Sarah Palin pardons a turkey, misses the slaughter

Hey, "Saturday Night Live"! Here's your Thanksgiving Weekend Update lead story. What a gift.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin pardons Tom the Turkey, then blabbles on, making little to no sense (as usual), while talking turkey and politics to a news crew.

What she does not know is that at least two helpless turkeys are being slaughtered in the background, their legs wiggling as their heads are stuffed into a grinder by a smiling camera-hog executioner.

Nice to see someone who enjoys their work, huh?

And so, apparently, did Palin.

"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," she admits.

And that's exactly what she added to the 2008 presidential campaign. Levity.

Do you miss Sarah Palin? Seriously? Tell us why.

Oh, and happy almost Turkey Day!

Comments

[sfwriter777]

She is a gift from God for the Democratic Party.

[Mark Young]

I miss her like a fat kid misses cake. The entertainment value of this clueless woman is unlimited!

[bp]

Yes, I do miss Palin for her entertainment value, but hope the majority don't take her seriously as a candidate for national office. This is hilarious and illustrates that she's quite oblivious (I feel bad for the turkeys, though).

[Satcha Weiner]

Even when she is grinning so esagerly, Palin's voice has a persistent, irritating whine to it. Imagine when she is going off her brain and actually whining.

If I never have to watch or listen to her for the next forty years, that will be forty years too soon.

Her comment about getting government out of people's lives is laughable. Can you imagine what a constrictive and corrupt regime she would administer, and what little help she would actually provide people where it did not serve her interests.

[Anne Page]

It was NOT a grinder!!!!

They are placed into a cone-like device, the head protruding out of the hole on the bottom.... and then the neck is cut, and the bird is bled out.

As gross, and bloody as it is... the cone reduces the stress on the animal... and makes the butchering process quicker, and more efficient.

The folks on MSNBC got it wrong this morning... and that incorrect info has ben making the rounds on the net.

They need to report that they made an error during the story... or folks will get the wrong impression about farming in America.

And don't go all PETA on me... I know better about farming, as I raise organic chickens in Texas.

[bradley]

Where's a good old fashioned agricultural accident when you need one!? They shredded the wrong turkey, that's for sure...

[Philip]

Unbelievable!

[Rob in Santa Monica, CA]

Okay, turkeys (and countless other farm animals) are killed every day so that we can eat them -- ceremoniously or otherwise. I get it. But Palin's cluelessness is breathtaking! If this isn't parodied on SNL then their writers should be put in the same turkey grinder.

[Bruce]

You don't sound biased do you? What do you eat for Thanksgiving? How do you think it was brought to market for you, or would you rather pretend that it is magic...

[Mary]

Once again this dimwit shows the world what a joke she really is. Oh, I get it. Spare a life, take a life ........or 500. She is completely oblivious to everything around her except her own yapping!!!

[elle]

not really very nice to make fun of sweet sarah that way,
i'm a vegan and do not plan on having turkey this year, but i still support sarah; you are so sweet they have to create ways to make fun of you; go to:butterballcruelty.com for the real story.

[Jon K.]

You can't write something that good! Truth is better than fiction and more disturbing!

[Natalie Longurl]

Looks like the Republican party's mascot, the Bimbo Turkey, escaped the roasting pan and the White House. For this we are gladly Giving Thanks.

[aristata]

Hilarious! But what was that worker doing? I thought they just chopped off the head. Does the process shown kill them in some manner, then drain the blood?

[tomk]

Sarah Palin is really, really clueless, isn't she? (As apparently are her supporters, like "elle" who claims to be vegan.)

Where do you think Sarah gets the moose for her moose chili?

Why do you think she approves of shooting wolves, including their pups?

How can you justify her editorial printed in the NY Times arguing to remove polar bears from the list of threatened species?

Sarah's sweet? Not bloody likely.

[karl j.]

You libs are wacked. Do you think these things come from the ground wrapped in plastic and frozen? You all are truly stupid human beings who belong out of the race.... By the way...quit cutting your lawn (butchering it) and graze. Hope to see your head down and butt up!

[michael plourde]

Sarah Palin clearly is not bright enough to be in politics. She deserves to be made fun of at every opportunity because no one should be seriously considering her for a future in politics. Considering that Alaska has elected her as governor and Ted Stevens as senator, all I can say is they are a state of idiots. (but then the US elected G W twice!?!?!). Shame on the republicans. She's "num'er than a haddock".

[lisamonteff]

She is such a fool-as Bill Maher says she's Gov. Avon Lady. What a moron-what a stupid, cocky, ridiculous person she is. That poor Turkey would have been a better Vice President than her.

[Real Story]

Folks, this is how farming works: you raise animals, then you kill them and eat them. Most people don't get much exposure to the business end of that process, but people across the country who have farmed or hunted know that it's part of life, and has been as long as human beings have been eating animals. It's not a bad thing to have some people in public life who aren't shocked by where our food comes from.

[smilla]

Grow up, Elizabeth Snead. Or stay away from real people and stick to celebrity trash. Sarah Palin is way above you.

[Yon Toad]

Slaughtered alive huh? Oh, the irony - why were they not killed before being slaughtered? Does slaughtered have a different meaning out there in Hollywoodland?

[maralars]

I'm a meat-eating liberal who has no problem with the process of slaughtering turkeys. I do, however, have a problem with the obliviousness of a government official who doesn't get the irony of pardoning one turkey and then blathering mindlessly while two turkeys are slaughtered behind her. Really. She just doesn't get it.

[DLarge]

I love this. Right-wingers jumping to the defense of the turkeys, not the former candidate. Yes, we all understand that animals are killed so we can eat them. I like to think they are killed in the most humane way possible. The point is, Mrs. Palin is at best, supremely unqualified to be VP and we are all safer as Americans with her doing this kind of fodder for the camera instead of any and all duties associated with Washington D.C.

[Mitchell]

You stupid woman, where in the Hell do you think your Thanksgiving turkey comes from?!

My God the Press in this country, just when you thought they couldn't get any more stupid and clueless.

"Slaughtered alive." What, slaughter them dead?? WTF???

[w3bgrrl]

What's to miss? The emotionally retarded and unintentionally ironic media types (insulting Palin's intelligence while writing "slaughtered alive" - too funny) and her eager readers, educated beyond their intelligence, are still at it. It is the response Palin generates from people who daily look into the mirror and pat themselves on the back for being so dang smart that is the real comedy gold.