We were smart enough NOT to put her in charge of anything."
Belive me Al Quaeda got exactly who they were salivating over.
Why is she so hung up on the criticism she gets? I thought she liked the attention. I guess she can't take it. Sore loser.
I sort of agree that the turkey execution is not that big of a deal (and I am a city person, thank you), but she is oblivious. Can't deny that she is so self absorbed she is oblivious to the frantic pleading gobbles behind her! LOL. Was that Burberry scarf part of the Saks purchases, I wonder?
You guys, she KNEW about the turkey slaughter going on behind her! They asked her ahead of time if that was ok for it to be in the background and she said it was! This was not a set-up. She is just that clueless about political image.
And come'on now, even if you ARE a meat-eater (I'm not) how can you not at least cringe while another creature is in its death thross?? She's pretty heartless. Thank JEEBUS she was not elected! She cries over fetuses but doesn't blink an eye over a grown creature being beheaded? Yikes!
And my god, that VOICE.
For the person who doesn't understand the "hatred" for this woman: what goes around, comes around, baby. You get back what you put out and all this woman did was race-bait and fear monger. It's not surprising most people don't care for her!
Anybody heard about Joe? Yeahh..!! Joe the Plumber.
He got a job killing turkeys in Alaska..
Yeap...
For the love of god people, its a Turkey!! So what, who cares? Palin is a lot smarter than most of you on here in the first place!! Quit screwing around and get to work before you get fired!! Now that would be dumb!
If you watch the video she ok'd the location of the camera in relation to the turkey being slaughtered. She's fully aware of what is taking place behind her. Yes, this is how food gets to the table, but not my table – I'm vegan so I can expound all I want. It's just so weird that she doesn't get why it is disgusting to some people that she would call this "fun." For all you people who eat meat that are outraged by this, take a look in your mirror. It wouldn't happen if you didn't finance it.
For 4 long years - the MEDIA is going to be focused on this Rt Wing Nutcase and her antics up there in Mooseland -- this is going to tick off a lot of the Lower 48 Republicans who want to run for PRES , like Mitt, the Phoney, Romney - know it ?? She will be getting all the Media attention and then hopefully the GOP Nomination for PRES in 2012 - which will make it so easy for OBAMA to cruise to a 2nd term – know it ??
Ok, everyone...I think we all know that turkeys must be slaughtered so that everyone can have their Thanksgiving dinner...
The point is that she should have exercised better judgment than to do an interview in front of a guy slaughtering one.
Seems like the right-wingers like Palin are always worried about what kids will see on TV and how it will affect them.
Well, kids are going to see this..and it will affect some of them....they may not want to eat turkey anymore after seeing this. That, in turn, may have a detrimental effect on the small businesses that she claimed she was there to help.
What will she do for Christmas? An interview in a store employee locker room with the guy who plays Santa getting into his beard and suit behind her?
OMG!!!did we buy her that scarf??????that's not from her local goodwill.....guess she got to keep that one.......We were planning a cruise to alaska.....sorry, not anymore.....if anyone in alaska is like her, I cannot go and spend my money or time there.....we'll pick somewhere else......
Who's dumber: the AP for putting the garbage out, or the many posters who seem to think it's valid criticism?
Wow...society really has regressed!
Palin the Language Slayer or
Joe the Turkey Killer
any other potential titles of this film?
1-20-09 the end of an error.
I really hop eshe runs again in fact make her the head of the repubs
"How do you city folk think that FOOD gets to your table?????????
You city folk are soooooo ignorant about life in general.
Gees, get a life."
Yes, yes We get it. Animals are killed for our consumptions
Wow..what a shocker. Thanks for the newsflash.
Most people don't kill the animal in the living room in front of their kids before they eat it though.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
Guys,
We all know turkeys get killed for T-giving. But to ignore how completely unaware of her surroudings is and how she lacks any shred of common sense, is obviously a short coming of yours.
Liberals do not hold a copy right on intelligence, and now it is confirmed that they do not hold it on ignorance either. You neo-con right wing freaks need to accept the fact that this woman is a complete fool and a walking media disaster.
In short, kill the turkey, but don't pardon Sarah!
Too funny.
It's not that a turkey is getting processed behind her, but that it was at the event where she "pardoned" a turkey from the slaughterhouse. It was bizarrely ironic.
But just try to listen to her. What, if anything, is she saying? Is that English? It was like listening to a beauty pagent contestant tell us her plan to enact world peace.
You go Sarah!
It must be a slow news day that this is in the top stories. Give the liberal media idiots something to talk about.
Remember what Dale Earnhart (another idiot) said..."when they call you name, whethers its cheers or jeers, so long as they make noise, its ok. Its when everyone goes silent that you start to worry"
I'll admit that this is somewhat hilarious but come on let's give the girl a break. She's a waste of the media's time. She doesn't have the intelligence to put together a coherent sentence. She will never amount to a competent politician. My question is: why do we pay so much attention to her??? Let's get back to the real issues facing our country instead of victimizing a clearly incompetent individual. Come on CNN.
i think we (city folk) know how turkeys get to our dinner table. you are missing the point here. if you go to a slaughter house, you might not want to conduct the interview in front of the guy shooting the cows in the head.
she's like movie... i really funny movie.
Obambi is proposing a FLAN terrorist loving and pardoning AG, who likes sticking guns in little kids faces and oh by the way, he was also involved inn the pardoning of Mark Rich who sold weapons to people that wanted to kill us.
Not only did he pardon these fine folks, he LIED about it under oath about being "involved".
Nah, no story there right CNN, Palin does nothing wrong and she is getting a lengthy stay on the ticker so the BOTS can hammer her for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
But then again these are the same BOTS that came out in unison without any information on Holder and said "great pick by Obama", "Finally some smart people", blah, blah, blah.
You BOTS wish you had been elected Mayor or Governor, but the best you geniuses could be is getting elected Dog catcher and most of you are not qualified for that, woof, woof.
I grew up in a rural area about 20 miles from any town. Now I live in a suburb of Chicago. City people are pretty naieve about where all that meat comes from in the grocery store. Where do you think those cellophane wrapped turkeys come from? Yeah, that hamburger is just ground up cow, get over it.
OK, pardoning a turkey prior to Thanksgiving is mildly humorous; on the other hand, if a person is trying to 'rehabilatate' her image (diva, rogue, whack job, hillibilly, clueless, etc.); givng a speech video taped in front of a live action slaughterhouse may not do the trick. The images aren't exactly kid friendly; trying to decipher Mrs. Palin's syntax is torturous, giving a turkey to a charity would have gotten a lot more goodwill mileage, but the guy playing the camera in the background, despite the turkey's demise, is priceless. In any case, given a staged media event, it makes one wonder, exactly what kind of message was trying to be sent. Bizzare, bizzare.
Unbelieveable! About 10% of the posters here actually think that people are upset about the slaughter of the Turkey. OMG! Now I see how people like Palin get elected. These people are soooo dim that they totally miss the point. We dont care about the Turkey, idiot. It is the fact she did an interview during the slaughter. wow!
Send in the clowns. We need a laugh with this fiscal crisis.
I feel sorry for the turkey that met his maker.
Jana.....its a Turkey not a human?
It always amazes me that the first thing liberals do to people they dont agree with is call them stupid.
Agreed, this is not a glamorous shot. However, most of reality is not glamourous. Oh by the way, lets talk turkey, for all of you abortion supporters, I would like to see each of you appear in a video where one is being performed behind you.... I suspect that none of you would have the courage to do that.
Yes, I know that a turkey has to be killed before I eat it. I also know that pigs fornicate. What is the correlation? If someone is doing an interview and is oblivious to the fact that one of these things is happening behind them.... it's funny!
why is she still in the news
The Butcher of Wasilla.
I thought Mooselini was bad.
LOL! This is how we get our turkeys (chickens, McD's hamburgers, etc). Why is this a faux pas is beyond me. This is agriculture at work.
really. this is news?
its unbelievably childish and naive to get upset about a Turkey getting killed, when you sit down at Thanksgiving and stuff your fat mouths with it. What do you think happens, the head just falls off or they die of old age and then you eat it?
Oh my god, there is a bird being killed in the background and its a travesty! yet Obama supports abortion and thats just peachy king.
I'm so glad the McCain/Palin ticket didnt win. 1) they are wrong for the country 2) I can't handle watching the news and constantly seeing ridiculous things poked at and discussed just because a republican did it.
Its time to grow up.
Please hook up the dog sled and get the stud and her to mush into twilight zone
Sarah Palin has character, a political philosophy, moral values and will make a great President of the United States. After four years of this liberal nut Obama, people will be begging for a genuine change. Not what they are getting now, which is a third Clinton term.
Kill those turkeys. They make for a great Thanksgiving dinner. Right on Sarah. Please run for President.
She's in an interview... of course she knows what is going on around her, chances are she drove to the farm where the tukeys get slaughtered. Would you people be satisfied if she were looking at the turkey and crying to stop the bloodshed in the middle of the interview? The only thing wrong here is that the camera man is at this angle (probably intentional) and that the death dealer should have probably gone on his lunch break at this time.
why is she still in the news
cnn get a life
ha!!! I chocked on my 7UP!!!!!
It's not the turkey, it's the judgment of this woman and the people who handles her to have that as a backdrop for the world to see, for the life of me why do we have to see this woman doing and saying dumb things over and over again, what she needs to do is lock herself in a room with some books and a map, this way she will know how to answer questions and also know where she is..
Well...everyone. It is true that when we eat our turkey on Thanksgiving the last thing we are thinking about is how they are slaughtered. As a women from a ranch/farm family background-it is not necessary to see this stark view of this event especially if younger viewers are watching. She is insensitive and she has proven it by her callous disregard for the polar bear (who have begun to consumer each other from hunger and lack of habitat), whales and seals in her own state. Why would anyone think she would be sensitive in this situation-you are dreaming.
"though she did seem to take a glance at the unfortunate event at one particular point during the interview"
...........So, turkey is off the menu at every CNN staffers home for Thanksgiving?
Give it a rest CNN. Let the nut-jobs at Huffington have something to obsess about in their lone world.
WOW...that is all!
What's wrong with you guys. She was told by the video operator exactly what was going on and had the choice to stop the filming. She chose to continue.
We know that Turkey's are slaughtered but she could have done her intrview from another angle!
It wasn't only one turkey – there were multiple during the course of her whole interview – watch the entire thing on youtube later people. Countdown showed the whole thing last night. AND she did know it was going on. She was asked by the crew if she was sure the background was okay and she said quote "No Worries".
Her ignorance amazes me.
You really can't blame Sarah Failin' for this one, but it IS high-freaking-larious!
I wish nobody would offer opinions. ooooops sorry for mine
I don't think the point of this whole thing is the fact that turkeys are being slaughtered (oh my!!!). Even if your job is to slaughter turkeys all day long and you find not one single thing wrong with it, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see the irony in this. Pardoning a turkey is a purely symbolic gesture. So to go through the effort to make the gesture in the first place, going out to a turkey farm to pardon a turkey, and then having them being slaughtered in the background defeats the entire purpose of the gesture.
Whether or not we think slaughtering turkeys is humane or not is irrelevant so it's beyond me why it's even coming up in this (from both sides). It's just a dumb move from a PR perspective to have it in the background given what the entire point of it was, and our opinion of turkey slaughtering in general has no bearing on that whatsoever.
We don't even have to get into what a pointless exercise pardoning a turkey is (and a slap in the face to turkeys everywhere, really). Stupidity abounds.
Give Sarah a break. We all know by now that she is clueless!
Yes, a few generations ago, we did hunt for our own food and killed for it, but we don't live in the past right? Palin sure does... And off course we are hypocrites. Well I am anyway. I like my meat, chicken, fish etc... But I don't need to see the animals actually get killed! It kills my appetite! But seeing that oh so sad, stupid woman in front of a killing makes it even worse.
But a big respect for all the butchers and farmers out there. Most people couldn't do the things you do for us!
The Turkey represents exactly what happend to Palin on election night, and after.
Will the stench of Palin not ever leave the public news scene? She is nothing more than a sniveling, ideological thug; and, anyone with a brain should be as sick of this sychophant of Rovian-style demogoguary as I am.
The is a non article / non story
- where do all the left wing liberals get their turkeys from – France ? Sweden ? Netherlands ?
Some of the folks who commented on this article are plan stupid, no wonder they elected a senator from illinois with no experience other than being a community organizer who is mum silent now on specifics for his plan for the economy while the DOW takes a beating.
Way to go, stupids.
The election is over. Are the Democrats so boring that you continue to cover every waking moment of Gov. Palin's life? Jeez, move on
This woman is so very foolish! McCain deserved to lose. He actually wanted to put our lives in danger by giving her the VP position. We live in terrible and sometimes dangerous times. They are viewing here idiocy too. Thank God the people prevailed on Nov. 4th. Please Sarah stay in Alaska and NEVER run for anything outside of your state again. If you do-WE THE PEOPLE will be waiting.
too funny!
I think we all know now what God called Sarah Palin to do. Entertain us!
Watch, this will be CNN's biggest "ticker" draw today.....and you all think Palin is done? You've got to be kidding....
Get out of NYC and LA sometime.....It'll do you a "world" of good....
Was that "Joe the Turkey Killer" in the background?. OH MAN!!, this is a good sketch for SNL. I can't wait to see Tina Fey. They should have former senator stevens in that machine instead of that poor turkey.
I see another SNL skit on the way. Well she only could pardon one...... Too funny
To Kim @ 2.36 – Kudos for the observation.
Like everything else about her, its a fake!
Why, cnn, why?
It's time for you guys to move on. The country is tired of Sarah Palin. No more news about her. For the love of god.
This is NEWS CNN! Seriously this woman makes more news with her repeatedly stupidity then I've ever seen. America's fascination with stupid white women never goes away!
To "Onlyhonestonehere": although i am a liberal i agree with what you wrote. it's stupid to feel all warm inside after the governor or the president pardons a turkey and eat a turkey at Thanksgiving and feel all good inside. i don't think i would want to see a turkey slaughtered (or any animal for that matter) and truly respect they people who do this work for us squeamish folks.
the real hypocrites are the vegands who eat only vegetables and criticize people for eating animals that have been killed while they wear their Doc Martens or any other leather shoe, or belt.
Wow ... I am completely dumbfounded ... not that the Governor is pardoning a turkey (a nice tradition) ... not that a turkey is being slaughtered (once again ... a nice tradition) ... but the negative tone that so many folks have with respect to this woman .... please ... look in the mirror and ask yourself .... why am I so righteous and will I ever accomplish as much as this person has done to help out so many have better lives in one's own state and country?
Rudeness and Ignorant Bliss is obviously a commonality amongst more Americans than I care to admit to or be proud of.
Don't ever mess with a Turkey Mom!!!!
Clueless again, or still??
if palin were vice president....
upside: it would be the funniest thing to ever happen on our planet.
downside: our plantet would explode.
"I am always in charge of the turkey so I am where I need to be today to prepare for that,"
Huh? If only I could understand her lingo... Must be a small town thing.
For all the clowns who feel sorry for poor Sarah, she was told what was happening behind her and had a choice to change background scenes but she was so busy talking in circles as usually and wanted to stay where she was....She's a complete idiot. I don't feel sorry for her. She continues to make a fool of herself just for attention. What's even more tragic is that the Alaskan Dude is probably saying "honey you were great".....
It's not just her fault. I can't believe that anyone...the cameraman...interviewer...etc...would have allowed her to be shot for the interview this way. Morons...all of them.
Why is this not surprising, coming from a dimwit like her?
Is she still here?
She has to get another publicist. Having a press conference in front of a turkey killing station is wild. Unless she does not want to let go of her fleeting fame, so I guess her publicist did well after all.
Greg,
I sure do pray she runs so Obama will have an easy re-election. You keep cheering for her...
Give me that turkey!! You Palin criticizers dont get a turkey this thanksgiving!
Maybe if she goes home and get her inept mouth closed we would not have such hilirous fonder to bash her and laugh at her. Don't blame us when she acts like an idiot and we respond. This is America the joke capital of the WORLD....we LOVE LOVE LOVE our comedians.
