Only AP Article on Palin Fox News Sunday Interview: Palin: I didn't mess up Paul Revere history

The Associated Press ^ | Sunday, June 5, 2011 | Laurie Kellman

[kristinn]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Palin says she didn't mess up her history on Paul Revere.

[coon2000]

She was correct. You need to read history from accurate books and not watch it on Schoolhouse Rock.

[UCANSEE2]

Just another reason I hope I don’t have to vote for Palin. I have a direct ancestor who heeded the alarm call of 04/18/1775, and I bet he’s rolling in his grave knowing the best candidate running 235 years later has this take on the birth of our country.

Sarah Palin is correct. He DID warn the British. The only way the British would not have known, would be if they were all BLIND, DEAF, and DUMB.

They were ringing church bells in each community. There were multiple riders going to different towns. They were yelling at the top of their lungs as they passed homes. And they didn't have the internet, so this took some time.

[DesertRhino]

“The minute she gets excited and sounds passionate, I tend to tune out. Almost to the point where she give me a headache.”

A headache? Really? That’s a bit dramatic. Do we need to get the smelling salts? Don’t tie the corset so tight.

I always am amazed at people who are so offended by her voice. Bubba the redneck was fine, Bush I with his partrician ivy league accent, The Kennedy Kerry wing and it’s haughty blue blood voice inflections. Carter with his Georgia drawl, Chris Christie with his obese east coast sound, Bush II sounded like he had brain damage (remember how you were hoping he would just out with what you knew he was trying to say?), And Obama! Why, he’s a regular Rich Little! He does a Boston Blue Blood, a ghetto jive talk, a black evangelist sing-song thing, an Islamic Imam accent, and an odd Redd Foxx + “old black man wino philosopher” thing. You hear this in the “slurpee” act he does, or when he shouts someone down with a finger and that stacatto ,,”na na na,, na na , na na na na, listen”.
This comes out in public forums.

But the ONE accent that must be changed, that will kill a career in politics, is Sarahs? Please,,

[Vendome]

Smoking Hot Librarian and cracking me up everyday by giving the Gotcha’s to the dying media.

[catfish1957]

Well that just seals it. Palinite Freepers have decided that 4/18/1775 was nothing but a gun grab, and the men came out to fight were secondary.

What's the next FReeper historical headline? General Beauregards ingrown toenail starts attack on Ft. Sumpter?

[cripplecreek]

This immense interest in the famous ride of Paul Revere is all to the good. Thank you Sarah Palin. The amount of old papers and accounts are now brought into focus for the ordinary Joe out there (self included). All good for the mind for some of us. It seems that previously only a vague idea of the historic ride engendered by Longfellow was well known.

I've long felt that a daily or weekly deep history thread would be a good thing for Free Republic. If someone wanted to take it up I would like to be number one on the ping list.

In the mean time.....

Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History

Many of the links are dead but the page provides a fine listing of documents that can be found with a little further searchuing.

[UCANSEE2]

Which is nothing near the innovative way Revere warned the populus of the British invasion.

Really?

Exactly what did he say?

[CMAC51]

Just another reason I hope I don’t have to vote for Palin. I have a direct ancestor who heeded the alarm call of 04/18/1775, and I bet he’s rolling in his grave knowing the best candidate running 235 years later has this take on the birth of our country.

Perhaps you should read the history or Paul Revere more carefully. It would appear that Sarah has.

According to a history of the ride by David Hackett Fischer in his 1995 book "Paul Revere's Ride,"

after Revere awakened the community in Medford, just north of Boston, Revere rode to the house of Captain Isaac Hall, commander of Medford's minutemen, "who instantly triggered the town's alarm system. A townsman remembered that 'repeated gunshots, the beating of drums and the ringing of bells filled the air."

In the book, Fischer recounts what British troops marching north heard. The "meeting bells"; were "not very loud - nothing like the carillons of ancient English churches,"; Fischer wrote. "These were small, solitary country bells, clanging faintly in the night, but the sounds came from every side - west, north, and even east behind the column"; of troops.

