# Sarah Palin: Paul Revere warned the British
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 5, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369 "2011-06-05T04:31:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/1 "2011-06-05T04:31:38Z")
[Yup, that’s what she said.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS4C7bvHv2w)
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### Author:  [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/2 "2011-06-05T05:21:41Z")
So…is she dyslexic, going senile, or just kinda…misinformed? :p:p:p
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### Author:  [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/3 "2011-06-05T05:32:13Z")
> [@Taomist](#):
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> So…is she dyslexic, going senile, or just kinda…misinformed? :p:p:p
More like misedumacated.
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### Author:  [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/4 "2011-06-05T05:59:12Z")
I prefer the news clip [here](http://videos.mediaite.com/video/CNN-Sarah-Palin;recently_viewed). The look that the newsreader gives to the camera after the story is priceless.
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### Author:  [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/5 "2011-06-05T06:01:24Z")
I was going to say that I am tired of people following Palin and then dissecting everything she says. But Jesus Fucking Christ, how god damn stupid do you have to be to not know about Paul Revere? One if by land, two if by sea, and three if by flying monkeys.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/6 "2011-06-05T06:20:47Z")
That was like one of Sally Brown’s school reports.
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### Author:  [@williambaskerville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williambaskerville)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/7 "2011-06-05T06:38:23Z")
> [@treis](#):
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> I was going to say that I am tired of people following Palin and then dissecting everything she says. But Jesus Fucking Christ, how god damn stupid do you have to be to not know about Paul Revere? One if by land, two if by sea, and three if by flying monkeys.
I’m in Ireland. I asked my wife, and 20 y/o college student son, who Paul Revere was, and they both pretty much knew the correct story.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/8 "2011-06-05T06:41:11Z")
> [@treis](#):
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> I was going to say that I am tired of people following Palin and then dissecting everything she says. But Jesus Fucking Christ, how god damn stupid do you have to be to not know about Paul Revere? One if by land, two if by sea, and three if by flying monkeys.
Seriously, she talks like a parody of herself. “He was ridin’ through town and ringin’ those bells and warnin’ those people that we were gonna be free.”
WHAT.
If my 3rd-grader wrote that for a report on Paul Revere I’d tell him to revise it into something that sounded like it was written by an actual sentient being, except actually I wouldn’t, because even my 3rd-grader knows better than to say something that tragically and fundamentally stupid. COME ON, LADY.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/9 "2011-06-05T06:46:51Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> Seriously, she talks like a parody of herself. “He was ridin’ through town and ringin’ those bells and warnin’ those people that we were gonna be free.”
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> …
Hmm, if Tina Fey weren’t obviously pregnant right now I might suspect she was the one giving the interview.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/10 "2011-06-05T07:01:01Z")
God… she is stupid, but so \*\*\*\*able.
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/11 "2011-06-05T07:04:59Z")
_Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere_
We **clearly** misunderestimated her.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/12 "2011-06-05T07:06:46Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> _Listen my children and you shall hear
> Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere_.
_He got in his go-cart and stepped on the gas
The bottom fell out and he fell on his… elbow._
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/13 "2011-06-05T07:17:08Z")
[Apparently](http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-now-all-these-people-will-apologize.html), Revere [wrote](http://www.masshist.org/database/img-viewer.php?item_id=99&img_step=1&tpc=&pid=&mode=transcript&tpc=&pid=#page1) that he did indeed warn the British that Americans would be massing against them. It wasn’t intended to give assistance to the British, but rather as a threat or a boast after he was detained.
Whatever other problems one might have with her, it sounds like she got this point right.
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/14 "2011-06-05T07:18:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> _He got in his go-cart and stepped on the gas
> The bottom fell out and he fell on his… elbow._
_On Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen
Through softballs with FoxNews but f that Wolf Blitzen_ [sic]!\*
- Sounded about right.
Why do Santa’s reindeer sound like pole dancers?
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/15 "2011-06-05T07:22:23Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> [Apparently](http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-now-all-these-people-will-apologize.html), Revere [wrote](http://www.masshist.org/database/img-viewer.php?item_id=99&img_step=1&tpc=&pid=&mode=transcript&tpc=&pid=#page1) that he did indeed warn the British that Americans would be massing against them. It wasn’t intended to give assistance to the British, but rather as a threat or a boast after he was detained.
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> Whatever other problems one might have with her, it sounds like she got this point right.
On a technicality, sure, but that’s **not** what the reporter was asking. It’s not like Revere is famous for warning the British. We don’t say that Thomas Jefferson warned King George, either. Besides, wasn’t she at a stop that was part of the ‘famous ride’?
This is a woman who can see Russia from her backyard and isn’t sure what a VP could do and fumbled on Bush’s “world view”.
> [@](#):
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> He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/16 "2011-06-05T07:37:43Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> On a technicality, sure…
What’s the technicality?
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/17 "2011-06-05T08:31:45Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> What’s the technicality?
“I’m warning you blokes; we’re gonna fight back. With guns. Rawr.”
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/18 "2011-06-05T09:21:16Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> God… she is stupid, but so \*\*\*\*able.
What on earth could you talk about later?
That she could even be thought of as a future President by anyone beggars belief.
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/19 "2011-06-05T09:28:01Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> What’s the technicality?
While being questioned when he was captured during the ride.
She also said he rang the bells and road around town. It sounds like she thinks he range the bells of the Old North Church (he did not) and that he road around Boston.
Most people don’t know that part.
For those of you who think you know the story of the midnight ride of Paul Revere I highly suggest [this book.](http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Reveres-David-Hackett-Fischer/dp/0195098315/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2J70800RYYWI3&colid=27PULETTZY4VR)
It is a THRILLING read.
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### Author:  [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2011, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/20 "2011-06-05T09:33:02Z")
He road along the rode. 🙂
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