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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 all the Republicans out there who think Sarah is great for your party, please take a moment and consider this:

• Palin resigned as Governor last July. A few months later she starts a nationwide book tour.
• She refuses to speak at CPAC and instead speaks at a tea party convention. She would have made $0 at CPAC, but will get $100,000 at the tea party convention.
• She then signs a multi-year contract with FOX news to be a contributor.

If you believe Palin is worried about Alaska, you or this country then you are sadly mistaken. Her actions in the past 1/2 year shows that Sarah worries about Sarah and no one else. If you still buy into this crap then you would most likely believe it if a hooker tells you that she loves you.

Forget the emails that basically prove nothing, except to give the science and common sense deniers something to go crazy over. That wasn’t enough to give the current climate change controversy the famous “gate” suffix. But now we have something new happening; something that takes us back to the origins of the “gate” suffix:

Attempts have been made to break into the offices of one of Canada's leading climate scientists, it was revealed yesterday. The victim was Andrew Weaver, a University of Victoria scientist and a key contributor to the work of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In one incident, an old computer was stolen and papers were disturbed.

In addition, individuals have attempted to impersonate technicians in a bid to access data from his office, said Weaver. The attempted breaches, on top of the hacking of files from British climate researcher Phil Jones, have heightened fears that climate-change deniers are mounting a campaign to discredit the work of leading meteorologists before the start of the Copenhagen climate summit tomorrow.

In the memory of Watergate we now can officially call this climategate. This whole thing started with someone breaking the law, so now more people have decided that being criminals is the way to go. Hopefully they all get caught and spend a little time in the climate of prison.

A lot of people have been trying to paint Jesse Jackson Jr. as being corrupt since it was revealed he was referred to in the Blago indictment. Well it turns out Jackson had actually gone to the feds about Blago’s serious lack of ethics:

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who was cited in a criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich, went to the U.S. Attorney's office about alleged wrongdoers, including the Illinois governor, a Jackson spokesman said Tuesday.

Jackson rejected being labeled with the term "informant" in a message to CNN contributor Roland Martin.

Spokesman Kenneth Edmonds described Jackson's interaction with federal authorities this way: "As a responsible citizen and elected official, Congressman Jackson has in the past provided information to federal authorities regarding his personal knowledge of perceived corruption and governmental misconduct.

"This was completely unrelated to the current investigation regarding the U.S. Senate appointment. And it is absolutely inaccurate to describe the congressman as an informant," Edmonds said in a written statement.

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It’s amazing what we start finding out once the facts start coming out.

Another key voice in the American conservative movement, and a key contributor to the Reagan Doctrine, has come out in support of Obama and his endorsement is appearing in the current issue of The American Conservative.

You can tune into FOX news and their new contributor - Karl Rove. I am sure he will give a fully impartial view of what's going on. Sure he will - just trust him.

If you didn't watch it last night, here is the opening skit of FOX's soon to be canceled (it sucks!) "Half Hour News Hour".

So for their pilot's opening skit they pick Limbaugh and Coulter. Let's see - that is druggie Rush and Coulter, who could be a felon in Florida once charges are pressed for her voting fraud. Yup that is family values for you. You know it's bad when they can't even get a conservative comedian like Dennis Miller, a FOX contributor and former host of Weekend Update on SNL, to do the show.

Earlier while watching CNN I was shocked when I heard the same old line being used. Tori Clark, the former Pentagon spokeswoman turned CNN contributor was complaining about the reports of Haditha and how they are overshadowing the good that is being done in Iraq. She is still spewing out the same old rhetoric that Bush and company have used before (remember when it was the media exaggerating everything?).

Perhaps this report from Today's L.A. Times should be read by Tori so she can see that Iraq is getting worse:

New Iraqi government documents show that, excluding the nearly daily bombings, more Baghdad residents died in shootings, stabbings and other violence in May than in any other month since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

The numbers, and accounts from residents, depict neighborhoods descending further into violence and fear.

Last month, 1,398 bodies were brought to the central morgue, according to Ministry of Health statistics, 307 more than in April. The count doesn't include soldiers or civilian victims of explosions, on whom autopsies are not usually conducted.

Since 2003, at least 30,240 bodies have been brought to the morgue, the vast majority of them victims of gunmen who are not caught. Bodies often lie in the streets for hours.

I have also noticed a new paraphrasing going on for Iraq now - secular war. They are playing semantics with the situation in Iraq and rather you call it secular or civil, that does not change the fact that Iraq is descending further into being Hell on Earth.