The impression I get from the video is that she was toasted. She looks stoned and she was slurring slightly. I’m not a fan or against the lady; honestly don’t care much about her one way or another but I swear she looks baked. Do her eyes always float crossed like that?
Yes, and I got the “Indian Reservation” reference as well. But I figured in a discussion about how historical inaccuracies become embedded in the public mind, it was worth pointed out the facts.
Palin’s “gotcha” question that led to the word salad:
That’s the vacant, blissful look of ingorance. It’s the same look you see when you ask a child to give a book report on a book he hasn’t read.
If Palin gave that response on grammer school quiz, it would have been marked wrong in any school in the country. Shouldn’t we expect a potential world leader to be at least as smart as a 3rd grader?
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I agree. I don’t see how the question, “What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take away from your visit?” is a “gotcha” question. It seems as innocent as you can get.
Any question that makes her look like an idiot becomes a gotcha question.
Yeah, it’s a “gotcha” because she fucked it up.
There goes her chances of winning Massachusetts!
I’d give $20 bucks just to hear her attempt to spell Massachusetts…
The problem is that it wasn’t the question that made her look like an idiot. It was her answer that did that. Don’t most politicians manage to answer such questions without saying anything meaningful?
What I meant was once she screws up, the question becomes a gotcha question retroactively.
The amusing thing is that Revere’s actual Revolutionary War accomplishments were pretty meagre, to say the least; his “ride” was actually just part of the colonial early-warning system, and he was only one of several who undertook it (and he was arrested partway through). His fame rests not on what he did, but on the fact that Longfellow wrote a famous poem about him, full of (deliberate) mythologizing.
The ironic thing is that Longfellow was related to Revere’s own commanding officer (well, second in command) during the disasterous (for the Americans) Penobscot Expedition, Peleg Wadsworth, who accused Revere (in charge of the artillery) of “disobedience and cowardice”, charges which resulted in Revere being dismissed from the service (though he later had them cleared). Peleg, on the other hand, was a genuine military hero (he saved the remaint of the US forces from the disaster).
So … the descendant of the hero writes a poem about a mediocre military failure, whom his own ancestor branded as a coward, which gets that coward elevated to postumous glory. Seems Palin is just continuing a long American tradition … 
Well I guess technically he did warn the British, the American Colonists he was warning were subjects of the British crown, thus themselves British.
People of the colonies weren’t dead set on revolution at the time so weren’t all about renouncing their citizenship just yet, if you’d asked anyone of that era if they were British they would probably say ‘yes’.
Not that Palin herself could make that technicality argument, she’s just stupid. She proved even after she was given the facts for a follow up interview she couldn’t get them straight.
In her brief years a fame, multiple advisers and coaches have come out and pretty much explained once she gets a talking point in her head they can’t get her to stop using it no matter how incorrect it was.
Jesus Harold Christ, thank you. The absolute bizarre weaseling that I have seen from the Palin crowd makes my head hurt. I could theoretically, maybe, if I were feeling rather generous, concede that she was correct and may have spoken poorly if she had left it at “Revere warned the British” but that’s not the quote. He apparently rode through town on a horse firing shots and ringing bells warning the Red Coats that they weren’t going to take our guns.
And this makes Sarah Palin’s account of history accurate how?
To each his own. I prefer for there to be a brain at the top.
Palin, and Paliin’s crowd’s, refusal to simply concede error is amazing.
Her reflexive blaming of the media everytime she says something stupid bothers me even more than that. How can even her staunchest defenders say that she was asked a “gotcha” question this time? She got the softest question imaginable.
Dominican born and bred, and I knew right away that she was clueless.
- Mrs Palin, how are you today?
- This is the kind of gotcha question from the lamestream liberal media that makes baby Jesus cry!!
- Erm…