I know that some of you expressed a desire NOT to see this video this morning, but much like seeing Uncle Harold pass out with his pants unzipped in front of the football game after dinner this too is a Thanksgiving tradition.
Besides WHO can really get tired of watching Sarah Palin fail so hilariously at trying to mimic the President turkey pardon.
My favorite part is that according to my friend Linda Kellen Biegel, (Celtic Diva) who was there that day, the cameraman suggested that she might want to move to a different location, but she looked back and then said she was fine right there.
And the rest is Thanksgiving history.
Sadly, the poor headless turkey had more common sense and intellect than the Wasilla-Phoenix Wailing Woman.
ReplyDeleteThe turkey is symbolic of the USA had Palin/McCain won.
Delete(Palin/McCain- That *is* what you said, right, Sarah? )
Happy Thanksgiving, IMers and Gryphen!!
Her fans are saying she deliberately made that video to show exactly what happens to a turkey before it is cooked and served at your Thanksgiving dinner.
ReplyDeleteBoy, she sure appears haggard & dirty looking here; not at all like the perky, pretty Palin we saw running for VP. What happened?
I showed the vid to my husband, who'd never seen it, and he thought it was a good idea to show the turkey butchering in the background. Of course, I totally disagreed with him, but it was interesting to get a neutral opinion. Then I told him that she was given a choice of backgrounds, and we agreed that it was her intent to court the controversy.
DeleteThink about it. She is famous for this video. For that reason alone, we should probably never watch it again.
Anonymous4:08 AM
DeleteHer fans are saying she deliberately made that video to show exactly what happens to a turkey before it is cooked and served at your Thanksgiving dinner.
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Huh? Ummm her whole (supposed) point of BEING THERE was a pardon a Turkey not to show how their killed?
Boy what a bunch of clueless dumbasses!
What happened, according to Joe McGinniss, was that after a taste of national fame, Palin had no stomach for the small-potatoes of Alaskan governorship, and had her eyes opened to the idea of fame without accountability. And "succor was in small supply" back home after she'd made a laughing stock of herself and the state she hailed from.
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DeleteShe is famous for being the most moronic VP nominee the USA has ever had.
I have never known someone to ask for something to be filmed that was going to be blurred during broadcast bc of its grotesque imagery.
BJ had it up yesterday - the comments are pure delight
ReplyDeletee.g." I love watching the holiday classics: A Christmas Carol, Christmas Story, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street……and the Palin Turkey Massacre. They never get old. "
"I'll probably be criticized for this, too." Nah, dumb@ss, it's so commonplace any more after five years that we just wait for it and laugh at your narcisstic idiocy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all you do, Gryphen! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gryph, I always look forward to the annual
ReplyDeletePalin Presidential Pardoning Turkey.
What style!
What class!
What a comprehensive grasp of her surroundings and how they affect her message!
What a perfect example of the grace and dignity which Sarah Palin brings to each and every political discussion!
LMAO!! Grace & dignity....hahahaha!! Happy Thanksgiving fool!
DeleteFYI:
DeleteRandall posts snark that is often misconstrued as Palin affection.
Randall - you nailed it!
DeleteWhat style! (Yup - trashy and tacky)
What class! (Yup - all low)
(You must admit it's hard to have a grasp on how anything affects her message when even she can't figure out what the hell she's saying.)
And she's got about as much grace and dignity as the turkey behind her!
"And she's got about as much grace and dignity as the turkey behind her!"
DeleteHey don't insult the turkeys !!!
JMO but these was a threat to all Alaskan's STFU or else!
ReplyDeleteLike her "crosshairs" and dead bear all threats to stfu...about Mr. & Ms Todd palin.
Heh.
I hope all Alaskans Sing like birds! To the FEDS!
FBI has been interviewing a lot of people in Palmer and Wasilla in regards to Dairygate. Uh OH, Scarah!
DeleteThe FBI in Alaska protects the Palins.
Delete"friend to all animals?" I guess wolves seen from airplanes, moose, and unsuspecting caribou are not animals to Sarah. I had never seen the first part of that..makes me almost believe she CAN read.
ReplyDeleteKeeping with Palin's thanking blood gore holiday traditions which war will she praise and celebrate today? She is always touting her credibility with Veterans. Her combat son and buddies will gather around her table to show gratitude. I know Palin will be busy carving her prepared frontier turkey and may not have time to put her preceived enemies through the meat grinder but there is always tomorrow. Sarah Palin is destined for the Mother of all Motherhood since giving herself the Mama Grizzly moniker, she will make the Hall of Fame with doggleganger, Nancy Lanza.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame if she can't find the time to give a shout out of thanks to the NRA on this day of thanks.