Cody,
"Who cares?! Why has this woman done to elicit such hatred and hostility from so many people, especially the press? Can you all relax now, you got your way, McCain/Plain lost. Since the electin, the stock market has continued to crash, but Obama is still going to be our saviour, so just get over Palin already."
Do you really need me to explain why her condescending attitude, the complete lies she told, her horrible interviews, and her lack of knowledge on current issues and world affairs make me (and many, many other Americans) sick?
BTW...Did you attend the same college(s) she did? I like your creative use of grammar and spelling.
Oh, finally, the President-Elect can't do anything about the economy yet. He hasn't been sworn in. Where is your president (W)? Does he know he is still in office, or did he take another vacation?
Was that "Joe the Turkey Killer" in the background?. OH MAN!!, this is a good sketch for SNL. I can't wait to see Tina Fey. They should have former senator stevens in that machine and then feed him to the republicans.
She never speaks in complete or grammatically correct sentences. This person could have been our next VP!
She probably did that on purpose to try to get back into the limelight. She knows that it's over for her.
CNN is TRASH for even talking about this crap!!
thank you president george w. bush for keeping america safe.
Please, give the negative coverage of CNN a rest till 2012 will ya.
Anything for a photo op....although you have to admit, this one's pretty funny. LOL
It is the responsiblity of the press to have voters make truly informed decisions on who they vote for. This article is just an example of the level of depth the press feels the public can handle. No matter who anyone votes for, it is important to make that vote truly count and not have it based of fluff.
Hey "blaising" have you ever read one of Obama's transcripts?????
You have got to be kidding me! Uh...duh...uh...uh..er...er....er..uh...you know....uh..uh..er....
This should not be an item of interest. Where do you think food comes from? Is the media so disconnected from reality that this is a news worthy event?
Some folks here aren't well informed:
The camera crew was not from CNN, it was from a local station KTUU-TV .
Also, Palin was informed by the station videographer what was going on behind her, but she continued yacking. Remember: she's "pro-life", except when it comes to shooting, killing, and slaughtering animals.
Once that camera light is on, she's the center of the universe and doesn't care about anything else but herself. Thank God she's back in Alaska and not in Washington!
The only thing I can figure is that you liberal pin-heads are so afraid of "Sarah Palin 2012" that you feel like you must keep reporting what you see as negative "non-stories" about her. why are you so scared? Is not the world going to be better now that we have an "Obamanation?
Why is she still in the news at all? I heard a teaser on the news this morning "Who is Sarah Palin's favorite Baldwin brother?"....WHO CARES? Stop filming her, I'm tired of of it.
First of all shes an Airhead for allowing the questions to take place in front of that what an Idiot,Second if anyone saw the Interview does she make your head spin do you try real hard to understand her Babbiling? this woman is a bumbiling Idiot!!!!!
"Palin appeared unaware of what was going on directly behind her...".
Sorry she can't be omniscient, like you media folk, with eyes in the back of her head! What is she for you , the new media whipping post like Nixon?
That story in also in Fox. GUBLE, GUBLE
That turkey got slaughtered alright. We chose not to elect her.
Klutz that she is you gotta feel a little sorry for her. Seems she can't win for losing!!!
Me thinks she better go home, resign as governor and stay in the house raising her brood. Send Todd the stud out for groceries etc. and stay out of camera range!
That's her only prayer!!
Sarah was asked to move and said no -background was OK-She really is "dense" and -Thank God-not the next VP
Hey "Obama 08"
If it's so over for her, why is it that every story about her gets more interest than any other story that day???? Why did you comment on this story???
She's like Reagan...people first thought he was stupid, tried to write him off.....then what happened????
Good grief, people.
First of all, CNN wasn't running the camera.
The cameraman actually asked her if she wanted to be interviewed against that backdrop. She replied, "No worries."
Whether or not people are unreasonably squeamish about it, you just don't see animals being slaughtered on TV because people find such images offensive.
Sarah was completely oblivious to the aesthetics of the scene. She was in control, and chose to be interviewed against that backdrop, so it's entirely fair to find her responsible for the way it turned out.
Sorry-more like 40% of the posters didnt get the irony and stupidity. Did they even notice Palin's mastery of the English language? A journalism degree-wow! BTW for you less intelligent folks that didnt get it- this not a CNN story and it is on all websites even FOXNEWS as a big story because most people can easily see the irony of it. You guys who believe people are grossed out from the slaughter are not as smart as a 5th grader and now I can see why some peeps voted McCain-Palin. Congratulations- you are the 40 percentile and below in America!
WOW. Everytime she opens her mouth, it's like watching a really slow, bad trainwreck.
All you democrats are full of hate. Hate hate hate. I'm going to cover my ears, listen to Keith Olbmermann and cry "hate". When will this liberal partisan hate machine shut down? (Being facetious)
Obama gives Cupcakes to Biden...you whiny liberals claim that Bush would never do that...or that the republicans wouldn't do it because they hoard money...or that it's nice to see "friends" in the White House. I'm willing to bet, Mr. President-Elect never gave Biden cupcakes before 2008, for his birthday...publicity stunt 101.
Turkey is slaughtered behind Palin...same whiny liberals find another way to cut down the GOP with pointless, immature, hate-filled comments.
By the way, I'm typically moderate, but these message boards are quite pathetic.
It's amazing that all of these liberals come out of the woodwork and attack anyone they can when the press is finally starting to report that Obama is already failing. His staff has been at work for days trying to minimize expectations after realizing that most of the campaign promises were lies, and the more Obama fails, the more the Republicans will be blamed.
Reagan didn't blame Carter when he had to come in and fix the mess—he just fixed it.
You are a bunch of mean people. This is an interview a local TV station did. It is the job of the producer and cameraman to shoot this, not her media people.
Well, where do they think the Thanksgiving turkey comes from? This is a good wake up call to those who might think the plucked and packaged bird they defrost "comes that way." This bird in the photo obviously was once a beautiful creature with fantastic plumage. Get a grip. This is a big country, and there are millions of turkeys being eaten on Thanksgiving Day. That's a lot of feathers left behind.
Why don't people ever understand that these are blog posts – they're meant to be biased and quick. They're not unbiased news articles.
Hate internet, I think the fairness doctrine should be applied here.
hhhmmmmmm.... a turkey being slaughtered....at a turkey slaughter-house.... just before Thanksgiving. Most of us will have a big, dead, honkin' turkey on our tables next Thursday...
And this is news.... why?
Little wonder America is on a downward spiral.
What do people think happens to the turkey they eat? If you eat meat, shut up. Although she was an idiot to have the turkey killed behind her when she was on camera. But I don't remember too many people trying to claim Palin being the smartest trukey in the group.
I can't stand Palin anymore than the next guy. I wish she would just go away. That said, you can't fault her for this... turkey's are food. People who eat turkey on thanksgiving (or meat on any day of the year) need to face the facts that they are a food source. She grew up in Alaska, what do you expect.
For God's sake, get off this woman's back and let her govern her State of Alaska! MSNBC's Chris Matthews criticized her loudly for her use of the word GODDDDD....(his emphasis) in an interview, and for the past several nights it's become clear that David Letterman couldn't have a show were it not for his invoking Mrs. Palin's name and talking about her sex appeal. Then almost every blog is critical of her. Why is this? I simply didn't find her that different from all the other political operatives and certainly don't find the turkey business worthy of a separate blog piece. So I would welcome a respite from stories about her, and just wish for this very attractive woman and her family a Happy Thanksgiving. Period!!!
Governors and U.S. Presidents pardon turkeys all the time; that is nothing new. What is new, however, is having someone pardon a turkey while other turkeys in view are being slaughtered. Sarah needs to do a better job in controling her photo opportunities. They have become a laughing stock for most Americans. She could have at least ask them to stop while she gave the interview or move away so that the camera does not capture the killing of turkeys in the background.
Hey "Obama 08″
If it's so over for her, why is it that every story about her gets more interest than any other story that day???? Why did you comment on this story??? WHY IS SHE BEING OFFERED 7 MILLION DOLLARS FOR A BOOK DEAL?????? Over????? I hardly think so..
She's like Reagan…people first thought he was stupid, tried to write him off…..then what happened????
People aren't upset that turkeys were being prepared for consumption. The problem is that it made her look like a backwoods hick especially with the guy mugging for the camera in the background. Surely she could have had the photo op set up somewhere else beside a bloody basin.
Palin is soooooooooo unaware of EVERYTHING around her. I swear I think she is from Mars. If I don't have to hear that screechy voice of hers again, I think I can recover from Palinmania. Thank God it was a brief run. Whew.
Sarah Palin Unaware!?!? Who would've thunk it!!!! Isn't her 15 minutes over?
If this is considered news, CNN is no longer a news source. With all that is going on in the world, it is a huge waste of time to mention this non-event.
WHO CARES!?
I see the press is still her friend.
She just can't catch a break with you guys can she? The implied ridicule is pretty sad. C'mon CNN.
The woman is a freak, plain and simple!
The people who criticize the slaughtering of Turkeys are pathetic. People eat meat every day. Where do you think the meat comes from. I worked at a hog slaughtering plant for seven years and watched 11,000 hogs get dismatled every day. The American people better get in touch with reality. The economy is rapidly deteriorating to levels not seen since the Great Depression. The U.S. military is nearly broken. The danger to America's security from terrorists and foreign powers are greater today than anytime since WWII. Where is our President? Why isn't the press paying more attention to these issues? This story is a waste of time!!!
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It's amazing that all of these liberals come out of the woodwork and attack anyone they can when the press is finally starting to report that Obama is already failing. His staff has been at work for days trying to minimize expectations after realizing that most of the campaign promises were lies, and the more Obama fails, the more the Republicans will be blamed.
-Reagan didn't blame Carter when he had to come in and fix the mess—he just fixed it.
I reluctantly agree with those who say leave her alone. She only wants attention–be it positive or negative. To keep talking about her, only justifies her political existence. I her eyes, the worst thing people could do would be to turn their backs and shut up.
Palin is the inverse of Obama, in every way. Imagine if they had been elected!
Peeekaboo i dont seeee you!!!
What is worse than an idiot with an inflated ego???
Of course the slaughter going on behind her wouldn't bother her-her record on animal cruelty is as horrific as her record on preventing pregnancies through 'abstinence only.'
This woman has absolutely no sense when it comes to the press WHATSOEVER!!!! I guess the GOP will try and blame the liberal media for making her look bad, or better yet... blame the turkeys!
I have not seen many other individuals whose Common Sense and tact are lower than Sarah Palin's.
Boy! Did we ever dodge a bullet!
Sarah Palin's mother always said, "Stupid is as stupid does..."
I didn't think she could prove herself more idiotic and out of touch but she
outdoes herself every time she opens her mouth. Keep talkin', Guv! [wink wink]
What is with the elitism regarding speech? Sarah Palin talks in the local vernacular and she is easily understood. Must we all sound like Harvard or Yale graduates? So I noticed no one made fun of Obama when he addressed black crowds by imitating the local vernacular or when he talks in circles in any vernacular.
Which "Turkey" got slaughtered?
"What is the difference between the Alaska Gov. and a headless turkey?"
"One is dressed by the RNC"
"Do you really need me to explain why her condescending attitude, the complete lies she told, her horrible interviews, and her lack of knowledge on current issues and world affairs make me (and many, many other Americans) sick?" -Steph.
You are obviously talking about Oblahma right?? I still throw up in my mouth at thought of him destroying this once great country that has evidently deteriorated into a bunch of kool aid drinking ignoramouses.
ie: 57 states anyone?? Oh how about the not the politics as usual crap?? Oh and my favorite, I'm for ALL of the people. He's the most divisive human that has ever gotten elected. He cares more about his parties that thye economy??
Oh yeah, weren't we all only supposed to talk about the economy??
People who blame the press for this so called interview are completely ignorant of the fact that it is Palin's choice of where and when to interview. Before the camera was rolling she could have asked to change the venue. This just solidifies the view in America that Palin is not the intelligent person she professes to be, whether it is right or wrong.
Granted it's not really her fault, but I tell you, one of her staff (who I would think would've been there) should have noticed this was going on and stopped it.
That said, I started watching the video and had to immediately turn it off. I may not be eating turkey next week after all.
We eat turkey, but can not show how we get there. All these remarks from people hiding from reality, putting their head in the sand.
Sarah is more real than any one of them. I guess that is why that do not like her. Kind of like the people who all said the emperor's clothes were so fine, when he had none. She lives life for real. I hope she does run in 2012. She has my vote!
So what's the problem.. You will eat Turkey...Don't be stupid and fellow the stupidity of CNN
Happy Thanksgiving Palin family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did not vote for MCcain and you but wish you all the best.
Wow J you sound pathetic stop whining. If people want to debate on the issues what's the problem. Stop being so sensitive. Getting back to the story that is pretty funny and somehow something that would only happen to Palin lol.
A turkey in charge of a turkey, how delightful.
I got laugh–one more time: both sides PRAY- that she WILL run again.
Sarah Who? She KINDA looks familiar... wait, was she on a late night talk show recently??
::sarcasm off::
Seriously, Governor... your 15 minutes is over. Although I do so love how some folks on here are seemingly blaming President-Elect Obama for the declining economy when he hasn't even been sworn in yet... all the while lambasting the rest of us who continue to poke fun at someone who continues to put HERSELF in the most awkward of situations, despite the fact that her moment in the spotlight is long over.
She's an idiot and the film crew were as well...unless it was an inside job by Newt Gingrich!
Yes...haha...pretty funny. But, c'mon, these people have jobs to do. Do you really want to take away more jobs in this economy?
Palin needs to be stay in the news. simple as that.
Sarah Palin is truly the inverse of Barack Obama.
I prefer Palin's legs to Turkey legs....she is frigging stupid
I find it funny that people support her. She could possibly be the dumbest politician next to Bush. I hope she runs in 4 yrs in 8 yrs and in 12yrs just for the comedy she brings to public office.
STOP TALKING PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God I cant wait for the hating to start on our new idiot president(see what I did there)
Start your engines- cause there is no way in hell this man can get us out of any hole we are in now- Can anyone say one term.
LOL he is going to look real stupid real quick.
Dear Sarah Palin,
The same American people who want to unify the country, are the same people who use their media inspired hate for you, to make fun of the way you speak. So much hypocrisy.
John
Why is this woman even still in the media? Enough of her already!!
Wow... slow news day, huh? Leave her alone!
I do not like her but this is pathetic!
Interesting to hear, based on the sound bytes, how she is as a speaker without the McCain aides telling her what to say. If those two would have been elected, Government would have had to grow significantly just to hire all of the people whose job it was to tell her what to say and how to say it. Her vocabulary and enunciation of the English language is simply atrocious. Regardless of the scene behind her, she didn't plan that, she's going to have to spend a lot of time in the off season to prepare for her run in 2012. First thing this college educated person ought to do is take English 101.
And this is a woman that people thought was "smart" enough to be a Vice President?? I feel sorry for her and everyone that voted for McCain/Palin..the "hockey mom" ...really sad!!!
Enough Already.......The hell with this Woman ....keep her out of the News !!!!
Can this woman possibly doing anything that is more STOOPID than this (and yes, I spelled stupid with TWO "O"'s because she's just that dumb!)?
We've just had 8 years of STOOPID in the White House... now it's time to see what intelligent people will do in the next 4-8 years.
This lady is on the same level as Beavis and Butthead!!
@ Justin
Nothing implied about it. She's borderline neanderthal and brought it all upon herself by being a nasty, lying, uninformed little fascist when running for our nations No. 2 leadership spot. Don't like it? Write her a letter and tell her to get out of public office and hide.
I see two dead turkeys. One literally, the other figuratively.
Poor choice of backdrop but most people will eat turkey on Thanksgiving. This is the reality of how it gets to the store. What bothers me is that she makes no sense when she speaks. This is not the first time. When she is not scripted she talks in circles and makes no sense.
This could happen to anyone, but it's not the sort of thing you want happening to you if you want to be president and 43% of the population already has a negative opinion of you.
