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badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.comBack during the heat of the election season, Sarah Palin tossed out a quip to her supporters about how they can't "party like it's 1773" just yet The media and the left, as per usual whenever Sarah Palin says or does anything, used this as more evidence of her supposed lack of intelligence, missing the point that she was making completely.
Well, Sarah's gone and done it again:
This is just another laughable statement in a line of them, right? Unfortunately for us, and fortunately for Palin...
The common story of Paul Revere is almost entirely based upon this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and while I cannot recall at this point the exact roots of "the redcoats are coming," there are a number of understandibly historically inaccurate pieces to the popular story of Paul Revere's ride. I've known that for some time, but even the part of Revere actually warning the British as he was captured is one that escaped my mind until the reminder this weekend.
I was an unabashed supporter of Palin up until she resigned her office in Alaska and decided to embrace populism (which is a cancerous form of rhetoric and politicking regardless of which side takes it), but that doesn't mean that my opposition to her methods and preferences requires me to embrace ignorance myself in an attempt to refute what I may believe is her own. This sort of attack on Palin is not new, of course. The 1773 thing was recent, but recall that the media and left wing created all sorts of wild theories from the beginning of her entrance to the national stage, from her political affiliations to misstating her position on the Iraq War being "God's will", etc. (This is a fairly exhaustive source of different Palin rumors and their veracity.)
What will it take to have an honest dialogue about Palin from the media? At what point will the left wing learn that Palin is not anywhere near as ignorant or uninformed as they like to believe? Is there not enough honest criticism of Palin to go around that her opponents, both media and political, have to make things up?
Well, Sarah's gone and done it again:
This is just another laughable statement in a line of them, right? Unfortunately for us, and fortunately for Palin...
When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back, and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from, & what my Name Was? I told him.it was Revere, he as-ked if it was Paul?I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston? I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms. He then orderd them to advance, & to lead me in front. When we got to the Road, they turned down towards Lexington. When we had got about one Mile, the Major Rode up to the officer that was leading me, & told him to give me to the Sergeant. As soon as he took me, the Major orderd him, if I attempted to run, or any body insulted them, to blow my brains out. We rode till we got near Lexington Meeting-house, when the Militia fired a Voley of Guns, which appeared to alarm them very much.
The common story of Paul Revere is almost entirely based upon this poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and while I cannot recall at this point the exact roots of "the redcoats are coming," there are a number of understandibly historically inaccurate pieces to the popular story of Paul Revere's ride. I've known that for some time, but even the part of Revere actually warning the British as he was captured is one that escaped my mind until the reminder this weekend.
I was an unabashed supporter of Palin up until she resigned her office in Alaska and decided to embrace populism (which is a cancerous form of rhetoric and politicking regardless of which side takes it), but that doesn't mean that my opposition to her methods and preferences requires me to embrace ignorance myself in an attempt to refute what I may believe is her own. This sort of attack on Palin is not new, of course. The 1773 thing was recent, but recall that the media and left wing created all sorts of wild theories from the beginning of her entrance to the national stage, from her political affiliations to misstating her position on the Iraq War being "God's will", etc. (This is a fairly exhaustive source of different Palin rumors and their veracity.)
What will it take to have an honest dialogue about Palin from the media? At what point will the left wing learn that Palin is not anywhere near as ignorant or uninformed as they like to believe? Is there not enough honest criticism of Palin to go around that her opponents, both media and political, have to make things up?
