Palin has trouble keeping facts straight
I’d intended to come here today and join the growing chorus calling for Congressman (that 47 year-old teenager) Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y) to resign.
If he hasn’t resigned by the time this get’s published – he should.
That said, Sarah Palin’s perpetual inclination to grab headlines wherever she can get them – is stepping all over what could’ve been a nice Republican talking point.
Weiner is a high-profile liberal, whose pant-less internet shenanigans, coupled with his refusal to resign – should be a gift to Republicans.
Instead, “Weinergate” is sharing headlines with Sarah Palin’s remarkable American history gaffe.
I’m sure many of her fellow Republicans are asking Sarah, “How can we miss you if you won’t go away?”
As for me, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – Run, Sarah, Run!
I don’t think serious presidential candidates like Mitt Romney want to see Palin enter the race.
On the same day he announced his candidacy in New Hampshire, the attention-starved Palin rolled her “One Nation” bus tour right through New Hampshire and right over Romney’s message.
But before she gummed up the works for Romney in New Hampshire, Palin gummed up the works for herself in Massachusetts.
The woman who wears her patriotism on her sleeve walked along the Boston’s Freedom Trail.
Along the way, she told reporters that Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, 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.”
I get it. Palin was claiming that Paul Revere was fighting for gun rights (or something).
That Revere, instead of warning his fellow Americans, was warning the British, that “the British are coming. The British are coming (or something).
Or, instead of quietly signaling his fellow revolutionaries by using lanterns – (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used the phrase “One if by land. Two if by sea” in the poem Paul Revere’s Ride) – Palin had Revere out there “ringing bells” and “firing warning shots.”
What, no Zambelli fireworks?
Despite her frequent attacks, there just isn’t some rule that reporters have to pounce on everything Sarah Palin says.
She brings this stuff on herself.
When her fellow Fox News employee, Chris Wallace, questioned her dubious understanding about one of the most important events in American history, she brought even more of the stuff on herself.
“You know what? I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere,” she said on Fox News Sunday.
“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,” she added with the kind of straight face that could even fool a second grader, if they hadn’t already been taught otherwise.
Warning the British, that the British were coming, I might add, would have been like, well, I can’t think of anything that dumb.
Yet, Palin’s adherence to her set of facts about the start of the Revolutionary War, wasn’t nearly as laughable as why she uttered the blunder heard ’round the world.
“In a shout-out gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history,” she claims.
If Palin has one innate skill, it’s being able to find “gotcha questions” where there are none.
Here’s that supposed “gotcha question.”
“What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take away from your visit?” Who do those people think they are trying to trip up Palin with a question that could’ve been answered with a simple, “A lot?”
No wonder England’s first female Prime Minister – Margaret Thatcher has decided she’d like to pass when Palin visits her country.
According a Thatcher ally, “Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts.”
Thatcher probably thinks Palin might warn her that the British are coming.
Edward A. Owens is a three-time Emmy Award winner and 20-year veteran of television news. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net
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