Palin's almost-unintelligible statement may allow some flexibility in interpretation, but only under the most generous parsing is she even close to being correc

Palin's almost-unintelligible statement may allow some flexibility in interpretation, but only under the most generous parsing is she even close to being correct. Here's the quote as it appeared in the first place that google gave me: >>> "He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be taking away our arms by ringing those bells, and um, making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed," <<< Her statement tells us almost nothing. She might as well have strung some random words together monty-python style, and we'd have been educated to nearly the same degree. What little is discernible, is simply wrong: * He didn't ever warn the British that they couldn't disarm us. All accounts of his interrogation have him trying to bluff them away from the town by scaring them with the spectre of a mustered militia. * He certainly didn't warn the British by "ringing those bells". Perhaps Palin thinks that he continued to ring bells while being interrogated. * I don't recall any accounts of his ride that have him firing a musket into the air. Correct me if I'm wrong. So far this is all rather superficial quibbling. But if we're to gloss over the petty revisionism and surmise a greater theme or point, Palin is still wrong. It's pretty clear that Palin wanted to somehow milk the Revere thing for a shoutout to the 2nd amendment. She wants the purpose of Revere's ride to be to tell the Brits that they can't get our guns. Perhaps she wants to believe that Paul Revere set out on his ride intending to be captured. Personally, I don't pretend to be greatly offended by Palin's grammar and grasp of historical minutiae. What does offend me is the way she and her supporters talk in the aftermath. As though you think that petty, condescending weaselling with semantics can be taken as a serious defense by anybody who isn't already in the choir.