What is most hilarious about this is how she clearly went and did some Paul Revere research to cover her tracks and she STILL sounds like she’s paraphrasing the back of a coloring book a few grades above her reading level. One if by dumb, two if by superdumb.

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  1. When pressed, Mrs. Palin admitted that she was “never really that into the Backstreet Boys, anyway.”

  2. And when Paul Revere said the British are coming he was talking about the British Invasion which he started with his group The Beatles

  3. It’s clear Mrs. Plain does not understand Reverence in any form.

  4. I like how she is considering “throwing her name in the hat” like the presidency is determined in the same way as a cake raffle.

    Also, you know. Superdumb everything.

  5. Listen my children and you shall hear
    Of the bumbling, monthslong build up to a crass, attention-seeking media figure’s flirtation with running for president which she will ultimately not do because the money ain’t that great

  6. Ebert twittered that the exact wording of the “Gotcha question” was: “What have you been doing during your visit to Boston?”

    Other Gotcha Questions:

    “Would you like paper or plastic?”
    “Can I take your order?”
    “Is it going to rain today?’
    “Why THE FUCK do people still take you seriously?”

  7. My favorite part is her smug incredulity at the end when she says “I know my American history!” Like we’re supposed to smack our foreheads and feel SO DUMB that we ever doubted that she know her American history. “Good thing we got that cleared up, Sarah Palin!”

  8. Comment awaiting MODERATION? Fuck that shit

  9. Her grammar is more appalling than her mixed up history.

  10. “One if by dumb, two if by superdumb.”

    Ah, hate to tell you, but we (the british, which I reluctantly lump myself in here for the purposes of comedy)
    are gonna leave you well alone if Sarah Palin takes charge (ha. I hope). We were thinking of having another go at reclaiming you, but eh. Stuff to do, lorries to drive.

  11. “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;”

    http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/6249742805/listen-my-children-and-you-shall-hear-of-the

  12. Look, it’s not like Sarah Palin knowing the exact history of Paul Revere matters much in terms of running the United States of America in the 21st century (and beyond!), and there are plenty of other reasons why Sarah Palin should not be president, one of them being the fact that she will not let herself be wrong about Paul Revere when she was.

    But Sarah, a typical gotcha question? You’re a public figure of media interest. They’re ALL gotcha questions! That’s what the media does! I find it patently absurd that you continue to be surprised or shocked by this.

  13. No she doesn’t. Her negatives are super-high — literally half the country thinks she is a repulsive moron. You just can’t win that way.

    She’s just a media phenomenon, now, not a viable candidate.

  14. If she does run, I’m totally going to vote for her. Only because I really want to see the ridiculous advances in robotics that would be required for a Sarah Palin addition to the Disney Hall of Presidents.

  15. She’s apparently been through some more persuasive hand-gesturing training lately. It’s starting to look like she’s doing her own ASL translating these days.

  16. To be fair, Sara Palin was getting her info from the movie “Two if by Sea” with Denis Leary and Sandra Bullock, which to be even fairer, kicked some fucking ass.

  17. Boston Herald:
    …In fact, Revere’s own account of the ride in a 1798 letter seems to back up Palin’s claim. Revere describes how after his capture by British officers, he warned them “there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up.”

    Boston University history professor Brendan McConville said, “Basically when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting,’ and the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside, they hear church bells ringing — she was right about that — and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”

    Still, she must be very very stupid, and we must be very very smart.

    And please don’t assume I want her to be president.

    Sorry to interrupt, let the mockery recommence.

  18. Fun Facts: Paul Revere built the bridges at Concord and Lexington out of bugles and drums and dressed up as the shark in that painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware.

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