Re-Nailin’ Palin
Who you callin’ turkey?Even though we’ve devoted a lot of Upfront and WTF
space to Alaska’s most endearing governor Sarah Palin and we’re pretty
sure that 75 percent of readers would like nothing more to never hear
her name again, we couldn’t resist. Short of Palin actually dressing up
in a stars and stripes bikini and shooting a moose with a rifle while
waving to the Russians, Palin’s recent “Thanksgiving Turkey Massacre”
video, which has become a staple of YouTube e-mail forwards says it all.
Some
background: As part of her duties as governor of the great state of
Alaska, Mrs. Palin must pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. Unfortunately,
the rest of the turkeys at the Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside of
Wasilla, were not as lucky.
The scene: While Palin talks about
her VP run and her appreciation for “good Americans who are just
desiring of their government to kinda get outta the way and allow them
to grow and progress and allow their businesses to grow and progress,”
a turkey is stuffed into a killing cone where its throat is slit and
it’s bled out into a trough. While Palin answers a question about
budget cuts, another unfortunate fowl is crammed down the cone.
Palin claims she was unaware of what was going on behind her while the TV station is claiming she did. We’re pretty sure even the most talented SNL writer couldn’t have come up with such a gem of a Palin moment as this one.
Obligatory (Same) Sex Item
The stealth Christian dating website eHarmony – the one with annoyingly too-good-to-be-true TV testimonials – is getting into the matchmaking business for same sex couples. And it isn’t happy about it. The company, which was founded by Evangelical Minister Neil Clark Warren, a fundamentalist Christian with ties to the anti-gay Focus on the Family, is a juggernaut in the online matchmaking world, sending more than 230 successfully paired “heterosexual partners” to the altar every day, according to CNN.com. But the company ran into trouble when Eric McKinley sued the company from excluding homosexual men and women from its services under New Jersey’s anti-discrimination law. This week the company decided to settle with the state rather than go to the mat in a civil trial.
On Tuesday, eHarmony announced that it will launch a separate site called Compatible Partners aimed at pairing gay men and women.
“Even though we believed that the complaint resulted from an unfair characterization of our business, we ultimately decided it was best to settle this case with the attorney general, since litigation outcomes can be unpredictable,” a company attorney told CNN.
Now if that isn’t a ringing endorsement of the new business plan, Upfront doesn’t know what is.
Not Backing Off Barack
Send more money, please.Is it just Upfront or did it sound this week like the honeymoon between Barack Obama and the left of center media was already coming to an end?
This week was a report by the non-partisan Campaign Finance Institute that punched a hole in the popular myth that Obama was swept into office by a wave of small donors. It’s a great storyline about how Obama collected nearly half of his money from individual donors giving $200, or less. The only problem is that it wasn’t, you know, true. In reality, most of the donors who gave, gave repeatedly pushing their individual contribution over the $200 benchmark. When all the double-donating is accounted for, Obama collected about half of the original 50 percent total from individual donors. That’s more than McCain’s 21 percent, but only on-par with the 26 percent that Bush raised from small donors in 2004 and well below the 38 percent that Howard Dean raised in his campaign from small donors.
Hey Bidder, Bidder
Upfront was hoping that we could hire one of those livestock auctioneers for this year’s charity auction, but we couldn’t convince the big wigs around here to flip for it. The good news though is that there’s going to be a hell of a lot more than just heifers and half-broken horses up for grabs in this year’s auction, which goes online next week at tsweekly.com. We’ve got cool stuff including overnight stays, spa getaways, a fishing trip with Upfront, tons of eats and drinks, and more, more, more. Last year the Source and its partners raised more than $5,000 for Arts Central. We’re hoping to beat that mark for this year’s charity, the Partnership to End Poverty. Yes we can!
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Lay off this poor woman, haven’t the news media had their fun. Find something worthwhile to print. All these cheap shots, Enough already. Your sick. There are real important things to cover, than picking on Palin. Dirty Pool.
Just in case you haven’t noticed, the campaign is over, and you’re a fool.
Unless you’ve stopped eating, or using animal-derived products, you should shut up. Your ignorant and stupid article is a waste of my time and I will no longer be reading your junk.
Pardoning a turkey is an old tradition. You could see this if your head wasn’t buried where the sun doesn’t shine if you had been awake enough to see that President Bush, and others, have done the same thing.
Just for your information, turkeys don’t come born ready for the oven. If you eat live turkeys you are worse than anything you could accuse Sarah of.
This must have been a slow news day. Get a life.
Your’e dead wrong concerning Sarah Palin. She was a lightning Rod to the Republican cause. The G.O.P. was outspent by a well organized Democrat Party with a large amount of questionable contributors. Sarah Palin was ambushed by conspiring interviewers; bent on undermining her credibility. Governors deal with issues concerning their state. Foreign policy may be left to associate cabinet members better qualified. The Liberals didn’t question Obama re his friendship with indicted crimminals or known terrorists. It was
a disgusting Liberal Media Blitz to discredit Sarah Palin. She is currently being sought by numerous agents who recognize her connection with the public
and I wish her well in her endeavors. J. Annal
People seem to forget that Gov Palin is very good at speaking to her base. Well, this is just another example of how she can do that while also tweaking her clueless urban critics at the same time.
To the local Alaskan viewers, the Gov was just doing another regular Turkey Day pardon at the local turkey farm. Ho hum.
But she had to do the photo shoot right in front of the KILLING FIELDS for the benefit of those Manhattan Limo Liberals, just to show her national TV viewers (critics?) that the Thanksgiving meal actually comes from real live turkeys, that are actually KILLED before they are shrink-wrapped for the grocery freezer. And for those clueless liberals, she also had to verbally mention what was going on behind her, in case some people were not paying attention.
With that, she killed two birds with one stone (photo op): a local pitch to Alaskans, and also a tweak to her USA wide liberal Palin Deranged Syndrome fans. Touche.
Palin is an idiot – I don’t care who her base is, this was not a deft maneuver to speak to her base and off put the liberals. It was a PR disaster becuase she has no brain. It is obvious that she loses focus on all else when the opportunity to get her face on camera presents itself. She will end up on talk radio / tv show as that is where her talent is. She is shallow, vapid and does not have the presence of mind to be a leader of this nation – her own talk show yes, this nation – no. Many people do not like her NOT because they are screaming liberals – because they have common sense. Is it me or has anyone else noticed that nothing is ever her fault – EVER – Sheesh I wish I had it so good to be able to use mess up as much as she in such huge ways yet.. it’s not my fault – I didn’t know….Heck, my kids use that kinda crap w/ me and they get grounded – what happened to personal responsibilty.
“weâ ™ve devoted a lot of Upfront and WTF space to Alaskaâ ™s most endearing governor Sarah Palin…”
WHY?
Ah, you Republicans always make me laugh and you’re not even trying to be funny. I don’t recall a “draft” to nominate Palin for anything! You betcha, she gleefully accepted a nothing position that even she was UNDER-qualified to do. She was even vague about what a Vice-President does. She should have consulted Dan Quayle regarding the demands of the job! “Can you spell potato?”