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 ...
No, it is correct and comes directly from the reports collected int he post battle investigation including direct testimony by Revere and Loring.
Revere and the other riders were quite successful in alerting the countryside while the British were exceedingly slow in getting moving. Thus, groups of militia were streaming into Lexington all night long and Buckman Tavern on Lexington Green was the logical place to go once having arrived at the destination.
Remember, back then the tavern lighting came from candles, lanterns, and open fireplaces. A charged flintlock would be an accident waiting to happen. You betcha they discharged them before entering.
LOL!
I can hand it off to others to use if they like.
And the presumption being I guess that they had an idea where the army was and had time to meet/organize. So the discharges satisfied the clearing of the weapons AND going into the tavern safely.
Now I know: forewarned is forearmed...or something like that...
I bet -if you turned her bus into a plane - she wouldn’t buzz downtown Manhatten with it!
A famous NY publisher was in Atlanta being feted at a party and a "friend" of Margaret Mitchell told him about MM's efforts to write a novel.He asked to see it. She was embarrassed because she had written scenes/chapters here and there in an unorganized way, jumping around from front to back. She dithered about whether or not to let him read it. Finally, she rushed to the train station and gave him a large cardboard box full of transcript and he read it on the train going back to NY. Don't know how accurate the story is, but read that years ago.
vaudine
Yes, I’m a GWTW fan. I’ve been to Jonesboro and the musuem there, the Margaret Mitchell museum in Atlanta, tried to search down the old farmhouse that some say was the prototype for Tara, etc.
Mitchell was quite an eccentric. She lived in “The Dump” - the tiny apartment now part of the museum - way after the proceeds for GWTW started coming in.
Your story about the publication of GWTW is totally accurate.
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