If I hadn't seen it even I wouldn't have believed it.

This woman's heart is made of stone!

You know I'm not going to be a hypocrite...I love turkey! But I could not have been at a slaughter house watching it be done....hell I couldn't be standing there like nothing is going on! How does she do it?....well she definitely isn't emotional.

Its hard to listen to her while transfixed on the turkey fighting and flopping in what looks like the drain pan being bleed out behind her.. that wasn't the smartest place to stop for a chat with the cameras rolling. Duh.

Watching turkeys be slaughtered is FUN?! What a sick mind.

You can call me squeamish but I don't even like to put worms on the hook for fishing. I use the rubber ones.

Did you watch the full "pardoning" ceremony? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxn2vlhtWo
She is one strange bird!

uhh... I would have I thought this was a green screen joke if it was any other human being. Please Sahara, please go away. I can't take it anymore. To think she came close to being the vice president which gives you a statistical 22% chance of being the President.

"At least this is fun" she says about supporting the small biz as he strangles the turkey behind her.

Oh well, you can't expect a gun totin' mama like Sarah to be very much different about a stupid turkey than she is about killing large mammals now, can we.
She did state that she fully expected criticism about it. However, to be the Devil's advocate here I must say that the press never let's celebrities have a private moment, and she was only there to pick out a turkey, whether it's at the market or the farm we all do it.

However, to be the Devil's advocate here I must say that the press
never let's celebrities have a private moment, and she was only there
to pick out a turkey, whether it's at the market or the farm we all do
it.

I think she was there to perform her gubernatorial duty of pardoning a turkey. What this shows is a total lack of sophistication. I bet the producers who staged this interview were laughing their ass off. She is a complete and total rube.

Please stay, Sahara. I think the kid meant to dispatch Sarah.

I don't think they strangle them, I think they let them bleed out immediately. At about 1:30 into it you can see just after he puts the second bird in the kill-funnel that he reaches up to the top of the table frame and grabs a knife, and then puts it back after he's done the deed. I have to say that I get a kick out of the look Mr. Turkey Nightmare keeps giving Palin or the camera as he's doing his job.

I wonder if the turkey appreciated the levity he was providing?

Thanks, BartendingBear. Hopefully just a typo.

I still use rubber worms.

Yeah, but they don't work very well. Hooking a worm is kinda nasty, when you get that crunchy feeling when you poke though the tough worm skin, and all that writhing about. But that fish dieing deal ain't too pretty either, now is it?
When it all gets down to the nitty gritty of the thing, I really don't care how it's done, just put it on the table eh? And oh yeah...how 'bout all those critters in Biology lab we had to torture? The list will never end you know.