Bloody business. I suppose I should be thankful for being vegetarian.
ReplyDeleteThis video alone proved to me how incredibly stupid and politically tone deaf she is (especially learning that she chose to remain where she was with that view in the background)
ReplyDeleteAmazing! You just can't make this stuff up!
And that might be the last video ever where we saw her real hair; before the "Willow Wigs". Or at least what was left of her real hair back then.
DeleteYes, it’s a tradition now, along with Alice’s Restaurant. I do cringe for the poor turkeys though, what a terrible way to die.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving from a Reno heart.
She is always in charge of the turkey? Why did she wait so long to to finally, for the first time, not make a pile of mess while carving the turkey?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10152050978728588
Never gets old! I watch all the classic Palin videos when I'm tipsy. Pretend you don't do the same.
ReplyDeleteIf you need some dessert after this Palin Thanksgiving dinner video, watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntEE9Zy-qQQ
ReplyDeleteLaughing again! Happy Thanksgiving Gryph!
ReplyDelete-SJP
Lets not forget the day Glenn Rice stuffed Sarah Palin..
ReplyDeleteYes, and when is Greta Van Sustern's special on Fox? It will make for a classic show Roger will rerun each year. Scarah is always good for a ratings boost. lol
DeleteBig Turkey operates on the chicken industry's model. Here's how it works.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/11/turkey-factory-farm
You can really tell how bald she really is from that footage.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, Gryphen, Thanks for all of the wonderful posts.
ReplyDeleteHuffington Post has that video of Sarah and the Turkey Massacre up, meaning that it has become a Thanksgiving Classic. It will rank up there with other video favorites, such as George W. Bush trying to open that locked door someplace in China or the crack-smoking Mayor Ford, or any other video of a public official making a food of himself/herself. The video is a reminder that Palin wanted to be in front of the cameras in the worst way, and so she was. Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteOOOps, that's making a fool of himself or herself. I must have food on my mind today. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
DeletePalin's Turkey Slaughter (Alternate view)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV2_bHTP_gU
more revealing video
Sarah and family give thanks to the Arizona turkey, Joe Arpaio.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/27/joe-arpaio-thanksgiving_n_4351729.html
Next stop Estrella Women's Prison
How Turkey Came to Thanksgiving
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.blueapron.com/food-stories-how-turkey-came-to-thanksgiving/
Did Sarah pre-order her cooked turkey and will she have it delivered? No one in little old Wasilla can verify they see Sarah or her girls shopping, nor Todd or Track. There is no need for the elite to do their own shopping. As long as they pay a fair salary to their consultants and treat the help well it shouldn't be a problem.
ReplyDeleteHere is what Sarah is doing: (From her facebook):
DeleteIt's back to the kitchen for me to prep for Thanksgiving dinner; which includes determined research on how to finally, for the first time, not make a pile of mess while carving the turkey. I watched this tutorial early this morning, will watch it repeatedly, and I invite your advice on proper bird carving.
Sarah posted a link about how to carve the Thanksgiving turkey. In order for her to learn anything, she has to watch it over and over. Sad.
Technically, in the world of cooking, prep work is organizing everything in one place, chopping the onions, celery and what ever else goes in the stuffing. My aunt used to collect slices of day old bread, chop it into cubes and make her own croutons. That's what's involved in prep work in the kitchen. After 25 years of marriage and 25 Thanksgiving dinners, the huntress (who surely must skin and cut up her own game) still doesn't know how to cut up a turkey. Watching a video over and over for Palin is called "preparation." It's too bad that Sarah didn't prep for her interview with Katie Couric, and we know that she was unable to prep for her debate because they have to move her to McCain's ranch to eliminate all of the other distractions going on in her life, like trying to run the State of Alaska by Blackberry. If Sarah wants to use the word "prep" to mean "prepare for or get ready for," maybe she should do a little reading so she can answer the gotcha questions like, "What do you think of the Pope?" and "What church to you attend?" and "How's Trig doing?" How IS Trig doing?
Flash cards seemed to be the campaign's tool of choice when gettin' some learnin' into Mrs. Palin's head. Perhaps there is a flash card set explaining "How to Carve a Turkey".
DeleteGryphen, I imagine you'll want to post this article:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/tv/why-everyone-calling-for-martin-bashirs-head-needs-to-pipe-down/
Palin’s original remarks were far more offensive than Bashir’s provocation.
