Palin pardons turkey, while cameras show others slaughtered

[Termite]

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) - Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to a turkey, but the video that shocks some viewers captured what was happening in the background of her news conference.

As she answered questions Thursday at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla, cameras from the Anchorage Daily News and others showed the bloody work of an employee slaughtering birds.

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[sarcasm]I'm shocked, shocked I say, to find out that turkey sandwich meat doesn't magically appear in my grocer's deli all neatly wrapped in cellophane. [/sarcasm]

I swear, I think a requirement for HS graduation should be that each student has to slaughter, dress & clean, and cook a chicken. I'd exempt kids for religious reasons(Hindu, etc), but not just because "it's gross".

Man, the increasing number of stupid and ignorant people is going to FUBAR this nation.

[FelixEstrella]

Well, where's the video? I want to see turkeys being slaughtered. I'm hungry.

[SoupOrMan]

Those poor, poor turkeys. Why couldn't it happen to those damn flying rats known as canada geese instead?

[Fivetoes]

Classic turkey funniness:

"It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!"

[Netpackrat]

They must have missed the part where she only pardoned the Republican turkeys.

[SoupOrMan]

Classic turkey funniness:

"It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!"

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

[mekender]

somehow people must have not known how turkeys get on your plate...

total shocker that they get killed...

[Catbird]

Classic turkey funniness:

"It's a helicopter, and it's coming this way. It's flying something behind it, I can't quite make it out, it's a large banner and it says, uh - Happy... Thaaaaanksss... giving! ... From ... W ... K ... R... P!! No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!"

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

>>>VIDEO<<<

[308Mike]

Well, where's the video? I want to see turkeys being slaughtered. I'm hungry.

It wasn't that big of a deal, here's the video I watched. You don't really see much other than th guy holding the turkey upside down to drain the blood after snipping off the head.

I tried to post a screen capture, but the forum software won't let.

Let's see if I can get it to show from Photobucket:

[Drone 7 of lots more]

And what would be the point of pardoning one, if the rest don't die?