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Sarah Palin stands by her version of history - Revere warned British

DarthTom

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Ya know what's amazing to me about stories like this and Palin isn't that she making these huge historical errors on her understanding of things but why she hasn't learned to steer clear of topics that require any type of factual conversation.

Even her friendly audience of Fox News called her on this one.

MSNBC
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin insisted Sunday that history was on her side when she claimed that Paul Revere's famous ride was intended to warn both British soldiers and his fellow colonists.
"You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don't you?" "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace asked the potential 2012 presidential candidate.
"I didn't mess up about Paul Revere," replied Palin, a paid contributor to the network.
"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were 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," she added. "He did warn the British."
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"Accountability smackability. I'll make up facts as I go along."
--Sarah Palin
 
Re: Sarah Palin stands by her version of history - Revere warned Briti

Maybe she thought Revere was trying to warn all 57 states Obama visited awhile back? :wtf:
 
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SPOCKED said:
Maybe she thought Revere was trying to warn all 57 states Obama visited awhile back? :wtf:
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One I think can legitimally nitpick the President all they'd like for that error but in Obama's case at least he didn't go back and continue to claim there were 57 states. Palin, over and over, continues to assert that Revere explicitly intended to warn the British. This is contrary to every accepted historical fact on the event.

Is she a time traveler? What information does she base this assertion on?
 
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SPOCKED said:
Maybe she thought Revere was trying to warn all 57 states Obama visited awhile back? :wtf:
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You know, when Sarah makes a simple mistake, I let it slide because we're all human and make mistakes, but when she compounds that mistake repeatedly, time and time again by making more of them, or defending the ones she made as perfectly valid and accurate, she gets called on it. Obama had been traveling for weeks, was probably very tired, and simply made an error. "57 states" sounds like trying to say "47 states" when you're thinking "50 states".

I'd have pegged him for it if he would have said "but there are 57 states!" and stood by it. The second part of the issue is that Obama is a very intelligent man, is well read, is thoughtful and erudite. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is none of these things. She is not very intelligent (though I don't think her stupid), does not appear to read much of anything at all based on her knowledge, does not think her answers through, and rambles on incoherently after a point where she tries to defend her statements.

So, no. You lose the comparison on that one.
 
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And all the while, she sounded like a ditzy cheerleader while telling the Paul Revere story.
 
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I'm boggled at how this is a defensible position. So Paul Revere was warning the British ... that the British were coming? I tried deciphering her explanation but then I went cross-eyed.
 
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I don't understand why she refuses to ever just own up to her mistakes and admit she was wrong. Doesn't she realize that people would actually respect her more if she did that?
 
Re: Sarah Palin stands by her version of history - Revere warned Briti

Revere was only trying to warn the Middlesexians. He didn't care about anyone else.
 
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You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have," she added. "He did warn the British."
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Really. The one thing about the Revolutionary war was the we were the complete opposite of Well-armed, and our militia ran most of the time. We had our asses handed to us for most of the fight. We were dirt poor(soldier's didn't have shoes) and our commanding staff wasn't any good cept for a few like Washington. Individually citizens weren't that well armed either. yes in the end citizens came out and fought with the regular army and militia as volunteers, but not till the end of the fighting.

The paul Revere story isn't even the only one of its kind. But not one American rider warning Americans stopped by a British camp, facing fear of being shoot to warn them. a better organized and better armed military force that they can't beat us. This lady has to be on drugs, is she riding a bus with Willie Nelson before she speaks?
 
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I hope to all heaven your joking.

she said that he warned the british first, then the American's.
She got lucky.
 
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JiNX-01 said:
Uh. Actually she was right. She expressed it poorly, but it does turn out the Redcoats captured Revere that night and he did tell them the militia was rising.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110605...t_right_about_paul_revere_warning_the_british
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It wasn't his mission to be captured; his mission was to alarm the Colonists in secrecy. When he was captured, he tried to BS the Redcoats into heading away from John Hancock and Sam Adams so they could escape.
 
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JiNX-01 said:
Uh. Actually she was right. She expressed it poorly, but it does turn out the Redcoats captured Revere that night and he did tell them the militia was rising.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110605...t_right_about_paul_revere_warning_the_british
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Actually, by how she was expressing herself, she made it clear that the ride of Paul Revere, not his subsequent capture, had the purpose of also warning the British. So sorry, you lose as well.
 
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It's very clear that Palin's original comments were not about the Revere's "confession" while under British capture as that's not what he's known for or the point of his ride.

It could've been worse, she could've repeated the old lie about Revere riding through Boston shouting out the coming of the enemy.
 
Re: Sarah Palin stands by her version of history - Revere warned Briti

JiNX-01 said:
Uh. Actually she was right. She expressed it poorly, but it does turn out the Redcoats captured Revere that night and he did tell them the militia was rising.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110605...t_right_about_paul_revere_warning_the_british
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Uh, no she's not. She said "Part of his ride was to warn the British that were 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," she added. "He did warn the British." and Palin said Revere warned the British "by ringing those bells, and makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed."

Those statement have nothing in common with the story you quoted. She's a twit.
 
Re: Sarah Palin stands by her version of history - Revere warned Briti

I'd replace one of those letters in "twit," personally.
 
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"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

So said George Santayana. If Sarah had just admitted she was mistaken and used this as an opportunity to learn a bit more about American history, she might have won over a few more people.

But now that I've heard her version of Paul Revere, I can't wait until someone tells her about how the British burned down the White House during the War of 1812. :evil:
 
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