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But… But, Turkeys Come in Plastic!Except on TV. Where they sometimes get to talk. I think the really funny thing, taking into consideration the well-known fact that Sarah Palin has not only shot but gutted the food that graced her family’s table, is the reaction of MSNBC’s David Shuster as someone else does the work for him:
Because apparently, David Shuster thought that Thanksgiving turkeys came from the supermarket. This is literally beyond parody. For me, anyway. Thankfully, Tim Blair is up to the task. As is Ann Althouse. 21 comments to But… But, Turkeys Come in Plastic! |
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Looks like the DNC Hunter/Killer squads are still at work. What is it they are so afraid of I’m wondering?
LOL!! They (the MSNBC girly-men) would have hated watching my grandmother wringing the necks of chickens in her yard for our lunch. It’s hard for me to believe there are actual people who are this dumb…and actual people who are offended by the video. There must be some sort of mind control going on in this country.
Oh, Miss Birdlegs, there is indeed. Americans are divided between those who know darn well where our food comes from originally, and those who hide from the knowledge. This Shuster guy is 180 degrees different from both Sarah and her husband. They know that men and women are born carnivores, and, well, that’s what we are, except for a small, pallid minority who eat only veggies, bless their hearts.
I figger that the politically correct press is not going to leave Sarah alone because she is pro-life and an effective popular governor of a large state which is located far from wussy-land, where they live. And they’re terrified of her popularity among those of us in flyover country who know that if you want turkey for Thanksgiving, somebody has to kill it first. It’s kinder to the bird.
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all.
Marianne
Heh. My Italian grandmother could pop the head off a chicken then hang it from the clothesline to bleed out and drain while stripping the feathers from the twitching carcass. Fascinating. And I still like chicken. I never cared much for turkey. So this year it’ll be a crown rib roast ……
And those wussies should go visit a packing plant sometime if they want to be (faux) horrified. Well duh…. where DO they think their turkey burgers come from? (Or hamburgers or smoked brats or honey baked) The grocery store? COSTCO? Star Trek replicator? So sterile that…..
From watching the video it doesn’t look like anything actually happens to the turkey. On several occasions the turkey comes out and its still moving but there is no blood or such to indicate any “fowl” play.
Anyone with more hands one experience able to shed some light on this?
Hey, I get my Turkey and ground beef at the store.
Seriously, Althouse says what needs to be said. Candya**es indeed!
I like Turkey, but a sugar cured Country Ham is better. Far more taste.
Blair is right about the NYT. It is being fed to a bankruptcy machine. Too bad for them. It’s much deserved if they won’t straighten up and start telling the truth instead making it fir their own deranged outlook on life.
The New York Times is no longer a newspaper in the classic definition. It’s a propaganda sheet for the liberal left, and writes regionally slanted stories to please the elite effete liberals who infest the East Coast. As for any national significance, or wisdom, it has none.
I suppose the Book Review section still has some relevance, but I haven’t read the paper in years, because I don’t have a bird or birdcage. So why would I buy it?
Marianne
First the “Bush Plastic Turkey” fable, and now the Palin “Turkey Massacre”.
In honor of our incredible MSM, I give you:
http://www.southbank-design.co.uk/turkeyshoot/index.htm
@8 – Edward – I got that last week & have killed enough turkeys to feed at least the whole state of AL.
The MSM doesn’t have to worry about killing off all the turkeys–there will ALWAYS be plenty of them left in the newsrooms of the MSM……
Cap’n,
When did we start being concerned about anything MSNBC (or any other Main Stream Media Outlet for that matter) says? If it ain’t announced in the POD, it ain’t worth my effort to worry.
PS: LOL to MissBirdlegs in AL and JoeC.
Same for me as a kid watching my Aunt Elsie, my Mother and Grandmother all furiously plucking, scalding and cutting at Grandmother’s old massive cast-iron kitchen sink with a hand-pump attached at one end to pump water from the cistern. Might as well have happened on another planet as far as today’s generation is concerned.
Well, at least my kids know where turkey dinner comes from — Dad had a dozen turkeys every year for a few years that he grew and butchered for the holidays. We could process six in a day before tiring out — Dad bled them, Mom and I plucked, then Dad gutted them and saved the innards he liked best. We tried scalding one, but found it didn’t make plucking any easier, so we skipped that part. Those things were over 20 pounds for the first batch and 24 pounds for the next (a week apart) by early November, so were hefty to handle. The kids were 4 and 7 then, I think, and weren’t fazed a bit by the work.
Of course, it helped that they loved the meat!
I too remember my Grandma chopping off the heads of the chickens and then watching them run in circles until they stopped, then helping her pluck them for supper. Very weird watching them run silently and headless…
Ah, the memories that all this brings back. Pressing apples for cider, hunting for deer in the woods and fields near the farm, stealing Grandma’s sugar cookies…
We’ve moved so far away form our agrarian roots that most of us and most of our children have no clue where ANY of our food comes from these days.
I just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and it was a wonderful eye-opener. Made me want to go live on a farm but the closest I can come right now is a container garden in the backyard.
As for Shuster, he needs to go through SERE. Probably teach him a few things.
Edward:
If only I could shoot the clay kind that well. Maybe it’s the music. Ya think?
Milk comes in cartons, bacon bits in shaker cans, meat wrapped by the butcher and turkeys are buttered with “pop-up” timers. Food for the Eloi… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi.
I’m with Q’master when he cites Ann Althouse when she recognizes the masses, as candy “without the ‘m’.”
Of course, the politically correct won’t “man-up” and learn how to do this: http://artofmanliness.com/2008/11/20/how-to-cook-and-carve-a-thanksgiving-turkey-like-a-man/#more-1097.
so some guy’s in the background quietly choking a turkey while Sarah Palin is talking…
oh, like THAT’s never happened before!
So I always feel like I should preface my comments with a statement of creds–so here goes, I too have skinned, gutted, scaled, cleaned, butchered and otherwise rendered many an animal body.
While the media response is interesting,
I want to bring a different slant to this…let’s step back and consider the following: Sarah Palin was in media herself. She has spent time on both sides of the camera. Anyone who has been interviewed for television cameras any number of times knows that you need to do a 360 and take in what is around you and quickly calculate how that will fit into the message you want to communicate…if you don’t, visual images you do not want can overwhelm your message.
SO, you can take this clip in one of two ways:
1. There is a reason that Sarah Palin is no longer in journalism–she’s too clueless.
2. That Sarah Palin framed that shot with the turkeys being slaughtered intentionally as a way to reiterate the “I’m just a basic country girl with country girl values”, message she was giving in her verbal presentation.
Given the supportive comments and warm rememberances of past-poultry-slaughters expressed here, she effectively communicated to her base, therefore, suggesting interpretation number 2.
Not to mention an addendum to #2, “and I don’t give a damn what you think of me!”
I think this whole ‘conversation’ is weird. I mean why is it a big deal that they were slaughtering turkeys behind her? This wasn’t her government office, it was a turkey slaughterhouse. Maybe that’s what they actually do at such places? DUH!
I thought the interview was suppose to be about what the interviewee says. Criticize that if you want … I guess they didn’t really have anything to criticize there. She didn’t sound particularly supid to me. So they had to come up with something else? And ‘blame’ her for being interviewed where they found her? After pardoning a turkey.
Now quite frankly, that’s what I think is weird. Pardoning a turkey. Uh huh. What ’s the message there? May you go forward and prosper?
How is watching her interview any different from watching CSPAN? Both can be crude to the uninformed.