Posted on 06/07/2011 2:59:35 AM PDT by GonzoII
Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/06/npr_defends_palin.html at June 07, 2011 - 04:43:51 AM CDT
will they defend Palin from Walters?
That drew laughter from even The View co-host Joy Behar, a staunch liberal whose politics fall in line with Weiners. However, Walters also defended Weiner by attacking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She argued if Palin can make a bus tour and be considered viable for the presidency, then Weiner can get away with this and continue to be a sitting congressman.
And by this time, of course, the various town Committees of Safety, militia knew what the signals were, so they knew something was afoot. So this is no longer a secret operation for the British.
Revere isn't trying to alert the British, but he is trying to warn them. And in April of 1775, no one was talking about independence. We're still part of the British Empire. We're trying to save it. So this is a warning to the British Empire what will happen if you provoke Americans.
BLOCK: And Sarah Palin also was saying there that Paul Revere's message to the British in his warning was: you're not going to take American arms. You know, basically a Second Amendment argument, even though the Second Amendment didn't exist then.
Prof. ALLISON: Yeah. She was making a Second Amendment case. But, in fact, the British were going out to Concord to seize colonists' arms, the weapons that the Massachusetts Provincial Congress was stockpiling there.
So, yeah, she is right in that. I mean, and she may be pushing it too far to say this is a Second Amendment case.
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BLOCK: So you think basically, on the whole, Sarah Palin got her history right.
Prof. ALLISON: Well, yeah, she did.... "
Source: NPR
NPR is a different POS... it floats..
Me thinks that even NPR believes that Palin can beat Obama.
Time to suck up?
Their funding would be in her hands.
Sarah Palin wouldn't be voted in as President only, she probably would have a Senate majority to go with the house.
What most coverage doesn’t mention is that Revere didn’t complete the “Midnight Ride” and it was left to two others to complete the warning . The whole reflection is an interesting episode in American history. Revere was caught and conned his way out of a hole in the head. When he got to his destination anoter relay team member took over
NPR Media Player link: Listen to the Story
...Robert Allison, a professor and historian at Suffolk University, tell the NPR host that Palin basically got it right... The result is a classic public radio moment werein the good professor gets to the heart of the matter; Sarah Palin is a lightening rod for the media, and NPR wouldn't have been talking to him about Paul Revere or the American Revolution if it hadn't been for an off the cuff remark from an Alaskan politician.
Thanks for posting this..
No problem...we’ve got it for the records now.
Living far enough out in the woods that AM talk radio won’t come in, I am often listening to NPR’s news shows. Was amazed to hear, in a military-related report a coupla days ago, our national anthem and the Army song (Caissons), too. Imagined New England academics in Volvos and Subarus puking and careening from lane to lane as they clawed at the radio controls with their eyes closed.
The only one who completed the ride was Samuel Prescott. Revere and Dawes were captured.
Occasionally, in the spirit of remorse, NPR does clarify things in such a way that is not an unremitting attack on all things conservative. That is at least a tacit recognition that the repository of all wisdom is not exclusively with the more learned of atheists and social progressives, but in fact, those of conservative bent are not entirely ignorant yahoos or knee-jerk reactionaries.
Of course the British were warned that the revolutionary colonists were ready to react, and changed their tactics somewhat with this foreknowledge. Had not the British troops their own lookouts scanning the horizon?
Sarah stated that her intent was to draw attention to our history by visiting important historical sites.
Seems to me she is accomplishing her mission - but you won’t hear or read that in the MSM.
Ironic ain’t it?
hosepipe -=> NPR is a different POS... it floats..
Agreed. And this line in the article:
The interviewer, Melissa Block, tries to cajole a different narrative out of the professor and historian, throwing out the question “Are there other historians professor, whom you’ve talked with that say your being entirely too charitable toward Sarah Palin here?”
Answers the question of this thread; “NPR defends Palin?” with a resounding “No.”
NPR continues to attack anything and anybody to the right of Josef Stalin like the blind slavering tools of the DNC that they are.
Maybe someday I’ll tell you how I really feel...
I don't live in the woods, but there is still alot of AM noise here in MA. BUT, still... there is no use in torturing yourself. At 10:10 PM Eastern, go to Levin's, download 3 hours of his 6-9 PM to any handy MP3 player, and you are in heaven for the next 24 hours.
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Basically, says Brendan McConville, a history professor at Boston University, when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, Look, there is a mobilization going on that youll be confronting. ...The British are aware as theyre marching down the countryside they hear church bells ringing - she was right about that - and warning shots being fired. Thats accurate.
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Patrick Leehey of the Paul Revere House in Boston says the midnight rider was probably bluffing his Redcoat captors, so maybe it could be construed that Revere was in fact warning the British. But I dont know if thats really what Mrs. Palin was referring to.
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Mr. McConville was even less gracious conceding that Mrs. Palin had gotten it right. He wouldnt concede that her remarks were based on scholarship. No Ph.D, no tenure for her. I would call her lucky in her comments. The rest of us would call her correct, but thats just how professors think. Though not all.
It seems to be a historical fact that it happened [her way], says William Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell. A lot of the criticism [of Sarah Palin] is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.
Washington Times: PRUDEN: She gets it right, you betcha
In other words: NPR is not to interested in History really (except the liberal view).
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