That Stupid Palin, Getting Her History Right

I guess there’s a new kerfuffle related to Sarah Palin. This video was linked at NRO “without comment” by Andrew Stiles. It’s more evidence that she’s some kind of historical illiterate, or something, as she supposedly claims that Paul Revere rode to warn the Brits.

Admittedly Palin’s wording is incredibly garbled and she did not give a very articulate response. Here’s the thing: her comments are completely accurate. Here’s a letter written by Paul Revere himself:

“I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back,and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from,& what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms.”

Again, though spoken in mangled English, Palin’s comments are pretty much right on the money. Revere was in fact warning the British, but more as a way of bragging.

But hey, it’s so much easier to call Sarah Palin an idiot than bother with facts.

Sarah Louise Palin

Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)

Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI

Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)

Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN

Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama isn't!

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And here references to the bells:

History of the Battle of Lexington, on the Morning of the 19th April 1775
BY ELIAS PHINNEY
“They (British soldiers)de-tained him (Revere), with the other three prisoners from Lexington, till near three o’clock in the morning, when, finding no prospect of escape, Revere, in his turn, attempted to frighten them, by telling them, in a very triumphant tone of voice, “Gentlemen, you have missed your aim. I left Boston after your troops had landed at Lechmere’s Point, and if I had not been certain, that the people, to the distance of fifty miles into the country, had been notified of your movements, I would have risked one shot, before you should have taken me.” Another told them, “The bell’s ringing, the country is alarmed, and you are all dead men.” This appeared, in some measure, to alarm the officers.”

pages 18,19
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofbattleo01phin/historyofbattleo01phin_djvu.txt

NOTE: THERE ARE TWO STATEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE BOOK, ONE BY Nathan Monroe(Munroe sic) and one by Amos Lock who give evidience of the ALARM BELLS RINGING.

My! That’s the worst “pic” of her I’ve ever seen! They must have combed through a video very carefully, looking for the worst frame to freeze!

If that's how good she looks at her worst, other women can just give up now. She is truly beautiful, and I think she wears glasses to soften the impact. Even the loathsome Alec Baldwin said she was "hot" when he met her in person on SNL. Tina Fey looked like a crone beside her.

Hey, Palin was focusing on “warning the British” because that’s what she and the Tea Party are doing: they warning the establishment that they’ve rallied the patriots and that they (the establishment) had better get with the program demanded by the people. It’s a subtle point because who knows that, in addition to rallying the patriots, Revere, when caught by the British, told them that they had better watch out. I, myself, didn’t know it before this item.

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