Pavlovian Obeisance: Some people just don't know when to shut up!

"You know what, I didn't mess up about Paul Revere," Palin replied. "Here is what Paul Revere did. 


He warned the Americans that the British were coming, the British were coming and they were going to try to take our arms and we have to make sure we were protecting ourselves and shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so they couldn't take it." 


The queen of the run-on sentence mangles history. The last sentence has 48 words in it. It is also grammatically incorrect. Here is one way it could be written or spoken so that the case is correct and the sentence is not run-on: 

He warned the Americans that the British were coming, the British were coming and they were going to try to take our arms.  The Redcoats  also wanted to make sure that we weren't  protecting ourselves by hiding all of our ammunition and firearms so the British couldn't take them." 

Keep in mind that Palin has a journalism degree. She should have her grammar down. 


To see the real story about Paul Revere's ride: http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html

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