A low-key PR exercise has turned into another embarrassing incident for Sarah Palin as turkeys were graphically slaughtered behind her during a TV interview. Palin was attending a media opportunity to "pardon" a turkey ahead of Thanksgiving — a tradition that sees an invited guest select one bird to be spared the dinner table.
But after "saving" one bird, the Alaskan governor then completes a short interview while a farm employee slaughters another two turkeys just metres behind her.
Lowering the animal's heads into a metal chute, the Triple D Farms worker holds them buy the feet as their throats are cut.
He repeatedly looks over and appears to nervously smile at the camera as the birds violently shake and writhe.
Palin does not acknowledge the activities behind her during the three-minute interview, but reportedly told the crew she had no problems with her graphic backdrop.
"I was happy to get to be invited to participate in this," a smiling Palin told KTUU-TV on the video.
"Certainly we'll probably invite criticism for even doing this, too, but at least this was fun."
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