MEDIA CAUGHT IN ANOTHER SMEAR… Palin Did Not Misspeak on Paul Revere

RightNetwork/GatewayPundit ^ | 6-3-2011 | Jim Hoft

[smoothsailing]

MEDIA CAUGHT IN ANOTHER SMEAR… Palin Did Not Misspeak on Paul Revere

by Jim Hoft

Friday, June 3, 2011

The state-run media is having fun today smearing Sarah Palin on her historical knowlege. Yesterday she told reporters Revere warned the British that the colonial militias were waiting for them.

Sarah Palin was right.

Paul Revere did in fact tell the British that the colonial militias, who had been alerted, were waiting for them...

[Sea Parrot]

This is how I have been repying to the LSM. Useless I know, but some lowlevel staffer will perhaps read.

The joke is on you LSM, but you always get the lie out first, hard and fast, then when the truth comes out, you go silent, and on to your next lie about Sarah Palin. (does “Tea Party like it’s 1773” ring a bell?)

Paul Revere rode out to warn outlying villages & etc, where the people there “rang bells and fired shots” to awaken others to warn the British were coming.

When Paul Revere was captured by British scouts before he got to Concord, he did tell them that the people knew they were coming, and where arms and ammunition were at. As other messengers had warned the people of Concord, they knew the British were coming and were already moving the arms, ammunition, and other supplies.

You in the LSM claim you are the smartest people in the room, on all things, perhaps you might want to check historical facts, you know, it’s called research.

Revere recounts in a 1789 letter maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

http://www.masshist.org/database/img-viewer.php?item_id=99&img_step=1&tpc=&pid=&mode=transcript&tpc=&pid=#page1

(page 4)

“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.He then orderd them to advance, & to lead me in front. When we got to the Road, they
turned down towards Lexington. When we had got about one Mile, the Major Rode up to the officer that was leading me, & told him to give me to the Sergeant. As soon as he took me, the Major orderd him, if I attempted to run, or any body insulted them, to blow my brains out. We rode till we got near Lexington Meeting-house, when the Militia fired a Voley of Guns, which appeared to alarm them very much.”

Additionally, as the Paul Revere Heritage Project notes.

http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/midnight-ride.html

“The Redcoats had set temporary roadblocks as a security measure and on their way to Concord they encountered British soldiers. Prescott managed to escape; Revere was captured and Dawes tried to run away but was arrested shortly thereafter. The British held Revere and interrogated him with a pistol on his chest. He was asked about the plans of the militia and where they kept their ammunition. When asked where the Patriots were hiding he told them the truth and replied that they had 500 militiamen in Concord protecting them and 1500 coming. As they rode towards Concord he was told that if he tried to escape he would be shot.”

So folks, how’s that hopey changey thingy working out for ya in Obamaville?

[Pollster1]

I'm glad Gov. Palin has been reviewing our history. It's a shame the media won't do the same:

According to a letter written by Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap, circa 1798:

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 as-ked 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. [spelling as in original letter, which I have seen and read in person years ago]

Note: Sarah had a good idea about touring our historic sites, and I hope many from FR will follow the link and read the entire letter. I also hope she will bait the MSM with similar accurate comments over the next month before her formal announcement.

[Mr. Wright]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxxGUeZtno

[samtheman]

Palin/West... it will be a great ticket.

[jmaroneps37]

She definitely set the scum in the media up. I'm sure she researched this inside and out. Go Sarah!

[grey_whiskers]

jla,

Did you notice that section9 hasn't posted in this thread?

Please let us know which thread you were aiming at.

Cheers!

[Jo Nuvark]

Some are miffed at West for not supporting
Obamacare repeal. From my research, West
felt it was too big to repeal and wanted
to puts efforts into other areas.

Something like that. I hope West has re-
considered and is now behind the repeal
effort.

http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/

[Jo Nuvark]

TOASTING THE QUEEN
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OBAMA SIGNS PALACE GUEST BOOK 2008
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OBAMA GAFFES
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57 STATES
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BOMB PEARL HARBOR
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BORN IN KENYA in his own words
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TELEPROMPTER IN CHIEF
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[EveningStar]

Posted on another thread:

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...