What an idiot...And you wanted her for VP. She can't even be aware on what's going on around her!!
Why wasn't she out pardoning black people?
Evil woman.
I love listening to the liberal Dems bash Palin. Ooohh, she could have been our next VP.....guess what? You got Biden. Remember him? He's the guy that thinks FDR got on the TV in 1929 during the stock market crash. You know, the guy that thinks FDR was Pres in 1929 and we had TVs then as well. Oh yeh, and he's the guy that got forced down in his helicopter by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Come to find out, it was a snowstorm (even John Kerry corrected him on that). Did see him a whole lot during the last few weeks of the election. Why? Because Obama figured out he was a walking, talking, moron. Now what do we have? A novice for Pres that wants to raise taxes on major investors and businesses so he can destroy what's left of our economy and a moron that is a heartbeat away from taking over his job. Confidence abounds........
Why don't you go and do something useful with your ablities, Governor...What a waste of time and resources...Probably using campaign funds and taxpayer money for your little turkey trip.
Give the lady a break already....she's no longer even part of the national conversation...what is the media's obsession with her...Get over her people and worry about the millions of jobs being lost and the state of our economy...I'm sick of the media wasting our time with useless, pointless stories that have no relevance to our nation's future.
GET A LIFE!
Johnny C
You are dumbfounded that people are angry and displeased with this woman. She is a joke. Sarah Palin is a monster created by the RNC and they are paying for it. We as Americans should speak out much more against this type of "no nothing" politics. I commend people for voicing their opinion on the matter and on Nov. 4th the people spoke and said "we will not stand for it anymore.
I'm tired of Sarah Palin. Forget about her and move on. I'm just so relieved that we no longer have to fear her becoming president, at least for 4 or perhaps 8 years! Move on to the real news, PLEASE!
Geez Folks, where do you think those frozen turkeys at your grocery store come from?
I'd like to compliment CNN for quoting Ms. Palin with the exact terminology that rolls off her tongue.
I know why this is done – and as a journalist I know how many times we smooth certain sections of an interview to make it balance between conversational and something a reader can follow.
In her case, however, it needs to be written exactly as she speaks it. Thanks for that. It's great strategery.
GS
It isn't the point that most people eat turkey, yes we get it, they have to be slaughtered to get to the store and ultimately to the consumer. The point is how many politicians or even people in general have done interviews with this going on in the background?
This is an extreme example but do you think Bush would ever do an interview while American flag draped coffins are being unloaded from a military plane behind him?
The point is that the women is a dolt.
Thomas and Jeanne..you two have the stupidest blog here.
It does not surprise me that she was ignoring the turkey being slaughtered behind her. What do you expect? This woman kills animals for sport and fun.
Let's face it folks. She is just another "redneck lady"..
She says she's in charge of her Thanksgiving dinner and that's why she is at that business. More than likely, the turkey being killed behind her is probably the turkey she intends to take home and cook. It would have been better to pardon the turkey at an official ceremony, not at the excution site.
I think she forgot to give back that Burberry scarf she's wearing. You know she didn't purchase that with her own money....Walmart mom!
WELCOME TO THE OBAMA SHOW –
DIDN'T ANYONE TELL YOU THAT ALL CAPS ON THE INTERNET MEANS YOU ARE SCREAMING???
And if you know this you really need to calm down and get some medical attention. You're obsessive screaming at everyone is a bit nuts.
I used to think that she was putting on an act, pretending to be dumb. Nobody could really be that stupid? But now I'm sure, Palin really is clueless.
how do you think turkeys end up in your kitchen on Thanksgiving day?? get real. why does everything need to become politicized? bet most us us haven't been a mayor or a governer.
regardless of who you voted for, or who's in office, or who's diddling Monica, we're all Americans. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
The biggest turkey-Sarah Palin.
I don't know, gosh darn her for keeping it real?
Where do people think food comes from? The meat looks good in the package at the supermarket..God forbid something should happen; we would all be killing turkeys, cows, sheep etc. Time for a dose of reality, never mind the superficial bickering about Sarah Palin.
This woman is a disgrace and cant seem to put a sentence together.
After all the hate and vile that spewed out of her mouth, she deserves everything she gets. All this dim witted, light weight did was try and divide the country. She is what is wrong with this country and politicians. She bought into the Rove line of thinking hook, line and sinker! She gets attention because she is a freak show!
I really look forward to her wacky antics. She really deserves her own reality show.
Governor Palin, the real deal straight talk reformer.
Will be a breath of fresh air in 4 years after all the empty talk we will be sick of.
Palin
2012!!!
This is just a silly article. Palin is not the only politician that pardon's a turkey each year. And give me a break people; you did know turkeys aren't born shrink wrapped.... didn't you?
For those of you that didn't; let me share another secret with you...there is no such thing as Santa Clause. What a bunch of Turkeys!
Palin's like a three legged dog: you can't help but watch in amazement.
Anyone made uncomfortable by seeing a turkey being prepared for market had better be a vegan or get in line for the major hypocrite award.
Gov. Palin deals with the reality of life and speaks the truth as she sees it. That makes the typical urban elitist who's only knowledge of the world is what is spoon fed to them by their fellow media dweebs or plastic wrapped for them in the supermarket very uneasy. Rather than deal with the logic of what she says, they simply trash talk her.
Peter, Austin TX....since the Depression???? Are you kidding? Can you think back to Carter, please?????? Housing interest rates over 20%, unemployment in the double digits.....gas lines?????? Are you not old enough to remember CARTER, but you think you know about the Depression???????
Give her a break!
She did not shoot any animal this time...It was some Obama agent slauthering turkyies in the background.
Unfortunate event? Are you serious. It's a turkey. This is why I rarely pay attention to the US mainstream media.
You don't have to worry about Palin running for office in 2012. We have bigger fish to fry. Jeb Bush is their secret weapon. Why do you think he has been so quiet? Democrats watch you back.
All of you need to be concerned why the folks that voted for Obama are selling their stocks.
Instead of buying Sarah Palin clothes, the RNC would have made a better investment by buying her some common sense.
What politician does this? Obama was going to win regardless, but it was Sarah Palin and this type of judgement that put the final nail in McCain's presidential bid coffin.
So, what? What's your problem CNN? Humans actually eat turkey.
Ahhh so this is where liberals with no audiance congregate to voice their small minded opinions. I would normally be annoyed, but the more I think about it, this is where you belong. Thank god you're all too unmotivated with your ideas to actually do something about it (besides posting moronic statements on message boards where you know that 95% of the people who will read them are morons just like yourself). Btw, to all the Palin haters, I would like for one of you to be able to respond to me and be able to say that in their lifetime they have accomplished as much as Sarah Palin. Anyone?? Anyone? She's an idiot though, right?
The more they focus on Palin, the less they have to focus on Obama's 'about face' on the "change we need front".
So many Clinton retreads...
the turkey represents her career in politics....DEAD!!!
This could happen to anyone really...but it's still amusing (and only for the blatant irony of the situation).
To LiberalsHateAmerica,
An economic genius I see. Nevermind GM or Citigroup. It's Obama's fault the market's tanking. It's simple minded people who get their news and information from Rush and Fox news who spout to this garbage.
And as far as Liberals hating America:
Why do conservatives complain about the the peace and prosperity of the Clinton years?
Why do conservative relish in a needless war that has killed 4100 and wounded 35,000 Americans?
Why do conservatives approve of a president who has presided over economic disaster?
Why are conservatives content with having bin Laden still free after 9/11?
And my last question is why do conservatives hate America?
Peter Austin, TX November 21st, 2008 3:06 pm ET
The people who criticize the slaughtering of Turkeys are pathetic. People eat meat every day. Where do you think the meat comes from. I worked at a hog slaughtering plant for seven years and watched 11,000 hogs get dismatled every day. The American people better get in touch with reality. The economy is rapidly deteriorating to levels not seen since the Great Depression. The U.S. military is nearly broken. The danger to America's security from terrorists and foreign powers are greater today than anytime since WWII. Where is our President? Why isn't the press paying more attention to these issues? This story is a waste of time!!!
Well said!
And, now, the newest show from the producers of the Simple Life, "The Simple Life, Alaska Style".
Hey los....please do yourself a favor and go check out the "polls" on Obama supporters, voters and see what they saw as fact......just laughable....
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Sarah Palin = jive turkey
TYPICAL.
@ "CNN
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If you think that a Palin article getting the most posts, 90%+ of which are making fun of her, indicates that she's not "done" then there simply is no help for you. She has ZERO chance of getting elected in 2012. Learn the difference between fame and infamy.
Oh Pul-leeze ... can't CNN let go of the Saranator for just awhile? Give us (and her) a break! Pardoning a turkey is cute, but next week, we're eating them by the millions. So their deaths are neither tragic nor worthy of news coverage. So stop it already, willya?
mmmmmmm......turkey......tasty!
I think the term for this particular interview backdrop is "unfortunate".
The holidays are approaching, I'm willing to let bygones be bygones and stop watching, commenting on or even noticing Sarah Palin...as long as she does her part and stops hogging my TV screen.
find something that's worth reporting...so a turkey died...is that really news...get real...how about an update on Iraq...we don't hear much news on that now that we're winning...
Love these Palin blogs...they brighten the day with all the humor hehe...of course, making fun of her is like shooting turkeys in a barrel...
Could this woman screw up any more. Seems like everytime she makes an appearance she becomes the laughing stock of America. She as a bad case of Open Mouth Insert Foot Disease. Good Grief!!!
How much you want to bet that this will end up as another skit on SNL? While she's still in the news SNL will always have material. God what a bad joke she turned out to be. She will go down as the lamest most ridiculed politician ever and it's all her own fault. She won't be eating much turkey as her mouth is full of foot!!
I could care less what's going on behind her. She could be in front of a mall, or church for all I care. All that I can see, is she comes off like a clueless, twit moron that makes President Bush look like a MENSA member. If she was blonde, she would give Paris and Britney a bad image. The dead turkeys are brighter.
Governor Palin, the real deal straight talk reformer.
Will be a breath of fresh air in 4 years after all the empty talk we will be sick of.
Palin
2012!!!
And all you poor saps that know she will be a force to be reckoned with that can't help trying to smear her.
Gee, who's trying to make something out of nothing.
It's ok, you will have over played your smear tactics. ....a mightyt strange reporting of this as well. Where the video?
City slicker liberals strike again. They think their Butterball turkey falls out of the sky, ready to put in the oven. . Give me a break from all this PETA inspired nonsense.
get a grip Peter in Austin. a little time....
What an idiot!
carlso November 21st, 2008 2:04 pm ET
This was awesome, the guy in the background was hilarious. Who cares it is a dumb bird, you people are dumb. How do you think turkeys get to the dinner table? Hahahaha, liberals are so predictable.
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I'm going to guess that you are either 10 years old or your IQ is less than 90. And I don't see what this would have to do with being a liberal. There are conservative people out there that believe in animal rights.
The way this was displayed is NOT a humane way of killing a turkey.
- A REPUBLICAN vegetarian
This is soooooo sick.
Almost a little psycho,Yes, No?
This is very distributing. Why does anyone bother to interview this moron. She said nothing of interest, talks in circles, and kills the English language. Please Sarah, go away, farther than Alaska
That turkey probably couldn't stand hearing Sarah Palin talk, and begged to be slaughtered.
If she can see Russia from her back yard I wonder how she could not see what was happening so close. But then killings animals does not shock her
I suppose it's ok that she doesn't believe in evolution since she sort of constitutes evidence against it.
1. This is a HILARIOUS moment! I would find it hilarious if it happened to any politician, but the fact that it happened to a prominent figure like Sarah Palin just amplifies the hilarity.
2. For those who would take this opportunity to engage in some liberal-bashing, give me a break. Are you guys so tied down to your tired anti-liberal rhetoric that you can't find this video clip funny at all? I'm no liberal myself, but you people are just acting childish.
I'm sorry which one is the turkey on the tv? It's a little confusing.
Anyone who says this woman has political instincts needs to be shown this video.
I was so distracted by the guy killing the turkey in the back, I almost missed her murdering the english language. AKA Gov of the run on sentences... sheesh.
What a gem she is, I hope she doesn't something silly every day.
FYI folks: Don't blame CNN for reporting this. This story is on all the major news sites, including FoxNews.
Personally, I think it's hilarious. If you don't want to read this "non-news" story, then don't.
We're lucky America! She's not going to be our VP! Woo Hoo!
Why are there so many angry people in this country? You think you have it bad, go live where there are problems with just getting water and a morsel of food, if that. I like Sarah Palen, so why don't we talk about all your wives and girlfriends like this, have some respect. Some people have no turkey to eat and would love to have anything at all. Go help somebody and get off the net.
Aww..come on people. just laugh! The whole scene is just funny. Sure, there a more critical things going on in the country right now, but let us be thankful as Americans that there are other things to talk about besides the trivial. There is so much out there to frown at, just use these precious moments to laugh when you can. We have had eight years of pain and uncertainty. Now is the time to embrace each and every day and pray in hopes for a better tomorrow. For some of us tomorrow may never come. So I beg everyone to enjoy everday while you can. Look around the world, things here could be alot worse. Consider all who, including myself, can afford the time to use resources like the internet, to comment on the ridiculous very fortunate. We all have food on our tables, and clothes on our back. We are lucky no matter how you look at it. So laugh, play, and enjoy each moment, and hope that we as a country make and have made the right decisions for the world, our country, our kids, and the future. Remember: "Our destiny has no more certainty than leaves drifting in the wind. We are all subject to subtle changes that could alter our life patterns at any moment". Love what you hold dear, laugh when u can, fight for what you believe, and adapt when the situation calls for it.
thank goodness she did not make it the the white house just a dits
Even Fox News reported this one: "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"
What a ding-bat
Is there a word for the antithesis of clairevoyance? If not, I nominate the word "Palin."
I was accosted by some homeless African-Americans last night in downtown Detroit. I was so happy to help them out by telling them that Obama has come to save them.
derrick November 21st, 2008 3:19 pm ET
the turkey represents her career in politics….DEAD!!!
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Last time I checked, she was still the Governer of Alaska. Great point though!!
This is absolutely news worthy. I personally think that Sarah Palin is the messiah and proves what a great country we live in. I plan to move to Alaska as soon as possible.
palin is the next reagan? well she obviously suffers from some brain deteriorating disease, she has a problem with the truth, & she thinks russia is coming to get us, so maybe its true.
i think this turkey thing is humorous, its just like the election only the turkey then was poor old john mccain.
Lighten up Peter in Austin. If you dont like this story go read another.
You palin haterz are all idiots and seriously delusional. You would really think that this woman is so clueless as to not know she's in an effin' turkey farm? This woman is highly intelligent and very down to earth and real, which is more than i can say for most of the people commenting on this article and the media reporters themselves! I dont know how things are in the lower 48's world, but in AK, killin' animals is a matter of survival. It really doesnt generate any headlines when a stupid Turkey is killed for thanksgiving 'round these parts, television or not. Then again, the people in the lower 48 have no clue what it means to live in alaska. S*** they're lucky if they even knew the place is one of the 50 states of America. Thats right... USA has 50 states!! not 49. Count the stars on the flag if you dont believe me. They have an effin' Super Wal*Mart on every corner in the 48. I wonder what these people tell their children when they ask where their food came from? God must reach down from heaven and place their already prepared meals on the table for them or something geeze!! Life must be nice! And honestly, ya'll dont even know what life is like outside of those cemented cities, paved roads, and heated homes, so dont comment like ya do!
Ding! Fries are done!!
so what's the story here...big deal a turkey died...how about some real nws...we don't hear much on Iraq these days...I don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that we are winning now?!
It just shows you how rediculous and political it is to pardon the Turkey. We know millions of turkeys are in store freezers for Thanksgiving. The pardon is just for show. I'm sure Gov. Palin will be having turkey on Thanksgiving too. I thought it was a great clip. Why can't we get honest and in sync with the majority of Americans and say goodbye to the turkey on TV instead of pardoning the turkey.
Have any of you heard barry O without a teleprompter??
