Media Shocked To Discover How Farming Works


They Prefer Unemployed Farmers. Better News Angle.

In a perfect emblem of (1) how insular the media really is and (2) the national spotlight that will continue to focus on the Governor of Alaska wherever she goes, Sarah Palin did one of those typical silly ceremonies politicians across the country get asked to take part in, and went and pardoned a turkey in advance of Thanksgiving. But while the President has a turkey brought to him, Gov. Palin went to the turkey, handing down the pardon from a barnyard in Wasilla, then giving a news conference to reporters.

Why did this end up in the national news, including a sneering report on MSNBC? Well, the turkey farm went on with its usual business this time of year of slaughtering turkeys for Thanksgiving tables, and cameras caught a farm employee doing just that in the background while Gov. Palin talked to reporters:

The NY Daily News pronounced this a “shocking video”.

(You can catch the longer video of the whole pardon ceremony from the NY Post, although the Post’s video – via the Anchorage Daily News – has to keep panning away from Gov. Palin to follow the guy slaughtering turkeys).

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.


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That is funny...n/t

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 12:42PM EST (link)

n/t

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

Somebody somewhere noted that the guy kept looking around...

Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 12:45PM EST (link)

…visibly wondering whether he should be doing his job while the cameras were rolling.

Personally, I would have added a few loud KER-CHUNKS! to the audio – no sense in showing a hit piece unless you’re ready to go full bore on it.

 
 

People shocked where their comes from...

jcheney Friday, November 21st at 12:54PM EST (link)

…because, most of us are used to getting our meat in those little plastic packages.

Even though most people still eat meat, folks have subconsciously bought into the whole PETA thing.

It’s a shame that the extremists have made meat eaters feel guilty.

 

Animal Lover and Meat Eater

Scope (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 12:56PM EST (link)

I figure if I don’t see what I am going to eat walking around in front of me I’m OK.

BTW- Thanks Aaron for your words of wisdom last night. I appreciated you explaining the lay of the land. Good advice.

I am sorry Moe, I didn’t mean to misbehave.

Moe...

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 12:57PM EST (link)

It would have been great if he had “accidentally” lost control of one of the Turkeys during the process…head danglin’ from the neck while it runs in circles…makes me miss my youth..and my Grandpa’s sense of humor…odd….;^)

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

 
 

This reminds me of something

itsonlywords (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:02PM EST (link)

I once heard on a local talk radio program. The host, John Carlson, was interviewing two young PETA activists, Jason and Jennifer. They were advocating for a vegetarian diet and Jennifer commented that when she was nine years old, she realized that when she ate chicken, it was actually a chicken.

Okay, I thought she was a little slow on the uptake but whatever. Then she went on to say that most people don’t realize that their meat comes from animals. At the time I wondered how many screws she actually had loose, but after seeing the response to this “shocking” video, I can only believe that the answer is, maybe not anymore than the idiots in the media.

Tu ne cede malis sed contra audientor ito. ~Virgil
Do not give in to evil, but proceed evermore boldly against it.

I like PETA.

NightTwister (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:06PM EST (link)

People Eating Tasty Animals.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

 
 

Reminds me of an old joke...

Steve Maley (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:07PM EST (link)

Woman, in butcher’s shop: “Tongue? OMG, I could never eat anything that had been in an animal’s mouth! Better just give me a dozen eggs!”

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

 

Running around like a chicken with your head cut off...

izoneguy (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:07PM EST (link)

…where do the libs think Turkey dinners come from?

The same places they find all that tax money from?

You have to kill a Turkey to have a Thanksgiving feast.

Now the business’s of America are becoming the Turkeys.

Once they kill the Turkeys for taxes how will they make new

Turkeys?

I still have vivid memories of my grandmother on her farm.

She raised chickens and when it was the chickens time,

she would step on the chickens head – pull – and

the chicken would run around for a few minutes with

no head – hence the saying. As young children, my

brothers and I took great delight in chasing the headless

chickens. Once they stopped we gathered them up and

we started plucking feathers. In a few hours we would be

eating freshly roasted chicken for dinner.

I can’t wait until the dems start running around like chickens

with their heads cut off. I will be waiting – ready to pluck,

boil and roast.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

Scope...

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:09PM EST (link)

Did you go back and read the last one?….just wondering cause you didn’t respond….Also if you want to apologize to Moe I would put his name in the title of the comment so it doesn’t appear as an afterthought…anyhow glad to give advice and hope you have a long life here.

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

 
 

What about canned corn?

