I'm sure the European Union will welcome with open arms a lot as civilized and sensitive as the Turks, who saw fit to welcome President Obama in such a manner.
What? The TV anchor couldn't come up with some chitlins, fried chicken and watermelon to supplement his shtick?
"You need a little bit of levity in this job," she said, after "pardoning" an Alaska turkey before Thanksgiving. "This was fun."
I thought it was fun, too . . . snort, guffaw. Really, do watch the video.
In a dissenting note, all but one of the turkeys saw nothing fun about any of it. And that bird probably now has a hell of a case of "survivor's guilt."
Note well, some Republicans think this woman ought to lead their party and, someday, be president. If that were to happen, also note she would be surrounding herself with staffers just as smart as the one who OK'd her doing a "fun" interview, with gobblers meeting their mechanized end as a backdrop.
In a battle of wits with the governor and her posse, my money's on the expired turkey.
I'm with Rod Dreher at Crunchy Con. If Sarah Palin didn't exist, the Monty Python gang would have had to conjure her up. Better yet, the real one writes her own material.