Video: Canada flips out as Governor General out-Palins Palin
posted at 7:49 pm on May 26, 2009 by Allahpundit
I’d call it a palate cleanser except that you won’t feel “cleansed,” believe me. She was on a trip to show support for Canada’s Inuit seal hunters in light of the EU having stupidly banned imports of seal products earlier this month, and being in Rome, she did as the Romans do. I don’t see what the problem is; this is no more or less unethical than sushi, which is exactly what she said it tasted like. Frankly, if I’m going to chow down on viscera, I’d rather have seal heart than haggis.
If you want to see cuisine that’s truly objectionable, watch this. Or better yet, don’t.
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duuuuuuude.
I_C on May 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM
that wasn’t so bad, anyway they need the support in the face of those idiots at the EU.
rob verdi on May 26, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Badass.
Awesome Lady
harry on May 26, 2009 at 7:52 PM
The Seal of Approval for this Governor General. This is good deed number two (with number one being estoppel on the Liberal’s parliamentary attempt to pull down the Government).
unclesmrgol on May 26, 2009 at 7:54 PM
What is that supposed to mean?
Robert_Paulson on May 26, 2009 at 7:55 PM
Sarah!
Right_of_Attila on May 26, 2009 at 7:55 PM
I see no problem with this, who the hell are the EU to tell the Inuits how to hunt? Oh wait, they’re the EU.
Daemonocracy on May 26, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Imagine if they met:
Palin: I love your shoes! So…what do you prefer for Moose? I like the .308 Winchester.
Jean: Thanks! They’re made of seal skin. I like the .375 H&H Mag.
Palin: And that handbag is adorable! What do you like for polar bears? I use a .44 mag.
Jean: Yeah, a little Inuit girl made that for me. I’d go with the .45-70.
otcconan on May 26, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Sh*tHouse crazy is what Allah was going for I think. Ed’s back, Palin objectivity is gone. I will miss it…..Heart-Ache.
portlandon on May 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Mr. Chairman, Point of order, please:
What is a Governor General?
BobMbx on May 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM
What! Don’t they think “cultural diversity” is a good thing?
PS: I think Anthony Bourdain had a seal eyeball on the travel channel.
mad saint jack on May 26, 2009 at 7:59 PM
I don’t understand what this has to do with Sarah Palin
joey24007 on May 26, 2009 at 7:59 PM
Allahpundit,
I clicked on that link….wow. I would hate to have been that snake or the fish. That would be one terrible way to go.
Rightwingguy on May 26, 2009 at 7:59 PM
AP–that wasn’t particularly gross. I once had sashimi in Japan. Carp, sliced up and still gasping for water! As I reached for a piece with my chopsticks, the fish flipped it’s tail…I ate it anyway in honor of my students who paid for the meal.
Good for Jean!
Driefromseattle on May 26, 2009 at 7:59 PM
You can hear the fish screaming…………
Seven Percent Solution on May 26, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Hahaha! Yeah. “Why me?”
Rightwingguy on May 26, 2009 at 8:01 PM
Are you that isn’t Michelle Obama eating Dick Cheney’s heart?
drjohn on May 26, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Umm Allah. I don’t know about you but Alaskans (even some Native Americans) are not allowed to hunt seal… in most cases.
It isn’t like anyone on here has had seal. I had dried seal meat and it was tough and didn’t actually HAVE a taste to it… very bland.
So MKH can be impressed all she wants. I on the other hand don’t really care about the Canadians as our laws are different. Change Federal law and see what people really will eat, then we will talk.
upinak on May 26, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’m too squeamish to watch the link, but good for her. Makes me think of Deadliest Catch – a few seasons back, they had a greenhorn on the Northwestern eat a fish heart freshly cut from the fish. Makes me want to toss my cookies just thinking about it – but kudos to people who can handle that sort of thing.
Anna on May 26, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’d like to try some of that sometime. I wonder if you can order seal meat online.
ronsfi on May 26, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Ya gotta feel sorry for anything being deep fried and then eaten while still alive.
But at least they didn’t waterboard those fish.
blink on May 26, 2009 at 8:04 PM
The food you can eat to the beat!
Now, ya don’t see this kinda stuff on TTWYF…
JetBoy on May 26, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Should be fairly obvious, but for those who don’t get it, the Standard was a bit more specific. Hunter, warrior woman…?
Allahpundit on May 26, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Holy pogo-jumping Christ on a cracker, that’s just WRONG, dude!
MadisonConservative on May 26, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Eeegads man. How about a warning?
angryed on May 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM
That was just nasty.
Palin has class.
jencab on May 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM
While we are on the topic of food and or chefs, there is this one name I remember seeing on HA before I joined. beththebaker. What happened to her?
FontanaConservative on May 26, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Mary Katharine Ham
doesn’t her guy mitt hunt small rodents?
joey24007 on May 26, 2009 at 8:14 PM
I’d love nothing else but jump up your throat and rip it and drink your blood but I don’t find anything particularly objectionable in your post today. But, you fill find yourself in that seal’s position if you say something snarky about the Divine Sarah. TC.
promachus on May 26, 2009 at 8:14 PM
That ‘Speed Cooking’ video – someone please send it to PETA so their heads can explode.
