A number of years ago I had the opportunity to walk the Freedom Trail in Boston. If you find yourself with the chance to experience it, I highly recommend it. I wasn't prepared to be so moved by standing in front of so much history, but moved I was. In fact, before Kevin invited me aboard here, I started my own blog and I named it the "Internet Freedom Trail". History is important. Those that don't remember history are doomed to repeat it and all of that.
Well it would seem the more unhinged left is so doomed. At a Tea Party Express event in Nevada yesterday Sarah Palin warned the crowed not to get cocky and that they wouldn't be able to "party like it's 1773" until a number of tea-party backed candidates are safely elected. The Boston Tea Party occurred near the end of 1773 so the reference was rather obvious. Nothing to see here, move along.
However, a number of liberal tweeters went nuts with the quote. They're knowledge of American history a foggy memory from grade school, they jumped on a Palin-is-stupid meme and mocked her for not knowing the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, not 1773. How desperate do you have to be to try to discredit a movement to not see the connection between tea party and the Boston Tea Party?
Hot Air links to a list of all the moronic tweets.
Specifically they note that Gwen Ifill jumped into the fray.
Ifill is now backpedaling madly as noted by Michele Malkin.@pbsgwenThat's from Gwen Ifill, respected PBS fixture and -- remember? -- moderator of the Palin/Biden VP debate back in 2008, a job she landed right around the time she was working on her book about the glory of Hopenchange. You sure showed her, Gwen.
gwen ifillSarah Palin: party like its 1773! ummmm,
I don't know just how satisfying election night is going to be a few weeks from now, but it's going to be pretty damn satisfying, that much is for sure.
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Palin keeps throwing the ba... (Below threshold)1. Posted by davidt | October 19, 2010 6:13 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Palin keeps throwing the bait out there and they keep biting.
1. Posted by davidt | October 19, 2010 6:13 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on October 19, 2010 18:13
2. Posted by GarandFan | October 19, 2010 6:17 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
The 'elite' have been showing their basic stupidity of US History for some time now. Starting with Bozo Barry and his 57 states.
2. Posted by GarandFan | October 19, 2010 6:17 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on October 19, 2010 18:17
3. Posted by 914 | October 19, 2010 6:18 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
All 57 states will be celebrating on Nov 3rd thanks to Barry.
3. Posted by 914 | October 19, 2010 6:18 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on October 19, 2010 18:18
4. Posted by 914 | October 19, 2010 6:27 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
If the educated idiots like eiffle and hussein are so damn smart, how come the national debt has quadrupled and the blublood snobs are not a shoe in for re-election? Hmmm gwenn?
4. Posted by 914 | October 19, 2010 6:27 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on October 19, 2010 18:27
5. Posted by Anon Y. Mous | October 19, 2010 6:28 PM | Score: 17 (17 votes cast)
Even setting aside the fact that Ifill just demonstrated her stupefying ignorance of American history, isn't she also supposed to be one of those impartial reporters working for the supposedly impartial PBS? If she's so impartial, why is she so quick to seize on the opportunity to mock those on one side of the political spectrum?
5. Posted by Anon Y. Mous | October 19, 2010 6:28 PM |
Score: 17 (17 votes cast)
Posted on October 19, 2010 18:28
6. Posted by LeBron Steinman | October 19, 2010 6:46 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Expect a Kostard troll to post the following pathetically weak, ass-covering copy and paste talking point that they're throwing against the wall:
"How does Palin's tweet- "Don't party like it's 1773 yet"- make sense? The Boston Tea Party wasn't an end zone dance celebration, it was an act of rebellion. Was Palin saying "Don't rebel yet?"
I'm doing it preemptively to savor the humor of this very definition of the word "fail".
6. Posted by LeBron Steinman | October 19, 2010 6:46 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 18:46
7. Posted by Gmac | October 19, 2010 7:04 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
The schadenfreude of watching the idiots at KOS, including the chief asshat himself, snark on Palin and then getting nailed for their lack of historical knowledge was priceless.
That Eiffel was so willing to put both feet in her mouth to the knee's was the cherry on top and proves once and for all that she *is* biased and now has no fig leaf to hide behind.
7. Posted by Gmac | October 19, 2010 7:04 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 19:04
8. Posted by 914 | October 19, 2010 7:17 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Gwendolynn stifle may think she is being cute sitting behind a desk reading from a lib script but take away her public funding and what do you have? Another failed public works project like Barry.
8. Posted by 914 | October 19, 2010 7:17 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 19:17
9. Posted by epador | October 19, 2010 7:20 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
On this date Gen Cornwallis surrendered to Gen Washington in Yorktown in 178something or other.
Seems appropriate.
Sad that its not a national holiday - I could use another paid day off ;-)
9. Posted by epador | October 19, 2010 7:20 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 19:20
10. Posted by epador | October 19, 2010 7:34 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
So lets party like its October 19, 1781 in early November 2012.
10. Posted by epador | October 19, 2010 7:34 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 19:34
11. Posted by GarandFan | October 19, 2010 7:52 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Maybe on November 3rd we can play the same tune the British did that day: "The World Turned Upside Down".
11. Posted by GarandFan | October 19, 2010 7:52 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 19:52
12. Posted by sarahconnor2 | October 19, 2010 8:40 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
I'm hoping to party like it's 1994.
12. Posted by sarahconnor2 | October 19, 2010 8:40 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 20:40
13. Posted by Tsar Nicholas II | October 19, 2010 8:41 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Well, the election won't be all that satisfying if the GOP winds up with 50 or fewer Senate seats.
That said, observing a bunch of liberal idiots projecting their ignorance always is good for fun and games. The fact they couldn't instantly discern the obvious Boston Tea Party reference speaks volumes about the level of vacuousness that permeates the collective consciousness of leftism.
13. Posted by Tsar Nicholas II | October 19, 2010 8:41 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 20:41
14. Posted by Roy | October 19, 2010 9:25 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Those tweets were heavily nuanced. Only John Kerry can understand them.
14. Posted by Roy | October 19, 2010 9:25 PM |
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Posted on October 19, 2010 21:25
15. Posted by Oyster | October 20, 2010 12:32 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Okay, now THAT was dang funny.
15. Posted by Oyster | October 20, 2010 12:32 PM |
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Posted on October 20, 2010 12:32