PALIN Mangles PAUL REVERE

[kpete]

Run time: 00:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8insI0Ab9I   Posted on YouTube: June 03, 2011 By YouTube Member: Brainwrap Views on YouTube: 14   Posted on DU: June 03, 2011 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 5726

 
“...he who warned, uh, the...the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms...uh, by ringin’ those bells and um...makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town...to send those warning shots and bells...that, uh, we were gonna be secure and...and we were gonna be free...and we were gonna be armed."

[James48]

1. OMG

Never before in the course of human events, has one woman messed up American history so badly.....

"Palin said, “He who warned uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh by ringing those bells, and um, 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.”

Okay, there is a little problem with Palin’s story. Paul Revere’s historic ride occurred in 1775, the constitutional convention did not even convene until 1787. Besides this not so minor point, Sarah Palin gets everything else about Paul Revere’s ride wrong."


http://www.politicususa.com/en/sarah-palin-paul-revere

Note to any of Sarah's followers- PLEASE make this woman the republican nominee. Please!

[TransitJohn]

2. That is a hard rap.

The Beastie Boys had very convoluted lyrics, even back in the Licensed to Ill days.

[Historic NY]

3. A f--king idiot.....does she know anything specific ?

[RVN VET]

4. She's channeling Lucy

Absolutely amazing. I kept waiting to hear a Cuban voice say "Saraaaa, you got a lot of 'splainin' to do."

It's kind of bad because she's creating a distraction from the other GOP idiots. People seeing her would likely feel that bloviating losers like Mitt Romney and even that Godfather's Pizza guy are intellectual luminaries. Hmmm, maybe that's her strategy.

Was it Longfellow who wrote of Paul Revere:

He rang all the bells and screamed at the Brits
"We're free and we're armed, you redcoated twits!"

[jberryhill]

9. You win the thread

Between Palin and Weiner, that's two political Longfellow references in one week.

[eilen]

5. I heard some excerpts of her "interview" with Greta V.S.

and crikey, she sounds like the gum snapping idiot that mans the counter at my hairdresser's. I can't believe there are actual adults who think she is intelligent /smart and wonder who the hell voted for her in AK --the cold temps had to have incapacitated critical reasoning and logic synapses.

[Generic Other]

6. She learned US history from watching TV

shows like F-Troop and Hogan's Heroes.

She blew into Boston like the Wicked Witch of the West! With that incantation about the bells. Scary.

[kimsarah]

10. F-Troop

and Sherman and Peabody!

[AlbertCat]

29. Sherman and Peabody!

Ha! That, and the rest of the politically savvy "Bullwinkle Show" would have gone WHOOSH! right over her pointed little head.

[TrollBuster9090]

33. Don't forget Irwin Allen's THE TIME TUNNEL.

Did she mention that Revere was carrying a couple of other guys on the back of the horse named Tony and Doug?

[stlsaxman]

36. Sherman and Peabody were historically correct- AND funny.

Palin is neither.

[JAnthony]

7. Did she learn her history from Michele Bachmann? n/t

[underpants]

16. See! That's the point she really NEEDED to ...um.. going on a history tour

OBviously

[jberryhill]

8. ROFL - the deadpan at the end was priceless /nt

[pokerfan]

11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow she ain't (nt)

[Botany]

27. No not really

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."

snip

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!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

[colorado_ufo]

32. You think she could actually read this?

:banghead:

[Enthusiast]

12. Incredible. nt

[JJW]

13. Who is caring for Trig?

And where is he?

[Moostache]

22. How dare you! Trig is with Andrew Breitbart and his goats.

Breitbart failed to deny the latest rumors of abusing a child by allowing the disabled minor to be in the presence of his molested and infected livestock, ergo I am going to simply believe it because after all, "Some say that Breitbart has contracted diseases from sexual acts with goats."

[ScottLand]

14. Actually, she has her history right in this case.

I just checked with Bachmann.