DeleteThere are thousands of stories in the WPA slave narratives, but one of the more gut-wrenching ones comes from a former slave named Mary Armstrong, who describes, with a horrifying mix of aplomb and anguish, the death of her sister: You see, my Mama belong to old William Cleveland and old Polly Cleveland, and they was the meanest two white folks what ever lived, ’cause they was allus beatin’ on their slaves. I know, ‘caus Mama told me, and I hears about it other places, and besides, old Polly, she was a Polly devil if there ever was one, and she whipped my little sister what was only nine months old, and jes a baby, to death. She come and took the diaper offen my little sister and whipped till the blood jes’ ran – jes’cause she cry like all babies do, and it kilt my sister.
After reading that, Sarah Palin would surely have to wonder what use a slaveowner would have had for a baby who was disabled, would surely know that our public debt will never be like that, and that saying it will is deeply painful to those who are still scarred by that chapter in our history. Sarah Palin doesn’t deserve the treatment that slaves got, no human being does. The point is that the indelible pain of slavery doesn’t deserve the treatment that Palin gave it, either.
This video (although I haven't actually watched it in 5 years) makes me most thankful that Princess Wind Between Her Ears never got anywhere near Washington, D.C., except as a tourist.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, everyone, and may you and yours enjoy a healthy, peaceful holiday.
Yeah, the stupidity will live forever.
ReplyDeleteEvery Thanksgiving the G No P will be reminded of their own stupidity in choosing this turkey as McCain's running mate.
Wishing all IMers many hearty knishes on your table this Thanksgivannukah, and best wishes as we run amok like headless turkeys into the 2013 holiday season...
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LOVE it!
DeleteJust chatting yesterday on FB with some people from my old hometown on LI.
DeleteWe were discussing the tiny Jewish deli in the local shopping center and how much this little Irish Catholic girl LOVED their knishes! Boy, I do miss that deli...yummm!
Good god, she was just as verbally verbose five years ago! That interview was about three long, really long, sentences strung together.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me ill. Also the turkey behind It is also disgusting.
ReplyDeleteTriple D Farms went out of business a few years after Mrs. Palin's visit. Classic Palin Curse.
ReplyDeleteyes they did - Anthony's a great guy too
DeleteSo happy that Sarah is sharing recipes. She has long time been in charge of the turkey. Her method of cooking the bird will be much welcomed.
ReplyDeleteI'd be prepared to barf after fixing and eating one of her recipes. She's known in Alaska for NOT cooking. She's a fraud folks, haven't you figured that out yet?
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DeleteOh, you're so right! Good Ol' Gramps McCain birthed the socio-politico(-oral?)-aural catastrophe known derisively as The Screechy Wretch(tm) but there's no denying she's in absolutely charge of the whole damn turkey now.
I'm just surprised - but no less delighted - to see you admit it.
I am waking up this morning to Thanksgiving Day. Heathen me, a surly son of Odin. Christians might think Thanksgiving is a uniquely Christian day but that is not true for the simple reason that there is not much that is uniquely Christian about Christianity.
ReplyDeletePretty much anything that is Christian today was Pagan yesterday, including Christmas (which we will be hearing a lot more about in the days to come). Including thanks giving: giving thanks to the divine for what we have on earth.
And really, why is there any reason at all an atheist could not be thankful for something? A person can be thankful, after all, without a god to whom to be thankful. It is possible, after all, to simply be thankful. To be thankful for job, for family, for the food on the table. For each other.
But the Religious Right, false Christians that they are, (I once called them aberrochristians and I still think that name fits, because they are an aberration) the idea that you can only be thankful to a god persists, and to a specific god. Moreover, they believe that you can only be thankful for what they deem to be “godly” things, even when their ideas of godly differ from…well, God’s in the Bible. Specifically, from those of Jesus, their alleged Lord and Savior.
more
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/28/thanksgiving-everyone-christians.html
Great idea for someone at the Palin's thanksgiving celebration:
ReplyDeleteLOLGOP @LOLGOP 7m
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you're getting that swab you need for the DNA test.
Happy Thanksgivukkah everyone! Got a laugh this morning here in Canada when I saw the local paper on line - Sarah's Turkey Slaughter video is on the front page. Canadian are grateful this Thanksgiving that the US has Ted Cruz - and freeloader on Canada Health Care Sarah Palin. After all, we've still got Rob Ford for laughs.
ReplyDeleteConsidering I've never actually watched it, that video never gets old.
ReplyDeletemuch like the starring bird, I'm afraid.
R.I.P., my delicious feathered friend!
Triple D farms? How prophetic! (or prosthetic) !!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI loved this clip, it's a close second to WKRP.
What I'm grateful for, among other things, is This blog, Gryphen and the fine I.M. Folks. You're the best!