What a dumb cunt
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/palin-flubs-explanation-paul-revere-ride-215549982.html

Quote :

"In the video, which was taken at Boston's Old North Church, Palin gives a bizarre version of Revere's 1775 ride. Addressing an unknown person, Palin remarks: He who warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and, um, making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were going to be secure and we were going to be free."

6/4/2011 7:24:56 AM

America! Fuck Yeah! Give me were, um freedom, or give me death!

6/4/2011 7:33:48 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0C3e0He2k

6/4/2011 7:48:51 AM

Honestly, who can take her seriously anymore?

6/4/2011 7:51:20 AM

Yet Obama didnt know how many states are currently in the union.....

Honestly, how could you have taken him seriously after that remark?

6/4/2011 8:13:29 AM

I thought it was common knowledge that politicians are just mouthpieces with a degree.

6/4/2011 8:25:27 AM

Dan Quayle didn't know how to spell potato.

Honestly, how could you have taken him seriously after that remark?

6/4/2011 8:41:17 AM

Tea party scares me because the noise drowns out all the normal conservatives who care about important issues.

6/4/2011 9:02:39 AM

6/4/2011 10:02:15 AM

Splendor Solis was one of the most underrated albums of the 90s.

6/4/2011 10:21:47 AM

6/4/2011 10:31:22 AM

I love how threads like this bring out bigun20 from the woodworks aka one of the biggest retards on this board

6/4/2011 10:42:33 AM

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/ten-bizarrely-mistaken-beliefs-americans-hold-about-themselves/239810/

6/4/2011 10:46:47 AM

His point is valid.

6/4/2011 10:47:18 AM

I read around a few message boards, and on EVERY board that this thread was made, some Fox News watching type brought up the 57 states thing

it's like they've got a pre-made buzzword rebuttal sheet handy

6/4/2011 10:49:32 AM

Quote :

"Tea party scares me because the noise drowns out all the normal conservatives who care about important issues. "

True.

I guess if you include all our territories and commonwealths we have 57

6/4/2011 11:33:12 AM

you are quite the message board veteran aren't you

6/4/2011 11:35:41 AM

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.

6/4/2011 11:38:37 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg

6/4/2011 11:45:17 AM

You put the spotlight on anyone, no matter how powerful or experienced, and they can mess up here and there.

One is an Ivy League educated lawyer achieving the highest office in the land.

The other is a beauty queen achieving the top level executive position in her state.

To even come close to their level and fail puts in you in the top 0.0001% of the world, so it has the same credibility as someone criticizing a professional athlete for bobbling the ball. Let me know when you make it into the NBA.

We have more serious issues like managing our economy than making judgment calls on whether or not she had some freezes on her teleprompter.

6/4/2011 12:42:15 PM

so it is clear that Obama (in 2008) was mispeaking - he meant 47 states

"47 states. One more to go. I was not allowed to go to Alaska and Hawaii. I wanted to but my staff couldn't justify it."

6/4/2011 12:48:17 PM

^^When one of the cornerstones of your political movement is American history, especially about the founding of the country, this sort of thing isn't like bobbling the ball. It's like scoring in the other team's basket and expecting no one to notice.

6/4/2011 1:08:03 PM

So let me get this straight, you're accusing her of being Muslim and not being born in America?

6/4/2011 1:09:29 PM

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2011/06/01/moos.piper.pipes.up.cnn?hpt=hp_t2

6/4/2011 1:09:39 PM

Sarah Palin is a retard

6/4/2011 1:10:07 PM

47+1+2=50

are there not 50 states…?

You would have thought by now though that Palin would have learned that charisma is only one part of the equation.

She really is just an attention whore in the purest form.

[Edited on June 4, 2011 at 2:51 PM. Reason : ]

6/4/2011 2:50:42 PM

I'm on a self-imposed Sarah Palin ban so I just came in here to post some Johnny Cash:

http://youtu.be/1CybFIbP8Zo
(feel free to embed)


also:

Quote :

"Splendor Solis was one of the most underrated albums of the 90s."

Yes.

6/4/2011 2:59:00 PM

for the lulz

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/sarah-palin-says-paul-revere-warned-the-british.html

Quote :

"You may have heard recently something about that Sarah Palin telling a reporter that Paul Revere warned the British on his famous rousing revolutionary ride. Now, that so many Americans have wallowed in their smug confirmation that Palin is an idiot unqualified for anything but Paul Revere thinks about something paulreverefactsdotcomrepeating sixth-grade history, how far, wide and fast do you think the contradictory news will spread that the former governor of Alaska was indeed correct? That the Republican non-candidate, in fact, knew more about the actual facts of Revere's midnight ride than all those idiots unknowingly revealing their own ignorance by laughing at her faux faux pas? How secretly embarrassing this must be, to be forced to face that you're dumber than the reputed dummy. As it happens, though, such phenomena are regular occurrences in American politics, reminding consumers of news to be wary when some fresh story seems to fit contemporary assumptions so absolutely perfectly. The well-known fable is Revere's late-night ride to warn fellow revolutionaries that.... ...the British were coming. Less known, obviously, is the rest of the evening's events in which Revere was captured by said redcoats and did indeed defiantly warn them of the awakened militia awaiting their arrival ahead and of the American Revolution's inevitable victory. "

6/6/2011 9:14:38 AM

^ liberals don't care about those details!

