Happily, Sarah "Train Wreck" Palin is continuing her good work. I'm not sure if it speaks to her "maverickyness", or just "dumbassitude". I'm going with the latter.

To quote a YouTube commenter:

The reason it's funny isn't that the guy is killing a turkey behind her. The funny part isn't even the irony of the fact that she was there to pardon a turkey, and then goes on camera showing the turkey who didn't get pardoned get slaughtered. No, the funny part is that she was told that the guy was going to be in the background, and she couldn't put two and two together and figure out that was a terrible idea.