american revolution

I'm sure by now everyone has heard how Sarah Palin claimed that Paul Revere's famous ride was to warn the British. Well now she is trying to claim that she was okity-dokity on her claims:

“You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don’t you?” “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace asked the potential 2012 presidential candidate.

“I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere,” replied Palin, a paid contributor to the network.

“Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there. That, hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have,” she added. “He did warn the British.”

As Bob Cesca points out, everyone here was British at that time (well except the Indians, but I'll let you slide on that one Bob).

But lust trumps stupidity, so Palin's cult of followers is taking to her defense. Not only are they trying to rewrite Wikipedia, but they are also writing op-eds. The only problem here is that Andrew Malcom, author of the op-ed in today's LA Times, apparently didn't touch base with Sarah to get the stories straight:

..the British were coming. Less known, obviously, is the rest of the evening's events in which Revere was captured by said redcoats and did indeed defiantly warn them of the awakened militia awaiting their arrival ahead and of the American Revolution's inevitable victory.

To give my readers a better example of how the Republicans feel about your
civil liberties, you just need to look at what was said in Senate today:

“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,” said
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president
who sits on the Judiciary Committee.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who has led a bipartisan filibuster against
a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, quoted Patrick Henry, an icon of the
American Revolution, in response: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

He called Cornyn’s comments “a retreat from who we are and who we should
be.”

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Thank you Senator Cornyn for showing us how much you hate America and
everything it stands for. You hate our freedoms so you attack them. That makes
you the same as Osama Bin Laden. Actually you are worse. He has the nerve to
attack us, you hide in Senate and make such ludicrous statements about our very
liberties.

I bet al Jazeera will play that comment over and over again while they laugh
at how America is not the land of the free anymore. What a nice Christmas
present from the Senator - giving aid to our enemies.