Palin: “I Didn’t Mess Up About Paul Revere” – “He Did Warn The British”

Sarah Palin on Fox News Sunday continued to support her statement that the purpose of the legendary ride of Paul Revere was to warn the British to not take our guns, saying, “I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere,” and, “He did warn the British.”

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On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace had said to Palin, “You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don’t you?” Palin — who has been the brut of jokes for her creation of the “word,” “refudiate” – was unable to admit her mistake (has the former Republican Vice Presidential candidate, former Governor, former chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, former “Miss Congeniality,” former sportscaster, former head of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, ever admitted to making a mistake?), and added more to mistaken meme.

Sarah Palin in Boston Thursday, said, “He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s 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 and we were going to be armed.”

Historians are agreed that Paul Revere’s historic midnight ride from Boston to Lexington was to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British Army. Revere’s deeds were commemorated in “Paul Revere’s Ride,” a poem by an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that took poetic license with some of the facts, but not to the extent that Palin did.

Historians find no evidence that Revere said anything to the British about not taking away arms from Americans.

“Part of his ride was to warn the British that we’re already there – that, ‘Hey, you’re not going to succeed,” Palin said on Fox New Sunday. “You’re not going to take American arms. You are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have,’” Palin said, according to a transcript obtained by the Washington Post. “He did warn the British.”

The Post adds, “Palin appears to be referring to a part of the story which is not in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem but is described elsewhere in historical accounts, in which Revere is detained by the British and warns them, while at gunpoint, that 500 American militiamen awaited in Concord.

“In her initial comment and on Sunday, Palin seemed to blend this aspect of the story with Revere actually riding around to warn the Americans that the British were coming. She described Revere warning the British by riding through town, firing warning shots and ringing bells. Warning shots and bells are not included in historical accounts of the ride, either.”

Palin claimed she was merely responding to “shout-out, gotcha-type of question.”