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This Will Never Get Old

by John Cole|  November 27, 20135:17 pm| 50 Comments

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Quick- spot the turkey:

Idiot.

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  1. 1.

    gnomedad

    November 27, 2013 at 5:19 pm

    Oh, it’s a fair bit older. And still desperate for attention.

  2. 2.

    Gravenstone

    November 27, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    And that chyron can still omit the “…to turkey carnage over her shoulder” and remain 100% accurate.

  3. 3.

    J

    November 27, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    I was surprised that she could read without apparent difficulty!

  4. 4.

    feebog

    November 27, 2013 at 5:28 pm

    Yes, Turkey Pardon day was so much fun she quit a few months later. Princess Dumbass of the North for sure.

  5. 5.

    kindness

    November 27, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    How old is that? Still funny as hell though.

  6. 6.

    Jamey

    November 27, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    Oh my GOD, I’ve never seen that before. I’m dyin’!!! You betcha!

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    November 27, 2013 at 5:41 pm

    I was searching for that video a couple of days ago (annual tradition, dontchaknow), and after typing ‘Sarah Palin turkey’ into the search bar, Google helpfully offered some suggestions to refine the search: ‘massacre’, ‘fiasco’, and ‘slaughter’.

  8. 8.

    geg6

    November 27, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    @dmsilev:

    LOL! Sometimes the Google is very wise.

  9. 9.

    dmsilev

    November 27, 2013 at 5:44 pm

    The other thing is that if you’re masochistic and actually listen to the whole damn interview, she babbles on about how important it is to her to go back and fight for Alaskans as their governor and so on and so forth. Six months later, of course, she resigned.

  10. 10.

    beltane

    November 27, 2013 at 5:45 pm

    They blot out the dead turkey but not the live turkey. Why is that?

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    November 27, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    Watch that guy in the background. At first he just stands there awkwardly, aware that he’s in the shot and torn between wasting work time and ruining the Governor’s interview. Then he says to himself, “Ah, fuck it, I got work to do,” and resumes killing turkeys. A more conscientious worker than the almost-Vice president in the foreground.

  12. 12.

    BGinCHI

    November 27, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    Too bad she didn’t spend extra to get the Burberry “automatic choke the dumbass” scarf.

  13. 13.

    NotMax

    November 27, 2013 at 5:50 pm

    @beltane

    Can’t get a signed release from a dead one.

    (rimshot)

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    November 27, 2013 at 5:54 pm

    @BGinCHI

    Ah, the Isadora Duncan model.

  15. 15.

    Person of Choler

    November 27, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    To quote a comedian commenting at the time of the video, “It’s a turkey farm. It’s Thanksgiving. What do you think the turkeys do? Graduate?

  16. 16.

    BGinCHI

    November 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm

    @NotMax: Eggzactly.

    I tried to picture Palin dancing, btw, and it just wouldn’t come.

  17. 17.

    dr. luba

    November 27, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    I love watching the holiday classics: A Christmas Carol, Christmas Story, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street……and the Palin Turkey Massacre. They never get old.

  18. 18.

    Ash Can

    November 27, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    It’s impossible for me to look at her and not hear “Yackety Sax” playing in the background.

  19. 19.

    ? Martin

    November 27, 2013 at 6:02 pm

    @Person of Choler:

    To quote a comedian commenting at the time of the video, “It’s a turkey farm. It’s Thanksgiving. What do you think the turkeys do? Graduate?

    Everyone poops, but we don’t interview celebrities and politicians on the shitter.

  20. 20.

    Cervantes

    November 27, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    @? Martin: It’s only a matter of time.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    November 27, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    @a href=”https://balloon-juice.com/2013/11/27/this-will-never-get-old/#comment-4733773″>BGinCHI

    In keeping with the holiday theme, the Tea Party (and GOP) is chock full of nut crackers.

  22. 22.

    BGinCHI

    November 27, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    @Ash Can:

    It’s impossible for me to look at her and not hear “Yackety Sax” playing in her head.

    fix’d

    /what ever happened to the strikeout feature?

  23. 23.

    beltane

    November 27, 2013 at 6:08 pm

    @? Martin: Didn’t LBJ give interviews while sitting on the throne? I’d rather listen to LBJ taking a dump than listen to whatever those sounds are coming out of Sarah Palin’s mouth.

  24. 24.

    BGinCHI

    November 27, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    @beltane: Difference without a distinction.

  25. 25.

