Re: This is The Best My Country Has To Offer
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Originally Posted by
Xiahou
I heard about an interesting interview on NPR (yes, I listen to NPR) about the Palin comments. I'll post the money shot here, but I encourage you to read the whole
transcript.
I mean, let's be rational for a second... She just got out of a guided tour, would she
really be so completely braindead to be 180 degrees wrong on what had just been explained to her? I think her response was inarticulate, but I don't think it was completely inaccurate. :shrug:
That's a very generous interpretation by the professor, one that sums the inarticulate quote by Palin and takes the various things that could have been accurate if she had spoken more articulately and mentally rearranges them into something that makes sense.
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Originally Posted by Sarah Palin
And, you know, he who warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure, as he is riding his horse through town, to send those warning shots and bells, that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.
He certainly didn't warn the British regulars by ringing bells. It seems she just regurgitated a jumble of half-remembered events while trying to work in a political point.
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Re: This is The Best My Country Has To Offer
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Originally Posted by
Crazed Rabbit
That's a very generous interpretation by the professor, one that sums the inarticulate quote by Palin and takes the various things that could have been accurate if she had spoken more articulately and mentally rearranges them into something that makes sense.
He certainly didn't warn the British regulars by ringing bells. It seems she just regurgitated a jumble of half-remembered events while trying to work in a political point.
An old phrase about broken clocks comes to mind...
Re: This is The Best My Country Has To Offer
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Originally Posted by
Crazed Rabbit
That's a very generous interpretation by the professor, one that sums the inarticulate quote by Palin and takes the various things that could have been accurate if she had spoken more articulately and mentally rearranges them into something that makes sense.
There's been alot of "generous interpretation" going around on conservative sites (most of it focusing on how Revere "warned" the British when he spilled his guts when captured), I only took not of this story given that it came from NPR- not an outlet I'd normally expect to carry water for Palin.
Also, since we seem to have some Revere character debate here.... What do people make of the information he so readily gave up once captured? To me, the account came off as him probably trying to save his own skin, but the more popular take on it was that Revere was trying to intimidate the British and give people more time to prepare. I also read that he was captured, while another rider he was with at the time escaped the British. Here is a letter Revere wrote about the episode.
Update: Just saw Factcheck.org chimed in on the Palin kerfuffle.
