re: #55 NJDhockeyfan

This is interesting. NPR fact-checks Palin with a professor:

How Accurate Were Palin’s Paul Revere Comments?

This professor says Palin was right?

His first explanation, however, is far more what anyone with knowledge would say:

Prof. ALLISON: Well, he’s not firing warning shots. He is telling people so that they can ring bells to alert others. What he’s doing is going from house to house, knocking on doors of members of the Committees of Safety saying the regulars are out. That is, he knew that General Gage was sending troops out to Lexington and Concord, really Concord, to seize the weapons being stockpiled there, but also perhaps to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams, leaders of the Continental Congress, who were staying in the town of Lexington.

Remember, Gage was planning - this is a secret operation, that’s why he’s moving at night. He gets over to Cambridge, the troops start marching from Cambridge, and church bells are ringing throughout the countrys

Some of what he says there is quite interesting, but the question I’d like to ask him is, “If you asked a student the purpose of Revere’s ride, and got that back, what would you write on that student’s paper?”

Palin flubbed it. This guy is game to look at a broader interpretation, and that’s awful kind of him, but she flubbed it.