Turns Out Sarah Palin Was Really Just Giving Us All a Valuable Life Lesson
It amazes me that conservatives are still apologizing for Sarah Palin, even now that the election is over and nobody has to pretend that she's the brilliant genius of intelligent smartness that conservatives had to pretend she was. Can't we just admit that she's a train wreck and move on to things that are less blatantly obvious?
Apparently, not. Here's Redstate's Dan McLaughlin feigning indignation at everyone's amazement over Palin's recently released turkey slasher film…
Folks, this is how farming works: you raise animals, then you kill them and eat them. Here in New York City, we don't get much exposure to the business end of that process, but people across the country who have farmed or hunted know that it's part of life, and has been as long as human beings have been eating animals.
It's not a bad thing to have some people in public life who aren't shocked by where our food comes from.
That's all true. And I am solidly not opposed to killing turkeys for food. In fact, I'm all in favor of it. If nobody was killing turkeys for food, I wouldn't get to eat turkeys as food. And I really like eating turkeys as food.
The real issue here, obviously, isn't that turkeys are killed for food. It's that maybe turkeys being killed for food maybe isn't the absolute best backdrop for a video interview.
But maybe I'm over-reacting. If you think about it, it is sort of refreshing in a salt-of-the-earth, mavericky way. After all, it is just a fact of life that we all should be able to deal with.
You know what? I've changed my mind! I like this. Seriously, I do. In fact, I'd like to see Sarah Palin give more interviews like this. Like, maybe she could give an interview in front of a hospital patient with severe brain damage being removed from life support by her doctor. Or in front of a child being told that he's been diagnosed with Mosaic Down Syndrome. Or in front of a constipated old lady with hemorrhoids trying to move her bowels.
After all, these are all just facts of life. Nothing to be ashamed of. And why not chose them as appropriate backdrops for the state governors to conduct interviews in front of?
Seems like a no-brainer.
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The people who made this video are either completely incompetent or f***ing geniuses.
You can't get folksier than a slaughter house.
Since turkey snuff films are okay with Real America, I don't suppose they will mind me posting a link to some of my friend's BDSM art.
Http://www.eroticartists.org/liquidjadesanctuary
It wasn't just the backdrop, it was what she was SAYING while it was happening.
For example, the comment that "It's pretty brutal" in politics. (Meanwhile the poor turkey is thrashing around for its life).
Then the reporter asks: "Due to declining oil prices, are you concerned about any state programs being on the chopping block?"
Palin responds: "You know, thankfully we're in a good position still."
(Insert more dying sounds).
Palin ends the interview by saying:
"This was neat; I was happy to be able to participate in this. For one, you need a little bit of levity in this job. . . . good to participate in something that isn't so heavy-handed criticism [sic], certainly people will probably invite criticism for even doing this too, but at least this was fun."
This is the effect palin has on me when she talks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Ayq3Q5wFo&feature=related
Great post, Ashley. I'd like to think the videographer and the reporter are "f***ing geniuses." The reporter's questions are carefully worded to set up the absurd counterpoint Palin's answers make with the background action. There could be an award in here for somebody, and it isn't Palin. She's the perfect foil. Or fool. Take your pick.
This is the effect Palin has on me (if you don't feel like waiting, skip to the 6:30 mark and WARNING this is a bit different than poppies)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5sZBylTeuc
Imagine yourself on a 1500 mi. roadtrip with someone you barely know whose car is an ancient volkswagon bug with an 8 track tape player…the only tape said person owns is the soundtrack from the Wizard of Oz and she plays it constantly during this hell trip. She won't let you drive, she won't shut it off. By mile 1400, you're considering murder as you never have before.
Only then will you realize how distressing the feeling I get when I hear any song from that movie. I would say that is about par with your little nightmare.