"I uh uh uh I uh uh change, er uh er uh ah eu change, uh uh uh spread the wealth around, uh, uh, uh........"
Palin would have been great for this county,
-small gov't
-small taxes
-big military
-self reliance
-loves America
Barry O is the opposite everything just listed–congratulations America-the socialist has arrived!!
I wonder if she winked at the turkey before it died. maybe the turkey winked at her. oh come on now joe.... you know that turkey was a maverick!
HAHAH that's awesome.
Captain Anti-Grammar strikes again.
WOW! In reading these comments I must be in the presence of frigg'n geniuses... And once Obama's economic brain child takes hold, eating Turkey will be a luxury. Hope you all enjoy Mac n Cheese!
Okay, this is a new low in stupid news stories. Palin is a looney toon, but how on earth is it her fault that a turkey is being slaughtered for Thanksgiving in the back ground? Over 90% of Americans eat turkey on TG, and this is the reality of it folks. If you can't cope with that, then become a vegetarian, but don't bully Palin about it. There are far too many legitimate reason to bully Palin.
This is really priceless.
Let that scene seep in - grasp how awful, incompetent, hypocritical, stupid and obtuse Sarah Palin and her supporting cast is.
A great big "Thank you !!" goes out to 64,000,000 + voters who understood what was on the line in 2008.
If you eat meat, then STFU and ake TFU people–this is what they have to do to get it on your plate. If you don't like it, then too bad, because an animal has to die every time you eat your meat. You might want to think first whether eating animals is entirely necessary. I respect more the hunter than the meat eater who has no idea what it takes to put meat on the plate. Wake up from your dreams people. HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of animals die each year so you can be satiated. It's amazing the hypocrisy in this country. As long as animals are slaughtered for our pleasure, it doesn't seem to me we have the moral high ground on what animal cruelty really is.
Please go away Palin. You are an unfortunate accident. You can't even do a fluff piece without incident.
Get Over it. You think the Turkey you buy at walmart was made ready for you to pop into the oven? LOL I don't care for Palin, but this is the stupidest article I have ever read on CNN.
I personally think this story is hilarious, and the fact that people (on both sides) are getting upset about it is also making me crack up. The story is comical and unique, which is why it is newsworthy. For those drama queens whining about the other important stories–it took CNN about 2 minutes to write this, it's not that big of a deal. It's not stealing time from other important issues, it's just a funny piece.
For those Palin-lovers that are mad about the media portraying her as "unaware" and giving her a hard time, lighten up! Take a step back from politics and realize that it's just plain funny to be pardoning a turkey while another is being slaughtered behind you. With things the way they are right now it's important to take time to have a sense of humor–it is good to laugh now and then.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
So how do folks think turkeys get on their table? Someone has to kill them first. Geez.
I just started checking out this blog. I'm taken aback by how the vast majority of participants have the same point-of-view (bascially "Palin's stupid" and other variations).
I'm wondering... are there any political and current events blogs in existence that are visited by "normal" people? Normal in the sense that one particular slanted point-of-view is not so dominant (this one fails the test miserably).
There are pros and cons to Palin. Reasonable and rational people would see this.
My, My. Reality seems to offend the gentle Liberals senses!
You want wood to build your homes but you don't want to look at logged off hillsides. You want light weight, water and wind resistent synthetic clothing and carbon composites but you don't want the oil wells or pipelines or refineries that produce those synthetics. You want electricity but you don't want the power plant or the wind mills or the solar collectors or the power lines in your neighbohood. You want turkey on the Thanksgiving table but you don't want to see how it gets there.
You want to spout snarky comments but you don't want to work. You want rights but you don't want responsibilities. You want more while contributing less.
As the ecObamanomic depression drives deeper into the USA and world economies and your 401Ks become 201Ks, remember THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED. YOU WANTED A RADICAL SOCIALIST FOR PRESIDENT. THE MARKETS ARE JUST ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR WANTS.
PALIN IS A MOTOR MOUTH AND HAVE NO SENSE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THEM, JUST KEEP THEIR MOTOR RUNNING.
Some of you people are just so nasty. CNN, what is the point of this non-story???????? People are just jealous of this very popular Governor.
So where do you think that Turkey on your table comes from duh? Typical media show anything to get a story.
Listen, we know how turkeys get to the supermarkets. The fact is that guy did not have to do that while she was there and while she was there and cameras were rolling. Can't she or her people control anything? I don't even like her but I'm totally pissed that they guy had to kill that turkey right then.
I don't know why Fox doesn't give this girl her own show... "Pallin around with Palin"? Who wouldn't watch that? The first episode... She can demonstrate how she keeps an eye on Putin. The second one, she can field dress a moose. Third, shopping at her favorite consignment shop in Alaska. The possibilities are absolutely endless.
I would like to reply to J about democrats being full of hate, First of all if it wasn't for you REPUBLICANS we wouldn't be this mess that we are in. So you can say that democrats are full of hate because you REPUBLICANS don't know what to do when they are in the WHITE HOUSE and if don't believe me then ask BUSH! And then on top of that The Republicans be stealing everything they can get. Ask Cheney about that $ 1 billion dollar contract that YOUR REPUB President gave to him. And Tell me that ain't stealing from the country, i don't say, so i think you should back about Democrats being full hate, cause stealing from your country is not showing ANY LOVE 4 Your COUNTRY!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! OBAMA IS MY PRESIDENT!!
HEY OBAMA SUPPORTERS,
YOU MAKE FUN OF SARAH AND VOTE FOR OBAMA AND THATS SMART???????
SARAH IS A NORMAL PERSON WITH A NORMAL FAMILY AND THAT BOTHERS YOU. WHY?????????????
OBAMA IS A PREACHER FROM WHO KNOW WHERE WITH LITTLE TO KNOW EXPERIENCE.
WHY YOU VOTED HIM INTO OFFICE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!
This is a woman who is in love with the sound of her own voice. Of course she's not unaware of the what's happening behind her. Image her as president...'nuff said.
D November 21st, 2008 3:02 pm ET
The only thing I can figure is that you liberal pin-heads are so afraid of "Sarah Palin 2012″ that you feel like you must keep reporting what you see as negative "non-stories" about her.
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Actually you have it all wrong.
1) I think most liberals would welcome a Palin run in 2012 with open arms.
2) I, along with what looks like the vast majority of Dems in here, really wish that we never had to read another thing about her.
Will the guy in the background, Sammy the Slaughterer, now want a book deal, too?
This just proves she is still as clueless as ever!
Come on, let's talk turkey here! The lady just won't shut up. I don't feel sorry for her at all. If Palin needs to constantly seek attention from the media she is fair game–not the turkey.
hey "Steph"....you're kind of funny....were you one of the koolaid drinkers that hated on Hillary?????? NOTICE MR. HOPE-N-CHANGE is basically calling ALL Clinton administration and putting them to work for him.....Hope and change...don't think so..he has NO idea what he's doing, so he's hiring ALL Bill and Hillary people.....
There are a lot of things that we know are happening - kind of like soldiers being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the president won't allow pictures to be taken of the caskets.
Maybe it would have been better for this woman, who few people respect, to show some sensitivity. There are people who actually feel emotions when they see animals killed. I know, how weird. What if it was a horse being slaughtered for dog food? Is that something Republicans like to watch on the news with their kids as well?
What is it with conservatives? A little bloodthirsty?
The problem IS, no one's found a way to get rid of that other stupid turkey.................. the one giving the speach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is unbelievable. Who really cares? Where was she supposed to go to do the traditional turkey pardoning, the petting zoo? Un-freaking-believable.
Alaskans should be sooooo proud. PLEASE re-elect her so the rest of America doesn't hav eto deal with her anymore.
Well, Sarah PAAINN is at it again...Guess she must have field-dressed that poor unfortunate turkey being beheaded, and had it on the "BARBIE" by 6 PM, it's a wonder she didn't decapitate it herself, she loves KILLING ANIMALS of any kind !!!!
She doesn't seem to be very aware of ANYTHING around her in the whole world. Concern for people who might be sensitive to slaughter, besides sound political judgement, would have dictated a different place for the interview. Talk about a turkey!
Welcome to reality people! Where do you think your Thanksgiving dinner came from?
Peter why not try dusting your buttocks off and eat yourself? what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Typical example of the drive-by-media. Lay off of Palin, you guys are so pathetic. Like you never ate turkey before? Meanwhile the recent zigby poll shows how ignorant and ill informed the voters are expecially obama supporter who dont even know who controls congress of who the majority leader and speaker is.. You guys in the media have completely failed the public. How about spending you time more wisely.
What did this woman do in a former life that she just can't catch a break in this one?
paul,
it's funny.
and to think this "turkey" was a mccain heartbeat away from being the president of the united states. ..go back to making moose chili and please just go away.....
And this story is news worthy why? Thusands of Turkeys get the ax every year.
Obama won, drop the biased media coverage.
The turkey should replace the elephant as the new symbol of the Republican Party.
That is hilarious. Who needs Tina Fey? Give Palin her own show!
M-O-R-O-N
People please, some of you probably think beef comes from the ground. I guess turkey came from a tree before this to some people, how pathetic.
One can look at the scene behind Sara Palin as sort of an metaphor in that, what the farmer is doing to those turkeys is what Obama is doing to his faithful CHANGE believing supporters.
For all you clowns worried about the turkeys ... what about the big turkey in Chicago who's gone mute since the election?
383 un-liberally monitored comments. Proving once again that Palin can still draw a bigger crowd than Obama...
What's so odd to me is that she has a cup of coffee in her hand while in the background you can hear the turkeys screaming..........WOW.....I mean she is supposed to be a seasoned politican........Photo Ops are part of being a good politician...........And what's with the hair.....seems she needs that 20k hair dresser........................Give it up Palin....seriously............
Ok, I am absolutely NOT a Palin fan, but for heaven's sake.........are people NOT aware that 'turkey pardoning' is as much a political tradition as tree lighting, egg rolling, and baby kissing? Here's how it works, folks.....TWO turkeys are presented. The politician picks ONE for a pardon. Yes, it's a photo opp.....like GROUNDHOG DAY! Please be aware that this is not just an Alaskan tradition. Did you read the article about the two boys from Ellsworth, IA, staying in a hotel in DC with THEIR two turkeys, waiting for the presidential pardon of one of them? (And lest I be accused of speaking Palinese, I wish to clarify that the TURKEYS are the ones vying for the pardon, and not the boys.)
Furthermore, it doesn't hurt anyone to become a little more aware of where our food comes from. Call it a history lesson, if you will. After all, the Pilgrims didn't get THEIR bird at the local Piggly Wiggly store!
This is another example of Mrs. Palin not knowing what is going on around her.
You know, the other candidates for national office were vetted for two years, while S Palin came out of nowhere. Sure, she's attractive, has an in-your-face kind of attitude, seemed to be in command of herself, but the more we see of her, the more I suspect she is less-than-intelligent.
I mean: how does one not consider the effects of "Slaughterhouse 5" going on just behind her. I was incredulous, as the unsuspecting turkey was pressed down into the guillotine-like mechanism and she blithely commented, "I'm where I need to be."
Yes, we all know these birds are killed for our Thanksgiving dinners, but one would think she could at least be aware that it just seems unseemly to blithely go about an interview with such carnage in the background.
The more I see of her and know her in different venues, the more I realize we dodged a real bullet there; the turkeys wouldn't be the only victims if she'd prevailed.
I hope all of you who are criticizing Gov. Palin over this are not eating turkey for Thanksgiving. Let's stop the hypocrism!
This isn't news.
This story is so absolutely ridiculous. Are we truly going to waste our time on stories like this or are we going to focus on real news? By the way, Alaska is the only state recession proof. I think she must do a pretty good job running her state and I don't think she is as dumb as the media makes her out to be.
America – we REALLY missed the bullet on this one. Thank you 'higher power'.
I hope everyone here who's criticizing Palin in this video is a vegetarian, otherwise you're a big hypocrite. Where do you think those turkeys wrapped in plastic at the grocery store come from?
Wow.... this is news...?
News flash: in order to be eaten turkeys die.
She could have picked a better back drop.
I understand that this is the "turkey" process but the interview wasn't about "the preparation before the preparation of your turkey dinner show!"
She had to know and she even stated that she would get her knew critics to chat...perhaps she should lay low and really work on her image.
I have empathy for her. However, if you are going to jump in front of the media be prepared for conflicting views.
Does anyone have a clue to what she is saying? I start out listening to the first half of her sentence and by the second half, I am completely lost. Seeing her words printed out actually makes it worse. She speaks PALINSH!!
Could someone please buy her a pronoun, a comma and a period!!
There was a reason why the press did not have access to her. The more I hear her speak, the more I understand why McCain's crew kept her away.
That said, I am begining to feel sorry for her. I think she needs a really good publicist.
pleeeease make her go away.
I find it odd that the same people who accuse Republicans of making up nonsense and trying to scare the electorate about Obama, now employ the same pratices they claim to deplore. "Our earth would blow up"? "Al Queda licking their lip"? "She's an idiot"? Do you read this crap before you send it? New Media, can we move to more pressing issues? PLEASE?
"I am always in charge of the turkey so I am where I need to be today to prepare for that," she also said.
What does it mean?! Each word separately has a meaning but together they do not form any coherent thought at all.
I realized that Palin is in charge of turkeys when I watched her rallies. Could she mean that?
I don't think Palin was aware that a turkey was being slaughtered behind her, but the person who operated the camera knew it. I'm sure someone reviewed the film before it aired. I saw it and I was totally turned off by the scene and I don't appreciate the news showing that just days before Thanksgiving. I know that people eat meat all the time but we don't want to see someone fighting with the animal while trying to stuff it into a funnel to chop it's head off. Seeing the animal fight for it's life is a scene that's embedded in my brain and I won't be eating turkey for Thanksgiving this year.
Paul, what exactly do you call "winning
in Iraq??? Only 10 dead GI's in the month instead of 20...don't be a fool
Dear God, we are eternally grateful to you for not letting this turkey of a bimbo become our VP. Please continue to watch over us and NOT let her come anywhere near Washington. Amen.
This makes me think of a new phrase: That is SO Palin! Next time my wife kicks the cat, I'll say, "That is so Palin."
This is the most discusting thing I think I have ever seen! I will never look at my plate of turkey the same again. OMG !!!!!!!!
What is your point? As I am sending this email a turkey is dying somewhere, and I do prefer to eat turkeys dead instead of alive. Happy Thanksgiving and MERRY , MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL.
Maybe it's not a pretty sight, but where do you people think the turkey and ham you buy in the store come from? Little fairies drop them from turkey and ham heaven? Get a grip, people! Thankfully, you all didn't live back in the pioneer days in this country...
And one more thing, why do people insist on focusing on her dialect when she speaks? Have you never heard the accent before? And why do you hammer her, yet hang on every mis-spoken word by every "beloved" rap artist and ghetto rat? I'm just axing...
Sarah Palin is more aware than the majority of Americans. Yes, turkeys are slaughtered because humans have to eat. But why are millions of human babies slaughtered each year through abortion? Why are Americans less disturbed by abortion than they are by the slaughter of animals for food? Sarah Palin has more respect for life than many.
too bad they were'nt chopping off obamas head in the background,
hey, at least the one she pardoned wasn't the one that met its demise....
Keep it coming Sarah...to think America is enamoured with this woman? Sadly, she wouldn't know it if she stepped in it.
Virginia Beach, VA
What I don't understand is why we still seeing more of her than Joe Biden? Did Obama hide him already??? If so, good move on his part.
Dear God could I hate this useless bag anymore? They should put her, and all the other useless hillbillies in Alaska under the same ax that killed the turkey. Better yet, let's give the whole state to Canada with the understanding that they get the oil, but they also have to keep all the idiots that live there.
Uh, yeah...That's how it works on a turkey farm. A turkey is slaughtered, and then we eat it! What's the big issue here? It's crazy how soft our country has become. People are far to removed from reality today if this is a news worthy story...
