A new Sarah Palin video that's more painful to watch than those Katie Couric interviews

Just in time for the holidays, we bring you the latest YouTube sensation: A video of Sarah Palin talking to reporters on a turkey farm yesterday while, in the background, a farm worker slaughters turkeys and drains their blood.

The gruesome footage was shot at a farm in Gov. Palin's hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. She was there to grant the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one turkey.

You can watch what happens to the turkeys who weren't pardoned below. But be warned: it is not for the faint of heart.

-- Kate Linthicum

Comments

[Mrs. Dolly]

Oblivious.

[Dominatrix]

Sarah's sending a subliminal message to those Turkeys in Washington who are holding the nation hostage.

[sam]

You have got to be kidding me. Whatever PR person was there to let this camera angle happen needs to be run through that turkey guillotine theirselves.

What Alaskans need is a quicker way of bleeding turkeys. That could be done by swinging them around your head on a rope, which would be more riveting TV too. Maybe Stevens could get some money to import turkey swingin' ropes... oh wait.

Anyway I am so glad she lost. Not looking forward to life in the USSA under BHO, but at least we don't have a half-educated nitwit in the White House.

[Eric]

For a person who is suppose to be media-savvy, she either shows a lack of 'compassionate conservatism' or ignorance of a background that distracts from whatever message she tries to convey.

[john]

Are you suggesting that turkeys should not be slaughtered? Perhaps humans should save the humble turkey and go hungry to satisfy the squeamish amongst us

[L-188]

What a stupid non-issue.

You can tell people here have no idea that turkeys aren't raised frozen in those plastic bags and netting.

It's real life people, sorry living in cities and mcmansions seems to have made you ignorant to that fact.

[Chugiak Observer]

She's amazing, and could have been a heartbeat away from being President. Do Alaskans vote with their heads, hearts, or just close their eyes and poke at the ballot?

[army vet]

lol Palin-defenders make me laugh. the issue isn't the poor slaughter of turkeys. the issue is that sarah palin (or her PR people) are so INCOMPETENT that you couldn't buy this kind of entertainment.

Thanks for supporting Gov. Palin, though; I can't imagine how boring my work day would be without her frolicking around the earth making an ass out of herself! lol (btw for someone who thinks the 'media' is out to get her we sure see her on tv a lot...)

[Gene]

Big deal!! Do you think those turkeys you buy in the store and gorge on at the Thanksgiving table get any different treatment. You can probably watch a dozen cable channels that show these processes. I would believe that she might be sending a message to her distractors "Don't Tread on Me" And if that were the case, more power to her

[Chris]

Saw this suggested elsewhere but the point is well taken: Maybe next time Governor Palin can agree to do an interview from an abortion clinic.

[I don't have a password]

Gruesome footage? You people are dumb. It's a turkey. Turkey's get slaughtered. You can eat it, but you can't see it prepped? Grow some.

[Much Smarter]

My god are you people STUPID. She's there at a photo-op to pardon a turkey. To show COMPASSION. She's not there to show how turkeys get slaughtered. That is the complete opposite of the reason she went there. It's called irony and you people have ZERO sense of it.

[George Moore]

The Los Angeles Times is a dinosaur!
I don't read newspapers because they have no substance. You don't report news, just your twisted, biased opinions. Journalistic presentation of facts doesn't exist these days. I am not interested in your editorial opionions!

(Since this isn't a newspaper, we're glad then to have you with us. Thanks for reading the non-dinosaur!)

[Erica]

That was awesome..lol...i miss living in Alaska.

[MR. B.]

And think..........58,000,000 people voted for her.....stupidity at it's best....That's Palin !

[paparoof]

If you think she didn't set up that background on purpose, you're even dumber than the turkeys. SHE'S MAKING A STATEMENT - and a hilarious one at that.

[Ol' Whip]

Surreal!

Thank you Alaska!

[ugotabkiddinme!]

This lady is so out of her league, she can't even tell the joke's on her (the interviewers even asked her 'what are you cooking on thanksgiving?' as if to reinforce the irony of it).

Whoever performed this interview should be awarded the Pulitzer prize for this one.!!!!!

[Girl who eats turkey]

I Love Gov. Palin.!! This cracks me up! I can't wait til she is elected President in 2012 and shows Washington snobs that yes, everybody in America is not a "SUIT".

[Proud Palin Defender]

This is damn hilarious. Get a life Obamabots, reminds me of the Chinese restaurant scene at the end of 'A Christmas Story' (It's SMILING at me)

"Not looking forward to life in the USSA under BHO, but at least we don't have a half-educated nitwit in the White House."

Oh we don't? Not only do we have the current one, but he's about to be succeeded by the third Clinton term.

[Sanjoy Das]

What's the difference between Sarah Palin and a turkey?

The GOP doesn't pay $150,000 to dress a turkey.

[pajesseson]

how many brainless birds did you count in that video? Let's see now, there was the one who couldn't put two sentences together, and then there was the one in the background. I prefer the background one. Less stupid.

[Bill]

In Austin, Minnesota, across the road from the Hormel Spam factory, they slaughter 19,000 hogs a day. Blowing brains out of the skulls with compressed air caused many workers to become ill for months at a time. What happens to put food on your table is not a pretty photo-op. Recent figures had it that over 6 billion chickens were killed for food in North America each year.

[maralars]

Do you really think most of us "liberals" don't realize that the turkeys we eat must be slaughtered first? Please. We're far more aware than that. In fact, we're far more aware than Sarah Palin, who doesn't seem to get the irony in the fact that she first pardons one turkey and then stands blithely in front of the slaughter of two others. She completely lacks self-awareness.

[Lefty]

Caribou Barbie rocks! And remains as clueless as ever. It's not that the slaughter of livestock doesn't occur. But, if the theme of your visit is to show mercy by giving a reprieve to one turkey, you undercut your message by prattling on while the rest of the flock gets slaughtered behind you