I am sure that most of you have the memories of the KTUU interview with Sarah Palin, as turkeys are slaughtered in the background, seared into your brains. But for those of you who may have missed it, or have undergone hypnotherapy to rid yourself of the gruesome images, I present it to you again in all of it's hilarious, and stomach churning glory.
Sadly this historically important farm, which hosted one of Sarah Palin's greatest blunders, is suffering financially due to the Palin curse.
You know about the Palin curse don't you?
It is the curse which predicts that everything Sarah Palin touches begins to fall apart. You know like the town of Wasilla, the state of Alaska, the McCain campaign, the Republican party, Levi and Bristol's relationship, etc., etc., etc..
Anyhow due to this terrible curse Anthony Schmidt, owner of Triple D farms, is struggling to keep his farm afloat this year. Here Schmidt reminisces about the day that brought his little farm to national attention:
"We had it all prepared and ready for her, and she got right in there with the turkeys and everything was great," he said.
He was annoyed, though, when footage aired by KTUU Channel 2 went national. Bunny-huggers and kooks called to complain about the dead turkeys, but locally people were supportive, and he got encouraging phone calls from as far away as Philadelphia.
"Bunny-huggers and kooks". Dammit, aren't THEY always the ones to screw things up for the small town entrepreneur? Why do they hate America, and the turkey pardoning Sarah Palin, so darn much?
Well I think we should support Triple D farms. In fact I think that I am going to buy MY turkey from their farm this year. How cool will it be to tell my Thanksgiving guests that the main entree is from the farm that helped to destroy Sarah Palin's political career? How often do we get the opportunity to make a statement like that?
Save me a bird Mr. Schmidt I am on my way.
Bunny-huggers and kooks... LOL!
ReplyDeleteThe Palin curse continues. BOO!
WHy is there a picture of Dog Hoffman and De De on your pages?
ReplyDeleteI can understand palin but what gives with the others?
Thanks for the Halloween scarefest! You know these Sarah videos never get old. Jeez, everything she touches turns to shit...this woman is pure political poison.
ReplyDeleteJust want to wish the Wicked Witch of the North a Happy Halloween...it's your day Sarah, so get up on that broomstick of yours and trir up some more trouble.
BTW, I watched ET last night for the rest of the Levi interview and they had some recent weird footage of Sarah all made up with her hair do done clomping around town with Todd at a bakery and picking Willow up from school. Very odd...
Halloween Scarefest? Why, that's the healthcare announcement from the GOP today!!!! Yikes!
ReplyDeleteWell, I guess if you get off on watching other people suffer, then that's way fucking cool dude.
ReplyDeleteKathy Griffin made an appearance Friday night on "The Insider," and she made quite the splash when she said that some of the "dirt" out there on Sarah Palin could actually be true. The comedian said that not only is Levi Johnston telling the truth with allegations that he has some "dark" secrets about the former Alaska Governor, but that she also knows some of the intricate details. She declined to elaborate, but she did say that she "believed" Palin could have referred to son Trig as "retarded" at some point in the past. (Palin had rebuked the claim in a statement, referring to Trig as "an angel.")
ReplyDeleteLord Have Mercy....thank God Pay is in hiding & won't be available for this year's turkey slaughter. That was so unbelievably gross.
ReplyDeleteA Bunny Hugger
Sarah has a natural talent for spinning any event to her advantage. This afternoon, Meg will release a statement explaining that Sarah gave the Turkey Farmer national publicity and he should be grateful. Maybe she will bring him a plate of cookies, too, also.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it has been pointed out before in comments, it's worth examining again..
ReplyDeleteDuring the interview, she said, "At least this was fun."
Well that, at least in part, is true. Pardoning turkeys at Thanksgiving is fun! Mayors and governors across the nation do it every single year--and we all smile, enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving and move on.
However, what is not fun, funny or filled with levity is the backdrop she chose and apparently considered amusing.
Per Sarah's office, a photographer asked her if she wanted that as a background--her response was, "No worries."
As she stood there going on about how government should get out of the way and allow businesses to grow and progress, she (as the face of Alaska's government at the time)personally and purposefully, via her own decision--placed and portrayed this valuable small business in the worst possible light.
Unfortunately, the owner was criticized and demonized--but the fact is that it was Sarah Palin who first wrung the neck this particular small business owner.
So I am left to wonder..would a person who found it amusing to depict a small business in a way which was certain to undermine it, also find levity in thoughtlessly addressing a small, disabled child as, "the ret.. one?"
Most probably. If nothing else, Sarah Palin is consistent. For those of us who are old enough to remember the original Mickey Mouse Club days--maybe a certain melody comes to mind:
"Beauty is as beauty does--that's what wise men say..."
Sarah is mindless, ethically challenged and, because of her cruel sense of humor, ugly to the very core.
The funny part is Palin is the one that selected the shot angle, she wanted the slaughter to happen behind her during the interview. As a rancher who raises our own meat and some for people in the local area, I do understand that the butchering is part of the process. But under no circumstances do I think it was a good shot of an interview--what goes on in Palins mind if she somehow thought this was appropriate.
ReplyDeleteAs for Turkey on thanksgiving...I'll skip that, it will be a Tx BBQ with ribs, brisket, and some of my cajun husbands jambalaya :)
If I was local, I'd get fresh turkey from him too. We should support our local food supply chain and turkey is a very healthy protein. It's also very affordable. At least in the lower 48 it is.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually a very humane way to kill the turkeys. My mom and grandma did it with a hatchet, or wrung their necks.
ReplyDeleteBut the timing is impeccably Palin! It would only be funnier if one of the birds going in the chopper was The One that she pardoned.
Perhaps Mr. Schmidt should call Kristan Cole (you know..the sole trustee for the Alaska Slush Fund Trust) the Chairman of the Board of Agriculture. She hands out questionable extremely low interest, no signature of guarantee loans to dairy farmers...why not extend that same gift to turkey farmers?
ReplyDeleteSupposedly SP has a degree in journalism, and she was for the briefest instant behind the cameras at small station. I don't imagine for an instant she was not aware of the gruesome scene behind her, and thought it was "amusing"- Levi has commented before that her sense of humor is "strange".
ReplyDeleteI wish there was an audio version of this guy's inteview, does he sound like Elmer Fudd?
ReplyDeleteBeing a turkey, in Sarah's world, would be considered a "Pre existing condition", and the turkeys, the bunnies, her parents, and "her" Downs-Syndrome Child would have to stand before Obama'a Death Panels....and that's just EVIL!!!
That was the funniest damn thing I'd seen in a while.
ReplyDeleteThe owner of Triple D should understand there are those that don't eat meat and will focus on how it actually gets to our table at the drop of a hat and exploit it.
Should have given that employee a big coffee break instead of thinking of how great That kind of publicity really generates.
It is a business, damn it, wise up.
Wait a minute, a turkey pardon? I'm Canadian and because there isn't that tradition here, if I was a turkey farmer, I'd tell Sarah to piss off and choose McCorp for instance to pardon a turkey, burger, but not my place of business. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.
Sheesh.
btw, I am not the Colonel of KFC and did not write a letter of intent for a Grilled Nation to the UN and did not enter the UN escorted by security with no pass.
Note the difference in 'marketing.' LOL.