It's funny to me that this is even considered a news worthy story. How many people on this site making comments are going to eat turkey this holiday season. How do you think it gets to the store? Maybe if we could concentrate on the economy and foregin affairs as much as people concentrating on looking for the latest Palin slip up we could get out of some of the issues we are facing that are news worthy.
You people need to get a life and/or a hobby. Why don' t you go vent about your savings? If you need an subject matter to harp on...here's one: Why arent' Bush and Obama saying anything about our stock market performance? Oh wait, let's talk about how turkeys are killed.
Hi Paul who wrote:
"so what's the story here…big deal a turkey died…how about some real nws…we don't hear much on Iraq these days…I don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that we are winning now?!"
So if we are winning, who are the losers?
now I see why she was so sheltered and and guarded during the campaign. shes been unleashed and she won't shut up. turkey slaughtered as shes interviewed...hehe shes a pisser.
You Neo-Nazi Liberals have nothing better to do?
Have to admit its kinda funny. This lady just keeps stepping in it. If I were her I would just stay out of the spotlight, but sadly, or maybe humorously for the rest of us, she doesn't.
I LIKE THIS SHIP, IT'S EXCITING!
As much as I love to jump on the "Palin is a moron" bandwagon, I am sick of hearing about this pathetic woman. I really wish she would just quietly go away.... unfortunately, I don't think the wrath of Sarah Palin is over:( Maybe with this new book deal she will be able to buy her own clothes!
Not Palin causes stir , but the media causes stir.
This is reminiscent of her yacking away as John McCain dies in the campain. She's such an idiot. Go back to your village and be a big fish in a small pond.
forget it. It's not even January 09 yet for her to run for President again, and people are already getting tired of her lies and unqualified dicision.
It's interesting that the same folks on the left that abhor the slaughter of turkeys are the same that condone the slaughter of babies in utero.
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT THIS CLOWN UP!!
Are you, the media, so afraid of Sarah Palin that you have to run this sill, derogatory story even after the election is over? Having said that, why in the world would she allow this event to be photographed and filmed where you could see the birds being killed? Its not like we dont know that is what happens, but this was such a bad choice.
Matthew: You are the only one who gets it! It's a week before Thanksgiving and people do eat turkeys!
How do you think we get those turkeys? They have to be slaughtered. And, where was Sarah Palin being interviewed – where turkeys are being slaughtered so that WE can eat them on Thanksgiving! What hypocrites you people are! You sit there and eat turkey and forget they have to be slaughtered! Then condemn this woman!
Get over it and leave this woman alone!
Wow....all the Liberals "up in arms" about a turkey! I wish they felt so much for the unborn child.
Bunch of turkey huggers........grow up.
A great metaphor for her political future.
ToledoTom
Welcome to reality people! Where do you think your Thanksgiving dinner came from?
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My Thanksgiving dinner comes from my parent's house.
The only turkey out there is that stupit duck Palin. And I too thank God that she did not get elected. How can anyone not see this woman makes all women look like the dummy she is. She gives us all a bad name.
The best part is the guy mugging for the camera's and bloody pants..............OMG............This is rich..............She hasn't a clue of what it takes to be a VP or god forbid PRES.......She should know that the lower 48 states politician's know how to set up a photo op. Pardon turkey's that's fine but hearing them scream and seeing them killed is another.....She is use to seeing blood guts and gore from killed animals that is why she is drinking coffee and smiling.........CLUELESS.........
Where do you think Thanksgiving turkeys come from? Are you blaming Palin for the fact that Americans eat Thanksgiving turkey? They're being killed by the thousands as we write. Just because you usually can't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. Grow up.
LOL.... Almost reminds me of the other turkey who stood behind her and ........ "died" LOLOLOL.... Will this person every give up trying to be something she will never be? That is, a charming, intelligent public figure...
Shes planning to start the 2012 campaign in front of cows being slaughtered.
The Palin karma strikes again!
just like Confucius said , "It ain't what you say , but how you say it"
I actually think it's great that this video is getting so much attention and I hope a lot of children get to see it too. that way they will actually know how the turkeys died. I think if the world were shown more of these clips e.g. the slaughtering of cows, how goose liver pate is made, where veal comes from etc etc I'm sure we'd have more vegetarians and vegans roaming the planet.
For all you idiots that posted earlier and feel a need to remind us where our food comes from – guess what – we know...that's not the issue, the issue is she's an idiot...plain and simple. Even a politian with a BRAIN would KNOW that what was happening behind her was SUICIDE for her politically. For those that don't have an issue seeing helpless animals have their head cut off and bleed out – you're SICK!!!!! You're right – go back to Alaska...have fun living in the 19th century.
So if a democrat eats a turkey this Thanksgiving, they're complete and absolute hypocrites, why do you cover something so silly and useless as a Thanksgiving turkey story. Gobble gobble.
OMG is right! It's like Jethro behind her was wanting to wait until after the interview was over – so he just stands there – spittin' his chaw – and then someone yells at him to get back to work – and then he chops that first one. Is she really there to pick out her turkey for her family – i mean at the end, she says that she's responsible for the turkey and that's why she's there. Don't they have an Albertson's or something - or at least a store front adjacent to the turkey killing zone to buy them?
How about a video of babies being killed....anyone get upset about that....? That's what I thought.
She is a disgust, i swear! I cannot look at her, such a cold and unhuman character! She kills animals for fun, why would she think twice for watching a turkey be killed. Please peole, we dont care for her, so cut the stories of her!
Get real people. The camera man choose that angle not Gov Palin. If you notice, what is going on is not behind her but off to the side. She was specifically shot at that angle on purpose. She does not have her back to what is going on and instead of a straight on, close up, what did they shoot. They included that turkey slaughter on purpose to make her look bad. Yes, turkeys die for Thanksgiving if you are shocked by that, Grow Up. But if you think she can tell from where she is standing what the camera is filming, you are creditting her with powers beyond eyes in the back of her head.
And more than one professional reporter has been caught on a stupid video show because of something dumb like this and they plan camera angles and shots for a living.
Sarah Palin is an idiot!!! What makes her an idiot is she is standing there giving this inteview and speaking about how much fun it is to be there. OMG she is crazy!! I am so thankful this year that she is not our VP and McCain is not our President. We americans should all be thankful for that!!!
People-she pardoned "a" turkey not all of them. The irony of "pardoning" of turkeys plays second fiddle once people get a grasp of reality and understand how their dinner is prepared. I CANNOT believe the media could be this petty. The fact that Palin agreed to the interview by saying "no worries" suggests she thought that the American people could handle and understand that she was in TURKEY FARM. Only the most hypersensitive and immature people would make this a big issue.
PRO LIFE - HUH?
She is Gross.
Gross AND oblivious.
Future of the GOP? No way.
Not unless the GOP wants to change to "third party status!"
Per usual the Repugs miss the point of the story.
If you're going to do a photo op of Governor Palin sparing the Thanksgiving Turkey, you don't have turkeys being slaugtered in the background!
We liberals know where turkeys at Thanksgiving come from; you don't flaunt it though!
That's not a Turkey, that's John McCain!!!!
I see the point "Giver her a break" makes about the interviewer and the camera man. Clearly they were aware of the spectacle. Shouldn't someone from the Governor's entourage have noticed as well? Considering how important Sarah Palin might be to the Republican Party, wouldn't she make public appearances in the company of PR person who is paid to notice these things?
She is unimaginably stupid.
This is the best example of that fact yet!
Democrats, bookmark this story and keep the video in a secure location for those anti-Palin for President ads in 2012!
mmmm turkey.
I'm surprised she didn't bring her children to watch.
For all you poor people who think the turkey purchased in the supermarket and that you gorge on at the table didn't receive a similar fate, get a life. I hope it was her plan and she was insinuation "Quit treading on me" However I wouldn't be surprised if some liberal press guy paid to set this up. The libs are that low!
Yes, it normally is no big deal........but really.........can this woman stay out of trouble for one day? She either does or says something weird every day.
I agree with the poster who proposed a "Best of Palin" DVD. I'd pay good money for that.
Executive material, my as*. Now many presidents and politicians have choosen a turkey for Thanksgiving, and then just walked away. They didn't stand there while the turkey was being slaughtered. This woman doesn't have a clue. Crazy as a betsy bug!! But what do you expect from a woman who went to 5 colleges to get a bachelors degree in journalism. MAVERICK!!
Okay, we all get the idea that meat is slaughtered then delivered to your neighborhood grocery store. HOWEVER, what government official does an interview while animals are being slaughtered in the background, and then asked if she wanted to move because of the slaughtering and says "oh no this is fine" . It's completely tasteless, and thoughtless. Gov. Palin is trash I'm sorry. She has a pregnant high school drop out, the baby daddy too, loves guzzling beer and slaughtering animals. I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HAPPY she's not in the white house. What kind of female role model is she? This is no way to present yourself in front of the country..l.
This is really priceless.
Let that scene seep in - grasp how incompetent, obtuse and stupid Sarah Palin and her supporting cast is.
A great big "Thank you !!" goes out to 64,000,000 + voters who understood what was on the line in 2008.
Ask John McCain "Why would you do this to our country?"
What a complete moron!! Trying to ride the wave of popularity that only exists in her own mind. A 30% approval rating is not good...a significant drop from when she began. Another opportunity that should drop it further to where it should be. After all, Governor of the small population state does NOT qualify you for more than mayor of Wasilla.
Golly gee, I am so also laughing that she also didn't know that the turkey was also being slaughtered behind her there and also because she didn't speak in an intelligent and also coherent manner dontcha know.
Padon the Turkey eh?.... which one (Pardon) is next Ted Stevens?
She could have done the inverview at another angle!
OK, CNN you sucked me into clicking on a Palin link again.
Please ... stop. I can't help myself.
Think of the children.
Does this mean we've gone fron Bush bashing to Palin bashing?
Don't make the Obama voters look bad with this dialect. I am not one of them.
My hope is in Christ alone.....
Sarah Palin gives a new view on her respect for life. George Bush does the same by ordering the execution of an American soldier. Nice George, criminal no longer suffers and victims are left behind with their grief for LIFE> Can't anyone fi9n a reason to not kill?????
Everytime Sarah Palin opens her mouth I am amazed at how unprofessional and "almost stupid" she sounds. I do not use that term lightly. In fact, I don't use it at all. Please, GOP, if you read any of these comments, think very seriously about what kind of President this woman would be for our country. She makes a "so,so mayor," "okay governor," I guess, but I don't want an "ego chasing" dingbat as my President. Let's keep her in Alaska where she can kill her game and fire those individuals who get in her way.
this is such a stupid story!!!
where is the media on palin/ hannity/ limbaugh rhetoric causing wite supremacist and increase in death threats
There is no irony here. There is reality. Irony would be Palin pardoning one turkey only to have it pecked to death by the soon to be dinner turkeys. People need to quit whining about Palin, shes a good governer.
Over it, over her, and so was the turkey, apparently.
Can we please stop talking about the moron that almost was our VP. She got her 3 months of fame, I have no interest in extending her spot light.
To Peter from Austin with love! If this story is a waste of time then you sure have a lot of it. Not only did you take the time to read the story , but your blog was longer than the story itself.
Yea we all know where our turkey come from and how they get to the market but if anybody else took a picture with any other animal being slaughtered in the background you darn ripublicans would have them sitting in jail next to vic.
and like george w, his brother john w and test tube sister sarah w would say...whats good for the goose is good for the turkey.
then again you cant beleive anything george w says anyway he's got to be the world biggest liar! eat your turkeys and stop your "W"hinnnin!
My hope is in Christ alone.
"hey , what is this freaki'n GnUBBLE GnUBBLE GnUBBLE , eh ? Fogge'bout it ok eh. go a home and eat a your own turkey "
Can't you guys find any usual news to talk about? The election is over. Get over it and move on. Leave the poor woman alone
She was as always way too busy enjoying being the center of attention and clueless to what she sounds like and acts like. She just likes to hear herself talk and it is HER FAULT not the photogs, the media or anyone else that she winds up being the laughing stock of the Republican party! She has done several interviews since the election. She just likes to be in the media. She is just way too stupid to understand that every time she opens her mouth, she opens herself up to more criticism! No one made her take the photos and chat with the media – this was HER decision. it was also HER decision not to consider a different backdrop. She is just CLUELESS.
...i also know that people die...that does not mean i want to see the killing and suffering...tasteless on the governor's part...
How much you want to bet the shot was framed that way on purpose?
Kind of like the GOP!
To those that don't see the fun in watching this, let me spell it out as simple as possible.
1. The event was about pardoning a turkey.
2. Instead, the governor gets a backdrop of turkeys being killed.
3. Incongruity like that is the definition of irony. Irony is funny.
let me slit all of your throats and turn you upside down to drain you blood slowly. sound like a party??? kindness over killing .
OMG! This isn't SNL people. This is real life, this was almost our VP. You just can't make this stuff up!
who knows , what you are seeing , may be that is happening in Russia.
You people, How do you think animals die for us to eat. No one wants to think about it, yet yummy yummy, I am pretty sure the one she saved is on the table somewhere next week. THAT IS WHAT THERE FOR. TO EAT. my guess allot of you are the same ones that heard stuff on snl. and thought it to be fact. as for the Russia joke. everyone knows she cant see Russia from her house. Including her you idiots. The election is over. get on with your lives
Its not about turkeys getting killed for Thanksgiving, its about the irony of a moron who is "pardoning" a turkey and then has a press conference while they are killing the birds in the background! Completely clueless, tasteless and dim witted – just like everything else she does! The only thing we did not hear was her hatred and attempts to divide the country spewing out of her mouth!
Sarah Palin is the lead actress in the sequel to Clueless.
OK...for her and the folks of her community this is no biggy. Her choice to be interviewed at a local slaughterhouse is certainly that; her choice. However what I find interesting is that her perspective is seemingly so completely local. To go national eventually I would imagine she will have to make a few changes to get the majority of national votes. In the mean time we get to see her on her own and make our own choices about who we want to eventually lead our nation. Not to mention it might not be all that necessary to see how the food gets to our tables. It's an entirely different piece of media coverage -in my opinion.
I am really disappointed with Grandma Palin. All this time, I thought that as a proud 'Merican she shot her own turkey up there in 'LASKA.
This is what happens when people get too far removed from their food supply. Suddenly seeing how their food is prepared is in bad taste. If you can't handle seeing a turkey being killed then don't eat meat.
What I can't believe is how many of you elitist snobs can recognize a Burberry scarf!! Sarah is still relevant. This story hit the top of CNN's story list. I think now it will be pulled, as they realize they are being critized for it.
How did they know which one was the turkey?!
"Palin is the future of the Republican party."
That sentence speaks volumes!
LOL! LOL!
Once a bimbo, always a bimbo!
Give me a break all you Palin supporters. She is not a star or an icon!
Your workship and protection of her is pathetic. If you met her face to face she would not give you the time of day. Quit fantasizing about her and get a life! She is not like you, as much as you would like to think so! You know nothing about her but what the media has said and yet you protect her like...some religious relic or idol.
For all of the rational folks on this blog that make comments based on information from the media, magazines and newspapers. Know that the Palin folks are worshipers and thay will always claim that the media is biased and unfair, because their committment to this woman is based on FAITH only! She is second only to God right now. It would hurt to much for them to admitt that this woman is flawed!
Why didn't she just pardon a turkey at the capital? Whoever staged this event should probably start looking for another job. Might I suggest CEO of a major US corporation? Failing upwards has become the American way.
Seriously who on God's green earth cares about this? It is suddenly news that Turkeys get slaughtered around Thanksgiving? Stop the presses, news flash, our crack reporter has uncovered incontrovertible evidence that people eat meat. CNN's new motto. "We're here so you don't have to read US magazine anymore."
She's not too bright, that one.
/epic facepalm
Can't wait for SNL!
Hey! I think I see Russia behind that turkey!
Slooooow news day – ehh CNN? Please spare us any more of Silly Sarah. Of course – in this case it is hard to tell which is the turkey and which is the story!!!
More fodder for SNL...
Yet another shining example of the intelligence of this woman. Imagine that half this country voted to have her but a heartattack away from the button...scary.
