Posted on 06/06/2011 3:45:38 AM PDT by tobyhill
You may have heard recently something about that Sarah Palin telling a reporter that Paul Revere warned the British on his famous rousing revolutionary ride.
Now, that so many Americans have wallowed in their smug confirmation that Palin is an idiot unqualified for anything but repeating sixth-grade history, how far, wide and fast do you think the contradictory news will spread that the former governor of Alaska was indeed correct?
That the Republican non-candidate, in fact, knew more about the actual facts of Revere's midnight ride than all those idiots unknowingly revealing their own ignorance by laughing at her faux faux pas? How secretly embarrassing this must be, to be forced to face that you know less than such a reputed dummy.
As it happens, though, such phenomena are regular occurrences in American politics, reminding consumers of news to be wary when some fresh story seems to fit contemporary assumptions so absolutely perfectly.
The well-known fable is Revere's late-night ride to warn fellow revolutionaries that....
...the British were coming. Less known, obviously, is the rest of the evening's events in which Revere was captured by said redcoats and did indeed defiantly warn them of the awakened militia awaiting their arrival ahead and of the American revolution's inevitable victory.
Palin knew this. The on-scene reporters did not and ran off like Revere to alert the world to Palin's latest mis-speak, which wasn't.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
Absolutely. Hard copy should never be obsolete.
LOL!! Thanks for adding that link to this thread. Joe Bite Me got his history all wrong. I wonder why katie colic didn't challenge him - oh wait. He's a dem. Heck, she probably didn't know the history either.
I won’t - because freepers like you came forward and told me not to do it - that I had to get used to anti-Palin trolls. I guess I wasn’t really aware that she had real enemies on FR (I don’t mean people who want someone else to get the nomination) who enjoyed distorting her record. Now I know: forewarned is forearmed...or something like that...
Thanks!!
Before we started Gold Leafing them. The dome on the State House was covered in Pewter making it the largest piece of Revere Ware in the world.
tnx.
“Rope-a-dope” was a phrase first coined by Muhammad Ali when I believe he was going to fight George Foreman in 1974. Ali’s plan was to lay on the boxing ring ropes covering himself up and let Foreman punch him to the point of exhaustion and then Ali would go in for the knockout.
“Impossible to listen to it once and come up with all those supposed inaccuracies and stumblings. I listened to it once and only heard a centered, articulate response; I’d have to listen to it several times over to hear all the pauses. By the way, did you sit with the transcript on your lap while you listened to it to know it was accurate?”
It is only one sentence. Rambling, but someone had then posted a link to the video and I listened. If you think the transcript is inaccurate, check it yourself.
Let me help. I’ll spend 60 seconds on an Internet search:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dRqaDrhgb8
It took 30 seconds. Youtube, search for Palin Revere. BTW, I haven’t had a TV for 6 years, so I get most of my news from FreeRepublic. It doesn’t sound to me like she was trying to give a lecture on Paul Revere’s activities after capture.
She wasn’t entirely wrong. The response to the British WAS a warning to them that their goal of intimidating the colonists into submission wasn’t going to work - but Sarah Palin did NOT give a coherent, fact-based response. And frankly, as a 53 year old history buff with 25 years in the military, if someone asked me at the end of a long day about Revere, I would ramble too.
The story is not that Palin has suckered her detractors into criticizing her with a “centered, articulate response”, but that the media which ignores 60 state/2008 Obama gaffes jumps all over her case for what is obviously just a mangled sentence. No one in their right mind would ever say that Palin really believes Revere was riding to warn the British.
Palin’s defense:
I’m not going to look it up. I heard it and it was OK for me. I never wanted to get into the tall grass about Revere and was it before he got jailed or after he got jailed...or were we British before we were Americans or were we Indians before we were Americans and now we’re Americans or are we Polish...it’s like a Jackie Mason routine!
I think this subject has been run into the ground. Right now Anthony Weiner is imploding and as a NYer that’s much more important to me right now than this, lol~
But I notice you’ve really softened your stance. You admit you’re a history buff while Sarah is a politician. She’s no expert in American History and that’s OK with me. She’s a Reaganesque figure - a big picture person, not a small detail person. I like her!
And to all you guys who don’t like her: don’t you want a president with great gams? What’s wrong with you guys?!
Oh, God. And all these years I thought it had something to do with soap. Had it mixed up with Soap-on-a-Rope.
Thanks for the explanation. As you can see, I’m not a boxing fan.
I emailed them (ya have to do it on their site) during morning show and presented facts as to their fallacies. Did likewise at CNN, who were bleating same on the American Morning show.
All to no avail I know. But perhaps said emails were read by some low level staffers, who just may detest their immediate supervisors and will tell about it at the water cooler.
It only takes a couple minutes to at least let someone know some people are aware of their crap.
Self anointed elites and progressives all suffer from this syndrome.
FWIW, I love Palin’s instincts. I would prefer a person with good instincts (Palin) over an impressive resume (GHW Bush) or an OK resume and variable instincts (GWB).
We do NOT need a nominee like Dole or McCain, who believe the Democrats are right but are afraid to admit it!
I was listening to Bill Bennett’s show and he actually said that Reagan DID fall asleep at meetings in the White House. But when someone mentioned a subject that the Gipper thought was important, he’d wake up in a snap of the fingers and go into detail about the subject. Bennett said it was always an incredibly important story not some petty detail that would excite a bureaucrat. I thought this was a great story about a great prez. Some people are just big picture people.
Nice one :D
You should post that after each PDS post... btw, mmercer was zotted.. unless he is back already :p
LOL!!
I will have to remember that one for future use ;)
Excerpt from the post on the other thread talking about the volley of gunfire is probably incorrect:
“The heavy crash of an entire volley of musketry was the result of a group of men discharging their guns prior to entering the tavern - many of the taverns at that time prohibited their patrons from entering with loaded weapons and the only way to unload a musket is to discharge it.”
I thought it odd that if the enemy was coming - why would they empty their guns to go into a bar? Another freeper (musket loader for 40+ years) explained that before battle they would clear the old charge and put in a new charge just to be sure everything was fresh, not blocked, etc. (He had a much better description!)
Because there was no one else to warn. Everyone was British. The 'United States' had not been declared and gained independence.
Paul Revere, who seemed to be a hothead, seemed to be warning everyone, even the British REGULARS and REDCOATS.
They were RINGING BELLS, and SHOUTING WARNINGS, and FIRING SHOTS OFF, going from community to community.
The British REDCOATS could only NOT BE WARNED had they been blind, deaf, and dumb.
while technically true, that doesn’t really tell the story. Revere spoke directly to British soldiers (redcoats) and issued a warning. Why?
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