# 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:** 16
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/101 "2011-06-08T17:50:04Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#):
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> - Mrs Palin, how _are_ you today?
> - This is the kind of gotcha question from the lamestream liberal media that makes baby Jesus cry!!
> - Erm…
Not quite, but close. Let me polish it up a bit.
- Mrs Palin, how are you today?
- Gosh, lemme tell ya, I feel as good as Ben Franklin did when he invented electricity, flyin’ that kite and all the good patriotic things he did while armed.
- Huh? In the first place, Ben Franklin didn’t invent electricity, in the second place … huh?
- This is the kind of gotcha question from the lamestream liberal media that makes baby Jesus cry!!
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### Author:  [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/102 "2011-06-08T18:03:47Z")
> [@Ca3799](#):
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> So now, Palin fans are trying to add her interpretation on events into the Revere Wiki page: [Palin's fans rewrite wiki history of Paul Revere](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/05/982391/-Palins-fans-rewrite-wiki-history-of-Paul-Revere?via=siderec)
Silly me, I thought only the Soviets were big fans of the rewriting of history…
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/103 "2011-06-08T20:12:14Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#):
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> Not quite, but close. Let me polish it up a bit.
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> - Mrs Palin, how are you today?
> - Gosh, lemme tell ya, I feel as good as Ben Franklin did when he invented electricity, flyin’ that kite and all the good patriotic things he did while armed.
> - Huh? In the first place, Ben Franklin didn’t invent electricity, in the second place … huh?
> - This is the kind of gotcha question from the lamestream liberal media that makes baby Jesus cry!!
Yeah, that’s it. It appears you are fluent in Incoherent.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/104 "2011-06-08T20:34:40Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#):
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> Yeah, that’s it. It appears you are fluent in Incoherent.
His parents would be proud, but they are afraid he’s going to run for office.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/105 "2011-06-08T20:46:38Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#):
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> Yeah, that’s it. It appears you are fluent in Incoherent.
You betcha!
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### Author:  [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/106 "2011-06-08T20:56:28Z")
> [@Malthus](#):
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> [Revere’s] fame rests not on what he did, but on the fact that Longfellow wrote a famous poem about him, full of (deliberate) mythologizing.
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> The ironic thing is that Longfellow was related to Revere’s own commanding officer … Peleg Wadsworth …
Yeah, but you try finding good rhymes for “Wadsworth”.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/107 "2011-06-08T21:55:28Z")
A strong bricklayer who could lift a hod’s worth…
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/108 "2011-06-08T22:07:03Z")
Donald Trump would even doubt Mary Todd’s birth…
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### Author:  [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/109 "2011-06-08T22:08:58Z")
> [@Bytegeist](#):
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> Yeah, but you try finding good rhymes for “Wadsworth”.
Heh, good point. 😃
Also, “Paul Revere” simply _sounds_ better than “Peleg Wadsworth”. In fact, almost any other name does … !
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/110 "2011-06-08T23:21:11Z")
Too bad there wasn’t a Rock Longwood in the militia back then.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/111 "2011-06-09T03:53:45Z")
I caught Dennis Miller being asked about this on Bill O’Reilly and his answer (not on video yet that I can find but I’m sure it will be) was sickening. First he defended her “interpretation” of events and then of course switched to Weiner jokes.
I know most of his 1990s fans stopped listening long ago but does this douche even listen to himself anymore?
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### Author:  [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/112 "2011-06-09T13:35:16Z")
You guys, the reason it was a gotcha question is because she didn’t have the answer written on her hand.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/113 "2011-06-09T14:04:03Z")
If Mitt Romney chooses Sara Palin as his running mate their campaign slogan can be ‘The Mormon And The Moron’.
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### Author:  [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/114 "2011-06-09T14:21:24Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> If Mitt Romney chooses Sara Palin as his running mate their campaign slogan can be ‘The Mormon And The Moron’.
If he picks her, the slogan will be “The Moron and the Bigger Moron.” Not sure which is which.
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/115 "2011-06-09T15:13:42Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
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> Any question that makes her look like an idiot becomes a gotcha question.
> [@runner pat](#):
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> What I meant was once she screws up, the question becomes a gotcha question retroactively.
IMO, **any** question directed to Ms Palin for which she hasn’t been thoroughly rehearsed beforehand triggers this response.
1. Somebody asks Ms Palin a question outside her control.
2. She fumbles it badly, and looks like an idiot.
3. People point and laugh. They start to shrug off the incident as just another Palinism.
4. She insists her answer was TEH TROOF, she was attacked by _blah blah blah_, the question was a deliberate “Gotcha ya!”, etc.
5. People point and laugh.
Lather, rinse, repeat, wave hi to Opal.
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarah-palin-paul-revere-warned-the-british/584369/116 "2011-06-11T05:30:44Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> Both of you cool it, will you? I understand the motivation–I really do. But this is a little bit over the top for the context.
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> No warnings issued.
On further consideration, I’ve decided to withdraw this. Just because I find the thought of Sarah Palin and sex toys in the same breath repugnant is not sufficient justification for moderating action, and I apologize. To the two or three of you whose posts built up to this punchline, I wasn’t trying to put a black mark on any of you. In fact, I laughed myself. I just had a _Palin? Yeecchhh!!_ reaction.
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