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Deconstructing Palin's deconstruction of her initial comments on Paul Revere
By adamg on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 12:51pm
Bottom line, J.L. Bell writes: She doesn't know what she's talking about.
"You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have."
Here Palin showed her true colors, badly misstating history as she blew a dog whistle to America's far right. The colonial militia was not an "individual, private militia." It was an arm of the government, and of society. Militia service was required and regulated by law, and militia units were organized on a provincial, county, and town basis.
Capt. John Parker was not in an "individual, private militia." Timothy McVeigh was. It's an important distinction.
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Isn't there a joke about this?
Something about giving a monkey a typewriter or something like that?
I would love to see every US senator, rep, governor, president, etc take a US AP history exam or GRE US History test. I'm willing to bet Palin scores pretty low.
Heck, I'd love every American
Heck, I'd love every American voter to take and pass an AP History exam!
I think
it should be not only a requirement for pay, but it should be published to the public.
I got a 5 on my AP US
I got a 5 on my AP US American History test 9 years ago, but I'd probably score really low now.
How about the citizenship test?
I bet Palin would flunk it.
I had to pass it to pass Social Studies in high school, which I had to pass to get my HS diploma.
Munged factoids
Today's Herald has an amusing related piece with Rev. Stephen Ayres of Old North trying to give Palin an out. He says he led the tour for her where she grabbed info from him...before (my term) making crazy salad from it. He told her how Revere had been a bell ringer and such.
Apparently rather than listen, she skimmed it and chewed it up before spitting it out in random order. As Alexander Pope wrote many years ago, "A little learning is a dangerous thing."
should have...
This is rediculous. Who is
This is rediculous. Who is this blogger "Edward Mitchell" anyways and does his mother know what he's doing? Sara Palin spoke the truth about Paul Revere's ride to warn the British about the citizens uprising against their oppressive colonial ruling. And even if she was slightly wrong on the timeline on the ranging of the bells, does it matter? THe lamestream media and their liberal corporate leaders just wants gotcha questions to be asked of her to stir up the tempests.
Sara Palin is a PATRIOT who served Alaska hard in her terms as governor. She doesn't deserve this treatment from faceless Internet "writers". For example, comparing the governor to Timothy McVeigh. First of all he was a boy and Sara Palin is a girl!
If "Edward Mitchell" has questions then he should stand up and ask his questions of Governor Palin in the light of day. But he's a coward and has to write it on here instead.
Cripes.
Terms?
You mean half of one term. Unlike Mitt Romney, who at least had the sense to finish his term even though he'd basically checked out a couple years earlier, she just up and quit right in the middle of her first term.
And she wasn't asked a gotcha question. She was asked what she learned on her visit to Old North. It's the kind of hanging-curve lob she should have hit out of the park, but instead whiffed on and then blamed the umpire for.
Who's Edward Mitchell? The piece I linked to is by J.L. Bell, who has been writing about Revolutionary Boston for years.
Adam, I wonder if you read it
Adam, I wonder if you read it too literally; consider the source. Aside from the literary liberty taken with Edward Mitchell (why confuse a political position with facts!), that's a fair summary of some of the more outrageous pro-Palin comments on Politico, the Herald, and other blogs/news-sites covering the Palin gaffe.
Mr. Cripes has to be a troll
Because nobody can be that bad a speller, so hopelessly wrong on history (amazing that anyone can *still* tell the Palin "Revere was warning the British" lie with a straight face), utterly lost on the facts of Palin's own record, and generally such a pathetic dope -- and still operate a computer keyboard. I call trolling.
I AM NOT A TROLL! I am a
I AM NOT A TROLL! I am a troglydite.
Palin/Santorum, 2012.
Poe's Law
Taken from Wikipedia:
Palin's fans are extremists who deny our own history in order to substitute it for one of their own that maintains Palin's correctness. Good luck, Cripes.
I think that Cripes's post,
I think that Cripes's post, with every single verifiable fact wrong, was the "blatant display of humor," don't you? And that was Cripes's commentary on the Palinista's who (somewhat nauseously) warp her mistakes into ""facts"" in order to support their misguided (fantasy) belief that Ms. Palin is the second fucken coming of Ronald W. Reagan.