In the movie the Godfather, a message is sent to the Corleone family when their most loyal and vicious enforcer Luca Brasi is killed:

…a fish wrapped in Brasi’s bulletproof vest. The meaning is made clear to the Corleones. As Corleone’s consigliere Tom Hagen explains: “The fish means that Luca Brasi is sleeping on the bottom of the ocean… It’s an old Sicilian message”.

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes…

Now while ignoring the Gaffe-Master Joe Biden, the media elite, believing turkeys only come from their illegal immigrant maids who serve them, are all in a tither and are accusing Palin of the ULTIMATE GAFFE!  

Attention Pinch Sulzberger: it was no gaffe.  It was a message.

As the media spread the infamous video around, all are asking what it means.  Why a press interview in front of a turkey slaughter?  The New York Times has foolishly ignored the meaning and instead decries the turkey “executions!”

With no street smarts or even common sense in many of those hallowed newsrooms, allow me to help my media friends with a little Alaskan interpretation.  Governor Palin is sending word: the New York Times will go the way of the Thanksgiving turkey, as will most of the turkeys running together in the print media.

Governor Palin sends word: Pinch Sulzberger dines with the turkeys. (Photo from New York Post)

from the Post:

Chairman Pinch Sulzberger alone will see his nearly $441,000 personal dividend check from last year shrink to about $115,000, according to filings.