Apparently, the right-wingers, in a desperate effort to vindicate Sarah Palin’s retelling of history, have found a passage written by Paul Revere himself wherein he describes his capture by British forces, having a gun held to his head, and telling the British that he had forewarned the patriots that they were coming.
They then quote me as saying that Paul Revere didn’t warn the British about anything.
First of all, I have to say “nice catch” to these folks because it turns out that Paul Revere did in fact warn the British, in a way, that they would be facing some armed resistance. However, the way these wingers are portraying things is a bit misleading.
Paul Revere told the British what was up after he had already ridden through Somerville, Medford, Arlington, and Lexington. He was captured in the middle of the night on his way to Concord. It’s not as if he was ringing bells and shooting off his gun as a warning to the British. With his capture, what is known as Paul Revere’s Ride basically came to an end because the Brits stole his horse and left him on foot.
It has also been pointed out that the townspeople rang bells and shot off guns after they were warned by Revere and others that the Regulars were coming.
I don’t see how any of this vindicates Palin at all. If anything, it might explain the sources of her confusion.
Perhaps if this were any kind of a historical touring vacation Palin would have thought to do what most American parents do when taking their kids on a trip to visit historical monuments and that is to forego the autographs and public commentary and instead read with the kids some of the Library books one has brought along together so as to be briefed before each stop…the family discussions after mom and dad have read along are some of the frosting on the cake of live visits to these sites. How Americana of me
The “source” of Palin’s confusion is her mental and emotional state. Her narcissism verges on the psychopathic. Nothing that is not “Sarah” means a damned thing to her. Betcha she was born that way. Watch. The tell-all books will eventually appear, and they are going to be nothing less than frightening.
AG
Everything she says is a word salad. She pulls facts and non fact together and jumbles them all up in a sentence and has no clue of which is a fact and which is not true.
The woman is an idiot as Keith says.
I’m enjoying their defense of Palin. I hope she jumps into the race so much. She’ll take the nomination with ease.
The thought that Palin was somehow knowingly referencing an obviously obscure and little known piece of history is credulous, to say the least.
“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.”
So now he was being interrogated while he rode on a horse through towns where there weren’t any British soldiers, while also managing to ring bells and fire off warning shots?