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Friday 
21 November 2008
Thanksgiving
Let me say right here and now that the thing I’m most thankful for this year is that this woman will not be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
And, just when you thought she couldn’t embarrass herself any more than she already has, here we have the pièce de résistance, a spectacle that elicits the widest range of reactions imaginable, from derisive laughter to horror (concerning the foreground and the background) to tears of relief that we, as a country, dodged this bullet.
Sarah Palin has given yet another gift to the writing staff at Saturday Night Live. They won’t have to come up with hardly anything original for this.
Reporter: So, Gov. Palin, what did you get out of your experience in the campaign?
Palin: A greater appreciation, I think, for what other candidates go through, you know, it’s pretty brutal, the time consumption there, and the energy that has to be spent in order to get out and about with the message on a national level.
Reporter: And why was this pardoning of a turkey so important to you?
Palin: Oh, well, this was neat. I was happy to get to be invited to participate. And, you know, for one, you need a little levity in this job, especially with so much that has gone on in the last couple of months that is so, um, political, obviously, that 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. Certainly, we’ll probably invite criticism for even doing this too. But at least it was fun.
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That someone could callously take a poor, brainless bird and put her through such an inhumane, grueling process is completely immoral.
Sucks to be that turkey, too.
(BTW, showed the video to my boss who got queasy although I did include the words “..while farmer kills turkey” in the email)
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LOL!
Oh, and CNN showed this and blurred out what was going on in the background, so I went to YouTube to find the unedited version.
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You should be more respectful toward the future leader of the Republican party.
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Wow, Kirk’s been visiting us all this time and I had no idea that he is actually McCain Campaign Manager Rick Davis!
jk, of course.
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i started to watch this thing. i mean, it’s all over the internet, and it’s instantly become part of the palin-as-insensate insentient narrative.
but as soon as i clicked play, and the first few syllables came out of her mouth, i had to shut it down.
the sound was too much like what i expected from the turkey-killer 5000 behind her. a high-pitched grinding thing that kills brain cells as well as poultry.
i know how it ends. and i won’t do it.
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ah, fuck. i did it anyway.
it’s the greatest self-satirizing self-parody i’ve ever seen.
the shark jumped the shark, and then devoured itself whole.
price. less.