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A Sarah Palin Thanksgiving
November 21, 2008, 5:17 pm
By The Editorial Board

We’ve differed with Sarah Palin a great deal on substance ... But we also worry a bit about, how should we put it, the persona she has brought with her to national politics ... And then there’s this. You don’t have to be a huge animal lover to question why Governor Palin chose to be interviewed — while issuing a traditional seasonal pardon of a turkey — while turkeys were being executed in the background ...

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/a-sarah-palin-thanksgiving/

Sarah Palin interview complete with turkey beheadings
By Christopher Poon

... In the video, while she discusses her campaign, future plans, and oil prices, a turkey farmer in the background can be seen processing and beheading turkeys. At one point, Palin mentions that she’ll probably be criticized for being there ...

http://www.straight.com/article-172168/sarah-palin-interview-complete-turkey-beheadings

Palin jokes as turkeys killed
November 23, 2008 12:30am

... in perhaps her worst faux pas yet, she floundered through questions on the economy while an employee at Triple D Farm & Hatchery, near the city of Anchorage, butchered the turkeys not lucky enough to have been granted a pardon. As Ms Palin turned her head slightly to the man shoving the live turkeys down a metal death contraption, she replied: "Oh, this was neat. I was happy to get invited to participate in this ...

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24692984-5006301,00.html

<Outposts ...> Sarah Palin would have looked better hunting a turkey
2:32 PM, November 21, 2008

... Outposts does not even want to know what Palin has in store for a Christmas encore.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2008/11/sarah-palin-wou.html

Sarah Palin Responds to the Turkey Pardon Controversy

... "The <Alaska> governor did not know it was going on behind her," Palin's spokesperson tells ET of the reportedly grisly scene at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla. Cameras captured Palin extending the annual Thanksgiving pardon to one turkey while a farm hand slaughtered the bird's feathered friends in the background.

Palin's spokesperson tells ET the bird butchering wasn't going on when the shot was set up, and a cameraman "ignored" the governor's staff's request to remove the graphic sight once cameras were rolling.

"We're unhappy about it and the station is not happy either," Palin's rep tells ET, adding, "this was an attempt to lighten up and do something non-controversial."

Posted November 21, 2008 2:50:00 PM
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/11/68078/