Jeff Woehrle Friday, November 21st at 1:13PM EST (link)

How about the carnage that is Green Giant canned corn? Have you even seen that process? Young ears of innocent corn are stripped of their kernels via evil capitalist machination.

Sickening…

 

I Am Sorry Moe

Scope (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:18PM EST (link)

Please forgive me for misbehaving.

Hahahaha

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:21PM EST (link)

5

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

No worries. People were all throwing down in that thread pretty hard.

Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:26PM EST (link)

Which I wouldn’t mind seeing less of in general, if folks catch my drift. Consider it already forgotten.

I walked away from it last night

Scope (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:27PM EST (link)

Aaron- I read your comment this morning, and by the time I came back the thread was thankfully gone. Thanks again, and, I do enjoy reading the diaries on here. I have learned alot, and don’t wish to be banned.

 
 
 
 

That's nothing.

mbecker908 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:29PM EST (link)

We used to live in northern Delaware. DuPont had a plant where, late at night trucks would roll in, filled to over-capacity with little helpless virgin Vinyls. Cute little critters. Ripped away from their mothers at the secret farms where they are bred for their skin.

The trucks would disgorge their helpless charges and they would be skinned alive, their little bodies burned in high temp furnaces to remove all traces of the hideous process. When the wind was blowing in the right direction, their pitiful screams would wake us up late at night.

Joe Biden knows all about this, we lived right around the corner from where he lived in Hockessin (Wilmington suburb). The media covered up this atrocity so BO could get elected.

We need to act!

SAVE THE VINYLS.

 

That's hilarious.

Buzz Brockway (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:36PM EST (link)

It wouldn’t surprise me to find Palin wanted that guy to be slaughtering turkeys in the background just to rile up the east coast leftists.

 

Reminds me of a Monty Python video

Bill S (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:39PM EST (link)

He should be beating a rug with the turkey.

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

Grew up in Elkton MD

DONTREADONME (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:41PM EST (link)

Had no idea, those kinds of atrocities were going on over the border in DE. I am shocked and disgusted.

I can not believe I have had vinyl that was not free range.

Agree, Moe

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:42PM EST (link)

I thought some of our esteemed regulars were showing less than their best Sunday manners that day.

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

 
 
 

Not only is it a good dose of reality

1SGinTN (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:42PM EST (link)

in terms of food processing, it gives a stark example of the utility of a pardon.

I’m not a preacher, but I could almost make a sermon out of it.

Tu Ne Cede Malis
-Virgil

 

My favorite thing about this

jeffreywturner (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:48PM EST (link)

Don’t you love it how the liberal media is so horrified at the way turkeys are slaughtered in order to provide food for people, but they seem to be just fine with the way innocent babies are slaughtered in partial birth abortions when they are pulled from the womb by their little kicking legs, only to have those little legs go limp as the baby’s neck is intentionally snapped by a person who took an oath to “first, do no harm”?

“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”

 

My "How To Properly Gut and Butcher A Deer" video

Jack_Savage (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:50PM EST (link)

I guess I might not want to put that on YouTube now. And to think I was doing it as a public service.

Remember – there’s always room for animals. Right beside the green beans.

BS 54 seconds in....

Attack Mode (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 1:50PM EST (link)

“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy

conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!

Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger

“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.

You think that's bad

Naqamel (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:01PM EST (link)

Wait until you see what they do to those poor little Nuagas to make Naugahyde…

Of course killing babies is humane

antisocial (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:09PM EST (link)

compared to these “animal atrocities”. These guys are “nice” people with a heart. I don’t know whether to laugh or bang my head against the wall. Of course that’s how food makes its way to dinner tables. I would love it if these guys go all vegetarian.

Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
—————————–
What is to be done?
——————————
No. You can’t – Moe Lane
——————————
The Emperor has no clothes!!!

 
 
 
 

Media Is Scared To Death Of Her

Sarracuda Friday, November 21st at 2:18PM EST (link)

WOW, the media is absolutely SCARED TO DEATH OF THIS WOMAN, because she is gonna run against their beloved false prophet Obama. I have never seen anything like this EVER, the liberal media is scared to death of her, I LOVE IT. Liberals don’t know where food comes from, they expect it all to show up in their laps when their maids bring it home from the market. Sarah is SO REAL, usually Presidents have the turkeys brought to THEM, Sarah goes TO the turkey. She is SO awesome and when she said “no worries” thats not a politician talking, that’s a regular person talking. she is real, she is legit, she hunts moose, goes fishing, and doesn’t mind going to a slaughterhouse. HEY MEDIA, THE MORE U MOCK HER THE MORE LOVE SHE IS GONNA GET SO KEEP IT UP!! They hate her because she is happy, she has a wonderful life, while their lives are crap. They are SO jealous of her it’s hilarious

You should see the machine they put the moose in

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:19PM EST (link)

(Yes, I know. I just liked the mental image.)

