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November 26, 2008, 02:47 PM ET
Holiday Hoax? ... Nope
When I showed this video to a few friends, including one from my Cambridge days (a Norwegian scholar of 18th-century British literature who is over here doing research at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington — and she’s a wickedly brilliant woman with a particularly astute eye for satire), they thought I was showing them a parody.
They did not believe the video of Sarah Palin’s interview at the turkey farm in Alaska was real.
They shook their collective skeptical heads and said “Gina, you’ve been deceived. Tsk, tsk. You should know better. Surely this is a hoax?”
It isn’t.
I’ll warn you: it’s a messy video in several respects. Live turkeys are rendered, well, unlive in the background as Palin, interviewed by a local television station, describes her delight at being back in Alaska.
Yes, watching the turkeys suffer is rather gruesome, but watching Palin blithely cheep and chirp on about her sense of commitment to good government, solid values, and general contentment for all makes the clip worth the watch, even if you are squeamish and/or vegan.
Pay close attention, please, to the bit around 1:58-2:00 where the former Republican V.P. candidate talks about how “neat” it is to be where she is at the moment and please also pay especially close attention to the guy behind her, on her right.
You won’t believe it’s real, but you can’t make this kind of stuff up. OK, at first you’ll think it’s a parody but then — trust me — you’ll be grateful that everything worked out the way it did.
You’ll give thanks that America didn’t put its neck out for Sarah Palin.
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