She's clearly been reading her wingnut blogs which have been twisting themselves into pretzels trying to rationalize her nonsense. Their big claim is that the most important part of Revere's ride was that temporary detention by the British, which Professor Palin with her deep knowledge of American history was using as teachable moment for the liberal elite and the lamestream media to learn that our revolution was all about the right to bear arms. Not kidding.
They're trying to rewrite the Paul Revere Wikipedia page right now. And I'm quite sure that more than a few American children will now grow up being taught that Paul Revere rode to warn the British that they'd better not try to take America's guns away.
Yes folks, they're literally rewriting history so that Our Lady Of The Duh-rora Boring-alis can appear to be the Savior of Real America. But in the Wingnut World where any reality they can't control literally has to be a liberal media trick perpetrated by those enslaved to Obama's fascist cult of personality (there's no other possible explanation, like "you're wrong and misspoke") it all makes sense.
And Palin could have laughed off the mistake like most people, and shown some good grace and humor in the process. Instead she's confirmed that her ego is so swollen that she's incapable of admitting she is ever in error. Her followers are even more determined to stop it because they have a personal stake in her seeming infallibility: if she's ever wrong, then they are too. We saw this during the Bush years, but it was never this bad.
Palin's narcissism knows no bounds, it seems. Not even facts can constrain her.
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