[underpants]

15. Uh... I um.. uh wanted to um say.. uh

[dotymed]

17. When is her 15 minutes up?

Her level of knowledge IS comparable to that of most Americans. Sad but true. IMO, most Americans can not point out the inaccuracies in her statement about Paul Revere.

Many will believe she has it right, because she is a "politician" and she said it on tee vee.

It is not the fault of our Teachers. It IS the fault of tee vee and the idiotic content of most "entertainment." America is quickly becoming an "Idiocracy" on top everything else. This is by design. An uneducated populace is easier to control.

At least, REINSTATE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE.

[TatonkaJames]

18. Actually it was Israel Bissell

From Wikipedia;
Israel Bissell (1752-1823) was a post rider in Massachusetts who alerted the American colonists of the British attack on April 19, 1775. He rode for four days and six hours covering the 345 miles from Watertown, Massachusetts to Philadelphia along the Old Post Road, shouting "To arms, to arms, the war has begun," and carrying a message from General Joseph Palmer which was copied at each of his stops and redistributed:

Comedian Robert Wuhl did a special, "Assume the Position" where he talked about Revere riding only 19 miles where Bissell rode all the way to PA to alarm the General. The reason Revere gets the credit is his name rhymed so the author Washington Irving could write the poem. Assume the Position is fun and full of true facts. Watch it if you have time.

[AlbertCat]

28. The reason Revere gets the credit is his name rhymed

Bissel...

Hmmmm...


Too bad they didn't have missles in 1775. Bissel might have won out.

[tanyev]

19. Won't you help Sarah Palin learn basic facts about U.S. history for just pennies a day?"

Stephen Colbert rules!


http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/colbert-palin-bus-to-is-a-for-profit-vacation-video.php

[Moostache]

20. That woman is an idiot. Period, full stop. (n/t)

[spedtr90]

21. Democratic Party - are you filing this stuff for future ads?

You really should be!

[VWolf]

23. The newscaster's cadence

at the end of that piece is priceless!!!

:rofl:

[global1]

24. One If By Land. Two If By Sea. Three If By Bus..........

America - you've been warned!!!!!!!!!

[Botany]

25. and now you know the rest of the story

Paul went on to marry Mrs. Paul and they made fish sticks, don't you know?

Listen my DUers and you shall hear
Of the word salad gibberish of Sarah dear,
Oh how she babbles on with made up jive;
Oh Lord she makes me want to put my head in a beehive.

On if by land and two if by see
look @ Palin, she is still on the tee vee.
Because to her grifter ass pub is the key.

[TrollBuster9090]

34. I thought they went on to launch satellites called SpudNuts. nt

[Dollface]

26. That woman is an idiot.

[wxgeek7]

30. Enough said!

Enough said! It's as if she doesn't know when/how to shutup. She hasn't realized that the more she speaks, the more she reveals how much she doesn't know.

[KansDem]

31. So she wins the "Michele Bachmann Prize for American History Scholarship."

Or did Bachmann win the "Sarah Palin Prize for American History Scholarship?" :shrug:

Hard to tell...

[TrollBuster9090]

35. Amazingly, Bachmann is a historical GENIUS compared to Palin.

The fact that Bachmann was able to quote the "Hoot-Smalley Tariff Act" proves she's a genius compared to Palin. I mean, granted, she FUBARED it completely. She called it the Hoot-Smalley Tarrif Act, claimed it was brought in by FDR, and that FDR crashed the economy because of it. When in fact it was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Smoot and Hawley were both Republicans, and they brought it in during the Hoover Administration, three years before FDR was elected. But at least she gave it a good honest idiot's try.

Palin, on the other hand, with Paul Revere riding through SLEEPY HOLLOW with his head under one arm, ringin' the ole LIBERTY BELL all the way, and shootin' in the air to tell the British that they're not gonna take our guns, .... that just out of this world.