Palin and Paul Revere happened

It was brought to my attention by several sources that perhaps Sarah Palin was not, strictly speaking ill of Paul Revere.

Nobody knows the story well, so even someone who is able to interact properly a historical fact is cause for great celebration.

I should have known when began mass base Twitter penance after the call was a barrel of fish from the Palin family. Say what you will about the people on Twitter - or Americans in general - they tend not to be recognized by the historical facts. This appalling historical illiteracy has served as fodder for TV segments easier for humans on the street than you can shake a stick at.

Thomas Jefferson? Of course! It is this man that - that - was not he and Sally Hemings an item? John Adams? It was on HBO? Abe Lincoln? That is not the type who hunts vampires and could be gay? Ulysses S. Grant? Requested the grant of the University, after him, right? Rutherford B. Hayes? Now you're just making up names that sound funny. All we know for sure the story is that Kevin Bacon caused the missile crisis in Cuba, the information I have gathered to watch X-Men: First Class several times in theaters.

In fact, if some historical figures that were not strange sexual habits would not know any history at all. "Oh, Prince Albert, for example, nodding knowingly." Ring a bell. "

If we ever reach agreement on a historic event, which tend to be confusing - see the moon landing, or all the people who say that the area is filled with 51 Soviet gnomes.

However, in the world of defense, Paul Revere is a historical figure who has achieved the status of myth. Parson as cherry chop-George Washington, Molly Pitcher, or waters of the revolutionary troops, or Davy Crockett, born in a mountain in Tennessee and kill a bear when he was 3 years. Paul Revere was a silversmith true, but what we hear is about a boy who walked trochaically mythological singing "One if by land and two if by sea" and shouting "The British are coming! The British are coming!" And does not ring a bell that had her life depended on it.

Palin was the story of the real man. But the legend is what matters. It is as if he had said. "And George Washington refused to shoot the cherry tree and tell stories, while in the incident and do not worry"

If there is one lesson from this incident is "Never argue with a person who just made the trip."

But who cares?

As Ambrose Bierce wrote: "History is a story mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are made by leaders, mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools."

Also, I'm sure that Kevin Bacon was behind it.