Posted on 06/04/2011 9:01:24 AM PDT by GonzoII
Bump.
“What’s funny/sad is that liberals have so dumbed down public education, most Obama voters don’t know or even care who Paul Revere was.”
Not just Obama voters. Stupid me, I thought he was warning the Americans, not the British, with his “The British are coming.”
Were she as stupid as the left says they woudn´t be in such a frenzy over her.
Oh! I agree with you both. They had to scroll through the vid to freeze a frame mid-sentence/mid-blink!
The photo is blurred because it is one “frame” of a video which along with being of poor video quality, also caught her while she was speaking, forming a word, giving her an odd expression. The commie-lib media LIVE to catch people like Sarah in unflattering instances just like that.
Most of the American people if they have even heard of Paul Revere, only know the poem which is without question historically inaccurate.
And now, when Sarah educates the American people about the real facts of Paul Revere that he rang bells and fired off warning shots to warn the colonists of British advance.
Indeed. Palin has forced us to check historical sources, instead of the Disneyfied version of history we carry about inside our heads.
Americans Colonials
British Regulars
Revere warned the Colonials. No, it was Prescott.
Revere warned the Regulars (of their peril): correct. Thank you Sarah Palin for the history lesson.
Letter from Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap, circa 1798
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.
Folks are talking about how ‘garbled’ her message is, but take into account the circumstances of this ‘interview’. She’s on vacation, it’s not a sit-down, so she hasn’t given any real thought to answering a reporter’s questions. Haven’t all of us, at one time or another, tossed off an answer on the run that sounded disjointed? She got her facts right, that’s what’s important, though the media, since their knowledge of the incident obviously comes from Longfellow’s “ Paul Revere’s Ride”, believes SHE is the one who is ignorant.
The Longfellow version is so pervasive a meme that Palin might do well (when format permits) to point out the misleading liberties taken by this version. As a poem qua poem, it’s OK. As history, of course it stinks (and many people know of only one “correction” to the poem in the vein that Paul Revere only began the ride while another man finished it).
If Sarah had gone to Austria and in a prepared speech wondered how a particular phrase was said in “Austrian” we would have never heard the end of it. With zer0 it's due to his overwhelming intellect and his awesome, supernal ability to multi task that occasionally he misspeaks.
After all, he's already multiple moves ahead of us mere mortals.
Honestly, you got me. I’m not even sure why anyone would bother too “defend” Palin over these comments. This is laughable at best. People use that sort of language all of the time to mean things that aren’t literal. She wasn’t suggesting that Revere was LITERALLY ringing the bells to warn the British.
I think the way she worded the sentence was a little on the clumsy but nothing wrong with what she said.
A good craftsman never blames his tools...
Thanks for the Palin Derangement Syndrome (PDS) ping.
I agree, this is just another feeble attempt to try and make her look bad.
Yes, you do seem to be stupid.
Read a real history book, and not whatever some egghead professor is making you read in college.
I guess your education was dumbed down as well. There were no Americans to warn in 1775 because at that time, we were all still British subjects - the Declaration of Independence was over a year away. Further, Paul Revere never warned "The British are coming." That would have sounded silly, for as I pointed out, everybody was British at that time. Instead, Paul Revere warned that "The Regulars are coming" - referring to the redcoats (regulars) led by General Gage.
Actually, it wasn’t until I took our kids on the tour of the Battle Road in 2002 that I learned that Paul Revere was captured by the British and never even made it to Concord! I don’t remember learning that in the 10th grade, but it had been over 30 years since then, so if I even learned it, I’d forgotten it.
“I guess your education was dumbed down as well. There were no Americans to warn in 1775 because at that time, we were all still British subjects.”
My education was certainly dumbed down. The public schools in America are a disgrace. But I think it correct to refer to those living in America during colonial times as Americans. They lived in America, didn’t they?
” Further, Paul Revere never warned “The British are coming.” That would have sounded silly, for as I pointed out, everybody was British at that time. Instead, Paul Revere warned that “The Regulars are coming.”
Blame it on Longfellow:
“You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,-—
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.”
—Longfellow
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