Kills the idiot LMS to give her the slighest credit.
Posted on 06/07/2011 4:17:16 PM PDT by jazusamo
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
About a political dustup over Paul Revere,
On the second of June in Twenty-eleven;
Hardly a liberal now alive, by heaven,
Won’t stop saying “Sarah Palin” with a sneer.
Sarah Palin’s impromptu, slightly rambling statement about Paul Revere last week set off volleys of verbal musket fire from her many left-wing critics in the media. Touring Boston on Thursday, she gave a folksy account of Revere’s ride, saying he was one of the men who “warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, by ringin’ those bells and by makin’ sure that as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warnin’ shots and bells that we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free.”
Revere warned the British? The tut-tutting was immediate. Reporters and commentators, having griped for days about being given insufficient courtesies on Mrs. Palin’s East Coast bus tour, had a field day. One if by land, two thousand by tweet.
It soon turned out, however, that Mrs. Palin’s version of history was correct. While Revere warned the Americans that the British were coming, he also warned the British - not for their benefit - that the Americans were coming. When Revere was detained by British soldiers during his ride, he told them, in his own words, “that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be 500 Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.” As for the bells and gunshots, David Hackett Fischer - in the 1994 book “Paul Revere’s Ride” - quotes a townsman saying that on that night, “repeated gunshots, the beating of drums and the ringing of bells filled the air.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Gots to keep talking about Palin and the Paul Revere comment cause those people out there are starting to pay attention to that Weiner story, big time!
of course they were all British citizens at the time
I do welcome it, I was making a sarcastic comment on the msm.
I wish people would understand. The left/MSM doesn’t care if its true if they can frame it as a gaffe.
Exactly right, but for some there's more pressing things.
I was gonna ping you but was too late. Great pic of Sarah!
Bump!
I know more about Paul Revere’s place in history than I ever may have, had not Sarah Palin taken time to raise the subject as part of her tour to become better acquainted with America’s history and people.
One of the untold stories of the Palin-Press-Revere episode is just how many Americans are learning about our history because of the One Nation tour and the coverage of it.
If the lamestream media ever figures out that their coverage of Sarah Palin is aiding and abetting Patriotism...well...I don't know, I guess their collective heads will explode!
"Tea Partyers and others who look to America’s past for inspiration are appealing to the great national narrative that the left has rejected... If a nation doesn’t revere its history, doesn’t exalt its national story, doesn’t look with pride on its accomplishments and honor its heroes, it will not long survive."
suffers = sufferers
I was agreeing with you and my writing skills are lacking at times.
Well said, smooth and so true. Imagine the benefit to the citizens of the country if the media were backing Sarah Palin on this tour!
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