Here’s the most interesting Thanksgiving-oriented article I’ve seen this season. It follows the plight of the Alaskan farmer whose turkey Sarah Palin pardoned last year. Unfortunately for the farmer, Palin then went on to give a chipper post-pardon TV interview—unaware that, just over her shoulder, turkeys were being shoved head first into cones and getting their throats slit.
Times have since turned tough for that farm, and this Politico.com article explores the grower’s financial difficulties. Most interesting are the details offered of how the facility prepared for Palin’s visit and the accompanying news coverage:
We put woodchips down to cover the blood that had been leaking on the ground, and fresh chips down in the pen for when the governor walked in there…I mean it was cleaned up, and [the local news station] still managed to get that shot.
Doggone it, it’s just so darned tough to freshen up a slaughterhouse. Link.
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