Heh – I love the ad above this video – “Meet Sexy Women In Your Area”. For what — dinner?
Timothy S. Carlson on May 26, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Here is a site that claims to sell Harp Seal meat. Manga!
ronsfi on May 26, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Obviously it doesn’t have anything to do with Palin. But AP knows that if he puts her name in the headline, TWICE no less, people will tune in. It’s all about the hits baby!
Erich66 on May 26, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Poor Mr. Limpet.
The Ugly American on May 26, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Erich66 on May 26, 2009 at 8:17 PM
He’s a master at baiting ;)
FontanaConservative on May 26, 2009 at 8:18 PM
+100
Right_of_Attila on May 26, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Man I love people who flip out about eating animals. You would be really surprised what your average everyday person will chow down if they are hungry enough. How else do you think all of those strange “traditional” foods from around the world became a tradition in the first place?
Mord on May 26, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Can I have some haggis?
Del Dolemonte on May 26, 2009 at 8:24 PM
AP is playing off the standard’s lead in, which is factually incorrect:
Didn’t Palin’s father shoot the bear? It’s an heirloom. Of course, I’d be more than happy if Sarah had bagged it herself.
TexasDan on May 26, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Wow. It’s just as if she had beat that cute baby seal to death herself with her own lead-filled snowshoe, isn’t it?
I think Lazarus Long said it best (to paraphrase) but if the natives are solemnly rubbing blue mud in their navels, then you solemnly rub blue mud in your navel…
(apologies to the natives)…
ElRonaldo on May 26, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Ooohhh just watched the liveleak video….sign me up for the fried-yet-alive fish with salsa and a side of still-moving snake!
Mord on May 26, 2009 at 8:26 PM
Ten kinds of awesome. The idiot tree-huggers are going totally loop-de-la over this.
Dark-Star on May 26, 2009 at 8:28 PM
did she smack her lips and then ask for some polar bear?
ElRonaldo on May 26, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Hysterical Ashley Judd response in 3..2..wait, this doesn’t involve Palin, nevermind
Erich66 on May 26, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Joey, chill. Allah hasn’t said anything offensive and we should pass him when he goofs up. Otherwise, they’ll accuse us of being the cultists and I’d say they’d be right.
promachus on May 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM
My family are all Brahmins, so even eggs and onions are a strict no no. Imagine when I found out that once upon a while Brahmins used to thrive on horse meat! My family’d rather starve but I’d give it a try.
promachus on May 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Maybe it’s just years of watching Bourdain (and a little Zimmern), but this doesn’t raise an eyebrow with me.
Pasalubong on May 26, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Atta Girl!!
tickleddragon on May 26, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Ok, perpetually aroused now!
conservnut on May 26, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Seal hearts? Really? That’s messed up.
SoulGlo on May 26, 2009 at 8:41 PM
I don’t like Sushi.
Don’t think i’d like seal heart that much either.
madne0 on May 26, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Disappointed; I was hoping that crappy music would finally stop being made.
If I hear “Crazy” one more time, I’m shooting the stereo.
Bishop on May 26, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Stupidly?
What does that mean? That a culture that does not support the clubbing of baby animals legally chooses not to allow those body parts to be imported and is thus stupid?
Someone is a moron here and it’s not the EU.
It’s the Y-O-U.
pabarge on May 26, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Fire Allahpundit!
Mr Purple on May 26, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Obligatory: A baby seal walks into a club…
F15Mech on May 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM
“You have that big one from the NRA? Mind if I let loose a few?”
Sapwolf on May 26, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I’d eat haggis but you can have all of my neeps.
Oldnuke on May 26, 2009 at 9:05 PM
My family are all Brahmins, so even eggs and onions are a strict no no. Imagine when I found out that once upon a while Brahmins used to thrive on horse meat! My family’d rather starve but I’d give it a try.
promachus on May 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Parashuramas for Palin. Gotta love it. It’s gonna be a great ride to 2012…;)
bravecowboy on May 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM
That video has no more to do with Palin than it has to do with flying donkeys. Some idiots simply can’t resist using her, her family and/or her name just to draw attention to themselves.
The items on this page over the past month, or so, are getting more and more juvenile!
Hal-9000 on May 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM
A friend of mine told me about eating monkey brains, while the monkey was still kicking. I think that he was in the Phillipines or Malaysia, where it was served.
Johan Klaus on May 26, 2009 at 9:27 PM
omg…
heh
JetBoy on May 26, 2009 at 9:32 PM
It must be depressing to be out-alpha-maled by the first female Governor of Alaska and the Deputy Queen of Canada in one post. :)
Brian1972 on May 26, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Seal. Real food for real people.
