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In 5th grade, the entire class had to memorize "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Longfellow, in its entirety. I still can recite it and yes, I also was taught that his cry was "the British are coming, the British are coming" although that is never mentioned in the poem.
This stanza pretty much sums up the way in which Revere had to spread the word...
So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm,--- A cry of defiance, and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo for evermore!
One pretty much gets the impression that Paul Revere did not announce the arrival of the British Regulars with a lot of unnecessary noise and fanfare.
I'm sure Palin never read the poem, much less studied Revolutionary War history. Together with Michelle Bachmann's "The shot heard round the world" was fired in...New Hampshire, they are not just rewriting history, they are decimating it.
Are you serious?
Longfellow's poem is all of a sudden historically accurate?
Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times writes, "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?"
Then don't assume to know that I could or could not ask an acquaintance of mine and not get a more accurate depiction of this event than the one given by Mrs. Palin as your post presumed.
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Originally Posted by BigJon3475
I just find it incredibly strange that Palin can have a 730 post thread on a 33 second youtube video but then can have a 23 minute interview with Chris Wallace (even talking about the 33 second youtube clip) and it barely make it off post 4.
There is no questioning that we're in definitive times to say the least.
If we were to follow their logic, Mrs. Palin could give an account of the Civil War and so long as she threw in a mention of "Slavery", "States' Rights", "North", and "South" it'd be correct..... Wouldn't matter how any of the words were used in conjunction with one another.....
Okay, you win. You're the "Butler" of all times.
Do me a favor that doesn't require one single response here on the web.
Ask you liberal friends, family, kids, grandchildren.. et al "who Paul Revere is"...
Do me a favor that doesn't require one single response here on the web.
Ask you liberal friends, family, kids, grandchildren.. et al "who Paul Revere is"...
I don't need to know their response either.
I'll see you on the flip side..
So long as you do the same with "Your Conservative friends". (Since we're throwing out vague generalizations and such assuming that my friends would, of course, be liberals since I think Sarah Palin was nothing short of an idiot in this instance.).
So long as you do the same with "Your Conservative friends". (Since we're throwing out vague generalizations and such assuming that my friends would, of course, be liberals since I think Sarah Palin was nothing short of an idiot in this instance.).
According to the Constitution the VP is the presiding officer of the Senate and can vote to break ties. That makes him kind of both executive and a legislator at least when he votes.
One of FDR's VPs said that the job isn't worth a bucket of spit except that Cactus Jack Gardner spelled spit in a less that PC manner.
You have to remember when arguing with liberals that just because the things Sarah Palin says are factually correct doesn't mean she isn't still wrong.
According to Dennis Miller, Paul Revere knew about PC long before the left made it necessary to use. He says Revere went through Lexington shouting, "The British are com ... uh, uh, uh, arriving." That is much more PC than the British are coming, don't you think?
Of course, we all know that the real story about Paul Revere was told by Robert Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem that was written over 80 years after the event. Most don't know that he never got to Concord to warn Sam Adams but that Adams did learn from another of the three men, Prescott, who set out to warn Adams about the eminent of the British. Revere got captured and had to tell them something to get loose so he told them that they would never defeat the colonists. Shortly after Revere was released that bunch of Minute Men were killed by the British on the Lexington Green.
Adams and Hancock were in Lexington. After Revere was released by the British, he helped Hancock move a trunk full of incriminating documents.
Dr. Prescott escaped the British patrol and made it to Concord, but word had already made its way there and the weapons store was moved to a safe location in advance of the British.
"Had misfortune therefore befell the specially commissioned messengers, there can be no doubt that others would have carried the tidings out through the Middlesex villages, arousing the inhabitants, and warning Hancock and Adams at Lexington."
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