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Monday, June 06, 2011

Groucho or Sarah?

Whose account of Paul Revere's ride is the most historically accurate?

1) Sarah Palin

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/sarah_palin_was_merely_referri.html

"He who warned, uh, the … the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, ridin’ his horse through town to send those warnin’ shots," she said, seeming to mix up who was warning whom about what. But on Fox News today, Palin said the lamestream media was quick to mock her, of course, without even realizing she had made no mistake at all:

“Part of his ride was to warn the British that we’re already there - that, ‘Hey, you’re not goin' to succeed. You’re not goin' to take American arms. You are not goin' to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have,’" Palin said. “He did warn the British.”

2) Groucho Marx in Duck Soup

Ride through every Village and Town!
Wake every Citizen uphill and down!
Tell them the Enemy comes from afar!
With a Hey-Na-Nonny and a Hot-Cha-Cha!

It is obvious whom I prefer. I still do not get that "bells" thing in La Palin's exercise in speaking.

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