Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

You know how Sarah Palin said Paul Revere warned the British? Well, he did. Now, who looks stupid?
LA Times ^ | 6/6/2011 | Andrew Malcolm

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: latimestruereport; msmfabricates; msmlies; nevertrustthemsm; onenation; palin; palinrevere; paulrevere; sarahpalin
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 161-168 next last
To: 4rcane

If you really want to understand your history, you also need to see how they saw themselves and their world.


61 posted on 06/06/2011 5:03:09 AM PDT by Jonty30
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: org.whodat

apparently, these days, we can call others for being morons and ignorant on any subject, because one just googled it a few seconds ago. I didn’t know the history either, but once I googled it and read a few secs on it, I can now call someone else who know something about it a moron.


62 posted on 06/06/2011 5:03:34 AM PDT by 4rcane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: org.whodat

That would be “Breed”s” Hill and according to the Lexington Historical Society, Sarah was correct in her retelling of the tale. He did not set out to warn the British (they were all British subjects at the time) but warn them, in deed, he did, along with everyone else in the countryside.


63 posted on 06/06/2011 5:04:34 AM PDT by acapesket
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: 4rcane

I remember Meg Mccain called Palin a moron for not knowing what blue blood means, because Palin just used it and Meg Mccain just googled a few seconds ago. Even after reading what blue blood mean on the internet, Meg still GOT IT WRONG


64 posted on 06/06/2011 5:06:35 AM PDT by 4rcane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: 4rcane; org.whodat
but once I googled it and read a few secs on it, I can now call someone else who know something about it a moron.

I have called no one any names. But the PDSer's are certainly busy in that respect.

65 posted on 06/06/2011 5:06:39 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: tobyhill
Instructive.

Sarah Palin should stop answering reporter's questions because it makes THEM "look" stupid (removes all doubt).

....This time the mistake for Palin, who used to be accused of dodging reporters' questions, was bothering to answer such an amateur media gotcha question in a noisy, moving crowd. Better would have been a simple dismissive and cheery, "You're kidding, right?" Such are the ongoing lessons for primary candidates. Which she isn't now, of course....

All this answering of questions makes reporters do research. What a pain! Instead they're running off half-cocked, making it necessary to clean up in news aisle one.

66 posted on 06/06/2011 5:07:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DJ MacWoW

Not talking about you, I’m talking about the PDSers


67 posted on 06/06/2011 5:07:53 AM PDT by 4rcane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: 4rcane

We certainly have enough of those.


68 posted on 06/06/2011 5:09:35 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife

now they’re complaining Palin is answering too much question and weighing in on too many policy issues


69 posted on 06/06/2011 5:10:25 AM PDT by 4rcane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: don-o

I’m a little angry at some Freepers who have been saying that not only was Sarah wrong in what she said but that she said it in a mangled way. So, innocent me, listening to talk radio this morning, while ironing my husband’s shirts, and on comes Sarah in her original quotes. Not only does she sound grounded, smart and knowledgeable, she says what she says in a very clear fashion.

So what’s going on here? A bunch of FR Sarah haters have been lying to those of us who missed her comments on the day she said them? Now I can’t trust Free Republic? I can understand not liking her and not wanting her to run. But to deliberately distort the truth is something else.

Maybe I need to go over to Lucianne.com. (And, I know, I know, don’t let the door hit me on the way out, lol!)


70 posted on 06/06/2011 5:10:56 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.Life and Death are wearing me out)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: tobyhill

It makes my day to watch as the worm turns.


71 posted on 06/06/2011 5:11:10 AM PDT by RetSignman ("It's about saving our Republic, STUPID")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tobyhill

This is just like Tine Fey’s “I can see Russia from my house” bit on SNL, doesn’t matter that Palin never said that and her actual statement of Russia being visible from Alaska is 100% correct. Palin can’t overcome her enemies stupidity sometimes and the MSM play right along.


72 posted on 06/06/2011 5:11:24 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o

indeed, this shows it’s starting to dawn on the smarter ones that: “Sarah is coming and hell’s coming with her” (for the liars and cheats and scoundrels in DC)


73 posted on 06/06/2011 5:11:38 AM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 4rcane

No, did not google Paul, he is covered in detail in Virginia history books, also, only googled to get the link to the Longfellow poem, donot recall the number of english classes it was required reading in.


74 posted on 06/06/2011 5:12:05 AM PDT by org.whodat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: Brett66

Tine=Tina


75 posted on 06/06/2011 5:12:05 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: don-o

Maybe we should be learning our history from Biden...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd8_1307313702


76 posted on 06/06/2011 5:13:29 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Cincinatus' Wife
I really think Palin is playing the press and having the time of her life. Palin does her awaa shucks thing them brings out some little obscure fact about an incident or historical question and the press assumes she is stupid and runs off to display her ignorance and showing themselves to be the a$$hats they are! It is all most comical to watch, reminds me of Lucy, Charlie Brown and a certain football! LOL
77 posted on 06/06/2011 5:13:52 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy
On Morning Joe they are yukking it up about Palin being so stupid she doesn't know what Revere did!!

Worst of all is Joe Scarborough. What a Benedict Arnold he has become to the party.

78 posted on 06/06/2011 5:14:53 AM PDT by McGruff (Run Sarah, Run. Restore this country to what it once was.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: tobyhill
Sarah Louise Palin

Born February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)

Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI

Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)

Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN

Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama ISN'T!

72:1:12

79 posted on 06/06/2011 5:15:13 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: org.whodat

perhaps you should try Massachusetts history since it happened here and Paul Revere was not in Virginia.


80 posted on 06/06/2011 5:16:15 AM PDT by acapesket
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 161-168 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson