Sarah Palin: My Paul Revere Account Was Totally Accurate
Sarah Palin has, not surprisingly, stepped up to defend her somewhat questionable statements about Paul Revere’s role in the American Revolution.
Palin, whose knowledge of Social Studies and American History have proven to be somewhat spotty in the past, says her account of Revere’s Midnight Ride was accurate. Originally, Palin had said:
“…He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms 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!”
Palin clarified- in typical Palin form, making her original meaning that much less intelligible:
“Part of his ride was to warn the British that we’re already there – that, ‘Hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have,’” Palin said, according to a transcript. “He did warn the British.”
Do you think Palin had any idea what she was talking about initially, or is she revising her original meaning?
Tags : paul revere, sarah palin, sarah palin paul revere, silly
Posted: June 5, 2011
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Jun 5, 2011
originally sarah didn't know the answer so she started making stuff up as she went along and now she is too small of a person to admit that she orignally made mistakes. OK, she made mistakes originally. I myself admit that I have forgotten some of the facts surrounding Paul Revere, and I think that a lot of us have, andt the larger problem here is that she drags out the problem by her unwillingness to just be honest about it and say, "Hey I made a mistake." Instead, after she made her mistakes about Paul Revere she spent that night looking up facts about Paul Revere and armed with those facts she now dishonestly tries to use a crowbar to force her orginal mistaken statements into the true factual context of Paul Revere's midnight ride. It's a little uncomfortable watching her try to force this round peg into a sqaure hole by promoting the falsehood that the true facts surrounding Paul Revere somehow fit into that garbled msitaken mess she orignally espoused. Not only does Sarah not know when to stop talking, but worse yet her attempts to try to promote the falsehood that she didn't originally make mistakes indicate serious character flaws. I was kind of hoping that today I would read headline saying "Sarah laughs and admits she made mistakes about Paul Revere's midnight ride" but I guess it's too much to ask of her to just tell the truth and be done with it.
Jun 6, 2011
The thing that makes Sarah Palin look really stupid is that she had just come from visiting the Old North Church and Paul Revere's house and supposedly read/learned SOMETHING about his historic ride. He did not ring bells, he was not shooting guns, his intention on his ride was to warn the patriots in the villages so that the militias could get ready for the British and ambush them, AND to warn Hancock and Adams so that they could gather important documents and flee. She claims that she was set up to answer another "gotcha" question, when in fact that is not true. I heard the whole piece on the news and she was asked what she saw that was interesting on her tours and Palin all by herself chose to bring up Paul Revere, and did a horrible job of retelling the American history. There was no tricky question sprung on her to make her look stupid, she did that all by herself. THEN she tries to defend herself and say that she was in fact right. What an even bigger idiot!
Jun 6, 2011
And this person who continually recites American history wants to be President, what a joke. And the people that follow her are even bigger idiots.
Jun 10, 2011
not from the mouth of Palin… but from a mouth of a historian/professor! http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere
Jun 10, 2011
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137011636/how-accurate-were-palins-comments-on-paul-revere
Jun 12, 2011
Will someone please indict this woman she's embarrassing us.
Jun 14, 2011
You all have no idea what you are talking about. This GREAT lady ran Alaska, made money and raised a family. She knew what she was saying about Paul Revere, he did not ride that far anyhow. Go to school and learn history and not how to eat lunch.