One Year Ago Today: The Sarah Palin Turkey Slaughter

Yes, America, we've only known who Sarah Palin is for a couple months more than a year. Incredible, isn't it? Who knew you could cram that much stupid/crazy into such a short time period. By this time last year, Palin had already drug the McCain-Palin 2008 ticket down to defeat, and she was busy as Governor of Alaska. She was bein' folksy, and pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving, scoring a post-election photo op.

Who knows how it happened. Maybe some crafty liberal paid off the camera man. However it came to pass, Mrs. Palin ended up giving her post-pardoning interview in front of a turkey slaughtering machine. And the grinning executioner behind her just keeps working while Palin word salads away, obliviously. The clip below is my favorite take on the event, with a returning-from-vacation Keith Olbermann reacting in real time to his first viewing of the tape. If we had known at the time that Palin was going to resign as Governor before her term was up, we could be forgiven for thinking that this might be the reason.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The actual slaughter occurred on November 20, but this clip is from the 24th. So it's sorta "one year ago today."