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Title: Paul Revere, Sarah Palin and Wikipedia
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NY Times
URL Source: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... ere-sarah-palin-and-wikipedia/
Published: Jun 7, 2011
Author: Noam Cohen
Post Date: 2011-06-07 13:26:29 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 732
Comments: 8
The argument over whether Sarah Palin was misinformed about the historical facts of Paul Revere’s ride has moved to where bar bets go to be settled: Wikipedia. Since Ms. Palin described the ride last week while she was visiting Boston, Wikipedia’s Paul Revere article page has been the site of a mini “edit war.” And the page has gone from a little-visited one — 2,000 or so page views a day — to a more heavily trafficked one, with54,000 on Saturday when Ms. Palin’s comments were gaining the most news attention. Over the course of the weekend, people added sentences to the Revere article that repeated Ms. Palin’s claims. It can be hard to discern motives for changes on Wikipedia, and in some cases people appeared to be attributing the claims to Ms. Palin in order to mock her. One editor, Tomwsulcer, added the following sentence: “Accounts differ regarding the method of alerting the colonists; the generally accepted position is that the warnings were verbal in nature, although one disputed account suggested that Revere rang bells during his ride.” When the discussion board for the Revere article was ringing with complaints that this was a lie, Tomwsulcer replied that it should be included as a theory because a prominent American politician, that is, Sarah Palin, had said it. “If you follow Wikipedia’s rules,” he wrote, “we must maintain a neutral position, representing the mainstream position as well as disputed versions.” He lost the argument, but others have been searching history books to find evidence to support Ms. Palin’s claims. One editor added the fact that the colonists on the eve of revolution were themselves British. That argument was included at the end of a passage stating that “Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him (‘The British are coming!’), largely because the mission depended on secrecy and the countryside was filled with British army patrols.” By that logic, Revere did, as Ms. Palin put it, “warn the British” – namely, the rebel colonists who were still technically British subjects.
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if Revere warned the British, then he was a traitor to the revolution.
"Thats because your basically and idiot." I haven't seen anything like this since the days of "it depends on what the meaning of is is".
One weiner scandal rolling into another...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" Sarah was lucky that the Weiner dominated yesterday's news and took the spotlight off of her. On the other hand, she can't stand that so I can hardly wait to see what idiocy she pulls in the next few days to get back in the headlines.
Swiped from another site. I just dug this up in The Atlantic archives. Apparently, this was Longfellow's first draft of the immortal "Paul Revere's Ride." By Jeffrey Goldberg LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the early evening ride of Paul Revere, On the twentieth, or twenty-first, of May, or possibly June, in Seventy-six, or maybe Seventy-seven; Hardly a man is now alive Who refudiates that famous day and year. He said to his friend, while ringing those bells, 'We must see the French a-coming By land or sea or some other way, maybe by air, from the town to-night, And tell our British friends, and our British enemies, And warn them of bears, the big majestic polar bears, that lurk amid the French a-strumming Their mandolins, and other French instruments, that make a patriot so squirmish. Shoot a flair up at Lexington and Concord, Those fabled towns of New Hampshire and Vermont Where General Lee made his valiant stands;. And no one will take that flair gun away from me, Not from my cold, dead hands. Of that church, you know the one, with the name, whatever it's called, up in the tower as a signal light,-- One, if by land, and two, if by air; And I on the opposite shore will be, in a very large bus; That is painted so patriotically; And I will ride my white steed so fair. Then I will ride a Harley, that I was pulling on a trailer behind the bus, and spread the alarm, Man, I love the smell of that emissions That smell is freedom, carried by horse, Through every Middlesex village and farm, Not horse emissions, chopper emissions. But horse emissions are very patriotic. And I will warn the British that the British are coming. Which should confuse them very much. Then he said, 'Good-night!' and with shotgun in hand Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, that Last Frontier, We were rowing because the outboard motor didn't work, thanks to the EPA; Just as the sun rose over the Mighty Mississippi, Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war; Which sounds a little gay; A phantom ship, part of our hollowed-out Democrat Navy Across the moon like a prison bar, where we should lock up all the French, And a huge black hulk, that was magnified, by Fox, And by its own reflection in the tide, not the detergent, but the water that comes in from the sea in waves, I'm not sure how exactly.
Arnold should send Weiner a box of Cubans...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" Ha...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" LOL! You libTURDS are funny as hell! She is FACTUALLY correct and you gibbering fools are going to whine and cry about it forever, and even though she was factually correct your talking points will always call her "wrong". I know that you libTURDS are stoopid and liars, I know that you libTURDS even lie to yourselves. So let me ask you a little question. Do you libTURD fools remember your "outrage" at Governor Palin telling the TEA Party, "let's party like it's 1773"? LOL! YOU libTURDS are the FOOLS. Governor Palin knows American history WAY better than YOU do! LMAOAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! November 2012 come soon!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: go65 (#0)
By that logic, Revere did, as Ms. Palin put it, “warn the British” – namely, the rebel colonists who were still technically British subjects.
#3. To: Skip Intro (#2)
I haven't seen anything like this since the days of "it depends on what the meaning of is is".
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#4. To: war (#3)
One weiner scandal rolling into another...
#5. To: war (#3)
#6. To: Skip Intro (#4)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#7. To: Skip Intro (#5)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#8. To: go65 (#0)
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