Sarah Palin badly mangles the story of Paul Revere’s ride in statement

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Replay
By David Ferguson

In Boston, yesterday, former Alaska Governor and possible 2012 contender Sarah Palin kept mum about her plans to run or not run for President, but she did share some fairly jumbled thoughts on the story of Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride, “…he who warned 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 were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we were gonna be armed.”

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin deadpans to the camera, “History lesson from Sarah Palin on the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”. For the record, no shots were fired nor bells rung on the famous ride along the Freedom Trail.

Watch this clip from CNN, embedded via Mediaite, below:

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/sarah-palin-badly-mangles-the-story-of-paul-reveres-ride-in-statement/

[louis-t]

1. Oh fer....

Does she listen to herself? Jeez.

[woo me with science]

36. The best column written about Sarah Palin, ever....

was this scathing piece by Fareed Zakaria in 2008:

"Palin Is Ready? Please."
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/09/26/palin-is-ready-please.html

Zakaria simply took Palin's own words and pointed out that they MADE NO SENSE. They were vapid, meaningless word salad, strung together by someone who is not very smart:

"PALIN: That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."

Zakaria wrote: "This is nonsense—a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head. ....

Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president....she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start."

[LisaM]

2. They also weren't known as the British to the Minutemen

They were known as the regulars. He didn't say, 'the British are coming!" He said, "the Regulars are here".

[jberryhill]

13. I always like that common error

"The British are coming"

"Wait a sec, aren't WE British"

[Erose999]

21. Yep, as the colonists were subjects of the Crown they would have thought of themselves as "British".

They referred to the British army as "regulars" (as opposed to "militia"). Or "Redcoats," "loyalists," etc.

[panader0]

3. teh stupid hurts.........

[itsrobert]

4. Second Grade Education should be a requirement

to run. At minimum.

[HopeHoops]

5. She couldn't pass kindergarten.

[backscatter712]

7. Yet she majored in communications in college.

Aren't you glad to see her education paying off?

[HopeHoops]

10. She sure knows how to misarticularificate things.

[Ignis]

31. Why must you cast asparagus at her articulence?

She is one of the mostest mentalistic grubernatorials in history!

[HopeHoops]

37. Hey, I'm not casting ANY of my asparagus anywhere but into the steamer.

Our asparagus bed has been rather prolific this season. Yum!

[Ignis]

47. Oh, a Steamer, eh? I'm of the Grillant denomination, myself.

Can we agree to team up and hate the Boilitarians?

[HopeHoops]

48. Stir fry is good too - as long as you don't over-cook it.

[backscatter712]

6. I keep telling you, Sarah's the Amazing Human Markov Chain Generator!

The only human being who will fail a Turing Test!

[Old and In the Way]

8. nothing quite like the revisionist history of Palin-Bachmann to enlighten us

on their grasp of reality.

[NYC Liberal]

9. "bells that were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free"

What the hell does that even mean?

[Marrah_G]

20. She is an idiot with very little knowledge about history

[malaise]

25. She doesn't fugging know so why should we

:evilgrin:

[NYC Liberal]

32. At least with Bush you could usually figure out what he meant to say.

Is it possible there is someone stupider than he is? :(

[jberryhill]

40. You know, that's a really good observation

By comparison, Bushisms were endearing.

"...how hard it is to put food on your family."

"...they never stop thinking of ways to harm this country, and neither do we."

"Fool me once, shame on... shame on you... You fool me, can't get fooled again."

Even Dan Quayle - "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" - made more sense than this random word generator.

[starroute]

35. I *think* she meant "we were gonna be secure"

I think she was trying to say that Paul Revere sent the British a message with warning shots and bells that Americans were going to be secure, free, and armed.

Of, course, Paul Revere's message was not meant for the British. It did not involve either warning shots or bells. (I suspect she got the "bells" from some vague memory of the lantern hung in the church steeple.) And the rest probably came from right-wing dog-whistle slogans about being "armed and free" or "armed and secure."

So if you carefully disentangle the word salad, and take out the misremembered bits about horses and bells, what you get is Sarah Palin sending a coded message to her supporters that her bus tour is doing exactly the same thing as Paul Revere, who "warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms ... that <we> were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we were gonna be armed."

