Andrew Malcolm is about as accurate and unbiased here as usual. There is no possible way -- no, scratch that, no possible honest way -- to interpret what Palin

Andrew Malcolm is about as accurate and unbiased here as usual. There is no possible way -- no, scratch that, no possible honest way -- to interpret what Palin said about Revere as referring to what he did after he was captured by the British. She said he warned the British "by ringing those bells ... as he's riding his horse through town". She talked about his "warning shots and bells". Does Andrew Malcolm seriously want his readers to believe that this is referring to anything Paul Revere did after being captured by the British army? The reason why Palin was laughed at for her remark about Russia and Alaska wasn't that the remark was false. It was that it was stupidly irrelevant. Palin tried to claim that the physical proximity of Alaska to Russia gave her some kind of special understanding of foreign policy. She was asked how it did that: "What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?". Her response was to say that you can see Russia from one place in Alaska.