Posted on 06/03/2011 12:48:34 PM PDT by Incorrigible
Jim Newell— It's been at least a few seconds since we last checked in on Sarah Palin's Tour de Grift, which stopped yesterday in Olde Boston Towne. Her bus visited such historical sights as Paul Revere's old shack, where Palin explained the colonist's famous "midnight ride" before the 1775 battles at Lexington and Concord.
The Internet is aflame in scholarly debate over this interpretation:
He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.
Perhaps we should all brush up on our history of such events should we ever get trapped like this, but this may include some inaccuracies. Revere did not warn the British army to step off by ringing bells in their faces and shooting warning shots at them. That would have been counterproductive. Instead, he notified the appropriate colonists in an alarm system chain to give advance warning for protecting the rebel arsenal in Concord.
Sarah Palin would've shot all those Lobsterbacks good, though, one by one.
Thank you for sending us the entire poem. Most of us are familiar with the first few lines; but have little idea of the entire poem being so long. I don’t know that I had ever read the whole thing before. - It was high time I did.
Read comment #5 please.
Well, Breed’s Hill, of course. What I’ve never known, and would like to know, is how the misnomer came to be applied. It’s fairly difficult to confuse one hill with another half a kilometer away.
I can't wait for the libs to criticize SP on questions relating to RevWar history.
Sarah could have answered, 'The Libs believe that Paul Revere should have stayed home and let the Brits tame those unruly political rabblerousers. Gun control is a good thing. Just ask Chuck Shumer which side was in the right here: (1) american citizens wanting to retain their weapons; or (2) [British] government confiscating "dangerous assault weapons" out of the hands of "government-haters"...'
Not so. See post #5.
I can't wait for the libs to criticize SP on questions relating to RevWar history.
Sarah could have answered, 'The Libs believe that Paul Revere should have stayed home and let the Brits tame those unruly political rabblerousers. Gun control is a good thing. Just ask Chuck Shumer which side was in the right here: (1) american citizens wanting to retain their weapons; or (2) [British] government confiscating "dangerous assault weapons" out of the hands of "government-haters"...'
Wasn’t he trying to alert one of the 57 colonies?
The point that Gawker is making is that the ride was to raise the alarm and warn the revolutionaries, not to warn the British. Palin misspoke. They are correct; she made a mistake.
The media is waiting to pounce
Mr. Newell has no interest in the truth, only in bashing Governor Palin.
Ah, I misread. I had thought the criticism had been directed toward the ringing of bells, which of course did occur. Thank you for the clarification.
I was surprised by the length as well. Like you, I don’t think I’d ever read all the verses.
The media is going to parse Palin’s every word to find some way to attack. Let’s not get distracted by this nonsense. What we should care about are a candidate’s core principles. Palin is a good conservative on the economy, on foreign policy and on social issues. What more do we want? Better to have a true, honest conservative than a glib speaker.
To equate Palin’s characterization of the events with what actually happened is akin to believing Anthony Weiner’s explanations.
Perhaps Mr. Newell is just so so comfortable in his ignorance, which he surely perceives as marvelous wisdom, that he shan’t bother to be doing any research at all to back up or cross-check what he remembered about that night of 18 April 1775.
He is just so “literate and educated”! There’s no room for humility and trifles like checking the facts in such “literate and educated” folks. They are SURE of themselves.
Just so comfortable in that sure sensation built over a base of unaccountable, unchallengeable assumptive learnedness.
Let us say HI! to our new “affirmative action” and “self-affirmation” intelligentsia, like Mr. Newell. Without a doubt every one of them hates Sarah Palin, and are SURE they know the reason why they hate her.
they will portray her as an air head which let’s face it, she at times sounds like one, but more so than Obama? No. Obama is never asked these questions. Is never put on the spot to explain any Americana.
Ask Sarah about college sports, hockey etc. she’s find.
Ask Obama how can one man complete a triple play single handed, and he’ll stammer.
I love that picture. Earlier this week, I saw a place where you could order a cardboard cutout of Sarah dressed in her signature red jacket. When they showed the photo of the 2 of them on TV I really thought I was looking at Sarah standing with her cardboard cut out. They really look alike.
Did you ever get caught off guard when your mind is focused on something else? I have, many times. She IS articulate, when she’s on the same page as the interviewer. Rush makes misstatements every day, as do most others. Imagine if Sarah was the ONLY one who had stated that Osama killed Obama, as virtually every commentator did at some point! LOL
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