Sarah Palin: Paul Revere warned the British

[Jack_Batty]

@Mighty_Girl

• 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!!

[jasg]

@Ca3799

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

Silly me, I thought only the Soviets were big fans of the rewriting of history…

[Mighty_Girl]

@Jack_Batty

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!!

Yeah, that’s it. It appears you are fluent in Incoherent.

[wonky]

@Mighty_Girl

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.

[Jack_Batty]

@Mighty_Girl

Yeah, that’s it. It appears you are fluent in Incoherent.

You betcha!

[Bytegeist]

@Malthus

[ 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.

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”.

[Robot_Arm]

A strong bricklayer who could lift a hod’s worth…

[bup]

Donald Trump would even doubt Mary Todd’s birth…

[Malthus]

@Bytegeist

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 … !

[Jack_Batty]

Too bad there wasn’t a Rock Longwood in the militia back then.

[Sampiro]

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?

[Irishman]

You guys, the reason it was a gotcha question is because she didn’t have the answer written on her hand.

[Johnny_L.A]

If Mitt Romney chooses Sara Palin as his running mate their campaign slogan can be ‘The Mormon And The Moron’.

[pseudotriton_ruber_ruber]

@Johnny_L.A

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.

[Scuba_Ben]

@runner pat

Any question that makes her look like an idiot becomes a gotcha question.

@runner pat

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.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus

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.

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.