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

 
 

I love how she says that "this will probably be criticized, too" in the vid

aesthete (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:20PM EST (link)

and what do you know… it is!

Very funny vid. Love it!

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton

 

I like it when she chooses the setting

tsil (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:22PM EST (link)

I prefer this Sarah Palin much more to the one who showed up on that dopey skit show, or was subjected to oral exams from the drive-by media, or the one who had to try to prop up her running mate for 10 weeks.

Film at 11:00

Next93 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:44PM EST (link)

I’m surprised MSNBC hasn’t “enhanced” the image to show the turkeys being waterboarded.

Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.

 
 

Turkey ??

olsmithie (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:54PM EST (link)

Roasted, fried, smoked, ground, soup, sandwiched, hash…

What did I miss?

Also perfect when cozied up to large baked sweet potato”e”.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Regards

 

That's funny, I don't care who ya are!

Darin_H (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 2:59PM EST (link)

Poor guy was just trying to do his job and go home. I love how he looks around a bit. Those turkeys won’t slaughter themselves!

Those same people who have a problem with Gov Palin doing this better not be enjoying any light meat, dark meat or real gravy next Thursday.

We lived about a mile from a turkey farm when I was a boy, when the wind would switch direction a few times a summer, the smell was something awful – ever smelled the excrement of a couple thousand turkeys baked by the hot Colorado sun?

A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls

Smells like Congress?

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:09PM EST (link)

nt

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

 
 

I don't think this reflects poorly on Gov Palin, I just think its hilarious

I was a retread named Zombie Flanders / randomkid. Friday, November 21st at 3:12PM EST (link)

…actually let me amend that. I don’t think that the fact that she would have an interview there reflects poorly on her as a person, but it reflects poorly on her politicking abilities…because a serious interview, in which she is trying to get out her message or whatever, suddenly becomes a punchline and nobody even knows what she was talking about because everyone is watching the background.

But that just makes her a worse politician, not a worse person.

 

Comedians Will Eat This Up

dld1717 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:15PM EST (link)

This is just another way to mock Palin by comedians

Ya know,

Darin_H (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:20PM EST (link)

it’s probably pretty similar.

Advantage: Turkeys.

A visionary coward says that anger can be power, as long as there’s a victim on TV – Flat Top, Goo Goo Dolls

lol

1SGinTN (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:22PM EST (link)

nt

Tu Ne Cede Malis
-Virgil

Thanks!

Bob_Frazier (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:29PM EST (link)

My first good political laugh during the transition period! Thanks!

I just wish we had republicans with enough courage to “Just say no” to a pardon.

Lets cook it, and eat it, and have the best Thanksgiving Day feast ever!

“I have eaten animal flesh, and I have enjoyed it!” -Mr. Spock

Carrot Juice is Murder

Finrod (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:34PM EST (link)

Been a long time since I heard this via Dr. Demento:

I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables

Watching their skins being peeled

Grated and steamed with no mercy

How do you think that feels

Carrot juice constitutes murder

Greenhouses prisons for slaves

It’s time to stop all this gardening

Let’s call a spade a spade

Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?

I'm glad someone got the joke! :-)

Bill S (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 3:41PM EST (link)

But now I have that song from Spamalot! running through my head…

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

But it's the dumb Obama voters

Scope (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 4:22PM EST (link)

Sarracuda- I couldn’t agree with you more, she is a total threat to the lefties, and, unfortunately, some self identified conservatives as well, like Parker for example. What bothers me is that we need to turn some Blue people Red, and, they will listen to these assinine false stories and believe them. Remember, like those in the poll that didn’t know why they voted for Obama. But then again, I don’t think it will take too long for them to realize that they really aren’t going to get all the freebies he promised. Instead they will be cutting grass or picking up garbage off the streets as part of his community service edicts.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Palin criticism

Kyle-MI (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 4:29PM EST (link)

Why are they pardoning perfectly good turkeys in Alaska? I can somewhat understand the silly custom in the White House, but I expect better from our friends in the rugged north. I have never heard of any other governors doing this, although it wouldn’t surprise me if this is fairly common.

And I mourn the Faux Mink herds

Loren Heal (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 4:33PM EST (link)

that have been slaughtered by the cold, greedy hand of Man to make Faux Mink fur.

