… because she’d just been told about it.
One week ago, in that innocent time before Weinergate really exploded, Sarah Palin’s interesting history lesson on Paul Revere was beginning to emerge as a big story. However, now the man who taught her about Revere’s 1775 ride and gave her a tour in Boston, is speaking out and coming to her defense.
Rev. Stephen T. Ayres, the vicar of the Old North Church, agrees with Palin that her critics are playing “gotcha” with her statements about Revere. Ayres admits:
“I knew where all the factoids she cited came from and take responsibility for putting them in her head . . . I will not take the blame for the odd order those factoids came out.”
Yet even if they were a bit out of order, Ayres argues Palin’s understanding was correct. He not only instructed Palin on the “one if by land, two if by sea” lesson, but also taught Palin how Revere warned the British that the Americans already were alerted to the fact that the British were coming. Ayres thinks Palin is “an easy target” and doesn’t like the fact that this incident is used by some to suggest Palin is not intelligent.
I fully expect comments immediately that say “oh no she didn’t.”
Oh no she didn’t.
“oh no she didn’t.”
And don’t call me Shirley.
The more I follow Sarah, the more intelligent she becomes. If the media would put their bias aside for a moment and do a little non-partisan homework they’d discover how intelligent she is. She can speak to the every day American without appearing to talk down to them, she can talk to oil & gas executives almost as an equal, and she can talk to young mothers and children as a wise matriarch.
Whit, compassion, strength, and honesty. That’s what we need in our leadership. Sarah is not only well qualified to be POTUS, but she wants to serve her country without needing to.
No, Walt C. Sarah Palin did not go to Harvard or even to Harvard of the Midwest, so she is not allowed to be rated as intelligent or thoughtful.
Kind of a pitiful stereotype, but it seems to be the legacy media only object by which to evaluate her.
Just think of all the stereotypes about people that you have heard over your life. And everyone knows it is a weak thought process to think in stereotypes, yet for certain individuals, exceptions are made.
P.S. I inserted some white space and punctuation so that Charlie cannot tell that I am a crazy man.
I wonder how O’bama,he’s Irish ya know, would do if every single email he had ever written was made public?
Hell, I wonder how O’Bama would do if *anything* he had written was made public!
ZING!
A hit! A palpable hit!
I wouldn’t be so quick to offer up Ayers as an apologist for Palin’s commentary. The article in the Boston Herald tried that tack, only to have a retort leveled against the author by the Rev. Ayers excoriating him for suggesting that he supported Palin’s view. He did not. He characterized his original blog (in something called The Episcopalian – connected with the Old North Church somehow) on the events of that day as being “sardonic”.
I think that he let his bias show a little – which is fine with me.
However, there is no way in the world that anyone can dispute the words of Revere himself recounted years later in a document in the posession the Massachusetts Historical Society – available on-line if you go looking for it.
Palin was spot on according to his account of the events of the evening.
Humorous cartoon on this titled “One if by Lie” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/one-if-by-lie/ It shows the media bias against her.
The good Rev. needs to check out the meaning of “factoid”. But, since he’s in the religion business, he deals with factoids on a daily and continuing basis!