Below is a summary of what Paul Revere wrote of his famous ride, according to letter written in 1798 to Jeremy Belknap, a corresponding secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

--- Revere wrote down ---Upon being surrounded by 4 British Officers, Revere said he was questioned by some officers, confirmed he was a messenger, said at what time he left Boston, that British troops had crossed 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."

Sarah mangled the phraseology a bit, but her facts were not in error. That night was much more complex than the grade school version that most people know. She indicated that here familiarity of that night exceeds the simple version.

[worst-case scenario]

I asked my brother in Boston about how her stop there was covered, and he hadn’t even *heard* about it the next day. He was surprised Sarah had been in town. He said that the news coverage had essentially been nothing but the tornado damage, tornado prep, etc - and a little “bit- o’-Romney.” (We never liked the candy much, either.)

[bvw]

When caught in a hole rule number one is stop digging. You, however, evidently plan an escape via China.

[Dianer0839]

I agree! Does she ever take a bad picture? I know that the msm try hard to marginalize her but she beats the every time.

[catfish1957]

There were several riders who took the message inland from Boston Harbor. Thre are not too many historical details are around the system they put in place, but I understand it was much like a relay race. But in any case, within two days, pretty much the SE 1/4 of Massachusetts knew of the landing.

[coon2000]

Just stop. There is a forest out there, even though all those damn trees are blocking your view of it.

[catfish1957]

Dig what? You are still the one claiming 4/18/1775 was a gun grab. Keep on!!!!!

[DesertRhino]

“The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.

About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Through effective intelligence gathering, Patriot colonials had received word weeks before the expedition that their supplies might be at risk”

Hmmmmm,,,to me, it sounds like the
*primary reason* for the entire event was indeed, a gun grab.

[Polybius]

"57 states,,, Corpse-man,,,: .... Barack Hussein Obama

"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed." .... Sarah Palin

Up to now, I had not looked up the exact Sarah Palin quote about Paul Revere. "Ringing those bells"? "Warning shots" during the ride through town? (Ever try to reload a muzzleloader on a galloping horse?)

When I was in elementary school in the 1960's, every school child could tell you about Paul Revere and LANTERNS: "One if by land. Two if by sea."

If Sarah Palin were a Democrat, every one of us on FR would be making "public school education" jokes at the though of a candidate talking about Paul Revere ringing bells and firing warning shots.

The bottom line is that NEITHER Barack Hussein Obama nor Sarah Palin is impressing the American voters very much.

Forty six percent (46%) of all voters have said that they will DEFINITELY NOT vote for Obama. For a sitting President, that is atrocious. Such a President can only coast to a landslide reelection victory if the Republicans (Republicans make up only 29% of all voters) are foolish enough to nominate a candidate that SIXTY FIVE PERCENT (65%) of all voters have said that they will DEFINITELY NOT vote for. That would be Sarah Palin.

American cannot afford another four years of Barack Hussein Obama in the White House. America needs a conservative candidate without the severe limitations of Sarah Palin that are obvious to the vast majority of American voters other than the tiny eight percent (8%) that have said that they definitely WILL vote for her.

Bill Clinton did not announce his first winning candidacy until October of the year before the election. America has four more months for an electable conservative candidate to come along.

[torchthemummy]

Now that’s funny.

[worst-case scenario]

Paul Revere did not ride to warn the British of anything. He rode to tell Hancock and Adams that there were warrants out for their arrest, and to tell the guys who ran the “Early Warning System” - an already-arranged bell-signal - to start it up. He also rode to tell the residents of Middlesex County that there was a regiment of Redcoats coming to seize the colonial armory at Concord.

Revere didn’t want the British to know ANYTHING about it at all - because the Middlesex Men wanted to set up, essentially, an ambush for them as they approached Concord.

Sarah punted like a kid who’s been called on in class and didn’t know the answer, so tries to bluff it out with a few dimly remembered facts and a confident attitude. What makes it doubly annoying to New Englanders is that she’d *just finished the Walk.* Didn’t she actually pay attention to anything? She billed this tour as a history lesson. Instead it seems to have been turned into a series of photo-ops at historic sites.

[Sea Parrot]

You don’t need another reason, your mind was made up long ago.