12/05/10: Palin shoots a Caribou

Yahoo just put up this clip from Sarah Palin's Alaska show. I like Sarah, but there's so many things wrong with this, I just had to laugh. I thought I would throw it out here for comment. Like throwing raw meat to a pack of starving wolves. I'm not even going to defend it. I'll just sit back and be entertained by the comments this yields...

Sarah Palin’s latest fued is with Hollywood’s Aaron Sorkin - Yahoo! News

 

My only complaint would be the number of shots it took her LOL

 

I'm right-handed and also more or less blind in my right eye so I have to shoot with the butt of the rifle on my right shoulder and bend my head far enough over the middle of the butt of the rifle to use my left eye and I can shoot better than Caribou Barbie. I'm not sure why people would be offended by someone hunting but real hunters are rolling on the floor laughing at momma grizzly's ability to hunt right now. Imagine Palin duck hunting. Too funny.

 

My only complaints would be:

- She looks like she's ready for a beauty pageant, not a hunting trip (which I guess is ok)
- She's not familiar enough with the rifle to know if it "kicks". Apparently never shot it before.
- She apparently doesn't know how to re-load or run a bolt action.
- Under normal circumstances you get one shot. If you miss the animal is gone.
- This was not a long range shot for these rifles. Either she wasn't using the scope properly or it was knocked out of alignment and no longer sighted in.
- The trip probably cost $15k to do this if not more.
- To TLC: It's called the "Edit" button. Why not edit out the multiple shot attempts?
- This in no way is an example of an average hunt. Maybe worse than Kerry's photo op.

In the end, I think this backfired. The left was enraged so I guess mission accomplished there. But anybody that knows a little about guns and hunting had to be laughing out loud. At least the animal wasn't penned in and tied to a stake!! Maybe it was deaf and kicked out of the back of a trailer on the other side of that ridge?

 

I am not a hunter. But, I am a fisherman so I 'get' the whole experience. Including the stalking, excitement, admiring, killing, skinning, gutting, cooking and eating it 'thing'. I really don't have a problem with any of it or seeing any of it. None of that bothers me at all when I see it. I always chuckle at the "Viewer Discretion Advised" warnings stuff. Really? And the nightly news doesn't get one? lol

But, even not being a hunter, Palin didn't exactly look like she was much of a hunter either. lol

 

I just wish this woman would go away. Lose the cameras, go home and dissappear. You have had your 15 minutes and then some. If you run in '12, it wil be a disaster no matter how it turns out.

 

I went and read the whole original article and it is such an insane rant, I actually registered and posted on the site. But, the mods wouldn't let my post go through. In fact, I got banned and had my account deleted. The first time that has ever happened to me on any internet site ever. Considering it is Huffington Post, I should not be surprised in the least at that, I guess.

How is that for conservative street cred...7 words and 1 link and I get banned from one of the most liberal sites on the internet in under 5 minutes. lol

 

Stuart, I think congrats are in order, lol

 

Don't know exactly what you tried to post but, maybe you could try a Fox type blog? They would probably give you an award for excellence or something similar. Just sayin'.

 

I tried to post the following:

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Yes. Hunting is much worse than this:



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Not exactly a conservative rant. Just an Uncomfortable Reality. And Uncomfortable Reality is apparently not allowed to invade Huffington Post's domain. lol

On the other hand, you are allowed to post there that "Sarah Palin is a worthless ╒_ _ _ ↑ng ¢_ _ _" and not only keep your account but also have the comment approved.

That post (with the blanks filled in) apparently qualifies for your Huffington Post Award For Excellence. Just sayin'.

 

Were you really told why you weren't allowed to post your story or are you just coming up with a reason on your own? Try posting something you view as more inline with their views and see if it gets deleted.

 

No, I do not 'know' why. I have nothing to go on but logical reasoning based a lot on what I did see that was allowed to be posted. I was not told at all why my comment was not allowed to be posted. Nor why my account was subsequently totally deleted.

Looking at some of the comments (like the one I posted)...which, by the way was preceded by "Sarah Palin is a worthless ¢_ _ _" ... 2 posts earlier by the same user - I guess adding the F'ing part seemed like a more eloquent turn of the phrase (by the poster and moderator) since it was allowed to be posted too. I admit, it does seem to convey the message better than just "worthless ¢_ _ _" alone....in a nicely misogynistic way, of course.

And looking at the many totally off subject, personal attacks and other worthless drivel allowed to be posted by many other users - against Palin, of course. And looking at the fact that Ms Sorkin posted the original video of an animal being killed and showing it dead. And considering that that my post did not contain any tangential points that might have caused the rest of it to be deleted. And considering the link I posted does not even show an animal being killed for a good 2 minutes - more than enough time for anyone to figure it out or read the video title and close it. And, and and.

There aren't a lot of reasons I can come up with for the immediate actions. Other than that, apparently, the uncomfortable reality of what happens to animals every single day to get them on our plates contrasted to (that "worthless ╒_ _ _ ↑ng ¢_ _ _") Palin killing one Caribou was not to be tolerated because it might confuse the message the site, the article and/or the author propagates.

Links are allowed too - I checked before I posted, just not spam/personal promotion...which that video is neither. Also, I can't post anything else, even as a test, because they nuked my account. Totally deleted it. Poof. Gone. Seemingly quicker than it would take to watch that video from start to finish - although I did not have a stopwatch handy. lol

The user name was my first name and last initial and was from my normal gmail account, btw. So it wasn't like I registered with HuffingtonPostSucks@Me.com or had a user name of FlamingHypocrites or anything else trollish.

 

Well Stu, sorry to hear you weren't allowed to post the truth over there. I already showed you a thread on how goofy that foreign bimbo is running the place. It's juvenile bias to the extreme. But I didn't even know it was that bad! I foolishly thought they would at least pay common decency to a fellow human being/govt. official. She's the most hated though so I guess anything goes! Let the pissed off 19 year old's living in mom's basement post their crap. We know what the source is. Unfortunately, it doesn't fill a news role and doesn't fill an entertainment roll, so I don't know what you'd call the ****ington Post.

 

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!! That says a lot.

BTW, you don't seem to understand. His account is gone. And if it wasn't what's the point of posting their view like the rest of the uninformed da's there?

 

To enjoy killing just to kill something or for no other reason than to get your rocks off is a sign of mental illness and poor self esteem. Sarah Palin and mental illness? Now there's a stretch.

 

Which do you get more joy in killing..baby rabbits or puppies?

 

Never have had Caribou and don't think I have ever had Rabbit. May have had Dog, but not intentionally. I typically let other people kill the mammals I eat and just take my joy over the cooked flesh.

 

Yet so many see nothing wrong with killing babies for nothing more than a matter of convenience?