GAH!

She’s a parody of herself. Did she think it was a short film for SNL? See, that would make sense.

Somewhere, Dr. Temple Grandin is freaking out.

That turkey establishment probably just earned itself a humane-handling violation writeup from whatever state, local or Federal agency is in charge of inspecting it.

Does this remind anyone of anything? Because that’s the first thing Jody thought of when we saw it.

Even without the turkey massacre, just listening to her twittering, stupid voice, sucking every bit of attention from her 15 minutes on the national stage, makes me feel queasy.

I won’t be clicking on the video. Is that a tub of blood she’s standing in front of?

I can’t start missing her if she never leaves.

What raises this from merely stupid-funny to sublimely hilarious are the bizarre unintentional juxtapositions in it–like Palin saying “it’s pretty brutal” as a turkey is being decapitated, or her line about “I’ll probably be criticized for this” (does mockery count as criticism?).

The funniest part is that Palin was so focused on talking that she didn’t even stop to look around before the shot started – nor did she stop even while turkeys were being loudly killed in the background. Can you say oblivious? She may be able to see Russia from Alaska but, I can see the end of her political career from California.

Roald Dahl would have come up with a better ending for this…

Second thought – Cue Les Nessman:

“OH MY GOD! THEY’RE TURKEYS!!!!!”

Crap, didn’t go to TomH’s link ’til after I said that. Preview is my friend…

Great minds, captphealy.

Poor Mike Dukakis can now no longer feel even the teeniest bit of embarassment about his little ride in the tank. She really is her own walking comedy skit. Except they wouldn’t have been able to execute (hee!) it so perfectly.

Is that Burberry(tm) scarf around her neck, or a non-elitist Wal-Mart knock-off?

Great minds, indeed.

The screaming lack of self-awareness, it burns!

Seriously, WTF? Apparently the McSame handlers have run back to DC, leaving her to make do with the local “talent”.

Heh, “Princess Dumbass.”

About. Says. It. All.

Cool. Charles Pierce is very prestigious company.

Um, that last was supposed to be a reply to captphealy @ 16.

It’s unfortunate that this clip doesn’t show her pardoning a turkey immediately before standing next to the slaughter. She’s gone beyond parody and irony.

not since the heyday of professor erwin corey has such baffling bullshit been on the national scene ….. also …

My first thought was someone needs to give her something – she really needs to come down.

There is a version on YouTube taken from the MSNBC coverage, which does include the pardoning.

“As God is my witness, I didn’t know turkeys couldn’t fly”

– the Big Guy

The best unintentional irony in the video is the reporter inquiry about budget items “on the chopping block”. That’s where I lost it.

And she was asked bout those programs “on the chopping block.”

Is everyone from Alaska really stupid?

I heard somewhere last night, I think maybe MSNBC, that the TV cameraman specifically asked her if maybe she wanted a different backdrop because of the slaughter in the background, and she said she was fine right there.

Which means she intentionally stood in front of that scene. Sarah’s way of wishing us all “happy holidays, and fuck you.”

According to David Shuster of MSNBC, Palin was asked if she was OK with the action in the background. She replied “No worries”. I’m not sure if that makes me feel better or worse about this.

I am going boycotting SNL from now on. You know its one thing for them to do those stupid moose jokes. But now, Tina Fey is standing in front of real turkeys being killed. I already wrote an email to PETA urging them to launch a boycott of SNL. Tina Fey has finally gone too far.

this is excruciating but to do her justice (must I?) I think that lots of people (though not, one would think, politicians) don’t think about the background to a shot. She was looking out at something neutral, focusing on the camera and the questions, and in her mind (such as it is) she didn’t grasp that the viewer was going to see anything different from what *she* was seeing. Alternatively, miss moose killer is just very, very, comfortable with blood and guts.

aimai

The lack of self awareness is what secures her position in power. The G-8 summit on world hunger last year dined on a 16 course meal of rare and expensive food. Charlie Gibson of ABC News voicing his thought during the primaries that a middle class income is $250K? The CEOs of Detroit flew to Washington to beg for money on their private planes.
Turkeys being killed in the background while fighting for their lives? Heh. They’re just dumb animals and we can kick them around however we like. Wow! We really have to find a way for the not cruel to survive and take the leadership of this country and this world. It will be the only way we survive.

The guy in the background was doing to the turkeys what Sarah Palin in the foreground was doing to the English language; except he was more humane about it.

Only thing funnier would have been if when the turkey man turned around and grinned he turned out to be Marty Feldman.

Is everyone from Alaska really stupid?

It’s cold and dark most of the day, now. I like to think they just need the comic relief.

Is she wearing a Nieman Marcus or Saks 5th Avenue Jacket? Couldn’t say: I don’t follow the fashion pages.
Still, it makes me wonder, was it really right to put Robert Blake on trial? It wouldn’t have ended that way, not if it’d been written by Hammett or Chandler:
“Sen. McCain leafed through a stack of papers. He turned to face the babe leaning against the night stand and said, “$150,000 for clothes? For you and that gigolo?”
Sarah stood firm, unmoved by the accusation. “I did the campaign you wanted!” she retorted, her hand inching towards the .45 laying on top of the Bible.
“$150,000?” repeated McCain, sticking his hands in his jacket pockets, ” I killed widows and orphans for a lot less than that.”
“Yeah?” said Sarah, “Well, I didn’t have the opportunity of napalming slopes for a living. The best Icould do was shooting caribou and grinding them up for saudage. Weren’t no unemployment checks if the salmon run was dry that year.”
McCain didn’t even pretend to wipe away a tear. As if he saw it coming, he pulled the snub nose blue steel revolver with the mother of pearl handles out of his bath robe as Sarah’s hand gripped the automatic. Almost reflexively, he pointed, aimed and fired, shattering the bridge of her glasses and sending a couple of bullets through the bridge of her nose and an eye and into her brain. Sarah squeeled as she fell, dropping the .45 onto the bed.
“Grifters.” muttered McCain, slipping the .32 back into the bathrobe with his left hand as he brought out a cell phone with his right…

Great little fanfic. As for the jacket, I certainly HOPE it isn’t Neiman’s or Saks, because it looked quite Members Only (which we’ve already seen her sporting when she greets AIP members)on my TeeVee

lol .. pretty good bc .. but no one makes a .32 revolver that i know of .. the little boogers have always been semi-autos .. they look like a scaled down .45 .. now .. ya could’ve written in a little “.32 vest pocket derringer” into the scene ..

gahhhh .. hollywood ..

Publicity is to Sarah Palin what bug zappers are to mosquitoes.

You get the feeling that the turkeys were fighting to be next in line just to escape her voice.

Having seen this clip from several sources, I wanted to compete for space, with the losing turkey, in the nearest gas oven. Mine. Anybody’s.

To soitnly, “Publicity is to Sarah Palin what bug zappers are to mosquitoes.” You’re now post-Warhol. Congratulations!

She may be able to see Russia from Alaska but, I can see the end of her political career from California.

win . . . .