6/6/2011 9:58:34 AM

^^ ahahahaha


if it's true-then nice. ha.

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 10:05 AM. Reason : fgjhghg]

6/6/2011 10:04:11 AM

lol, she was right


so it turns out tarpon is a dumb cunt.

we can't take aph319 seriously

and blackjesus is actually the retard.



aha. pwnt.

6/6/2011 10:06:43 AM

that whole article is pretty interesting actually.


and is pretty spot on about how i feel about most politics/media.

6/6/2011 10:10:17 AM

Interesting article -- thanks for posting it.

6/6/2011 10:17:25 AM

She shouldn't be mocked for her facts.

She should be mocked for her sentence.

Holy moly.

6/6/2011 10:24:50 AM

lol... I never bothered reading the transcript of her speech, or watching the video of it, but with everyone trying to rip it apart, I wondered to myself what the odds were of it being taken out of context or her actually being right

6/6/2011 10:26:11 AM

Yeah, the truth about Al Gore not saying he invented the internet was pretty disappointing, but to be expected

6/6/2011 10:32:21 AM

http://onforb.es/jqn1cx

Quote :

"Palin neither described the famous legend of Paul Revere as told in Longfellow’s poem, or the actual historical events. She mangled the facts (and mangled the syntax much more ferociously) and now her defenders are digging up an obscure story not even relevant to the history itself and holding it up as though Palin knew exactly what she was talking about. This is ludicrous."

That pretty much nails it.

6/6/2011 10:36:06 AM

^ i agree


but the article is pretty cool.

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM. Reason : fghfghfg]

6/6/2011 10:46:33 AM

my favorite:

6/6/2011 10:48:54 AM

Quote :

"Honestly, how could you have taken him them seriously after that remark?"

Body of work. Palin still loses.

6/6/2011 10:57:08 AM

Quote :

"up an obscure story not even relevant to the history itself "

SO OBSCURE IT SHOULDN'T EVEN COUNT

What is this, I don't even-

I agree that the way she stated it wasn't exactly correct, but that statement is just grasping for anything it can get.

I more agree with this, but its still funny to make people calling her out look like fools:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2011_0606you_betcha_she_was_right_experts_back_palins_historical_account/

Quote :

"Palin insisted yesterday on Fox News Sunday she was right: “Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there. That, hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms.” In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.” Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.” Patrick Leehey of the Paul Revere House said Revere was probably bluffing his British captors, but reluctantly conceded that it could be construed as Revere warning the British. “I suppose you could say that,” Leehey said. “But I don’t know if that’s really what Mrs. Palin was referring to.” McConville said he also is not convinced that Palin’s remarks reflect scholarship. “I would call her lucky in her comments,” McConville said."

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM. Reason : lol at the you betcha in the url]

6/6/2011 11:07:41 AM

Argh. Don't encourage her or her supporters. People laughed Howard Dean out of the races and all he did was yell yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhh!!!

6/6/2011 11:35:28 AM

should have yelled, LEEROY JENKINS!

6/6/2011 12:30:57 PM

she has supporters?


i mean enough to be concerned about?

6/6/2011 12:32:56 PM

This belongs in the "I can't believe they didn't teach me this in history" thread

6/6/2011 12:36:10 PM

I'd wager there's a pretty significant intersection of sets between Sarah Palin supporters and Fox News viewership.



[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 12:37 PM. Reason : @Joie]

6/6/2011 12:36:39 PM

^^^Hey, you are a woman, you are suppose to be supporing her... and all... err... wat?

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 12:37 PM. Reason : ]

6/6/2011 12:37:09 PM

you really think so?
i guess there could be.
i mean its not really that absurd i guess.

i just feel like even if she has a following its not big enough to actually think that she has a thought of getting elected.

but i have no evidence whatsoever to base this on


my dad watches fox news religiously but i dont think he would vote for palin.


not sure though. :shrug:

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM. Reason : dgfdfdfgdf]

6/6/2011 12:38:27 PM

I'd rather waste my vote on Santa Clause... like the few hundred that are recorded at every election... lol

6/6/2011 12:46:46 PM

she was not right at all. watch the video. she has no fucking clue what she's talking about.

6/6/2011 1:24:07 PM