In Princess Sarah's fact-averse world, is telling the truth is ever even considered as an option?

"We must never forget the wisdom of Jefferson and Weezy"

by Ken

It says something that every time the steady stream of gibberish that comes out of her mouth causes her embarrassment that's too extreme to be ignored, the princess's first instinct -- and probably the second, third, fourth, and fifth as well -- is to cover her shameful ignorance with (what else?) flagrant lies. Considering how much utter rot the princess speaks, it's miraculous how infrequently she feels it necessary to do damage control, but apparently getting the Paul Revere story all balled up crosses an invisible line for someone with pretensions to political leadership.

(The Paul Revere cover story is -- "Palin: 'I didn't mess up about Paul Revere'" -- is nifty. It seems the princess was thinking of a story told in a different part of the Longfellow poem, which as it happens has nothing to do with the "midnight ride" she was clearly referencing. As if she has any idea in any case who or what a Longfellow might be. She probably thinks Todd is one.)

It makes you wonder whether her admirers admire in spite of her ignorance and dishonesty, or because of it. This is, after all, a person who goes through her entire life without ever, for even the fleetingest microsecond, having the slightest clue what she's talking about.

BOROWITZ REPORT
June 6, 2011

Palin: ‘We Must Never Forget the Wisdom of Jefferson, and His Wife, Weezy’
Former Gov. Gives History Lesson

MONTICELLO (The Borowitz Report) – Visiting Thomas Jefferson’s historic home, Monticello, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin today paid tribute to the nation’s third President, telling an audience of supporters, “We must never forget the wisdom of Jefferson, and his wife, Weezy.”

Gov. Palin said that “at a time of our history when the American people needed leadership, it was Jefferson who said the immortal words, ‘We’re movin’ on up.’”

The former Alaska Governor, criticized in recent days over her grasp of American history, used the Monticello speech to demonstrate her knowledge of the country’s founding fathers.

“Let us have the ingenuity of Benjamin Franklin, who invented the electric chair,” she said.

“Let us have the honesty of George Washington, who told his father that he chopped down a cherry tree because it was blocking his view of Russia,” she added.  “And let us have Washington’s perseverance, which he demonstrated during that harsh winter at Sweet Valley High.”

But she saved her most fulsome praise for her favorite American hero, Paul Revere: “In his famous cry, ‘One if by land, two if by sea,’ Paul Revere proved that you don’t have to know how to count higher than two to be a great American.”

At the end of her speech in Monticello, Gov. Palin said that she was looking forward to the next stop on her bus tour, Philadelphia, “the home of the Taco Bell.”

Apparently the princess simply can't admit that she just got it wrong. Or perhaps her brain is simply Reaganized to the point where she is literally unaware of the possibility that something lodged in her brain might be contrary to reality. Whatever the case, she seems so unshakably convinced that the only standard for truth is what she wants to be true, and after a lifetime of lying it comes so naturally to her, that it feels natural and right to her to simply lie her way out of any too-embarrassing faux pas. (See also WaPo animated cartoonist Ann Telnaes's take.)

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