Posted on 06/05/2011 6:18:58 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Revere also warned the Regulars "that their troops had catched aground in passing the River"
He warned them.
Wow! The Sudan (brave woman), England, and Thatcher too!
Sarah is going full speed ahead!
I loved this sound bite from her Wallace interview today:
http://patdollard.com/2011/06/palin-sincerely-apologizes-to-romney-if-she-stepped-on-any-pr-he-needed-greg-jarret-doubtful/
Pure Sarah!
You’re right. It is irreverent and crass and crude. The ‘geezer-type gentleman behind them’ is Palin’s father.
You’re not getting senile. They were. And Paul Revere said, “Hell, no, you don’t!”
I thought I’d read somewhere that Baroness Thatcher had wanted to meet Sarah. One of the Members of Parliament had mentioned intending to take Sarah to see her. If the visit was initiated by the MP, it’s not crass exploitation on Sarah’s part.
You have met the dolt, and he is you.
For all the naysayers about Sarah Palin’s Paul Revere quote, this book from 1994 also backs Palin’s account:
“At last the [British] officers began to feel the full import of what Paul Revere had been telling them. His words of warning took on stronger meaning when punctuated by gunfire. The sound of a single shot had suggested to them that surprise was lost. The crash of a volley appeared evidence that the country was rising against them. As they came closer to the Common they began to hear Lexington’s town bell clanging rapidly. the captive Loring, picking up Revere’s spirit, turned to the officers and said, ‘The bell’s a’ringing! The town’s alarmed, and you’re all dead men!’” [Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer, pp. 135-6].
David Hackett Fisher (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University
Revere recounts in a 1789 letter maintained by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
(page 4)
“I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. 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 asked 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.”
Additionally, as the Paul Revere Heritage Project notes
http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/midnight-ride.html
“The Redcoats had set temporary roadblocks as a security measure and on their way to Concord they encountered British soldiers. Prescott managed to escape; Revere was captured and Dawes tried to run away but was arrested shortly thereafter. The British held Revere and interrogated him with a pistol on his chest. He was asked about the plans of the militia and where they kept their ammunition. When asked where the Patriots were hiding he told them the truth and replied that they had 500 militiamen in Concord protecting them and 1500 coming. As they rode towards Concord he was told that if he tried to escape he would be shot.”
On second thought, after researching the LSM facts, Sarah Palin was wrong.
I mean like the LSM points out 24/7, everyone knows that it was an Austrian speaking corpse man named Barack Obama who rode throughout the 57 states that dark night. And when captured by the British, he signed a written confession and dated it 2008.
Did you see and hear her Fox interview today by Chris Wallace? Her voice modulation was pitch perfect, even as Wallace tried his usual got’cha questions, which she blew out of the water with aplomb to spare.
BTW - Watched part of the Panel discussion afterward.
Podesta is a weasel. How that guy walks around without somebody decking his scrawny little Progressive ass is beyond me.
Uh, unless I am mistaken, that geezer-type gentleman is Sarah Palin’s father.
“...who got their US History from “Doonesbury””
lol!!!
Palin wasn’t thinking “Paul Revere”. She was thinking the bigger picture of “Right to Bear Arms” and “Government Intrusion”. Revere is dead, the other two aren’t.
No I didn’t. Good to hear.
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