November 21, 2008
Hedda Gobbler
Your vitriolic Velocihost didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he saw the infamous video of Sarah Palin giving an interview with turkeys being bled out in the background. So I did what I normally do when viewing Palin video, and flogged the bishop with Asperger asperity.
Some have derided Palin's lack of "situational awareness" in holding an impromptu with such a ghastly background. Fuck that: I remonstrate. She seemed perfectly aware of the bloodletting behind her. The charnal chillbilly just didn't appreciate the nauseating negativity it induced, nor did she appreciate her jarring juxtaposition with that Klondike Cletus doing the wet work. It was positively Pythonesque.
Perhaps she really is a cloying clodhopper, but I shall give her the benefit of the doubt, and presume the permafrost parvenu actually doesn't give a damn what we think. The Yukon yokels are her constituency, and she's probably just fine with that. And like the original Hedda, she is simultaneously fey feminist, and villainous victim. Puts a little fire in a fellow's furnace, it does. But what do I know? I'm obviously a complete alliterate.
Bwahahaha! Iwas thinking the punchline long before I got to it. Fucking foresight. It ruins everything for me.
Meanwhile, Sarah's using a perfect preacher-ploy: to make the pardoned truly feel the weight of punishment for the sin of being succulent, experience the visceral smell of fear and blood; and then the extended grace of forgiveness becomes much more munificent and meaningful. It's time for an altar call...
Your fowl sins are forgiven!!
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at November 21, 2008 6:54 PMI think she knew perfectly well what she was doing and got the reaction she wanted. Here's why: pansified urbanites histrionically wet themselves over the spectacle of turkeys being processed. The rest in flyover America know where food comes from and accept that this is part of the reality of eating. Palin again comes off as pragmatic and down-to-earth. And the media look like ninnies.
Posted by: PeggyU at November 22, 2008 2:09 AMPythonesque hits it. I mean I swear I heard a laugh track a couple of times, but it was my internal editor that spliced it in.
Posted by: Desert Cat at November 22, 2008 9:35 AMYou know, I resent this implication that Sarah Palin is the first vice-presidential nominee worthy of rubbing one out to.
How quickly we forget Lieberman.
Complete alliterate, indeed. Getting a little Velociplayful, are we?
I laughed until I developed a warhead in my taint, which subsequently exploded.
Caveat carbuncle, Uncle!
Posted by: Elisson at November 22, 2008 4:07 PMWhen I was a child, a child raised in the sticks, and fried chicken was on the menu for Sunday dinner, it was understood that one of the pullets wandering in the yard was gonna get chopped. If chicken and dumplings or chicken and dressing was the entree, then one of the hens who's egg production was droppin' off went under. This was understood. As I grew older it became my job to act as executioner. My younger brother and sisters were uncomfortable with the act. The chickens were looked on as family pets to a certain extent. That extent reached only to my mother's way with poultry preparation for the table. Good eats ease the conscious, so to speak.
Sarah Palin is my kinda people. She understands that killing is part of the process and has killed herself. The people who are offended or horrified by the process are those raised on concete and so far removed from the reality of the real world that exists outside the beltway that their only real contribution to the world is a 15 second sound bite on cable tv.
It occurred to me as I watched that video that it reminded me of a post I wrote some time back about the importance of being aware of the background when taking pictures. You might remember that post, Mushroom Man.
Posted by: Elisson at November 23, 2008 9:40 PM