Posted on 06/06/2011 6:55:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What an interesting dodge to the point that I made. You do realize what you are doing is logically fallacious right? And “serial Palin hater”? Really now? So pointing out a fact makes one a serial hater? When did we go into the realm of cult of personality worship?
As for whole I support ... it is totally irrelevant but I support Cain.
Revere didn’t say “The British are coming”. He said “The Regulars are coming. Sarah’s account of Revere’s Ride I think is typical of someone who isn’t a person from the Boston area over the age of 50.
I’d also like to have heard Barack Obama’s account of the Battle of the Alamo.
Good Lord.
Here are the sum total of Sarah Palin quotes on this topic. Please data-mine the above to show me where she says PAUL REVERE HIMSELF used bells and gunshots to warn the British.
Note on the second quote, she does not say "HE WARNED", implying Revere, she said "HE WHO WARNED", implying another person or persons.
And the part about riding through town, the sentence structure and facts about horseback riding certainly shows that the riding through the town CAUSED the bells and gunshots. Even a Palin-Derangement-Syndrome Sufferer would have to admit that riding on a horse and ringing a church bell are mutually exclusive activites.
Phrasing is really the key.
Revere did not intend to warn the British. Only having done so under interrogation after his capture. Something in an area that annually recreates Revere’s Capture and the ensuing battles at Lexington Green and up thru Minuteman National Park to Concords’ Old North Bridge, would be aware of.
It’s a bit like going to Texas and talking about Mexican defeat from the Alamo.
“The lie is already folklore now. And that’s the way the lib media rolls.”
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sadly, i very much agree with you. My Boss is a big Palin supporter, yet believed she was wrong about Revere.
the internet is great. but millions of good honest Americans still get news from MSM and believe it...
(like MSM reporting as accurate, the blatant lie by Pelosi claiming Obama created millions of jobs...)
how to change that? i don’t know. wish i did!
MSM has to pucker and suck it up again,the poor S.O.B.’s never learn.
True, in the minds of the steadily diminishing crowd of diminished intelligence slugs who get their opinions from Brian Williams and the perky Katie Couric. The percentage of the population which could care less what Williams, Couric and Blitzer are vomiting from their pie holes is day-by-day getting larger. Take heart!
Only a blind apologist would try to say that she wasn’t suggesting that Revere himself warned the British with bells and gunshots.
However, that’s irrelevant, because even using your timeline she still gets it wrong. You make it sound as if there were bells and gunshots going off as Revere rode through the towns. That simply isn’t what happened. There were no bells or gunshots until after Revere had already been captured. His only warning was to exaggerate the strength of the British troops. The bells and gunshots didn’t come until after Revere was in British hands.
Both sides are simply wrong here. Palin was wrong in her rendition, and her critics were wrong in believing that Paul was never captured or exaggerated the strength of the colonial forces to his interrogators.
Trying to play a game where you give your favorite person a complete pass simply because you like her, makes you no better than the leftists who worship Obama and give him a pass on his many gaffes.
That said, I think anyone relentlessly hammering her on this topic has got some PDS, or at least some preconceived notions about Palin. I will note that she needs to slow down and utter only fully-formed sentences.
Even if I shared her 'feelings', I'd rather have an "idiot" who is right than the current thieving idiot we have in the hut at 1600 PA Ave.
But then, believing what one sees in the MSM is becoming a one-question intelligence test.
Note to Sarah - No more nuanced answers to the ignoramuses in Big Media.
"The problem with Internet quotations is that many are not genuine." -- Abraham Lincoln
“Only a blind apologist would try to say that she wasn’t suggesting that Revere himself warned the British with bells and gunshots.”
I like Sarah Palin but watching the video it’s clear that she was uncomfortable and struggling for an answer. The result was a very poor one that failed to hit the main point. Revere rode to warn the COLONISTS that the redcoats were coming. By focusing her answer on what may have been a minor goal, she certainly gave the impression she was unaware of the real purpose.
“Historians agree: Palin was right about Paul Revere”
If you asked 50 historians about the significance of the Old North Church and Paul Revere’s ride, how many do you think would focus on warning the Redcoats?
Paul Revere also assisted Obama's uncle in liberating Auschwitz.
Well done, Laz.
You would think someone in the Media would catch on that they are being set up. Sarah researches some relatively obscure fact that on the face of it runs counter to conventional wisdom. The leftists and MSM pounces on it, saying it proves that Sarah is ignorant, stupid, etc. Then they find out that she was right all along.
At the time almost everyone that heard Paul Revere were BRITISH. Even Paul Revere at the time was British.
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