I don’t think anything highlights the divide between urban elitists and rural, “fly-over-country” citizens then a bunch of New York Times liberals getting all bent out of shape about seeing where their food comes from.

We’ve differed with Sarah Palin a great deal on substance. We don’t agree with her hardline approach to the Iraq War, her harsh anti-government rhetoric, and her style of negative campaigning.

But we also worry a bit about, how should we put it, the persona she has brought with her to national politics. We did not care at all for the swipe she took against community organizers at the Republican National Convention.

And then there’s this. You don’t have to be a huge animal lover to question why Governor Palin chose to be interviewed — while issuing a traditional seasonal pardon of a turkey — while turkeys were being executed in the background.

Here’s the video from my previous post on this in case anyone missed it:

You know why Sarah didn’t think that interview locale was a big deal?  Because she’s not some snob who gets queasy about the reality of where food comes from.  Some of us see that sort of thing all the time.  During hunting season out here in fly over country there are days when you can hardly drive down a residential street without seeing someone’s kill laying in the back of a pickup, or strung up in a garage to be butchered.  Heck, we’ve got road-side collection points for deer heads.  And most of us have gutted and cleaned a bird or other animal at one point or another in our lives.

It’s a fact of life out here.  And it probably contributes to why most of us see the world a bit differently than your average Times editor.