Michelle Malkin » Turkey jive: Palin-bashers strike again; Update:NYTimes editorial board decries “executions”

Turkey jive: Palin-bashers strike again; Update:NYTimes editorial board decries “executions”

By Michelle Malkin • November 21, 2008 02:51 PM

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Gov. Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey at a local farm in Wasilla and then took questions from a reporter about the event and her Thanksgiving wishes.

Palin said with a smile: “It’s nice to get out and do something to promote a local business and to participate in something that isn’t so heavy-handed politics that invites criticism. I’ll certainly, probably will invite criticism for even doing this, too, but at least this was fun!”

Palin was prescient. On cue, the Huffington Post hyperventilated about the SLAUGHTER! going on behind Palin and the rest of the squeamish, PDS-infected blogosphere followed with horrified rantings about the governor’s callousness. You’d think Palin was standing in front of the camera soaked in blood like Sissy Spacek in “Carrie.”

Farmers kill animals. Then they sell them. Grocery stores package them. Meat-eaters buy them and eat them. This is no big deal — except if you reside in the Ivory Tower or the David Brooks/Kathleen Parker/Arianna Huffington/Daily Kos intellectual complex.

The vid (via Allah):

PDS: It never ends.

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If you’ve got a favorite turkey recipe — casserole, deep-fried, mmm — feel free to share.

Mark Steyn mocks the “nancy boys.” Snort.

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Update: The New York Times editorial board decries the “execution” of the butterballs. Did David Brooks sneak into the ed board’s office and pen this turkey of an editorial?

November 21, 2008, 5:17 pm
A Sarah Palin Thanksgiving
By The Editorial Board

We’ve differed with Sarah Palin a great deal on substance. We don’t agree with her hardline approach to the Iraq War, her harsh anti-government rhetoric, and her style of negative campaigning.

But we also worry a bit about, how should we put it, the persona she has brought with her to national politics. We did not care at all for the swipe she took against community organizers at the Republican National Convention.

And then there’s this. You don’t have to be a huge animal lover to question why Governor Palin chose to be interviewed — while issuing a traditional seasonal pardon of a turkey — while turkeys were being executed in the background.

I guess they’ll all be going tofurkey this Thanksgiving.

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#301

On November 22nd, 2008 at 9:24 pm, 4USA said:

Those that think Palin didn’t know what was behind her in that shot are so stupid. Palin knows where a turkey sandwich comes from and now, so do you idiots making a story out of this interview.

The fact that you morons in the metro are clueless as to how food is made, makes me laugh. Palin is laughing at you too.

If food ever becomes scarce (which it will under this fool Obama), you’ll sell your right arm for someone like Palin that knows how to ‘make’ food. You’re idiots.
#302

On November 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm, Dimsdale said:

I guess they’ll all be going tofurkey this Thanksgiving.

Sounds very apropos: fake turkey for a fake newspaper.
#303

On November 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm, Stillwaiting said:

What is the purpose of a turkey pardon? I thought it was nice little annual PR event aimed at kids. To me, the backdrop of Palin’s interview would not be a problem at any time–except right after the supposed “pardon”. It was not a very smart move on that one day.
#304

On November 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 pm, Stillwaiting said:

Oh…turkey wing meat makes great soup. I wish I had my mom’s recipe, but she never wrote it down.
#305

On November 22nd, 2008 at 11:27 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

What twits these Times turkeys be.

People can be executed. Animals are “put down,” killed, or slaughtered. If God didn’t mean for man to eat animals why did He make them out of meat?

ECS
#306

On November 22nd, 2008 at 11:40 pm, ErinF said:

Can I assume all the people throwing stones at Palin will be eating Tofu-turkey this Thanksgiving?

Mmmmmm… TOFU-TURKEY……
#307

On November 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm, love2rumba said:

The only caveat I would give to Sarah Palin is that from this time forward she has to pay attention to the kind of press she gets or could get, if she has furture ambitions which she apparently does.

Gone are the days when she could just do her job in Alaska and some MSM snob would ignore her…the 2012 campaign (or 2010, if she chooses to take Murkowski’s seat) is ON..she needs to pick (as Napoleon Hill once called her “Master Mind” group of) advisors to get her from point A to point B with as few missteps as possible.
#308

On November 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 am, Jet Jaguar said:

I love animals. They’re delicious!
#309

On November 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 am, Jet Jaguar said:

On November 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm, chapoutier said:

You really don’t understand that mocking is a method of pulling down someone who is potentially dangerous in the future.

Or a method to get easy laughs.

You’ve got to be kidding. The late night gang is licking their chops on what is coming up on the plate from Obama and Biden.

Ratings wise, the Obama victory is the best thing that could have happened to the laugh industry.
#310

On November 23rd, 2008 at 9:19 am, jt3151 said:

If God didn’t mean for man to eat animals why did He make them out of meat?

I love that.
#311

On November 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm, Silkyinfamous said:

That was a dumb location to do a shoot. Who’s her handler?

Seriously.
#312

On November 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm, Silkyinfamous said:

That was a dumb location to do a shoot. Who’s her handler?

Seriously.
#313

On November 24th, 2008 at 1:28 am, RetFireman said:

How could anyone eat this?
#314

On November 24th, 2008 at 12:27 pm, frostrt said:

On November 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 am, Jet Jaguar said:
I love animals. They’re delicious!

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Here, here!
#315

On November 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pm, tpitman said:

It must have been a slow news day when the NYT Editorial Board felt compelled to make the time to issue THAT groundbreaking statement. And what’s with the newscaster warning the young and squeamish viewers about the “splatterfest” about to be shown? He acts like the camera crew caught Sarah Palin swinging a sledgehammer at a cow’s head. They made such a big deal about “blurring out” the gore, but at that distance, for all I could tell, that dude in the background could’ve been giving those turkeys a shampoo. Much ado about nothing, but I guess they want to take any shots they can at Palin.
#316

On November 26th, 2008 at 12:59 pm, IndyRich said:

And that’s considered “Breaking News out of Alaska” in what way??

BTW, we’ll be cooking 3 birds tomorrow (big family).

Hopefully, I’ll be shooting a nice big buck before the end of the weekend, too! Yum-yum!!