Sarah Palin and Historical Hypocrisy
Although many trumpet the value of "math and science" education, humanities education is a harder sell in an America that is trying to stave off long-term economic decline. Public schools, pressured to deliver testable outcomes, struggle to explain the qualitative value of history, music, art, and literature. These disciplines' defenders are often reluctant to discuss old-fashioned concepts like virtue, wisdom, and morality, which once were the desired results of a liberal arts education. Increasingly, home schools and classical academies are among the last bastions of the humanities.
The second concern raised by Palin's misstatements is more specific to politicians: the use of history, or one's ostensible devotion to history, to secure political support. The most egregious recent example of a candidate heralding the value of history, while simultaneously demonstrating his ignorance of it, came from radio host and pizza magnate Herman Cain, in a speech announcing his pursuit of the Presidency. While calling on Americans to "re-read" the Constitution, Cain said that for "the benefit of those that are not going to read it because they don't want us to go by the Constitution, there's a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Hopefully my readers know that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, but for Cain to lecture people about neglecting the Constitution, when he himself seems not to have read it closely, is hypocritical at best.
Politicians courting Tea Party support may feel a particular temptation to use (or misuse) the history of the Founding. But this is not just a Republican issue. For instance, last fall, President Obama repeatedly misquoted the Declaration of Independence, leaving out "by their Creator" from the phrase "endowed with certain unalienable rights." As I wrote for USA Today , this was not a minor oversight, given Obama's other stumbles over religious language, and the appearance that he was (in the name of political correctness?) removing the rhetoric of faith from his version of the Declaration.
Governor Palin, you were wrong about Paul Revere, and that's okay, if you would only admit to it.
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Her recent misstatements about the midnight ride of Paul Revere sent the blogosphere into another bout of "Palin derangement syndrome," especially when she doggedly refused to acknowledge, in an appearance on Fox News, that she had made any mistakes.
The quotes just seem to hit all the right/correct notes, as it were. For all the leftist drivel he put out, I would think he'd have retained a bit more of his old ways than what he's quoted as saying. So how come when I google a majority of these
Not only does she make up history as she goes along, when her error was pointed out, she insisted her version of Paul Revere's famous ride (he rode out to warn the British not to try to take our guns) was correct even though we are in the internet age
In the role of Paul Revere this week we have Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase & Co. /quotes/zigman/272085/quotes/nls/jpm JPM +1.46% , who dramatically rode into an Atlanta banking conference and confronted Fed chief Ben Bernanke with his
But unlike other historic sites, like, say, Lexington and Concord (note to Michele Bachmann: These towns are in Massachusetts; note to Sarah Palin: Paul Revere rode from Boston to warn the Minute Men in Lexington and Concord that the redcoats were
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Unlike some of my countrymen (I’m looking at you Tim) I’m not afraid to tell the truth. Because I know that when Paul Revere rode through town banging his famous copper-bottomed pots to warn the British that they couldn’t take away our guns, he signaled to the world that all slave owning white male aristocrats were imbued by the creator with a fundamental right to be free. Looking back at that fateful day, it should be no surprise to anyone that the very first things Americans did with our freedom was invent fireworks, stop drinking tea, and become citizen journalists. How would we even know that the rockets were red glare and the Tea Party dumped tea if not for the intrepid reporter working the Boston beat?
And just as important, how would we have known that the Boston Celtics’ captain was threatening to “snub” his club’s pre-season routine because he wanted to engineer a move back to England with his English DNA, if it had not been for famous Boston sports reporter Con Jross? Read the history books, almost as soon as Paul Revere won freedom for the press, the press started working with sports teams, players, and most importantly, their agents to engineer moves that would get players more money or get teams a player on the cheap.
It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: the reporters got access which they used to write articles that sell papers, the players got a mouthpiece they used to increase their salary, and clubs got an outlet for them to illegally approach players under contract. It’s always been this way. “Unnamed sources” or “an Arsenal insider” is code for a manager or player who is trying to engineer some type of move in his advantage. And of course, this cuts across all areas of public life that is groped by the cold tentacle of the press: if only King George had paid attention to the “Constitutional Insider” who said that the revolution was imminent, I might be speaking English right now.
Slack standards in sports journalism are nothing new. Nor is it brand new that people seek advantage in the realm of public opinion by exploiting certain reporters’ laxity.
Ironically, one could argue that reporters use public outcry against laxity as a reason why ONLY THEY should be trusted:
It’s a powerful logical fallacy, the fallacy of authority: they don’t have to prove anything, because anyone who questions their articles is challenging their authority and that in and of itself is reason to believe everything they say.
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