It's highly doubtful that Palin even knew about this. She was fumbling and stumbling and just got lucky.

However, for those of you who actually do believe she knew what she was talking about, this is for you:

[Pollster1]

It's highly doubtful that Palin even knew about this. She was fumbling and stumbling and just got lucky.

Really? I knew it, having learned it from my father and then having read the original letter. All of my children knew it, having learned it from me. Governor Palin is on a tour of our history, probably using that tour among other reasons to teach her own daughter the full history of our country from the source documents and original sites. What I found surprising was that no journalist or editor knew even that little bit of our history and spoke up to stifle the reflexive anti-Sarah attack.

Ignorance of our history is a sadly common failing, especially among liberals, but I am not willing to assume that same failing in someone who "got lucky" and might have been expected based on circumstances to have known.

[21twelve]

I HAD known it, but forgot about it. Until I searched the internet. Something I imagine they have been doing as they travel to each destination. “Okay Piper - you look up “Old North Church” and I’ll look up “The Battle of Lexington”.

And you know the media would have played “gotcha” if she had said “He lit the lanterns, and then rode out yelling “The British are coming.”

[tweakDU]

WTF did your comment prove about Palin’s comments??? And if you are selling the bridge, probably means that you own it having purchased it the same time as you cast your vote for ohopenchange.

[smoothsailing]

It's highly doubtful that Palin even knew about this. She was fumbling and stumbling and just got lucky.

I don't think she got lucky at all, she knew what she was talking about.

He who warned, uh, the … the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringin' those bells and, um, by makin' sure that as he's ridin' his horse through town to send those warnin' shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free … and we were gonna be armed.

I think it's fair to say that Sarah was speaking as she thought and as she was remembering. It was free flow and off the cuff. No one can say it wasn't a bit mangled. Nor can anyone fairly say that the thrust of her remarks weren't historically accurate.

These are Sarah's actual words again, I've struck through ums and uhs...

He who warned, uh, the … the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringin' those bells and, um, By makin' sure that as he's ridin' his horse through town to send those warnin' shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free … and we were gonna be armed.

Here edited...

He who warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms.

By makin' sure that as he's ridin' his horse through town (alerting folks) to send those warnin' shots and ring those bells.

We were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free and we were gonna be armed.

Here's a very good perspective I found on another website....

The seminal book on the topic is “Paul Revere’s Ride” by the Brandeis historian David Hackett Fischer. As it recounts, the British mission on April 19, 1775 was to seize a store of gunpowder that was thought to be in Concord, Massachusetts, as one operation in a general effort by the British command in Boston to deprive the American militia of arms. Revere made his ride to generally warn the countryside of that mission, and, on the way, to warn Hancock and Adams of the possibility that they would be arrested. He stopped at house after house on his ride, and, as part of a previously-arranged alarm system, town after town in eastern Massachusetts, upon hearing the news, began ringing bells. The bells are what drew militia to Concord from all over Massachusetts, leading to the militia’s victory there over the later-arriving British.

Palin’s account is an impressionistic but broadly accurate description of Paul Revere’s ride, which is now as much symbol as it is historical event: the ride definitively *was* about protecting American arms, and it prompted the ringing of bells all over eastern Massachusetts in the morning, and gunfire from morning until night, when the British force escaped back into Boston, badly defeated.

As to Palin’s reference to warning the British, I think you know what she meant: that Revere’s ride, and the closely-related events of that day, served as a strong message to Britain that the colonists intended to fight for their freedoms. She’s right about that, and I’m not sure it even qualifies as a misstatement. It would be fine to say that the militia “warned” the British that day; it seems equally fine to say (especially in an extemporaneous setting) that Paul Revere did so. He’s become, in effect, a symbol of the colonist’s actions that day.

From 1774-1775 the British military, based in Boston, and led by General Gage, was intent upon disarming the colonists. The British mounted a series of operations — including the one on April 19, 1775 — that were designed to do just that. This was the period of the so-called “Powder Alarms.”

