Posted on 11/21/2008 10:47:13 PM PST by davek70
There's a new flap involving Sarah Palin: In honor of Thanksgiving, she pardoned one turkey while other birds met their demise right behind her. Now the former VP hopeful's rep is speaking out to ET about the turkey pardon-gone-wrong!
"The [Alaska] governor did not know it was going on behind her," Palin's spokesperson tells ET of the reportedly grisly scene at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla. Cameras captured Palin extending the annual Thanksgiving pardon to one turkey while a farm hand slaughtered the bird's feathered friends in the background.
Palin's spokesperson tells ET the bird butchering wasn't going on when the shot was set up, and a cameraman "ignored" the governor's staff's request to remove the graphic sight once cameras were rolling.
"We're unhappy about it and the station is not happy either," Palin's rep tells ET, adding, "this was an attempt to lighten up and do something non-controversial."
(Excerpt) Read more at etonline.com ...
Rub it in.
When I was fishing last time the guide knew the correct way to bleed the salmon. takes a sharp knife. he also knew not to threw the head away. In fact he commented on us having good fish head stew.
One doesn’t even have to be a supporter of Sarah Palin to be repulsed by the way the media treats her. Maybe I’m showing my age, but I’ll come to the defense of any woman, especially a mother, if she is mocked and assaulted in such a crude way, as Sarah is by the media. The press shouldn’t ever again be adressed as ladies and gentlemen, because gentlemen they aren’t. Wimpy, effete bunch of slanderous coyotes.
The beheading of a turkey is just too much for these city slickers. So sad. They have allowed themselves to be castrated from the realities of the Earth; of the soil and the matters of the heart.
Its worse, its total Pelosi
Why not, that is the way they prefer their children are born.
That’s gonna leave a mark...
Having grown up on a farm, I didn't find the event stomach turning. But her droning on during the interview would have had me switching channels. I honestly considered stopping it had I not thought there was something really tragic happening.
I liked a previous comment by a freeper: “Next time”, she should say, “I’ll give an interview in front of an abortion clinic.”
Oh please... You don't think that the endless string of negative stories on Palin is part of an agenda to discredit her? They are lying about her, mock her for nothing and pretend that such irrelvant things like now the turkey are important stories.
Couric: You've said, quote, "John McCain will reform the way Wall Street does business." Other than supporting stricter regulations of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac two years ago, can you give us any more example of his leading the charge for more oversight?
Palin: I think that the example that you just cited, with his warnings two years ago about Fannie and Freddie - that, that's paramount. That's more than a heck of a lot of other senators and representatives did for us.
Couric: But he's been in Congress for 26 years. He's been chairman of the powerful Commerce Committee. And he has almost always sided with less regulation, not more.
Palin: He's also known as the maverick though, taking shots from his own party, and certainly taking shots from the other party. Trying to get people to understand what he's been talking about - the need to reform government.
Couric: But can you give me any other concrete examples? Because I know you've said Barack Obama is a lot of talk and no action. Can you give me any other examples in his 26 years of John McCain truly taking a stand on this?
Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.
Couric: I'm just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.
Palin: I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you.
What exactly does this interview have to do with the turkey story? Your attempt at diversion is a bit obvious, isn’t it? If you seriously think that the media coverage of her isn’t biased and agenda-driven to the extreme, you can’t be helped.
I have been trying to figure out what this person’s problem is for a while. Nothing but hate beyond comprehension for this woman.
My example isn't a diversion, but rather an example of what she tends to step in when she does interviews.
I don't see the problem with the turkey story other than it drones on.
In our family, we have decided to do just this. We are canceling liberal newspapers and we are watching only certain programs on the “fair and balanced” FOX channel. Scrapbooking is a favorite hobby and I have found a nice program to watch for that. My husband keeps up with sports. Reading has become our past-time in the evening. We will go no where near the inauguration insanity and we will not be reading the assessment of the “cult” followers in the media afterward. On the flip side of the cult worship is the diabolical attempt to silence anyone who is a reminder of a different world..A world where normal people live, work and think. In Sarah Palin's world, few people shop at the Whole Foods Market..They get their food according to the system the Creator set up for people. I once heard that many people in NYC were frightened to be in the countryside at night because they were paranoid concerning the lack of crowds, when the rural areas are probably a thousand times safer than NYC in the daylight. Sarah Palin puts the lie to so much of what they believe in every way. God Bless her! Have a great Thanksgiving everyone and remember the same God who blessed those first Pilgrims is still on the throne and still in charge. One day, He will show His hand...
These folks who report this trash won't if and when we actually get to the "worst economy in the past 70 years" that they've all been hoping for since 2000. Can you imagine any of these nitwits actually butchering their own livestock, even if their very lives depended on it? This farm boy can't.....
bttt
I’m glad she showed the turkey pardon as the farce it is.
That one is spared is what makes a pardon exceptional.
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