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 ...
What's going on..
>>> just as everything they know about the south and the Civil War, they know from Gone With The Wind.
Fiddle dee dee.
Did not dodge anything!!!
LLS
Also dabbled in engraving, saw one of his spoons turn up on pawn stars.
There are a lot of people on this thread that stand corrected. Palin... not so much.
LLS
Wow! It remained for the Liberal LA Times to admit Sarah Palin is not an ignoramus!
Not surprised.
Marvin Gaye, is that you?
thats like going anal over someone calling Nazis are Germans. They’re not Germans, they’re NAZI!!!
really? they’re scrubbing history just cuz of Sarah? Unbelievable.
And strategically, she accomplished the goal of her bus tour - to encourage Americans to learn more about their history ;-)
Of course you’re dodging. She wasn’t asked what Revere did for a living. She was simply asked who he was.
Yup. Some links to the correct info don’t work now.
Most Germans in WWII did not see themselves as Nazi’s, even if we did.
The colonialists still saw themselves as British citizens, even if we don’t.
There’s a difference.
That lady who’s always with Joe said her favorite US founder is Lincoln!!! Lincoln was not a founder. Imagine if Sarah said that, and also Joe didn’t notice the mistake either
I ash you to see if you knew anything about the man, you did not. And the answer was he rode to warn the patriots, “the red coats are a coming”.
You didn’t ask me anything. And you didn’t know what it was that they asked Palin.
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