"For One, You Need A Little Bit Of Levity In This Job"

[...] Sarah and Joe the Tukey Executioner share some screen timeTags: video funny 2008_election republicans thanksgiving alaska Now, instead of speaking front of thousands of people at political rallies, Sarah Palin is giving interviews in front of some guy slaughtering turkeys. I don't know what's more funny - the guy staring at the camera or when later he goes about his business silently in the background. [...]

If you think turkeys being slaughtered is funny, it would still be funny without Sarah Stalin in the foreground. But she could have babbled her nonsense with the Aristocrats doing their family act in the background and it wouldn't have been funny. I think Campaign 2008 completely destroyed my ability to see the humor in appalling, vicious stupidity.

Derek, I've been around both large industrial scale and small scale poultry processing operations. Even had a board committee meeting once at Polyface Farms as they were processing chickens. Joel Salatin, the owner, carried on a wide ranging, complex discussion over an hour while gutting chickens (unlike Palin he spoke in complete sentences). My board chair noted that he never took longer than 40 seconds per bird.
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On another point, you might want to click on the link. Polyface is one of the most innovative, and most profitable, animal agriculture operations in the nation.

This video should be used to illustrate "oblivious" in all future dictionaries. (see also "clueless")

wvng:
I read about Polyface Farms in The Omnivore's Dilemma. Joel Salatin seems like a real visionary, as well as a decent, intelligent guy. Assuming you left with a processed bird, how did it taste?

Has the guy cutting the turkey throats signed a book deal yet?

@coffee#9: *SNAP!*
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@SGW: You're correct. Queen D's word salad is priceless, especially given the questions: "...so Governor, what budget items are on the CHOPPING BLOCK?..." Ha!
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Simply hilarious. Also.

And everyone knows that only real Americans who believe in America and want to get those ideas and businesses going bring their Starbucks to the slaughterhouse.

"I just remembered the Simpsons episode with Troy McClure taking a young boy on a tour of a slaughterhouse"
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I never saw that but I do remember him from such educational films as "Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun" and "Fuzzy Bunny's Guide To You-Know-What"

heck: "Assuming you left with a processed bird, how did it taste?" They are excellent. As are the eggs from the chicken mobile. Never tried his beef or pork.
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Joel really is a visionary, and really is a very decent guy. He wants to see farms survive and be profitable. For those who are interested, he is not a "green" farmer per se. He is a "maxmizing net profit" farmer. His genius is in placing the most animal units per acre of land that anyone does, and in not harming the land in the process. I vividly remember a farm tour there a decade ago. Middle of a hot dry summer. Most every farm was parched, grass drying up. And his farm was lush and grass growing because of all the organic matter in his soil to hold moisture.
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But back to ridiculing Palin. And anticipating some SNL genius.

But back to ridiculing Palin. And anticipating some SNL genius.

Absolutely. This is as good as Bass-O-Matic. Or Dan Akroyd's faux ad for the streak restaurant where "you pick 'em, you stun 'em, you cut 'em up."

Part of the funny is she's standing there with her Burberry scarf, Kawasaki rimless glasses and a cup of $4 Starbucks coffee. The Sarah of 6 months ago could stand there with some authenticity, but our gal has seen the big city and looted the Neiman Marcuses, and the turkey killing fields of Alaska ain't gonna hold her back. (cue inspirational music)

It's ok, nobody liked Bob anyway.

More evidence to support that she is oblivious to what most rational people see as obvious.
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SNL couldn't have written a script as good as this reality TV.

wvng: A "maximize net profit" farmer? At the expense of the animals and the consumer I presume. At least it sounds like he's getting the environment angle right - except that he's not "green". Ever read Mad Cowboy by Howard Lyman? Good read on the subject.

Thanks SP and MS for reminding me why I'm vegetarian.

Quick, try to imagine Palin having in-depth policy discussions with Obama's Foreign Policy team (see Joe's post) or his Economic advisors. Now try with McCain.
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I get the feeling that they'd be the turkey in the background.

Is this a clip from Christopher Guest's next mockumentary?

dunedweller - no no no, not at the expense of the animals. Certainly no more so than any agricultural operation, and much much less than most. The poultry are pastured in the open air, the cattle are pastured using a rotational grazing system that gives them the best of the grass and keeps the land healthy. Not remotely at the expense of the consumer. These are healthy animals raised in the best of conditions. Until they get eaten.
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The reason I say not "green" is that he doesn't use a lot of the conservation practices, like riparian buffers, to protect local waterways.

I can't listen to Sarah Palin talk anymore.

Wow. Where do I start? Hvell! Where can I start?
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I've had to kill a chicken or two (ducks, too) but I always kinda felt it was the least pleasant chore.
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There's a thin line between necessity and pleasure, and usually, this is the side of food processing most never see. Palin's ramblings combined with the background "activities" could be interpreted as a work of art; a study in incongruity; a diplay of contrast.
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This is unadulteratedly bizarre.
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Happy Turkey Day...

Somehting to get sgw agitated again.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/21/12102/896/904/664224

One of the odd things about this episode is that someone suggested to her that this was not a good backround (the camera man, I think), and she brushed him off, and went ahead with the interview in front of the turkeys being slaughtered. Is this a weird but successful attempt at gaining national coverage? Is being laughed at better than being ignored?

53_3, I think you hit on it. This is performance art.

I like that. "...(Weasel (CT)..."
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However, wvng, mustellids everywhere will be lusting for a vengeful nip on your person for perpetrating that slur...

fiddlesticks!
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...perpetuating...
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You're a rock, they're a rock, I'm a warm rock too...