Listen up people. GET OFF THIS WOMAN'S BACK! and that goes for the press too! We treat Alaska and the people there like they are from a foreign country. Alaska is part of the United States (for those of you who don't know geography, or take after Joe Biden and don't know U.S. History) Up in Alaska, people hunt for food to survive and feed their families, and for recreation. As for the way Sarah Palin talks, well I'm sure that is how they talk in Alaska. Criticizing her for how she lives and how she talks is completely unfair and cruel. I hope that none of you criticize someone just because they have an accent or a lifestyle different from yours. Sarah Palin deserves the same respect.
As for turkeys, I'm sure that some of you, if not all of you have heard of or went to a turkey farm to pick out a turkey for Thanksgiving. The people that work at these farms are just doing what everyone in the country is doing right now-provide for and support their families.
OMG! You guys!! It's FREAKIN FUNNY and IRONIC, seeing as how she'd just PARDONED A TURKEY and now she's standing in front of a guy who's chopping the head off of turkey (seems THAT one didn't get a pardon! LOL!)
BUT IT'S FUNNY!!! Even Palin supporters should be able to see the irony of the situation!! If you can't, then you really need to get a life!
And for people who made a fuss of how she's such a horrible person that she kills all sorts of animals.... congratulations... you just read WAY too much into the whole thing (and I'm being sarcastic here!)
IT'S FREAKING FUNNY!!! LEAVE IT AT THAT!! CHUCKLE AT THE IRONY, AND MOVE ON!!!
She might as well have put her own head in that collander... it was more interesting than whatever that thing holding a take-out coffee was spewing!
Gov.Palin bashing has become a sport of the main stream media.
It doesn't matter what Palin does; she will be atacked by the main stream media.
Gov.Palin said; "Certainly we'll probably invite criticism for even doing this, too" ; and she is right.
On the other hand ; Obama has a "love affair" with the main stream media and they will support and shield him.
I can't believe how many repugs here don't get the irony.
I was not a follower of Governor Palin during the presidential election. However, I cannot see what this has to do with anything. I mean really what difference does this make? So what if a turkey is being killed behind her. I mean really isn't there anything else going on in this wide world????? Sorry if I offend anyone...I just needed to get this off my brain.
I saw the interview on MSNBC last night – she is always reciting the same old same old – "beauty pageant answers" boy where is her hair and makeup people? LOL she sure does not look the same. This woman is one big ignoramus!
@Idiots Trying to dump on Obama using this story
"Oh yeah…when Obama eats turkeys, they are not killed. He just wills them onto his plate"
maybe – but he's certainly not dumb enough to be on national TV in front one actually being slaughtered!
How the heck does Obama have anything to do with Palin's Alaskan turkey slaughterfest?
Gosh, I sure am glad there are so many republicans out there letting me know where my Thanksgiving turkey comes from, otherwise I'd never have known! I never, ever would have thought that turkeys were actually alive before they plopped down on my table. Do they do that to chickens, too?
Next thing you know, you'll be telling me that steak comes from actual cows, or that bacon comes from real pigs! I'm so happy you were able to educate me on that, because I was beginning to wonder.
LOL
The sad thing is that you guys can't seem to master the irony of the situation, or the economy for that matter.
@ SteveF:
Get a grip. Just because someone knows what a Burberry scarf is does not mean they own one or are snobs. Pick up a magazine and you can tell exactly what is Burberry, they are pretty recognizable. I know what a Louie Vitton is and would never in my life own one.
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Yes people – Turkeys are raised on farms and then they have to be slaughtered and cleaned before being packed in the pretty plastic wrapper and put in a freezer. The media is a pack of fools to make a big deal out of this. Anyone who's grown up on a farm or hunted on a regular basis would act somewhat casual about this. It's life – Eat or be eaten. Idiots!
Yes they do slaugter turkeys for eating but since I do not kill animals for sport I really would rather not see a grusome killing of any animal on TV weather I eat them or not. I eat pork and beef but I don't want to see them slaughtered on my TV screen, How sick.
Come on CNN. Let Sarah fade off into the Alaskan sunset. Who cares what she's doing or where she is? After the election, my hope was to never have to hear or look upon her again. Let her go back to the unknown person she was before someone shoved her down McCains throat.
Liberals know how meat gets to the table. So don't get your blaze orange panties in a bunch, Republicans! And just because I eat meat doesn't mean I want to see the blood. I just wasn't brought up like that.
It was an unfortunate choice of background, and that was the journalist's fault, not hers.
I wonder what happened to the turkey she pardoned? My gut feeling is that this was a PR stunt and the critter was put right back in line for the ax. What else would they do with it? Buy it a parka and walk it around Wasilla?
Seems all the Obama supporters are upset over this.
Next thing you know, we'll be hearing complaints that Sarah is sucking up more than her allotted amount of air. I wonder how the media feels about getting ratings by browbeating this lady repeatedly? It's also pretty pathetic that all of the people who dislike Sarah Palin are still disrespecting her. Their guy one-so lay off!
Why is this dingbat still considered newsworthy?
I'd rather see Kato Kaelin back in the news. He at least had some entertainment value.
Give it a rest, CNN. There's a lot of more interesting news to report....with the emphasis on "news".
Why can't she speak with proper grammar? There is no period! Sentences continue endlessly and they are usually run away sentences. Why can't Republicans nominate someone who can speak proper English? Oh I see. they want someone who can relate to Joe the Liar!!! Ha ha ha... Anti-intellectuals; anti-elitists; sad...
To SteveF:
This is a news story covered by all major news sites. Check for yourself.
CNN won't pull this story. It's too funny!!!!
Hey, at least she's not shooting the turkey out of a helicopter.
Haha! I, for one, am kind of glad that Alaska is finally receiving its due place in the national spotlight.
She is the definition of MORON. I can't believe she holds public office, let alone was almost the Vice President.
geez...MSNBC must be desperate to keep Palin in the news. This was done at a small local farm in Wasilla with local press only there. MSNBC had to have gone through a lot of local affiliate footage to have found this. And Palin doesn't seem at all oblivious to what's going on, as she said they'd probably get criticism for it.
BTW....what's the big FN deal anyway? People in Alaska are used to seeing film like this everyday on TV. That way of killing turkeys is far more humane than the way my grandfather used to do it–and all us kids used to watch.
What a shock. A news shot cashing in on the anti-Palin bandwagon. It's not Palin's fault that the cameraman used an inappropriate angle.
To sg and other Repubs who lost:
It seems like you are hating on the winners, who are tired of the losers being so negative! Get a life, move on to Alaska with your girl!
They already pulled it – cowards...not real journalists...and they won;t post this. I think we've reincarnated communist RUSSIA!
Aw, kerri, you are adorable!!!
@ sg:
Upset, no. Laughing hysterically, YES!
Silly Sarah Strikes Again.
What a lack of common sense and political savvy. She was asked about the back ground activity and if it was OK. She said You Betcha.
Every day thank God that she is back in Alaska.
Let's just all give thanks on Thanksgiving that Palin is gone, back to the wilderness of the unknown. Maybe while she's there she can really read some newspapers, maybe watch the news shows, learn something about the world and please, learn the English language! How on earth did she graduate college?
LOL, THIS IS HILLARIOUS. JOE THE TURKEY KILLER.
Excellent. That's what turkeys are for.
This is just too funny, it made my Friday! Thank you Sarah Palin, gobble gobble!!
WHAT?!?! SARAH PALIN LIVES IN A STATE WHERE THEY KILL TURKEYS?!?! HYPOCRITE!!! LET'S ALL STIR SO THAT THIS WILL BECOME HEADLINE NEWS
We allknow that turkeys are killed so we can eat them! The problem people is that any sensible governor would know not to do an interview in front of a turkey slaughter. Children may be watching, plus who wants to see that bloody mess!
To 30-m-PA-Democrat-voted McCain...You are still as clueless as any of them that voted for Skin color and not intellect. What is relevant in this story is not actually what she said but where she is and what was going on behind her
Obama and his wife are boring. Sarah is interesting and real.
What on earth is she talking about???? "I am where I need to be or that" ??????????????????????
She is too strange for me. I'm glad she's not my mail person let along vice president.
That was a funny video. Sam the slaughterer seems to enjoy his work, often looking right at the camera while he snaps the heads off the turnkeys and bleeds them out (while he holds the thrashing body).
I think he enjoyed "Dissing" Governor Palin.
Turkeys are for eating, not pardoning. OMG...I still love her!
Why is this a story?
where do you pansies think thanksgiving dinner comes from? those of you who aren't having tofurkey I mean.
She continues to be her own parody. Who needs Tina Fey when we have the real thing.
OMG!!! I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants!!! She just keeps on opening her mouth and out comes the dumbest stuff you've ever heard!!! How did she get to be govenor of AK???? They must be growing "wacky weed" up there and smoking it, cause this can't be for real!
it wasn't the fact that a turkey got slaugtered on camera that made this bad for her. IT WAS WHAT SHE WAS SAYING!! line after line of non-sequiters and stupidity.
Okay.... I don't like Sarah Palin because of her views and her politics but, this is stupid. Why does this imagery upset people when this most American’s will do anything they can to have one prepared for them during Thanksgiving and Christmas? People actually cry their eyes out if they can't afford to have one for the holidays. I think that we should recognize when we are being stupid.
Sarah Palin didn't slaughter the turkeys... she's just going to cook one in her oven... and so all of you bozos. I think that it is good when the country has an ah ha moment. Guess where our food comes from ding-a-lings?
PALIN LAPIN PLAIN (E-BAY)
Watch for FRENCH PRESIDENT SA
May-be he is arround for the hunting as promised---oh was that a p--
PALIN will be good in a comedy movie.
From tony
CANADA
"Palin appeared unaware of what was going on directly behind her,"
Does this surprise anybody?
Palin seems unaware, period.
FAIL.
"It's nice to support a local business and just participate in something that isn't so heavy handed politics that invites criticism," Palin said during the interview. "Certainly will probably invite criticism for even doing this too, but at least it was fun."
Even if this bimbo had known that a turkey was being slaughtered behind her she would have NOT cared. This is a woman who supports killing wolves from helicopters and killing pups in theiri dens.
COULD WE PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE STOP HAVING TO READ ABOUT THIS PIECE OF TRASH ONCE AND FOR ALL. THERE ARE 50 STATES – ENOUGH OF THIS AIRHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!q
How embarrasing for her. She should have led the camera & reporter away from that area. I don't like Sarah Palin nor did I vote for her but this can't make her happy. A lot different from the photo ops she had while on the campaign trail. I kind of feel for sorry for her. The Republicans totally used her. She has such blind ambition that she allowed herself to be used. It is sad actually. She needs to stay in Alaska with her own people and focus on governing that state instead of trying to "fit in with the Jones." In her circle I am sure she is tops – she needs to stay there and be happy doing so.
To all you bashing Palin – what do you get if you give Palin a labotomy and drop her from the top of the ugly tree (making sure she hits every branch)? Answer: Hillary Clinton (note: it'll help if Todd loses his morals and becomes a skirt chaser).
This story is SO STUPID! All of us meat eaters have to accept the fact that these animals do get slaughtered
This is kinda sick...I'm glad Im a vegan....nice burberry scarf though...it only cost the RCN $300.00 or more...must be a parting gift from them.
It would appear that the real turkey got away unscathed.
greatest story ever
If you don't know where your food comes from, or you don't
have the audacity to care, you have no business eating it anyways.
How do you think that turkey will get on your table next thursday?
With everything that is going on I guess we need a good laugh. Thanks CNN. You once again proved the point we've all been saying.
The woman is clueless.
Could you take the turkey out and put her political career in there. LOL!!!!
I'm so sick of this woman and would like for her to disappear.
Gov. Palin is completely unable to speak in complete and/or coherent sentences.
Palin never ceases to amaze me ...
Please leave Sarah alone, already! & all you turkeys out there.....how DO you think you get the bird on the table at Thanksgiving....or are you all VEGANS??? Where is your true spirit of thankfulness now that we have a new President??? Same old negative garbage from all of you. Happy Thanlsgiving from an American.
if she would kill a moose, she thinks nothing about a turkey
Please leave this woman's political career alone to die with the turkeys. She is the car wreck everybody stops on the highway to look at! Please keep going, you're backing up traffic!!! There are other things going on in the country other thatn Moose chili, $150K shopping sprees and pardoned turkeys!!!
Why is the media wasting interviews with her? Why doesn't the media move on to something that is important. Sarah Palin is not educated enough to be in charge of anything. She can not speak english well enough to interview with my 5 year old grandson.....
She is old news and we are happy that she is gone.
See you in 2012'--remember Obama is only an "interim" president keeping the Oval Office neat and clean until you get there.
I love Obama, and I'm SOOO glad this woman isn't close to the presidency, but seriously who cares. Our food gets slaughtered. If you don't like it become a vegetarian. However if you are a veg. sorry you had to see that, because I'm sure it was upsetting. She should have moved the interview, but life goes on....except for that turkey.
Please leave this woman's political career alone to die with the turkeys. She is the car wreck everybody stops on the highway to look at! Please keep going, you're backing up traffic!!! There are other things going on in the country other thatn Moose chili, $150K shopping sprees and pardoned turkeys!!!
of course we eat turkey. we just don't need to see how it happens.
DOH!
This lady is dumb as dirt, the sad thing is that turkey is smarter than her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLease... what an idiot. she keeps messing up!
I'll bet the one she pardoned was actually GUILTY of something......
The same idiots that are whining about the turkey will eat like pigs on Thanksgiving day. Get a life.
thanks for ruining thanksgiving dinner.
Wait... which one is the real Turkey?
Why is this considered news? Next CNN will have a front page story about alien babies born out of wedlock. This is a pathetic.
sarah palin is a all american! but the liberals went for barb the walters!sarah gave one turkey a pardon and the rest like the one in the back ground is whats for dinner at thanksgiving. so enjoy your salad you peta lovers and vegans! the rest of us are eating turkey on thanksgiving! by the way a lot of us voted for sarah palin! me too!
CNN evidently forgot the election was over and abandoned their post-election balance for their knee jerk pre-election bash everything McCain/Palin policy. What a stupid story!!!! Do people think that the Turkey fairy deposits sliced turkey in the deli? The writing of the story tells us more about the author and CNN than it does about Palin.
and why is this news?
who cares.....tell the reporter to get a new job.
I wasn't a supporter of the republican ticket, but geez she's only human.
This is no big deal but isn't it funny how this woman can't seem to do anything right. What other politician would have been caught standing in front of a slaughtered turkey at a turkey pardoning? The only people who want her to stay in the spotlight are the late night comedians.
I'm really sorry to tell everyone, but next week, you will all be eating a turkey that was killed! Ahhhh! No!!!
SHE IS THE DEVIL!!!
Why doesn't Palin just shut her mouth (nothing intelligent ever comes out anyway) and quietly fade into the permafrost. What a moron. She is an insult to intelligent women. 2012? Never!
what a stupid non-story. she's like a toy the media can't put down. A top story? Really?
Another fine example of the Media trying to manipulate the news. Everyone is missing the point of this interview – the NEWS CREW are the ones that set up this shoot, and picked this spot. They are the ones that have acted questionably – not Palin! Either they are complete morons for picking this location to shoot, or they are once again trying to deliberately make Sarah look bad. Shame on them, and shame on the public for not seeing where the fault lies in this event.
Apparenty in jounalism school they did not teach her not to stand by the turkey slaughter table
that hurts.
What do you expect - from one turkey to another. Has Palin considered going on the comedy circuit?
Give it a break CNN, are you hard up for news? You cannot honestly believe that people are so naive that they think the turkey's actually show up in the grocery store all wrapped up. Any nature loving person would know that a freshly killed fowl is the best meat you can ever eat. Give up CNN your drive by media is starting to sicken me. Why don't you report on the Obama camp and their back peddling on the second comings abilities to solve all of America's problems!
Good interview. Get those turkeys!
