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MrRodgers -> RE: Paul Revere's Response to Palin's lies about him (6/6/2011 12:28:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto
For the past four years, I have worked each April through September for a company that gives historic walking tours of the Boston Freedom Trail. I have studied in great detail, among others, Paul Revere. At the risk of being immodest, I think I know as much as anyone living today can know about what happened that night.
If after Palin screwed up the story, she had come out and said, "I'm sorry, I got the story wrong and was misinformed", there would have been no need for any threads like this.
But instead she gives an subsequent interview in which she basically said, "I was right - and all the history books, and all the historians and Paul Revere himself, in his own account that he wrote of the event, were wrong".
And that stupidity and, frankly, bull-headedness merits a thread such as this.
I call BULLSHIT!
Paul Revere himself wrote in his memoirs that he warned the British. Ya know, the British Patrol that captured him, preventing him from completing that famous "midnight ride".
He isn't historically famous and referred to in school as the man who made the Midnight Ride to...warn the British of anything.
On the march back toward Lexington at gunpoint, Revere was threatened that his head would be blown off if he did not tell everything he knew. Revere was glad to oblige because he knew it would put the fear of God into these Redcoats to know there entire mission was compromised. Before they reached Lexington, the redcoats heard a volley from the Minutemen gathering on Lexington Green. They released their prisoners on foot right there and rode to warn their commanding officers.
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