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To: tejek who wrote (615388)	6/8/2011 10:42:46 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1584617

WORLD WONDERS WHAT HAPPENED TO JON STEWART WHO SAID A GUILTY WEINER’S ‘GOT TO GO’ breitbart.tv

To: tejek who wrote (615388)	6/8/2011 12:27:03 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584617

NPR brings historian on to diss palin's Paul revere comments BLOCK:Sarah Palin also was saying there that Paul Revere's message to the British in his warning was: You're not going to take American arms - you know, basically a Second Amendment argument, even though the Second Amendment didn't exist then. Prof. ALLISON: Yeah. She was making a Second Amendment case. But in fact, the British were going out to Concord to seize colonists' arms, the weapons that the Massachusetts Provincial Congress was stockpiling there. So, yeah, she is right in that. I mean, she may be pushing it too far to say this is a Second Amendment case. Of course, neither the Second Amendment nor the Constitution was in anyone's mind at the time. But the British objective was to get the arms that were stockpiled in Concord. BLOCK: So you think basically, on the whole, Sarah Palin got her history right. Prof. ALLISON: Well, yeah, she did. And remember, she is a politician. She's not an historian. And God help us when historians start acting like politicians, and I suppose when politicians start writing history. npr.org