Ever read The Jungle? And you call seeing a turkey slaughtered on t.v
in the background bad? What do you think you're eating when you're eating eggs? the meat on your plate? people need to realize that this is reality and start getting over the fact that palin will be in charge of the state of Alaska not of the US (because most of you live nowhere near where she governs) and focus on more important things
WHERE HAS SHE BEEN WE ALL MISS HER. SHE IS GREAT
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Hey Republicans! Do you mean that you are the only rednecks in the US? This is not a Democrat or republican story. This is a story about some bimbo who didn't make it (thank God) to the second highest position in the US and we should thank our lucky stars and whatever God you believe in that she didn't.
If you can get over the gore of the blood and the poor animal being killed listen to this idiot speak.
Being a vegetarian I always get amused by meat-eaters' reaction to animal slaughter. The words hypocrites and self-delusion come to mind.
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Great vocabulary, pal. One of those Obama "educated" people, are ya????????????????
What a piece of news! At least we have voted for change! Or so you thought! Not much change in these appointments being made. "Yes We Can" has turned into "Here we go again". Ha ha ha ha
People have gotta eat.
Before eating the turkey, YOU NEED TO KILL IT! Hello... GET REAL! Why is the media so obsessed, or should I repeat Letterman's words, so "aroused" by Sarah Palin?
I hear so much about her that I might vote for her next time!
Hey! If you eat meat then I don't think anyone should say anything hypocritcal or negative. It's terrible that people want to ignore what it takes to put meat on the table to keep the human race fed.
I think that kind of thinking disrespects the animal.
Heck! I want to eat that FRESH turkey now!
That's good luck... In Haiti.
This is really news worthy? Really? It seems like you guys just can't get enough of reporting on anything and everything you can on Palin.
Where were you on the Zogby poll that showed that the majority of Obama voters didn't know BASIC facts about either candidate based on the BIASED broadcasting!!!!??!!!!
Maybe if you spent more time reporting NEWS instead of National Enquirer like stories, your viewers wouldn't be as dumb as rocks.
The majority didn't know that the Democrats controlled congress for the past 2 years, didn't know who Nancy Pelosi was and never heard of William Ayers!!! Incredible!!!!!!! But thank g0d they knew Palin had $150K in clothes provided to her by the RNC!
It's no wonder this economy is in shambles. This country is filled with idiots!!!!
Sarah Palin is pro-death, not pro-life. Let's save Alaska by selling it back to Russia.
1XChange – t's amazing that all of these liberals come out of the woodwork and attack anyone they can when the press is finally starting to report that Obama is already failing.
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bwa hahahahahahah, uuhhhh, your funny when you don't take your meds.
Really how lame of a people are we not to know where our food comes from... its like telling your kids that babies come from storks....
which is nice but unreal
– OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA stop blaming people for Life...
we can show people fighting a war but not this? sad....
In was a very unfortunate background for a news program. She was told it would be the background, asked if she wanted it changed, and she declined. Not her best choice and a bit insensitive.
For the people that keep bringing up the 57 states thing. You ARE aware that in the primary there WERE 57 contests. 52 in the states (Texas had a primary AND a caucus PLUS District of Columbia) plus: Americans abroad, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
That's a nice Burberry scarf she's wearing. I
If you eat meat, how can you complain about this? I for one am glad one of these BS "feel good" turkey "pardon" stories has a shot of truth in it. If you buy meat, you're paying someone to slaughter an animal on your behalf, simple as that.
If that makes you squeamish or uncomfortable, consider not eating meat. I used to love the taste of meat, but realized I couldn't in good conscience pay someone else to do something I could never do with my own two hands: end the life of a sentient being. It wasn't that hard, and I'm totally happy with what I eat now! A peaceful Thanksgiving to you all.
At least that turkey is going to feed the hungry we all celebrate as a national holiday. Happy Thanksgiving
The situation is perfect – Palin is clueless, but wait, did she shoot the turkey herself?
Sarah Palin pardoning a turkey...that's hilarious.
She probably shot it with her AK-47 after the cameras were off.
You know those Republicans...all for life unless its animal life...in that case kill em all.
I'm so sick of hearing about Sarah Palin. She is an idiot!! Enough already
SHE IS A KOOK AND DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS.
Awe.... let's all pay attention to the beauty bozo – I mean turkey!!!
Yeah, she's just what America needed- another air headed hockey mom that can see 'Russia form Alaska' -lol
People who wonder at the outcry don't realize that, while killing animals for food is one thing, glorifying the killing is just sick. Palin's "no worries" comment on this episode is not only sick (no surprise coming from someone who takes innocent lives while sitting comfortably in a helicopter) but also is a show of lack of good judgment (no surprise there either) I guess in the conservative right's mind, only fetuses count as lives.
No one can make this stuff up. This woman is a nut.
Why does she get so much interest? It's because people love to hate her. It's just fun. She's so preposterous yet so self-righteous, so garbled and inarticulate yet so confident. So Christian yet so sneaky, illicit and hateful. So ambitious yet so undereducated. So outrageously idiotic yet so popular with a certain segment, which is becoming increasingly marginalized. I think that too contributes to the glee people feel in slamming her. Maybe, just maybe, we are finally coming out from under the right wing dark ages.
This isn't upsetting to me, it is just wildly humorous and ironic to no end. She's essentially doing a photo-op and it ends up entirely contrary to the original intention. It looked more like an SNL skit than anything. The worker looking over is making a face like "Is she seriously doing an interview pardoning a turkey in front of the machines?" It's like she is completely oblivious to everything when she gets in front of a camera. Sarah is priceless. Bless her heart.
Isn't this media facination with Palin getting just a little Paris Hiltonish? We hear 10 times more about the losing VP candidate than the winner....um who was that again?
Sara Palin is a low form of human life.She is disguisting and totally a WASTE OF LIFE!!!!!Send this moronic stone age creature to another country.Maybe Putin needs a house maid.
Did you hear? Palin eats babies. Uncooked and still alive. And she jay-walks too. And probably says the occasional swear word. I bet she even cuts those tags off mattresses.
This just in to the CNN newscenter in Atlanta: Media hates Republicans. Pictures at 11...
How sad that this is "news". Leave her alone.
It looks like two turkeys were spared.
Well I think the turkey you see in the background is Obama!! LOL
Liberal hypocrites who did not support Palin. Here you had a chance to support a women who got where she is on her own merit and not on the coat tails of her husband. Such a shame because this is one well put togethor women. She just made a little too much sense and had too many "family values". Oh well, we've got a figurehead and a retread corpse who has been on the hill for 30 years. Nice job folks.
Why CNN do you continue to try to smear Palin? If you are going to report on her then how about some positive balance?
Come on people, leave her alone. are you obcessed with her or something?
No i am not her supporter, but i have enough of her coverage.
Please please please!!!!!
Palin has an IQ of 116. At that level, what can you expect? A genius she ain't.
Although the PE is too careful to let it happen, imagine if Obama had done the same thing. Limbaugh, Hannity, and their minions would have been non-stop criticizing. Enough of the bizarre Palin stories, please.
FREE THAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREE THAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREE THAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREE THAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREE THAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FREE THAT TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarah, please don't go away.
You can not make this stuff up!!
She is the funniest thing since Groucho Marx ,
Palin was informed what was going on behind her.She said it was ok.She looked at the turkey and said "gotcha for Thanksgiving".
Can it get any worse for this woman? It needs to stop. She needs to stop. Her 15 minutes were over several weeks ago. She needs to just get on with her life and go eat turkey. Maybe the one slaughtered over her shoulder w a s her turkey!!!! Ms. Palin I think your turkey is ready for you now...
I find this pretty funny. Beyond that, it's a stupid story, suitable for FARK
Enough of this already....by the way where is Obama during the start of the Depression here.....maybe Bush caused it, but does not look like Obama is ready to take charge does it? Keep hiding Big O....just like the Repubs, no different.....just owned by different groups......
It doesn't really suprise me she wasn't phased. I consider myself a liberal but people on both sides who thinks this is disgusting.....how do you think you get your turkey for thanksgiving....do you think it lives a full happy life and is then pet'd to death? C'mon people, get a clue. If you are complaining about this then you are and idiot for not knowing what happens to your precisu t-day turkey. This is mild in comparison to what happens at large processing facilities, it gets much worse.
I am a vegetarian and won't be eating a Turkey on thanksgiving so all this did for me was reconfirm how I have felt about Palin since day one. She is EVERYTHING wrong with America....there...I said it. Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm enjoying the PETA nutcases on this, it is fantastic. I'll break a kitten's neck with my bare hands tonight when I get home just for you guys!! lmao
Get over yourself people....The media is following Palin around like groupies around a celebrity. Get over yourself people, are you so dumb as to think turkeys commit suicide to become the main course every Thanksgiving? Get over your self people. I'll keep my guns, I'll keep my money, I'll keep my freedom. YOU can keep the change.
I love the way the American hating Palin appololgists blame liberals for Palins stupidity. She is a walking Saturday night live skit...Pointing out facts is not attacking someone. ..... Ill bet ratings will be high this weekend after seeing this interview.
This woman cannot even complete a grammatically correct sentence! As far as the bird is concerned, I'm surprised she didn't whip our her rifle and finish the bird off herself!
Palin is a stupid wench. Just like many Americans who supported her.
Can not Governor Palin learn to speak the English Language properly?
That Burberry scarf she is wearing doesn't look like it came from a thrift store.
Just because most of you carnivores want to believe that meat comes to your table in some sterile, nice-to-the-animal way, doesn't make Sarah an idiot or an airhead. She is in Alaska, a state where more of the people are in touch with where their meat comes from. Many of them still do their own butchering and are not bothered by seeing it on the news. So give it a rest, you meat-eating hypocrites from the left. This is reality TV and reality life. Just try eating that turkey on T'day without remembering this video. LOL.
Could we PLEASE stop giving this woman attention and go back to normalcy? We haven't had it for over a decade since before Monica, before Newt Gingrich. Can't we go back to the good old days of 1993?
Sick and stupid!
I wish she goes a way, no more Sarah Palin please!!!
Priceless! Get ready for a Tina Fey sketch on SNL this weekend!
I'm an Obama supporter and I think this story is ridiculous. Who's idea is this of news????? Get real people. We have a lot more to be concerned with in this country than SP having a conference with a turkey being slaughtered in the background. So what! You have to kill them in order to eat them!
That turkey will taste great on Thanksgiving. So all of you who are complaining about how horrible it is, just remember that things like that happen every day so you can have food on your plate. It's not a big deal, you just finally have to see what goes into getting your dinner. Maybe Obama can hide you from the harsh realities of life by giving you a socialist state where everything is provided for you and you never have to kill your food yourself.
You know why she wouldn't release her medical records? We'd find out she has no heart. This woman is abominable, atrocious, disgusting, callous, wretched, inhumane, barbaric, grotesque... just plan evil.
She pardoned Scooter Libby? I thought only the president- oh, I see. Man, she and Quayle should have a baby.
It amuses me that people say she is not news, yet there are over 500 comments on this story. Evidently, people are interested. i admit looking at it myslef out of curiosity, even though, I too, am sick of her and wish we didn't hear about her any more.
Don't blame CNN – it is obvious from the posts that she IS news. We need to quit reading the stories if we REALLY aren't internested.
Come on, folks... it's not about the liberals or conservatives, the red or blue, Dems or GOP... It's about the irony of the situation.
Gotta admit, it's kinda funny, no matter who was pardoning one turkey while the other was getting axed just feet away! Oops!
Idiots.
Alaska should be ashamed.
aninformedliberal – So if you don't see the blood, does it mean it's not there? I don't understand your logic.
I have plenty of meat-loving anti vegetarian friends and family(ok well they are not really friends). My take on things if you understand the meat industry and are find with it and want to continue eating meat then I don't have a problem with that. It's the people who stuff there faces with Turkey on thanksgiving then can't watch how they are killed or how they live. It's a fundamental flaw in thinking that goes WELL beyond what you eat.
She is just an airhead. Since she is in politics, she should have considered the thoughts and feelings of other people concerning animals. She could have picked a better spot to have the interview. Yes, we do eat turkeys for Thanksgiving but we do not want to see how it gets to the table. She can forget about 2012 because everytime she gets infront of a camera, she looks more idiotic.
Sarah's words are just so full of weapons-grade stupid.
Those calling Palin unaware would not last a heartbeat in a television interview, where rule 1 is keep your eyes on the camera. Just evidence of Palin's experience. The camera crew has, no doubt, been fired. The guy who killed the turkey (and was was only "unaware" person present) has, no doubt, been fired.
Turkeys will be killed in huge numbers until January. All that is being mocked in this article is a busy and uniquely American industry that supports many American families and brings millions of American families together every year.
I honestly cannot believe the GOP nearly put her in the #2 spot...unless they now claim it was for the #2 as in poo....
how is this news?
I didn't want to read about what Sarah Palin was doing while running for VP, I have even less interest in her now.
Give it a rest!
MAYBE Palin was there to give some peace to the bird...dying isn't too bad when you don't have to listen to that shrilly voice.
Me thinks the turkey is in a happy place away from palin.
YAY!!! SARAH!!!
And she calls herself a "pro-lifer?" She's a pro-loser.
LOL this woman is a disaster
This woman's ignorance has no limits!
I wouldn't vote for Palin for any office. However, I feel she has been treated badly by the McCain campaign and the media. Millions of us will eat turkey on Thursday and not one of us really thinks our bounty died of old age.
This lady is to stupid to even realize she's an idiot.
Come on – I can't believe that made the news. And the media is making this Palins fault also.
If this doesn't scream bias, I don't know what does. It was the journalists fault for shooting that particular angle, not Palins.
Now SNL won't have to reenact the skit this weekend – THIS IS HILARIOUS! Even moreso because she's unaware that it's going on while the "executor" tries hard to hear the interview – LOL!
She can't win for losing!
Palin is palling with turkeys. Bush is a turkey. Are either news? No.
The video was deliberately set. The view was the cameraman's discression and deliverately squared the shot for the background. Just another media stunt. Don't eat turkey anyone. Especially if you can't handle the truth about where they come from. For those in touch with reality; enjoy.
Palin just wasnt getting in the news – the liberal news that is because no one watches fair and balanced unless you are a repub. So she goes for this photo op with something that she knows will get on cnn and such. She is a PATHETIC person. And i dont care if turkeys are being killed before thanksgiving, duh does someone think we only eat turkeys that have died from natural causes?
Go Away Klondike Barbie
Jeebus. When is this woman's 15 minutes going to be up?
Talk about a photo op going awry. What an idiot. Just when I thought Sarah Palin couldn't top her previous darwin moment, she magically redeems herself with another. Grand standing at it's finest.
Just go the hell away already. Like another poster said, at least she wasn't shooting from the helicopter.
Can both the tv people and her staff be so stupid as to not watch what was going on in the background?
Palin haters have their panties all bunched up...again. Its good to know a potential CINC understands the natural AND man-made brutality in this world. Life isn't all white wine and lattes. Most liberals couldn't last a week outside of their urban enclaves where undocumented workers clean their toilets, cook their meals, and pick up their dog doo. I was a once proud liberal Democrat. Pelosi, Reid, and Teddy K. showed me the error of my ways. I've evolved into a strong, firm libertarian. Thank God, Barack is showing his true self and you liberal pantywaists are all a twitter. He's earned my vote in 2012 even before he's inaugurated for his first term. At least liberals fun to laugh at, especially when they're so full of themselves.
Not everyone like Tofurkey.
Palin may have a hands-on demo showing us how to de-skin a moose on "Bizarre Food w/ Palin" very soon!
Don't they usually pardon the turkey some place else other than the slaughter house? I am sure this will hit the SNL list on Saturday!
Which is worse: (1)Palin talking while a turkey (of which or whom she may or may not have been aware) was being decapitated behind her; or (2) the decision of the press not only to include the turkey in the video angle used, but also to air the video and then inviting bloggers to somehow use the 'head chop' shot as use, in a subtle, backhanded way, for fodder for again casting an unfavorable light upon the Governor of Alaska? Quite frankly, the whole thing is just simply childish!
Unaware my butt! She knew what she was doing and that was deliberately trying to provoke the animal rights crowd and pander to her right-wing nut cases. That woman is trailer trash and quite sick.
