Video: Sarah Palin, a Grizzly Bear, and the Guy From American Chopper
Tommy Christopher
Contributor
Posted:
05/1/09
Raw Story is running the video below, along with a shocked screen grab of Palin lounging by the bear, which is somehow the lede to their story:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose 2008 vice presidential campaign made her a household name–as well as a lightning-rod for controversy–chats with the gang from American Chopper while sitting on a dead grizzly bear.
The governor is seen nestling against the bearskin rug, draped over a couch in her office. Reportedly, the bear was shot by her father, Chuck. Palin's mother told the Daily Mail last August that the bear "was a mean son-of-a-gun, so Sarah had it skinned with the mouth in a permanent growl."
Is it a story that Palin was indirectly mean to a grizzly bear? I would have been more surprised to find her in an office without a dead animal in it.
The occasion for the meeting was the American Chopper team's trip to Alaska to research a bike they're building to commemorate 50 years of Alaskan non-secession. Did you know Alaska has been a state for 50 years?
What I loved about this was the weird, uncomfortable dialog, as Palin uses up her quotient of notifications that Alaska has been a state for 50 years, and tells American Chopper patriarch Paul Tuetel, Sr., how he's got all kinds of patriotism up in him.
I sympathize. If I went to Alaska, I'd burn through all of my "A" tundra material in 3 seconds and be left twiddling my thumbs, planning fishin' trips I'd never take. And if I met the guy from American Chopper, who seems like a nice guy, I'd be good for "So, why do they call 'em choppers?" and not much more.
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