Here’s David Hackett Fischer, a recognized expert on the period, at p. 43 of his esteemed book “Paul Revere’s Ride”: Gage’s “purpose was to remove from Yankee hands the means of violent resistance until a time when cooler heads would prevail. To that end, General Gage proposed to disarm New England by a means of small surgical operations . . . The plan had one major weakness. It could only succeed by surprise. The people of New England were jealous of their liberty, including their right to keep and bear arms. If they learned in advance of General Gage’s intentions, his strategy for stopping the movement toward war could start one instead.”

Hackett Fischer isn’t taking some controversial position here; this is basic history, and simple research will lead you to it quite readily.

As to the British mission on April 19, it in particular was part of the broader effort to (using Hackett Fischer’s own term) “disarm” the colonists. If you want, you can simply look up the text of Gage’s written order. It does not mention the arrest of anyone. It orders the troops to proceed “with utmost expedition and secrecy to Concord, where you will seize and destroy all Artillery, Ammunition, Provisions, Tents, Small Arms, and all Military stores whatever.”

I think you’re right that Revere’s primary purpose, initially, was to warn Adams and Hancock (I don’t know what Hamilton you are referring to). He and his colleagues incorrectly thought Adams and Hancock were the targets of the British troop movement. But upon reaching Lexington, he, Hancock and others concluded that such a large British operation (900 troops or so) must have some other purpose. A fellow named Jonas Clarke, present in Lexington, later wrote: “It was shrewdly suspected that [the British] were ordered to seize and destroy the stores belonging to the colony, then deposited at Concord.”

So I really think you and your fellow critics of Palin’s extemporaneous statement are unjustifiably denying the essential truth of its thrust — that the events of April 19, 1775 were very much about the British seeking to disarm the colonists, and the colonists resisting that effort. And if Hackett Fischer sees fit to link these events to the colonists’ perceived “right to keep and bear arms,” it’s probably OK for Sarah Palin to do so as well; at minimum, it shouldn’t subject her to ridicule.

[Gilbo_3]

eveningstar said

...”It’s highly doubtful that Palin even knew about this. She was fumbling and stumbling and just got lucky.”

just wow...i hope youve got asbestos undies and a zot-proof umbrella buddy, cause the fact that SP looked like a drunk deer in the headlights doesnt mean squat to the estrogenmessiah crowd...

best to tread lightly till the bus tour is over...

[EveningStar]

Palin’s account is an impressionistic but broadly accurate description of Paul Revere’s ride...

Oh, please.

[smoothsailing]

The person who wrote those words is no fan of Sarah Palin. His name is David Clancy and his complete remarks can be found in the comment section of the below link...

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/06/03/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/

[Brad from Tennessee]

Thanks.

[Peter Libra]

One always learns something. For years I had known of the poem by Longfellow. A stirring tribute to Paul Revere. One that could only give a few facts. Only yesterday there was a thread about this on FR. It is most important to read the letter to Jeremy Belknap by Paul Revere. Since it was written in 1798, there was no attempt to varnish the account. Five officers of His Majesties forces had intercepted Revere and his two compatriots. Something I never knew until now.

It is likely that Revere on having a pistol clapped to his head, by a flinty eyed British major, was indeed warning him. The adventures of his fellow horsemen are not generally known. That is a story in it's self. The warning was not to aid the major and his redcoats to prepare, but to expect a hot reception. This they got.

Sarah Palin was essentially right. Hopefully her inspired cross country trip is not taking a toll on her health. She is giving the liberals fits.

[notdownwidems]

PALIN / WEST 2012

Thanks, Joe! This is a winning combo IF they go on the offensive, especially the vp candidate, and fire up conservatives; oh the fun he could have skewering the left’s hypocrisy. I can’t believe they would lay back and take the ‘gentlemanly’ route, so I would dearly love to see a ticket like this, I would change my tag line immediately!

[Sea Parrot]

She was relating what the tour guide had said at Old North Church.

Odd, seems she is always lucky when it comes to historical facts. Not to mention, her father, a retired school teacher, is an avid history buff. So I would expect a running comentary from him as they visit the different historical sites.