Sarah Palin was sort of right about Paul Revere

Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Sarah Palin was sort of right about Paul Revere

Did Paul Revere warn the British?

“He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms,” said Palin.

Paul Revere left two documents describing how he rode from Boston to Concord alerting farmers that the British were crossing the Charles River to get the ammo dump at Concord, and on the way he was stopped at a British checkpoint where a soldier threatened to blow his brains out if he didn’t talk. So he told them that he’d been waking up the farmers, and ALSO told them the British regulars had run around trying to cross the river and that “There would be 500 Americans there in a short time.”

So in addition to warning the Americans that the British were coming, he DID warn the British sentries that the Americans were coming.

“Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that, ‘Hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms,” says Palin.

Except Revere was lying. He had no idea whether the British force had run aground or how many Americans would show up; he was trying to scare the sentries into releasing him, which they did.

But Palin made it into a Second Amendment moment …

“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,” says Palin.

What? “Our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have?”

Paul Revere wasn’t there to make a second amendment argument — he was a courageous an conniving messenger who almost got his brains blown out. It wasn’t milk and cookies.

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