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble, GACK !!!!!!!!!!
Another tragic end to an otherwise boring interview.
This is just... Funny
Boy can she talk... it's a lot more refreshing to here her now that she's just representing Alaska again and no longer haunting my dreams as a potential VP.
But I'll say it, good interview. I was entertained and I see nothing wrong with that background. If you can't watch it die, don't eat it.
People need to grow up. The liberal media strikes again! give us a break! how about some real journalism?
Go Sarah, Wish you got elected.
Yes we all know where food comes from. We also know how babies are born but they don't show that on national TV. The reason why is because there are things that are inapporiate to show even though the reality is that these things happen. The word everyone is lookking for here is called judgement.
What's new that Palin is clueless to what is going on around her. Can you imagine the flunkies that would be part of the transition team if the losers somehow won the election. We have a new President worthy of the office, our nation understood the importance of a White House that has an academic, intellectual, and emotion powerhouse. We could have two academic failures who were willing to continue claims that Iraq was worthy of American blood...and money. We see the Treasury printing more pale green backs, but American blood has got to stay in the circulatory system to succeed. Arizona...do yourselves a favor, and flush McCain, he isn't worthy of the office.
Dick Cavett perfectly described Sara Palin's poor grasp of diction, "She speaks like someone with no first language".
I honesty wish she'd just fall off the face of the earth, but her lack of awareness and tack in this instance is just a reminder of how HAPPY I am that this woman is very, very far away from the White House. What an idiot.
Each state is different. Alaska is a different culture. Leave Palin alone. Critics are just jealous of her looks and physique.
Love the comment about sarah slaughtering the English language. So true!
She does everything wrong.
I still like turkey, and i still don't like Sarah Palin
Ok, I cannot stand this magpie. The camera man told her what was behind her, and she didn't care. This is nothing to her SHE CAN FIELD DRESS A MOOSE for heavens sake, BUT this story is NOT newsworthy . PLEASE CNN no more Palin on silly stuff. I can even do without the not so sily stuff too.
Have we not experienced enough wasted time and space devoted to this idiot woman? Everytime she opens her mouth or gives the beauty queen wave she makes women look stupid. Let it go!!!
Focus on real issues that are important.
Sorry folks but she is funny, she knew walking in how the game is played and you do not quite "Cold turkey". The neo's have got to get over covering for her for her every time someone ruffles their feathers. S he simply was not qualified, and when she ran laid egg after egg in her interviews. She probably never will be much more then some hen that got 15 minutes of fame, unless her flock is so foolish as to make her TIC Turkey in Charge.. She simply proves it time after time one not be a wild turkey to fly off in eractiv manner, more so when interviewed. She got the job based on some spin on oil and turkey do not mix. This thing was simply another Fowl up, by her. She ran for office, so is public target and no closed season on her. This interview simply goes with the turf or even the permafrost as had she had to buy the publicity, she'd have found it would be more then "chicken feed" ot pay for it. .. So be careful of what you say, she lives not to far from Santa's home, and could probably turkey trot right up there and bad mouth you, In closing Gobble Gobble Gobble, for now she is the national bird.. of humor. . .
everytime I see her that's all I can think is "ugh" people forget that she's ACTUALLY A US POLITICIAN...the fact that she is is a slap in the face to every respectable american
You want to guess why the most qualified Americans would never think of running for public office. You have to have more ego than brains because an intelligent person wouldn't put themself through this.
I am tired of hearing about Sarah Palin, She is just too Redneck for my taste with all her talk about going out and shooting Moose and Wolfs from Choppers. I am tired of it and now have her standing in front of a place where they slaughter Turkeys is just to much... This woman has gotten her 15 minutes of fame, now go back to Alaska and leave this Wacko lady alone.. If this is the Best the Republicans can come up with for 2012, it should be a no brainier as to the Democrats winning again in a land slide decission. Did anyone watch Boston Legal 2 weeks ago when an employee was fired for voting for McCain from her job. I laughed for 10 minutes that finally someone said it like it is. I didn't laugh that McCain didn't get the vote but the person voted for Palin because she was pretty, and wanted a woman in the White House so her boss fired her. Dumb Dumb Dumb...
These lady is a joke, she excels in ignorance,mediocrity and stupidy, come on Alaskans you are better than this. Let her talk of teen pregnancies, teen school dropouts, and children with special needs.
I will send her a map so that she knows that Africa is a continent and that she cannot possibly see Entire Russia from her house.
We have had enough of these comedy, Alaskans please recall your governor, get even an eight grader to govern she might know more geography than this Moose- killing -Tina FAY
Another Sick Blog.... 98% of America Eat's Meat... But they pick on Sarah Paling, while they their "Ham Samwich"....
hey Steve ... any woman on this planet that can read and has picked up a magazine in the last 10 years knows what a Burberry scarf is.
She is a complete moron.
Sarah Palin, if you enjoy or don't mind this kind of stuff (turkey beheadings, killing moose, shooting wolves, etc), well, it's your right. I just don't wanna see it on national TV. Feel free to post it on youtube. this kind of "gross" home videos are always in demand by some people. Otherwise, Happy Thanksgiving!
Was the burberry scarf part of the infamous clothing purchase?
Animals are not safe around her !!!!
this is like a reality TV show "Flava of the Turkey"
I'll have to say Palin is innocent on this one. Irony though ... actually more like funny.
who needs saturday night live when we have Palin?
The ignorance in these comments is astounding.
The point is not about turkeys and how they are killed.
The point is that the incident of pardonning the turkey and subsequent interview were a political stunt and photo opportunity for Palin. Though they told her what was going on in the background, she saw no problem with it.
By deciding to do a photo op to get her face in the news, Palin ignorantly sees no problem with pardonning one turkey while others are slaughtered behind her – poor judgment. It's known as delicious irony.
She sees Russia from her home, how could she miss this one ???
Uh.... Tina? Tina Fey?? Could you come back to work for awhile Saturday? We need you for another skit. C'mon.... PLEASE.... just ONE MORE TIME? We'll pay double the union scale... all you need to do is stuff a toy turkey down a meat grinder to get a few laughs.
Lorne Michaels, SNL
Turkey life does not equal unborn baby life. Humans are more important than animals. How did this article turn into a slant on pro-life Americans. Weird.
Turkeys are suppose to be dumb (don't know if it is true or not) but I know for sure – Palin is dumb!
She still loves to hear herself go on and on and on and on....oh her voice just grates on me and having to listen to her grammar. You know she is dumb when she doesn't even know people are laughing at her!
I certainly would never vote for her, but reporting on her in this manner it just going too far – its hateful and cruel.
Enough already !!! I come here for news not high-school nastiness ...
This is turning into a(n) (un)Reality Show. Maybe we could call it "The GOP's Next Vice-presidential Candidate". Come on CNN, let it go!
I guess it is the cluelessness that gets me, not the fact of turkey-killing, for which we can be grateful if we are not vegetarians. I mean, thank God someone else wants to do such a messy job. I grew up in a place where I witnessed the demise of many a turkey, one of which my family was given to eat by the farmer who did it, our landlord. It was a precious lesson in reality to live in that place when I was 5-6 years old, and I sent my children to farm summer camp so they could have a sense of everything required of that life.
But the dumb turkey pardoning – it sounds about as silly as many of the English customs around the monarchy, and I wonder if it doesn't derive from it. Perhaps it is even older. The ruler is important because he can spare life or take it. Sarah Palin understands that – it the monopoly of rulers, and it is why something like abortion would not be permitted in her realm. Sending troops to war, executing prisoners, bombing cities - all very well if the ruler is doing it. Not okay for the commoners.
I am already happier with a "ruler" who gets it that his rule is temporary, that he is actually a commoner who will return to relative powerlessness, and that he must therefore try to conduct himself for the greater good. But then Tony Blair, Bush's "poodle", was a liberal, educated Labour guy the way Obama is a Dem. I do hope Obama is much, much smarter. He will certainly be more powerful.
Sarah Palin is not going to be a presidential contender ever.
palin is just plain stupid
CNN haven't you done enough? You and MSM already helped Obama win. Its time to leave Gov. Palin alone. You sexist pigs!
It's just a matter of time before we see this woman in a nude magazine. I think there are loose screws in Sarah Palin. I declared that this idiot and John McCain were the early thanksgiving turkies after loosing the elections.Sarah Palin did that interview on the farm to get a free turkey. Someone please investigate this scumbag now.This is how she operates all over Alaska taking a page out of Ted Stevens criminal book.
why do my comment always need to await moderation? Im not the only one thinking palin is a boob
This will make the right wing feel better for ther loss... What the heck?!!!
There she was.. blabing on and on...She is so self obsorbed, she didn't even notice the turkey in the background. Can you imagine how loud that bird must have swaked!!
It's unbelievable that so many people thought she was ready for the presidency.
She IS a Turkey! Don't know why she was EVER on ANY presidential ticket.
Joe Momma-
shouldn't you be out shooting your dinner?
CNN, did you ask her if any of the studios signed her up to host late night shows???
I'll say it again, and maybe this time you'll include it. Sarah Palin is the Tonya Harding of the 2008 Political Olympics.
And on the 9th day Long Cat said 'OMG LOL"
The wrong turkey got put in the shredder...
I can honestly say... I'm ashamed of the comments made by these people who think that this forum is for trashing people no matter who it is. I can only imagine the IQ of 98 per cent of them.
Being a journalism major and having experience dealing with state and local media at least (I don't count national media – total disaster), you'd think she could avoid this rather spectacular gaffe!
The media is the one that's making this funny. They could have interviewed her somwhere else. Give us responsible media please.
I have no idea why this even get this much coverage whlie there are other serious issues facing this country and the world. I am from Africa and this is not big news for me we used to kill goats, sheeps, chickens, cows and oxen during holidays. Turkeys are not fruits that we harvest form trees come on people you should know how meat gets on the table.
zuma
"Let them eat cake!, I mean Turkey!"
Tired!!!!
Go away please!
C'mon Palin Bashers, how do you think that tasty turkey gets to your Thanksgiving table. It just proves how really lucky that turkey was to be pardoned by her. At least it's not gonna be eaten by a bunch of hypocrites, like the ones that wrote in to bash her – GET OVER IT !
A lot can change in two and a half weeks...
The GOP can like her if they want but she's just not qualified for any public office. She's uneducated, uninformed, frivolous, corrupt and is not a team player. All beauty pageant poise and no substance. Is she deaf? She ignored the murderous chants at her rallies and she pretends to not hear the cries of the unlucky turkey.
I don't know which is worse...seeing a turkey die, or having to listen to Sarah Palin talk.
If Sarah Palin was elected VP it would've been the same thing as electing for Paris Hilton. Glad that didn't happen.
At least her kids go to public school like the rest of our children since we can not afford 30K a year private schools for our children, HA Obama same stuff different day.
This lady is to stupid to realize just how stupid she is. Idiot.
isn't it about time to get Gov Palin OUT of the national news? She is past being newsworthy for every little thing she does. and this was a real turkey of a story anyway. We should get to the real business of what's going on like, how in the heck is this "Joe the Plumber" guy getting a 1/2 million dollar book deal and what did he do to deserve it??
the fact that the turkey got killed on camera behind her is NOt the point idiots!
it is the fact, much like her knowledge of Africa being a "country and not a continent" she is unaware of reality even when it occurs right beside her!
like most of the radical religious right they do not understand, or WANT, to understand the baisics of reality that is why they blissfully attack science even as science works to save their lives.. idiots one and all
This just shows what a media hound she is, she can't stand to not be in the news LMAO
Ask any Alaskan, Sarah never used to dress like that when she was out and about before in AK, now she's got to get all 'dressed up'. She's changed a heck of a lot since the campaign, you betcha she has
IF YOU ALL HATE HER SO MUCH WHY DO YOU INSIST ON KEEPING HER IN THE NEWS WITH YOUR COMMENTS. LOOKS LIKE YOU MIGHT BE JUST A BIT AFRAID OF HER. THIS STORY IS SO STUPID AND ALL THE HATEUL PEOPLE ON HERE ARE JUST AS STUPID.
imagine a bush-palin ticket...
dumb and dumber
what a pair of idiots
How did this ignorant woman become governor? Admittedly, most people I've know who went to Alaska were 'lower 48' misfits who just didn't like the conformity and rules down here. Now though, I question their political judgement as well.
Once again she needs someone trained to translate from Sarah into English.
What was she trying to say???
This from the mouth of someone with a degree in journalism!
...she is such an idiot...
this proves dumbocrats care more about turkeys especially all the clintonistas that barry obama has appointed to change back to bubbas idea of change
i think it is time for us all to start acting like adults.
she is an american like all of us, even if her views are different and foreign to most of us.
she fought to become our next vice president and she lost. she is still a govenor and be respected as such.
but if you are going to start doing national coverage of govenors, how about taking a look at the bachelor governor Charlie Crist.... i think there is a better story there
but seriously this is not CNN worthy, imo, i do not care about Govenor Sarah Palins Thanksgiving duties. Thanks but No Thanks.
If the governor of Michigan did the exact same thing, it wouldn't be worth a place on the CNN Ticker. It isn't worth it for the governor of Alaska, either. Get a different fixation, CNN, please.
And how is this any different to how the White House does photo ops with their "live" turkey before Thanksgiving ??
Maybe the only difference is that the White House's turkey is brushed down for the photo op.
Yes, people... We need to eat meat and we eat meat. We also adore children, but we really do not need to see in the news the process of making them. Like we all understand the natural needs (uhm, i mean, after the turkey dinner...), but we'd find it disgusting to be shown here, even it is really natural and every one does it. My point is, there are some things which are better leave alone when you make the talk in front of the camera, especially if you've just got your extra low ratings after dirty political games. Why wouldn't she make the press blah-blah somewhere else, with a bit more appropriate background, with some nicer looking guy? If you are in politics, you must think at least a little bit
about your image, especially if you are a woman and the mother of five. How unfortunately for you, Sarah.
NOTED POST "Another Sick Blog…. 98% of America Eat's Meat… But they pick on Sarah Paling, while they their "Ham Samwich"…
Well now got to ask, is that ham with or without lipstick???
the worlds longest train wreck!
she reminds me of bush when he was first elected.(or selected)
she continues to say and do the stupidest things!
it not that shes news worthy, its that shes entertaining!
love her or hate her, she makes people laugh!
she makes me laugh, and i love to hate her!
i hope she stays around for longer.
she cant do any harm to us anymore; unless your one of those poor
ALASKANTS!
Nobody is upset that someone is killing a turkey for Thanksgiving. That is, after all, how they end up on the dinner table. It is absolutely hilarious and so completely in keeping with her brainless persona that she is busy pardoning the poor bird while he is busy being butchered. This bimbo is so clueless, can't believe anyone supported her VP bid! This story is so funny – it's almost too funny to be believed. Any chance the whole thing was photoshopped by one of the many Palin detractors? She has said a lot of disjointed and senseless things while being shown to be a complete idiot, this is almost like an SNL skit taking her over the top!
Where was the "Mission Accomplished" banner?
Too funny.
I thought of WKRP in Cincinnati when Les Nessman threw the turkeys out of the plane. This is just another sit-com scene that will last for a long time until someone takes it offline. She wants publicity and she's getting it. Palin reminds me of that traffic accident where you don't want to look, but look anyway.
Something I noticed in the full broadcast of Sarah Palin's latest politically tone deaf blunder : the pardoned (yeah, right) turkey was too 'dirty' for Ms Palin to touch it, and she 'squeeed' away from it as fast as possible. Is this the same Sarah Palin who bragged about field dressing a moose?
I swear, this woman is a walking SNL sketch.
She should try stand up comedy next time.
(In her defense, Sarah might have been trying to keep her 'on loan from the GOP' clothing clean.)
I find it funny that all liberals can do is take jabs at this woman. So disrespectful, just as they took shots at W Bush his whole term. I am a conservative, but am willing to see what he has to offer and refuse to stoop to the levels that liberals did with Bush. Pathetic!
As God as my witness...I thought turkeys could fly!