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Lay it to rest master fabricator. I see it bothers you so much that you have to keep spewing your ill informed BS. Why is that because you don't understand what she said, it automatically has to be wrong? Maybe you're the one who is wrong. Just sayin....
We're waiting with baited breath for your crack analysis of her ingenius account of Paul Revere.
Whenever you're ready, the floor is yours....
I've just been quoting books and stuff on the subject. Not a reliable source like Sarah Palin or a Conservative Columnist from the LA Times and such..
Under liberal logic if you don't know how many men died on the Arizona you don't know what happened at Pearl Harbor.
I don't think there was a media person following Paul Revere to chronicle what happened in every town and village.
Uh, no. Under the logic that those of us who are interested in the truth, if someone said, "The Americans shot at the Japanese at Pearl Harbor", we'd rightly point out that that happened after the Japanese initiated the fighting.
After discussing this for four days now, the OP and everyone else should be aware that Revere was captured by the Brits and told them the colonists were armed. That was not, however, the purpose of his mission, which is what Sarah asserted on June 3.
I agree that the mods must all be on vaction, or at least all on coffee-break, somewhere that has no Wifi. I reported another thread about this earlier today as a dup. I"m tired of having to post the reality of the situation in 3-4 threads b/c Sarah's apologists keep starting new ones.
You lefties are the ones who come out firing and bashing anything this woman says. YOU and your pals made the claim she is some sort of idiot.
Anyways, where were you when Biden made his remark about television being around when it wasnt? Where were you when Obama, Biden and other liberals have made numerous idiotic/stupid/wrong statements? No where. Just sitting there silent.
No one is perfect and people misspeak or screw up at times. It just so happens when a Conservative does it or Palin does it especially, it becomes national news used to continue your hateful, childish attacks.
Yes, people do screw up sometimes. Palin screws up sometimes. She just doesn't admit it when she does.
Paul Revere did not ride out to warn the British about the colonists. He rode out to warn the revolutionaries against the British. Maybe Palin misspoke. The British weren't marching out to disarm people, either. They were marching to put down a revolt. Revere was captured, and I don't think even then he was warning the British when he told them about the revolutionary troops massing against them. I would rather think he was boasting and strategically exaggerating in order to effect an escape. And it worked out for him. I don't know why Palin tried to mix 2nd Amendment rights into Revere's ride, and while the imagery of churchbells ringing out and patriots shooting into the air has a certain romantic, victorious appeal, it's not applicable to Revere's ride. Revere was trying to avoid being captured by the British, so stealth balanced against the need for speed were his priorities.
I can sympathize with Palin. Every little word is examined and criticized. Political commentary is a tough business, and I think the media have been particularly tough on her. She's going to have to speak off the cuff sometimes, but every time she does, it's taken apart and her mistakes are showcased by the press. But she needs to own it, anyway. Palin was not right about Revere, she was just less wrong than the press originally made her out to be. Still wrong, but not completely wrong.
Wrong because Revere's intention and success warning the revolutionaries was the point of Revere's ride and heroism. His capture by the British that night was just a footnote to history. His capture does not detract from the courage he exhibited nor from his success in doing what he set out to do. That Palin did not address what he set out to do, and instead rambled about the colonists not allowing the British to disarm them (huh? disarm colonists? colonists hacking a living from a wilderness with threats all around them, the French, the Indians, the bears, wolves, and other wildlife? who was trying to disarm colonists?) and Revere warning the British. That was just wrong on Palin's part. She needs to own it.
Actually if I remember correctly, she said Paul Revere raced across the country side firing shots in the air and ringing bells, in order to warn the British that the colonists weren't going to back down or give up their arms. In this account, he only mentions a warning to the British because he happens to be stopped by them and questioned. Not completely different, but not exactly the same thing, either. Personally, I think Palin was just winging it on the spot, like 99% of politicians seem to do. Some are just better at it than others.
That's exactly what she was doing.
BTW, the colonists across the Massachusetts countryside who actually were warned on that night in April 1775 considered themselves to be British.
BTW, the colonists across the Massachusetts countryside who actually were warned on that night in April 1775 considered themselves to be British.
The colonists across the Massachusetts countryside who were loyal to the crown didn't need to be warned. Those who were disloyal were the ones being warned. British or not, Revere wasn't warning the British army or the loyalists, he was warning the people who were no longer loyal to British rule.
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