Sarah Palin Interviewed While Turkeys Are Killed in Background

November 21, 2008 by
Carly Hart  
Carly Hart
Carly Hart
  • Published Content: 333
  • Total Views: 506,854
  • Fans: 83
View Profile | Follow | Add to Favorites
Single page
Font Size
Read comments (10)
More topics
Turkeys  |  Chosen  |  Couric  |  Alaska Governor  |  Sarah Palin Resigns

Video of Sarah Palin Interview, Turkey Slaughter All Over the Net

As widely reported in the press, with a video available for viewing on YouTube, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin gave an interview to a TV station in Alaska while at least two
Sarah Palin Interviewed While Turkeys Are Killed in Background
turkeys were slaughtered in the background. The turkey slaughter can be disturbing for some viewers, but for Sarah Palin, she seems unfazed about the turkey execution going on behind her while she smiles into the camera giving her interview. Sarah Palin was at a Wasilla, Alaska turkey farm to officially pardon one turkey, a Thanksgiving custom celebrated by many governors and even the President of the United States in the days leading up to Thanksgiving.

Sarah Palin and turkey slaughter: Perhaps the scene didn't bother her since she's a hunter

As any hunter knows, blood is part and parcel of a kill. Deer hunters don't haul the entire carcass from the woods; instead, they gut the animal on the spot and carry home a lighter load. It was well known during the campaign that Sarah Palin is a moose hunter. Likely, the somewhat disturbing images of the turkeys being slaughtered wouldn't phase her.

They didn't call Sarah Palin 'Caribou Barbie' for nothing. She has a hunter's instinct and a pioneer spirit. Perhaps the turkey carnage going on in the background was just less disturbing to her because she hunts and is used to seeing animals bleeding. At any rate, no one in the press has given her accolades for not fainting dead away at the sight of turkey death. Unfortunately, Sarah Palin's nonchalance is instead interpreted as cluelessness, a carryover from the campaign.

Is Sarah Palin responsible? Shouldn't the videographer chosen a less graphic backdrop other than turkey slaughter?

Page: 1 2 Next »
 Print   Save Read comments (10)   Next piece
Related Video
   
RelatedRecommendedFeaturedMore By This Source
McCain Chooses Sarah Palin for VP
Senator John McCain Has Called on Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin to Be His Vice-Presidential Running-mate on the Republican Ticket
By Ryan Christopher DeVault  |  Published 8/29/2008  |  Read more »
McCain's Choice of Running Mate: Sarah Palin
John McCain announced that he has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate for the 2008 Presidential election. So who is Sarah Palin and what does she bring to the ticket?
By Morgan Drake Eckstein  |  Published 8/30/2008  |  Read more »
GOP and Teenage Pregnancy
Tit for tat: 17-Year-Old Bristol Palin, daughter of VP nominee Sarah Palin, is 5 months pregnant.
By Adrienne Jenkins  |  Published 9/2/2008  |  Read more »
Fox Pundit: Palin Should Stay Home
Although Sarah Palin is relatively inexperienced, I do not see it as a liability. McCain needs a younger person to balance the ticket.
By Tina Molly Lang  |  Published 9/2/2008  |  Read more »
Where's the Economy in All This?
The internet has turned into Sarah Palin Gone Wild. But in all of this craziness, the Republicans have gone on the defensive, attempting to shore up their vice presidential candidate and completely miss the most important topic on the American voters' minds...
By saul relative  |  Published 9/3/2008  |  Read more »
Palintology and All Things Sarah Palin
Palintology is the study of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. It is embodied in the website Palintology.com, where Trish Houser has erected a website to following the career, exploits, and anything vaguely associated with anything and everything Sarah Palin.
By saul relative  |  Published 9/4/2008  |  Read more »
Related information
Takeaways
  • As governor, Sarah Palin pardoned a Tom turkey.
  • Two were killed while the camera was rolling.
  • 'Caribou Barbie' unfazed by carnage.
 
Comments 1 - 10 of 10  
Comments
Type in Your Comments Below

I personally don't care for Mrs. Palin, but I believe that there is a third perspective here that might apply. As a professional politician, and, like it or not, a successful one, she has to be able to keep a straight face through even the most disturbing events. Consider some of the things a governor is occasionally called on to do: visit disaster sites, tour hospitals, and sometime even travel to war zones. In each of those situations, terrible things, death and the like, have recently happened or are still happening. Now and then, a governor must even bear witness to an actual execution, and through it all must appear totally collected and composed, no matter the sense of abject horror swelling up inside.
Add a Comment

Posted on 12/22/2008 at 12:12:57 AM

Execution? They were convicted of crimes and sentenced? People who eat meat, yet have a problem with the slaughter of animals for food, are mentally lacking. I eat meat and while I do choose to pay other people to slaughter and butcher my food for me, I don't have any issue with it, anyone who does is hypocritical.
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/26/2008 at 11:11:55 AM

I couldn't bring myself to look at the video after reading it, but thoughts run both ways. Maybe it's callousness or bad judgment on her part; on the other hand, maybe she was so focused on the interview that she didn't pay any attention and didn't know what was going on around her.
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/24/2008 at 7:11:06 AM

Come now, it isn't as if she gave the interview while slaughtering the turkey herself. Would the media be making such a big deal of this if she were a man? Likely not.
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/22/2008 at 10:11:05 AM

Well written... although you seem to go out of your way to blame everyone but Sarah. If she's as smart as some say she is, she should have realized what was going on and how it would play. Maybe she did... and this was another way to show how tough she is---though calling the killing of turkeys "levity" is a bit of a stretch for even the most ardent hunter.
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/22/2008 at 9:11:31 AM

I think we should arm polar bears and turkeys and what not...and then train them to shoot her in the ass so they can have her head over their mantle for the holidays! Woman is a sicko! I can't stand the fact now that she is not a VP contender we still pay attention to a woman who has NOTHING intelligent to say!
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/22/2008 at 4:11:05 AM

Interesting, but then all the ones we eat are killed :) Sheri
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/21/2008 at 10:11:45 PM

Oh boy. This isn't going to fare well for her.
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/21/2008 at 9:11:30 PM

What a terrible lapse in judgment; especially when today's media is so highly visual! Well written (as usual).
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/21/2008 at 3:11:17 PM

I didn't see anything wrong with it myself, but I could somewhat see how city folks would be upset. I couldn't really tell, but did the turkey's still have their heads attached? When I raised ducks, I would always kill them by chopping off their heads
Add a Comment

Posted on 11/21/2008 at 1:11:32 PM

Comments 1 - 10 of 10 

Have more to say?
Become a Source on AC