In case you were wondering why they really buried Osama at sea…

Coming on the heels of last night’s post lauding the new poet laureate of the political blogosphere is the latest left-wing kerfuffle over a statement made by that totally irrelevant and stupid Sarah Palin about Paul Revere and his ride to alert the colonists of the approach of the British Regulars.

It seems that those death-defying JournoListers who were forced to sacrifice life and limb to trail behind the Palin Tour bus thought their efforts to capture the perfect “gotcha clip” had borne fruit of the sweetest kind when Gov. Palin asserted that Revere had told the “British” that armed Americans were going to fight for the freedoms they believed were their God-given rights. Well, the highly educated members of the fourth estate practically wet their knickers with glee* as they raced to alert the citizenry that Sarah didn’t know her history, which of course, they did because MIss Whatshername in fifth grade made them memorize the Longfellow poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”, proving once and for all that Sarah isn’t smarter than a fifth grader.

HA!

Turns out that most Americans actually did learn everything they thought they knew about the Revolutionary War in elementary school – and they’ve forgotten most of that since then. But Gov. Palin apparently DOES know what she’s talking about and evidently did a little post-graduate research on the real version as opposed to the romanticized lyrics that most of the LSM bitterly cling to as fact and substance.

It’s hard to decide which is more amusing – watching the LSM fall all over themselves trying to discredit and dismiss Gov. Palin – or watching a true master manipulate the media. So far, the media isn’t coming off as the mental giants they think themselves to be. In their mission to destroy a legitimate political voice, the leftists have more frequently exposed not only their bias but also their own lack of knowledge and gravitas. These are the people who get their news from Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert and attribute to Palin a line from a comedy sketch, and yet still expect that those of us who learned from a true giant to “Trust but verify” will believe whatever tripe they toss our way. Like Sarah Palin, we have gone beyond fifth grade. We get our history from the works of scholars, not poets. We get our news from several sources – and we don’t believe everything we hear and read from those mental midgets in the LSM.

Listen my children and you shall hear
A non-fictional story of Paul Revere
When accused by the press of misstating the facts
The governor shared what the poetry lacks

When sounding alarms that the British were coming
Revere was caught and hauled in at gunpoint to explain to the Commander what the hell was going on with the Colonists and, by the way, where had they stashed their ammunition…
(Screw iambic pentameter – that’s for fifth graders. Read Paul Revere’s own words here.)

The lessons to be learned from this incident are many, but the main one should be:

Sarah – 1, LSM – 0 — AGAIN!!!!
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* Okay – it really wasn’t “glee” that they wet their pants with, but it rhymes, and since we’re talking poetry here, go with it – even though there have been far too many crotch jokes this week already.

Ok – so I’ve been more gone than not for the past couple of months. Too much going on in other areas of my life. Or at least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. But now the session’s over and I’ve returned from the big conference in Las Vegas so I’ve run out of excuses to avoid posting here.

While I haven’t been writing much, I have been reading and lurking around the internets and I have discovered a great new blog: The Bard of Murdoch. Absolutely fabulous! Politics and poetry in the same package. Ogden Nash meets Ann Coulter. Be still my beating heart. I’ve put a permanent link on the Blogroll, but go ahead and take a peek now. Let me know what you think.

Closer to home, one of my former favorites, The Viceroy’s Fuguestate seems to be back on the scene. You might want to keep an eye out for this one too.

So, the hiatus is over. Whether you missed me or not. Onward. Upward. Forward.