Makes perfect sense.

[Bake]

11. Michele Bachman: "Sounds right to me ..."

Presidential timber, I tells ya!

Bake

[damntexdem]

12. Yeah, on September 7, when the Germans bombed Peart Harbor, Paul Revere rode out ...

and told the British that we wouldn't stand for it. And that's why we sent Caesar out to conquer Gaul.

My, isn't history INTERESTING when one is learning from Caribou Barbie?

[hifiguy]

23. !

:rofl: :spray: :rofl:

[1gobluedem]

41. Thank you

:spray:

[NoGOPZone]

14. She rewrites history more than Longfellow, without being anywhere near as eloquent. nt

[UTUSN]

15. The *one* thing Tweety would be good for: Grilling her over this:

"Are you saying that REVERE confronted the Brits? Come on, answer!1 Did he yell at the Brits?!1 Did he fire a weapon?!1 Come on, state your facts!1 Did he make his horse rear within sight of the Brits?!1 What year was the Second Amendment ratified?!1 Is an amendment part of the Constitution or a law of Congress?!1 What year did REVERE do his ride?!1 You (insert mulitple misogynist epithets here)!1"

[Stevenmarc]

16. And because of his patriotic ride I now have RevereWare

[TorchTheWitch]

24. well, he was quite a good silversmith - pot making and whatnot

Apparently, he was also quite a good dentist most notably it tooth restoration and replacement. He was also apparently a pioneer in rudimentary orthodontics and forensic dental identification. Pretty cool... I hadn't known this about him... I thought he just made pots and whatnot and copper engravings.

[livetohike]

28. Iced tea all over the monitor now

:toast: Thanks for the laugh :-).

[Ignis]

30. !

:spray: :thumbsup:

[Urban Prairie]

17. Many "Palin4 Prezdent" -like blogs and websites

post Palin & family-related articles and videos, and receive commentary on them from their peanut galleries with most, if not all of them prefacing her name as being "Governor Palin", and not former or ex-governor, but as if she is still Alaska's governor. They must "think" that by doing so it lends some type of additional importance, credence or legitimacy to their belief that Scarah should become the next POTUS, despite the fact that she resigned from office long before her one and only term was over.

[jberryhill]

42. "Governor", "Senator", and "President" are retained honorifics /nt

[LondonReign2]

18. "Some fairly jumbled thoughts"

That's how to describe this word salad spewed forth from the moron?

[Marrah_G]

19. WTF was she rambling about?

[Erose999]

22. There were British "regular" sentries and probably even patrols out along Revere's route. For him to

be shooting and ringing bells, and hollering about how "We're free and we're gonna be armed!!!11!1" like a jackass would have been a suicide mission.

[Brickbat]

26. She looks totally drunk in that video. Not like messy drunk, but like she had a couple with lunch

and doesn't really give a shit how she sounds.

[Tracer]

27. Just for the record, Ms. Baldwin...

... Paul Revere didn't ride the "Freedom Trail". The Freedom Trail is a marked route through the city of Boston highlighting various historic places.

Revere rode out to Concord on regular roads.

[JustAmused]

29. Checking the map

Concord is NH isnt it??????

According to Bachmann anyway.....lol

[RagAss]

39. Lexington-Concord...are you on the Palin bus ????

[KamaAina]

33. "The Yankees are coming! The Yankees are coming!"

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

[Cannikin]

34. I'm confused. Does she work for Fox or the Onion?

You can't make this shit up. :rofl:

[RagAss]

38. The pity of a Moron on the National Stage !

Did she finish High School?

[The Unawriter]

43. Warning the Brits???

Oh, that is choice.

[BlueIris]

44. Well, what can you expect from a woman who honestly believed we're allied with

NORTH Korea?

Go home, Ms. Quitter. Now.

[Bluebear]

45. They must not teach history in Alaska!

[onethatcares]

46. one if by land, two if by sea, and speaking of

number one and two, can I use the bus to pee?:rofl:

I'm surprised she didn't tell us the NRA was founded that evening.