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 lacksWhen 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.
I have been wondering if someone should point out that technically at the time that Paul Revere made his ride, the patriots were still considered to be British subjects, especially since the ride was in 1775 before the Declaration of Independence was signed. So, it can be said that Paul warned the British that the British were coming. I figured against doing so because it would go over their heads.
I think it’s really interesting to learn that so many people that consider themselves well-educated (and particularly the East Coast Intelligentsia) were so quick to attack Sarah for being wrong. Maybe she was spot-on with her tour emphasis on the history of this country; obviously more than a few adult Americans are lacking in a sophisticated, in-depth knowledge of our heritage.