Gov. Sarah Palin gave a gubernatorial reprieve to one turkey, and then was interviewed in front of the non-industrial free-range style slaughter of a couple of the unlucky ones. If you’d have grown up on a farm like this ol’ Okie, you’d a just thunk it to be, to pull a quote from the movie Babe, “The way things are”. For those out-o’-touch, hyperventilatin’ city-slicker drama-queens at the NY Times however, it was an EXECUTION!

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.

Governor Palin reportedly declined an invitation to hold the interview at a different spot, though some are arguing that she was unaware of the turkey carnage going on behind her.

“Execution!” Carnage!” Nah, just gettin’ ready for the Big Day. Ed Morrissey puts it in perspective:

If this is what twisted the NYT’s knickers, then make sure no one ever takes them to an industrial-scale slaughterhouse. This is basically free-range handling. We’re not seeing vast machinery beheading a string of turkeys in some sort of dehumanized assembly-line process.

One man butchers a turkey for food (two, actually), and the New York Times gets the vapors. Have any of them ever eaten meat? At all?

Sarah Palin reminds me of my late mom — strong, secure in herself, and supremely competent. I remember as a boy watching her go down to the chicken yard and pick out a hen that wasn’t laying much anymore, then grab it by the head and give it a little swing, twist and a snap! Result? A chicken head in her hand and a headless bird chasing us around the yard. Gee, that was a fun time had by all. The only downside was I had the job of pluckin’ the suckers. Dippin’ fresh killed hens in boiling hot water and pulling off the wet, stinkin’ feathers was something I didn’t exactly cotton to. The upside was the taste of super-fresh fried chicken that was sure to be on the table that night. Mmmm, mmmm good!

But, “executed?” Please — Where do these yo yos think that meat comes from anyway? Gravy anyone?

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