Paul Revere A Despicable Tattletale, Says GOP

[applegrove]

One If By Land, and Two If By Sea...


From Brad Delong's site "Tom Burka is a national treasure"

June 03, 2005

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/

Paul Revere A Despicable Tattletale, Says GOP posted by Tom on Brad's site.


"Republicans today criticized Paul Revere for his famous ride, saying that he had violated professional colonial ethics by divulging military secrets in violation of his duty to his lord, the King of England.

"These were sensitive informations about military troop movements with which he had been entrusted," said G. Gordon Liddy, an expert on ethics in government and a professor at several unaccredited law schools.

"Paul Revere was a traitor and a law breaker," said Anakin Skywalker in a confidential interview shortly before his limbs were lopped off and he burst into flame."

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[expatriot]

1. this is great.... awesome satire....

[readermostly]

2. That's funny! ! Thanks for posting this! That would be

today's consensus by the GOP.

[whatgives]

3. Thanks

I love satire.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Now I can sleep with a smile

Thanks applegrove :)

[DistressedAmerican]

5. I LOVE Satire!!!

Great Post!

[Dr.Phool]

6. I always knew that rat was a snitch.

Put him in Liddy's old cell.

[kenny blankenship]

7. It was a pure self-promotion play for Revere

Revere was banking on the publicity stunt of his Midnight Ride to net him steady clientele attracted to his celebrity. He was in fact a poor silversmith and his business was always struggling. If the British had won the war, however, he would be an underground hero. If the American revolutionaries won Revere would have instant cred with the new regime. Since the British leniently allowed people like Revere to presume upon their mercy and since he could count on being allowed to live even if the revolution was defeated, he really risked nothing of his own and showed a tremendous ingratitude towards his former customers and benefactors.

But at its root, Revere's motivation was just as much spite as it was greed. He had been passed over for an appointment as court silversmith to the Royal Governor, (since there wasn't any) and Revere always was the type of small petty man that harbors a grudge. During the run up to the war, he blamed the British government for wrecking his commissions on new silver tea services. The tea taxes made tea drinking far less popular, and diminished the status of everyone associated with the tea trade. If there was one thing a small, vain & petty man like Revere couldn't stand it was being stranded by circumstance in a business rapidly losing its hipness. Being an envious, small, vain, dismal and petty man Revere took it all very personally. Whatever might be going on in the world it was always really about Paul. Did we mention that he was a liberal?

[unhappycamper]

8. I know where Paul is right now:

[paineinthearse]

10. What's that ground motion?

Paul and the founding fathers must be rolling in their graves.

[Jade Fox]

9. The GOP would have ratted us all out to the British.....

for money.

[Selatius]

11. The American Revolution was as much a CIVIL WAR as a war of independence

The Revolutionaries weren't having to deal solely with the British Army. They were having to deal with the Loyalist militias against them as well here in the colonies themselves. Yes, they thought the Revolutionaries were traitors to question government policy, to question the Crown, and they would have been more than happy to institute the death sentence for people like George Washington and others had the Revolution failed.

[Gelliebeans]

12. Thanks for the laugh n/t

[applegrove]

13. Kick n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

14. F.D.R now Revere! Whats next ? Lincoln was a misanthrope !!!

Kkkarl thinks it up , and Shrub says it.