AZ_Redneck on May 26, 2009 at 9:35 PM
I saw the episode where Bourdain goes along with a family who kills and then eats the seal raw. I recall the mother said, “I can’t wait to eat the brains!”
Doesn’t bother me at all.
Daggett on May 26, 2009 at 9:39 PM
HAGGIS IS AWESOME, HOW DARE ALL OF YOU
playblu on May 26, 2009 at 9:48 PM
This is really funny if you know what Native Alaskans think of palin.
benny shakar on May 26, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Link not working- “removed by user.”
cs89 on May 26, 2009 at 9:52 PM
EU?
They eat horses don’t they?
Stephen M on May 26, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Actually, the misleading part of the headline is that “Canada Flips Out…”. Most Canadians are extremely proud of our GG for this. The only ones ‘flipping out’ are the animal rights freaks, who think animal rights outway those of humans.
Way to go, Michaelle…
pcbedamned on May 26, 2009 at 10:02 PM
so what happened to the link?..you say Palin…I come over and then nada…
CCRWM on May 26, 2009 at 10:17 PM
“The role of the governor general dates back nearly 400 years to 1608 when Samuel de Champlain acted as the governor of New France. He established what has become the oldest continuing public office in Canada.
Canada became a country at Confederation in 1867. Our system of government is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of Canada and Head of State. Sworn in on September 27, 2005, the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, 27th Governor General since Confederation, represents the Crown in Canada and carries out the duties of head of State.”
http://www.gg.ca/menu_e.asp
She was just showing those lily livered Europeans that hunting seal, which is still a central part of life for many people in our Northern regions, is supported by our government.
Even Anthony Bourdain has done this much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d8EymQPiqk&feature=PlayList&p=640D7E8FEED3A5C6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18
I have never eaten seal meat but would have no problem trying, grilled some moose yesterday…
Cheers – yer Uncle
http://unclemeat.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/piss-off-a-european/
unclemeat on May 26, 2009 at 10:50 PM
‘Thanks to the most efficient chef’
Indeed.
Readymade on May 26, 2009 at 11:04 PM
You’ve got to post the vid of these 2 jacka$s reporters:
CTV NEWS
The anti-Palinism is unbelievable……… It’s not as bad as shooting wolves from helicopters? Don’t compare her to Palin?
Good grief!
nottakingsides on May 26, 2009 at 11:07 PM
And torture geese to make pâté. But that’s okay, Euros like pâté.
BTW, eat a seal, save a fish; eat a beaver, save a tree.
Also, she was a liberal-leftist journalist first appointed by the Liberals (and renewed by the Conservatives). And she and Obama really hit it off on the One’s trip to
IowaOttawa. So let’s see if economically-disadvantaged sealers (especially Native ones) beat out the tree-huggers.andycanuck on May 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Doesn’t everybody cut out the liver of a freshly killed deer and eat it raw while it’s still warm?
I mean, c’mon.
BowHuntingTexas on May 27, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Seal walks into a bar and orders a shot of whiskey.
Barkeep asks if he prefers any particular brand.
Seal says “Well, anything but Canadian Club!!”
Well, I thought it was funny.
drunyan8315 on May 27, 2009 at 12:25 AM
The link is dead. PETA ate it.
Spiritk9 on May 27, 2009 at 1:10 AM
Sarah, She is so Pretty.
Sigh…
GunRunner on May 27, 2009 at 1:17 AM
Seals, a fellow mammal, and more intelligent than a pet dog, are much more above fish on the evolutionary or intelligent design scale, whichever one prefers, than humans are above seals.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what people taste like.
MB4 on May 27, 2009 at 2:14 AM
pabarge on May 26, 2009 at 8:51 PM
At least make an effort to get your facts straight. The baby seals have been protected in ALL hunts since the 70′s. That’s right since the 70′s. The ocean going fish stock destroying rats that are taken in the hunt now are ALL adults.
BobMbx on May 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM
The Governor General is Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Canada. Our official Head of State, with the PM being the Head of Government.
Jim708 on May 27, 2009 at 7:13 AM
In the post modern world, it takes a woman to be a man.
Hening on May 27, 2009 at 8:36 AM
someone’s removed the video…
NRA Lifer on May 27, 2009 at 8:44 AM
I call “BullSh%t” on that. No way is the Cuda usin’ a .44 MAG on polar bear!
BierManVA on May 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM
BierManVA
Agreed. At least a S&W 500 Mag.
Even then, I’d want a guide with a large bore rifle standing by.
SKYFOX on May 27, 2009 at 9:33 AM
You gotta have heart, lots and lots and lots of seal heart!
Crusty on May 27, 2009 at 11:35 AM
My god that’s a shock.
You yanks probably don’t realize that her “qualification” to be governor general was a stint as a reporter with the CBC and her ethnicity.
gh on May 27, 2009 at 12:14 PM
May well be the first thing she’s done that’s impressed me.
Now if we could just get her to go shoot a bear…
andycanuck on May 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Canadians love eating beaver!!
Shannow on May 27, 2009 at 6:11 PM