I worked on that headline for a while to try and make it less weird but still descriptive. I don’t know if she is trying to prove she’s one tough cookie or she really is daft about what’s going on around her. See this story about Palin giving an interview shortly after pardoning a turkey where the backdrop just happens to be the ongoing slaughter of the turkeys who were not pardoned:
(I thought about including the YouTube clip here but it’s a little gross and I thought it might be a buzzkill to the happy vibe I like to keep here!)