COMMENTARY | Though Sarah Palin blamed a member of the lame-stream media for trapping her with a "gotcha question" (the reporter slyly asked, "What have you seen so far today, and what are you going to take away from your visit?"), according to Mediaite, Palin put her peep-toe pumps in her mouth again this week with a bungled version of Paul Revere's historic ride.
Instead of the story we all learned in high school about Revere riding on horseback to warn his fellow colonists the British were going to attack, CBS News reports Palin's Tea Party version is that Revere was warning the British the colonists were armed and they better not mess with us.
Palin's recent re-writing of American history is not the first time the potential presidential contender has played fast and loose with the facts. The ex-governor from Alaska has a history of making stuff up, using her lively imagination as putty to fill gaps in her knowledge. Here are just a few examples of Palin's crafty creativity:
Sputnik Caused the Soviet Union to Sputter:
When President Barack Obama referred to a "Sputnik moment" during his State of the Union address in January, he meant it was an opportune time for the United States to invest in new technologies, such as clean energy. Palin, however, told Greta van Susteren of Fox News that Obama was heading down the wrong path since the high cost of Sputnik bankrupted the Soviet Union, according to ABC News. (Palin just got a tad confused here. It was the arms race in the '80s that emptied the Soviet bank account.)
The Vice President Is the Boss of the Senate:
Perhaps a tad anxious about being demoted from head honcho of Alaska to junior president, Palin embellished the veep role by telling a Colorado TV reporter that vice presidents were not only "in charge of the United States Senate," but they could also "get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes," reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Only problem is the vice president doesn't really make legal sausage with the senators and only votes to break a tie.
George Washington Said the Pledge of Allegiance:
In a questionnaire she filled out for her campaign for governor of Alaska in 2006, Palin was asked if she was offended by the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. She responded, according to the Huffington Post: "Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance." Only problem was the Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892, when all the founding fathers were dead, and the original version did not include the phrase "under God."
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