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.
Sarah was correct. The British captured Revere between Lexington and Concord. He warned them of a huge militia waiting for him in Concord. He was bluffing. They didn’t believe him. But when church bells started ringing and shots were heard the British then believed him, decided he was legit, and released him in thanks for the warning.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1261.html
Heck, I thought everyone knew it was an Austrian speaking corpse man named Obama who rode throughout the 57 states giving the alarm.
The Concord Hymn by R.W. Emerson By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those spirits dare, To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
You mean the Herman Cain that didn’t know what “right of return” meant?
Of course many here will explain it away or say it’s no big deal. Had anyone else said it though....
Yep, you are correct. Sometimes it is best to keep ones mouth shut.
Sarah Palin? She got it all right. The blonde airhead reporter did not.
Revere did indeed warn the British that they were not going to take our arms. You, ejdrapes, need to read prior comments before posting if you don’t want to sound like a Bill Maher or a MSM news reader.
You sound as ill-informed as what Palin said as the person you dittoed.
Oh please. I listened to the thing. You just had to post an insult because you can’t stand it that some people didn’t think it was too good.
LOL
Do you really want to be such a committed idiot?
Have you read through this thread? You certainly have got it all wrong!
For all the negative sourpusses around here: http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-now-all-these-people-will-apologize.html
I think you are the idiot because you immediatly resort to name calling. Must be all you have to argue with.
If you think it was great, well fine, I don’t. And I am not the only person on this thread that wasn’t enthralled by it.
I did at least couple it with a compliment. Palin is very pretty.
I started out with an obvious call about you, you as the class of ignoramuses ready to bash Palin at every opportunity.
Palin got her history right. That’s the facts. She is smart and pretty. Wise up, indylindy.
I done arguing with a ninnyhen.
You started it. I did’t. All I said was it was an Ugh moment.
You don’t like it. Too bad. You best get prepared for many ugh moments. They are bound to happen.
The delivery was awful. Admit it.
It was an “ugh” moment to idiots and ignoramuses. Why are you on FR? Why are we plagued by those who chose ignorance?
Breed’s Hill?
I am here because I am a conservative. Conservatives don’t act like democrats and do group think. They are independent thinkers.
I wasn’t aware that prefering a conservative like Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain made me ineligible to be a conservative and unworthy to be on FR. Or do you get to decide who is worthy?
Now, enough is enough.
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