Turkey jive: Palin-bashers strike again; Update:NYTimes editorial board decries “executions”
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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.
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 BoardWe’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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Agreed, grid.
God forbid that the economic crisis kicks into overdrive, and these idiots have to go kill their own food to survive.
I’ll bet that turkey starts looking mighty tasty after a few days of scrounging for tofu.
I think the word you wanted has 2 “Ts”, not 2 “Ss”.
Since liberals identify well with turkey’s its no surprise that they get queasy when they find out that they aren’t always wrapped in plastic.
The flaming fantasy panty waist mentality probably contributes some too.
Surprised we haven’t seen any make bombs not turkey’s protests at Uni of Ill.
What’s even more ironic in the NYT’s today are the two turkey gravy recipes in their top 10 most emailed items in their Styles section.
So much for “executions”.
Stopped by a Glenn Beck booksigning ysterday and the parking lot at Books-A-Million was packed! There were tons of Palin bumper stickers, but my favorite was:
Not in ‘o8, but I can wait
Sarah Palin 2012!
Their audience is next to nobody unless they cover Gov Sarah Palin. These tabloid “journalists” cannot help themselves. They HAVE to cover her.
The NYT, speaking of a dying turkey.
Bill Maher did the same thing on Leno earlier this week. Way to stay classy, liberals.
Liberal a-holes think their turkeys are made of Play Doh or something (even I know not all liberals are vegans). Look, if you chow down on your turkey leg on Thursday but you find Palin’s interview distasteful, you are a hypocrite. The only reason why we have these self-righteous animal rights twits at all is because as a culture we are removed from the reality of food production. Steaks came from a steer. Pork chops and bacon came from pigs. Chicken comes from well, a chicken. Your filet of sole once swam around in the sea or a fish farm. When people produced their own food, the big day on the farm was slaughter day. In one of the Little House On The Prairie books, there’s a description of Pa doing the necessary slaughter to produce the meat the family would need for the next several months. Nothing was wasted. Everything was pickled and smoked, or turned into headcheese. The girls took a pig’s bladder, cleaned it out, and made a balloon out of it. Now the “nancy boys” at the NYT shudder at their Butterballs being killed in far more humane way than Pa Ingalls slaughtered his livestock.
We are becoming a nation of jerks and p-words.
You can’t ‘execute’ a turkey. It’s just an animal. A delicious, tasty animal, which was raised to be eaten, with lots of gravy and mashed potatoes, and hopefully cranberry sauce. Here’s a recipe for cranberry sauce:
One bag of fresh cranberries.
Grated rind of one orange.
Juice from the orange, and enough additional to make 1 cup o.j. total.
1 cup sugar.
Combine all the above in a saucepan, bring to boil, and boil gently 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
I like to make it the night before, and refrigerate. It’s fun to watch the berries pop while cooking, and it’s a lot tastier than the stuff from a can.
My recipe :
Gas up the car.
Drive to Mom’s(used to).
Now I drive to my brother’s.
Perfect meal – everytime!
So, can we have an interview with either Capt. Big Ears or maybe His Boy Blunder out in front of an Abortion Center and then ask him if he is aware of what is going on inside the building behind him?
No, of course not. Turkeys slaughtered for eating bad. Babies slaughtered for convenience good. Moral Relativism…it’s what;s for dinner.
I love liberal hypocrisy, it’s what they do best. I wish I had the ability to take a picture of turkey bleeding out the neck like in the background of Palin’s interview and pull a PETA move and show up on every liberal and NYTimes editors doorstep screaming bloody murder and holding up those pictures of dead turkeys. Maybe then they would get a clue… nah, liberalism is a mental disease and it’s already rotted out most of their skulls.
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They are perfectly consistant POV, from the Lefty side.
Dead Turkey: serves a good purpose.
Dead Baby: serves an evil purpose.
See, it is the same equation as:
Free Agency & Liberty: serves a good purpose.
Gov. Tyranny: serves an evil purpose.
There are countless examples of this equation expressing itself among the Lefty-command groups. As proof, can you name one where any good works, (those that expand Free Agency and Liberty,) are the major goal? Never. They make claims, but dig into it and you’ll find it is the thinnest veneer. And most of these movements don’t have even the accidental good works to claim as their own.
Yeh, I know many call it “tinhat”, but their lips make claims of good while their fruits rot of evil.
So, what else to call it? Calling poison “sugar” won’t make it less deadly — though it will make it easier to convince people to swallow it…
Please lefties, keep up the Sarah Palin bashing. Your purple-faced fits and silly attempts to denigrate her make me realize ever more clearly what a truly admirable person she is. I think you are winning thousands of new Palin fans and supporters with every one of your stupid, vicious, attacks. Oh yes, keep it going….in fact, couldn’t you please step it up a bit?
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.
Sounds very apropos: fake turkey for a fake newspaper.
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.
Oh…turkey wing meat makes great soup. I wish I had my mom’s recipe, but she never wrote it down.
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
Can I assume all the people throwing stones at Palin will be eating Tofu-turkey this Thanksgiving?
Mmmmmm… TOFU-TURKEY……
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.
I love animals. They’re delicious!
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.
I love that.
That was a dumb location to do a shoot. Who’s her handler?
Seriously.
That was a dumb location to do a shoot. Who’s her handler?
Seriously.
How could anyone eat this?
On November 23rd, 2008 at 1:51 am, Jet Jaguar said:
I love animals. They’re delicious!
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Here, here!
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.
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!!