The turkey

Larisons Turkey Farm Inn































Turkey with Lurleen








Presiding over the affairs of state left little time for fishing and the outdoors, but once following a lengthy banquet, the governor returned to Montgomery where she tarried long enough to change from evening dress to a hunting suit. By daybreak she was on her way hunting and bagged a 15-pound turkey with her second shot.

Palin talks as turkey bleeds for "fun" backdrop

Palin pardons turkey as bird bleeds out on camera
As she staged an impromptu press conference after pardoning one lucky bird, a worker at the Triple D Farm and Hatchery in Wasilla sliced a turkey's neck, bled it out and twisted its head off behind the governor, directly in the camera's line of fire.

"Certainly we'll even invite criticism for doin' this too, but at least this was fun!" she pronounced.


UPDATE:
As commenter "Slamdance" pointed out, MSNBC blurred some portions of this. So if you can stomach it, here's the unedited version of the interview. It's not any more bloody or anything, just packs more of a punch when you see the turkey fighting for it's life at the precise moment that she says

"I'm so happy to be here."

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