[Shudder]


Join the Concord Project, and follow @lheal, if you dare.

It's a first for me, been here 35 years

Achance (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 4:35PM EST (link)

and if another Gov, even the Democrats, ever pardoned a turkey, I never heard about it. Maybe it was all that time she spent back east.

In Vino Veritas

The TRUTH about Naugas

Erick Brockway (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 4:44PM EST (link)

A common misconception about the nauga is that they are horribly skinned much as is currently done with the vinyl. This couldn’t be farther from the truth!

The small chameleon-like animals known as Naugas™ have long been known as the source of beautiful and durable fabrics that look like fine, soft leather. And since Naugas shed their hydes without harm to themselves, the fabrics they help make came to be known as Naugahyde®, The Cruelty Free Fabric™.

Suicidal naugas could of course reasonably be eaten, but they taste like chicken and as we already have so many other foods which taste like the venerable yardbird (rattlesnake, everything else unidentifiable on a plate at my grandma’s house), low profits preclude the nauga from our grocery stroes.

I've seen it.

Next93 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 5:42PM EST (link)

That would be a moosetrap, right/

Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.

Don't forget the ever-popular turkey jerky

Next93 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 5:48PM EST (link)

Tough, but alliterative.

Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.

Actually...

Next93 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 5:53PM EST (link)

The farmers in the midwest have been working on a self-slaughtering turkey.

They show them tapes of The View and then hand each one a box cutter.

Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.

Serious interview?

Next93 (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 5:54PM EST (link)

She had JUST PARDONED A TURKEY. How serious is the interview that follows that going to be?

Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you think that beheading a turkey is bad, just try to

janis (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 6:06PM EST (link)

cram 4 pounds of cornbread dressing into a brick of tofu. Gruesome, I tell you, just gruesome.

Reporters should have to watch a video of a beef slaughterhouse before they order those pricey filet mignons at a business lunch. Or a pig farm before they order ribs–smell included. They would be fainting right and left.

She did say it was an invitation

Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 6:15PM EST (link)

so it may have been the turkey farm’s idea.

“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill

 
 

The video and comments

redpeginabluehole Friday, November 21st at 7:36PM EST (link)

have made my day…I can only hope that while she governs Alaska with integrity and a clear sense of purpose, that she continues to outsmart, outmaneuver, and outflank the media. Take one more look at that tape…the worker not only looked back at her several times, but nodded his head in agreement when she spoke of how great it was to be out supporting local business. Right on…

Didn't know there even was a turkey farm

Achance (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 7:42PM EST (link)

in Alaska. We ain’t much on that agriculture stuff – except the legendary Matanuska Thunderf#$k pot. Only the Maui stuff is better, or so I’ve been told. Oh, and we do really good horse radish and potatoes, catnip too. You just can’t make enough money growing stuff to actually live here without some serious subsidy, so mostly it all comes on the barge or in the container and we buy it at Safeway.

In Vino Veritas

 
 

Do the turkeys have large talons?

Bill S (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 8:05PM EST (link)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 

Cold Cold Cold

Scope (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 8:35PM EST (link)

After this story broke about Palin pardoning a turkey, I thought, how can anything grow and thrive in Alaska with such cold temperatures, especially poultry. Low and behold, there really is a poultry farm in Alaska. Don’t know what farm Palin was at when she taped her pardon but-

http://www.alaskatripled.com/about_us.html

Apparently there is a family of five that run a thriving poultry business. And, they are antiobiotic free.

lol

emgbane (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 10:22PM EST (link)
 

lack of violence desensitizing our population.

Michael DeWeese (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 10:45PM EST (link)

Home Economics should include killing, dressing and preparing a chicken or frog legs from scratch. People have become desensitized to the violence that they live by and think they are pacifists just because they are a few steps removed from the death of their food.

 

Scare Tactic

kogmedia Saturday, November 22nd at 5:51AM EST (link)

It’s a subliminal scare-tactic… a warning to all who oppose Sarah Palin’s bid for presidency in 2012

www.kogmedia.com

 

Wow, Like I said. She will be front and center.

Joel Farnham (Diary) Saturday, November 22nd at 8:52AM EST (link)

Palin is not going away. The Media in Palin Derangement Syndrome will constantly and consistantly go out of its way to try to mock her and smash her.

In so doing, she will have the United States as her audience and people won’t have any trouble knowing her positions and the way she governs.

The rest aren’t going to be front and center no matter how good they govern. She is a star.

Call me what you want, just don’t call me late for dinner.