    Howard Beale IV

    November 27, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    @BGinCHI: The strikeout tag is still here…
    text

  26. 26.

    Hal

    November 27, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    Sometimes I’m ashamed of wasting neurons on her, but Palin is in my top 5 of the most loathsome public figures. Her and Rinse Pubics are so full of it I get hives just listening to them bs their way through interviews.

  27. 27.

    NotMax

    November 27, 2013 at 6:20 pm

    @BGinCHI

    Nothing.

  28. 28.

    fuckwit

    November 27, 2013 at 6:27 pm

    She managed to troll the whole country for almost a year. It was an amazing display of trollery.

    You may hear Yakity Sax when she speaks, but I hear this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44

  29. 29.

    gbear

    November 27, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    I’ve seen chickens beheaded when I was a kid, but I’ve never once been able to click on that video. I can’t watch it.

  30. 30.

    BGinCHI

    November 27, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    @NotMax: There is no button though, right? You have to use html tags?

    I tried it and fucked it up several times and gave up. Probably Bill Gates’s fault at some level.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    November 27, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    @BGinCHI

    Dunno about buttons – mostly surf with images turned off, so really never saw them even if they were once there.

    Real men use HTML. :)

    strike and /strike – inside the angle brackets.

  32. 32.

    BGinCHI

    November 27, 2013 at 6:42 pm

    @NotMax: Challenge accepted.

  33. 33.

    Belafon

    November 27, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    @NotMax: del and /del also work.

  34. 34.

    WereBear

    November 27, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    The only thing that makes it better was the first year it appeared, on Keith Olbermann’s show, with punning commentary running along the bottom.

    Good times.

  35. 35.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    November 27, 2013 at 6:53 pm

    A most fitting summary of all that is Grifterella.

  36. 36.

    JustRuss

    November 27, 2013 at 6:56 pm

    @dr. luba:

    I love watching the holiday classics: A Christmas Carol, Christmas Story, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street……and the Palin Turkey Massacre. They never get old.

    I’m thinking a WKRP/Sarah Palin Turkey mashup would be tons o fun.

  37. 37.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 27, 2013 at 6:58 pm

    My god. I haven’t actually listened to Sarah Palin in so long, I forgot why people use the phrase ‘word salad’ to describe her. Nothing she said went anywhere or connected to anything.

  38. 38.

    Napoleon

    November 27, 2013 at 6:59 pm

    @efgoldman:

    yes

  39. 39.

    kc

    November 27, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    It’s a holiday classic, like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

  40. 40.

    Mike in NC

    November 27, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    Insane wingnut twat is still insane….

  41. 41.

    West of the Rockies

    November 27, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    How’s that hopey-turkey thing workin’ out for ya, Sarah?

    You said it best, JC: Idiot.

  42. 42.

    West of the Rockies

    November 27, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    @BGinCHI: I’m picturing Elaine on Seinfeld.

  43. 43.

    West of the Rockies

    November 27, 2013 at 8:01 pm

    @? Martin: Well, I recall Larry Craig reaching out to his constituents from the throne!

  44. 44.

    HnstyNgov

    November 27, 2013 at 9:48 pm

    And the height of Hypocrisy is palin keeps talking about and bashing ObamaCare (because what ELSE has she got?) and Her and her Family receive “ FREE ” Socialized HealthCare paid for with taxpayer dollars.
    Read the actual documents that PROVE it. She CAN’T deny it.

    http://t.co/RZKO2eHN7u

  45. 45.

    The Other Chuck

    November 27, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    @West of the Rockies: Sweet Fancy Moses!

  46. 46.

    Thlayli

    November 27, 2013 at 11:49 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Hell, she didn’t even shell out for a real Burberry — that’s a knockoff.

  47. 47.

    Person of Choler

    November 28, 2013 at 12:55 am

    Speaking of clemency, our current President hopes the public will pardon him for a turkey named ACA

  48. 48.

    Snarla

    November 28, 2013 at 6:37 am

    I’d watch it if I could strip out the sound of her voice, and just listen to the chunk chunk of the machine.

  49. 49.

    Snarla

    November 28, 2013 at 6:37 am

    I’d watch it if I could strip out the sound of her voice, and just listen to the chunk chunk of the machine.

  50. 50.

    Fort Geek

    November 28, 2013 at 10:49 am

    Late to the thread, but here’s Olbermann seeing the Snowbilly Turkey Massacree video and reacting on Countdown

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