Thank goodness you didn't repost the turkey interview! Yeah, she's dumb... but I'm so sick of seeing her on my friends' page! The chuckle only goes so far.
here's the thing about the turkey interview--I don't think it means SHE'S dumb. (although she's still about as bright as a bag full of dead lightbulbs) I think it means her handlers and PR people are stupider than rocks.
But then again, it is Alaska--home of aerial hunts and hunting for provisions. My mom used to wring chicken necks. My friends still gig for frogs.
While it wasn't a pretty interview, I'd hate to think we're being so hypocritical as to insist that we not be reminded that for all our joy and nummy treats on Thanksgiving, that bird had to die somehow.
Oh, I completely understand about knowing where your food comes from. But Palin still thinks she's going to run for President one day. She knows she's still being watched-- she WANTS to be watched. So giving an interview while animals are being slaughtered behind her? It just says to me SHE doesn't care that it will violently turn off many people.
Someone said during the campaign that she belittles and disregards things she doesn't understand or doesn't agree with. This, to me, is another example of that. It would have been painless and simple for her to take five steps in another direction, or just turn around. She was even asked directly if she really wanted that as a backdrop. She said she was fine. She was fine with live turkeys being fed into a machine behind her while she spoke. Most of us are hypocritical when it comes to our food. I know I am. There are things I won't eat on principle, but I'll eat turkey. I just don't want to see it die. And I think that's how many, if not most people, feel.
If she needs handlers to make even that clear to her, that's just sad.
While I hesitate to think that the woman is this bright, it could be her very subtle way of saying "you know, non-vegan America, you're really all a bunch of hypocrites." A huge proportion of people have no idea where meat comes from. They see pictures in books of cute fluffy lambs gamboling in a meadow with their mothers. Same with calves and piglets, only not so fluffy. The reality of factory farms is rarely even hinted at, much less brought home the way it was in this video. THAT was what she had pardoned mr turkey from. He's probably still going to be crammed into a small cage with 17 of his closest friends, but at least he's not going to be upended into a decapitator, drained, and flung onto a pile of others.
If you (general use, not personal) don't want to see the animal die, maybe you shouldn't be eating it. If we all had to have a hand in raising, killing and dressing our food, perhaps we'd have a little more respect for life in general. I know I was a lot happier about being a carnivore before I did some research into factory farms and the food industry in general. It was a lot easier to separate that sterile piece of meat nicely wrapped and displayed from that bird with feathers wandering around the petting zoo. On one level, I keep thinking "oh, man, could she NOT have chosen a better place to stand? That's just gross" but on another, I can't help but think it's a good idea to be reminded of reality from time to time. I still don't care for Sarah Palin's politics, though.
I think you're according her a subtlety she doesn't possess. Also, if that IS the point she's trying to make, it's come out of nowhere. Has she ever spoken up for animal rights? Has she ever spoken up for Americans knowing where their food comes from? No. But she has demonstrated an appalling lack of political savvy on numerous occasions.
If you're courting the American electorate, you don't bash them over the head with graphic violence, no matter what the source.
And water is wet. She's either a puppethead or a genius of propaganda.
The turkey debacle underscores what American politics are all about - shaking your hand with its right and strangling you with its left. And all you can do is stare with lurid fascination the whole time.
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Date: 2008-11-21 10:43 pm (UTC)Say it again.
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Date: 2008-11-21 09:32 pm (UTC)But then again, it is Alaska--home of aerial hunts and hunting for provisions. My mom used to wring chicken necks. My friends still gig for frogs.
While it wasn't a pretty interview, I'd hate to think we're being so hypocritical as to insist that we not be reminded that for all our joy and nummy treats on Thanksgiving, that bird had to die somehow.
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Date: 2008-11-21 10:41 pm (UTC)Someone said during the campaign that she belittles and disregards things she doesn't understand or doesn't agree with. This, to me, is another example of that. It would have been painless and simple for her to take five steps in another direction, or just turn around. She was even asked directly if she really wanted that as a backdrop. She said she was fine. She was fine with live turkeys being fed into a machine behind her while she spoke. Most of us are hypocritical when it comes to our food. I know I am. There are things I won't eat on principle, but I'll eat turkey. I just don't want to see it die. And I think that's how many, if not most people, feel.
If she needs handlers to make even that clear to her, that's just sad.
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Date: 2008-11-21 11:49 pm (UTC)A huge proportion of people have no idea where meat comes from. They see pictures in books of cute fluffy lambs gamboling in a meadow with their mothers. Same with calves and piglets, only not so fluffy. The reality of factory farms is rarely even hinted at, much less brought home the way it was in this video.
THAT was what she had pardoned mr turkey from. He's probably still going to be crammed into a small cage with 17 of his closest friends, but at least he's not going to be upended into a decapitator, drained, and flung onto a pile of others.
If you (general use, not personal) don't want to see the animal die, maybe you shouldn't be eating it. If we all had to have a hand in raising, killing and dressing our food, perhaps we'd have a little more respect for life in general. I know I was a lot happier about being a carnivore before I did some research into factory farms and the food industry in general. It was a lot easier to separate that sterile piece of meat nicely wrapped and displayed from that bird with feathers wandering around the petting zoo.
On one level, I keep thinking "oh, man, could she NOT have chosen a better place to stand? That's just gross" but on another, I can't help but think it's a good idea to be reminded of reality from time to time.
I still don't care for Sarah Palin's politics, though.
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Date: 2008-11-22 12:03 am (UTC)If you're courting the American electorate, you don't bash them over the head with graphic violence, no matter what the source.
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Date: 2008-11-22 02:46 pm (UTC)The turkey debacle underscores what American politics are all about - shaking your hand with its right and strangling you with its left. And all you can do is stare with lurid fascination the whole time.