Sarah Palin pardons turkey

You can find the videos of this by searching it up on youtube. It is kinda weird that Palin is doing this since the old photos of her holding the rifle. So Palin will kill a moose, but save a turkey that has been so genetically modified that their life span is less that 3 years anyways.hmm

by Frank James

Gov. Sarah Palin's turkey-pardoning photo op was not the kind you'd see at the White House, to say the least. Here in Washington, the idea of these annual events is to leave everyone feeling warm and fuzzy.

But we're talking Alaska here. And we're talking Palin, so you expect things to be a little different. And they were. This may be the only turkey-pardoning photo-op where you actually see turkeys slaughtered.

MSNBC had video of the actual pardoning ceremony on its Countdown show last night.

This photo op is so bizarre it makes you wonder if it's a hoax, if two videos were actually edited together.

How any politician's staff would allow their boss to do an "availability" against a backdrop of turkeys shuddering as their necks are snapped is really about as mind-boggling as it gets.


There's something to be said for keeping it real, for showing people the way turkeys get to Thanksgiving tables.

But politicians' availabilities are meant for getting their message out. It's hard to do that when people are distracted by turkeys doing death kicks in the background.