“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.”
Sarah Palin and her family visited the Old North Church and apparently wanted to dazzle her fans with her knowledge of American history. The above is Sarah Palin’s version of Paul Revere’s ride. I guess they don’t have history books in Alaska because she sure is off the mark.
Sarah Palin now tells us she didn’t mess up. From USA Today:
Sarah Palin defended her account of Paul Revere and his midnight ride, insisting that his warning essentially represented a message to the British that the revolutionaries weren’t going to back down.
“I didn’t mess up,” the potential GOP presidential candidate said this morning on Fox News Sunday. “I answered candidly and I know my American history.”
It really isn’t that Palin doesn’t know squat about the American Revolution. If she were president she would have an entire staff of educated people around her to make up for her woeful ignornance. It is, however, her arrogance and inability and unwillingness to do something about these weaknesses that makes her an unfit candidate.
