So, who's stupid?

For them what need something to respond with ...

“ Only now it turns out that she was right about Paul Revere’s midnight ride and the press claque was wrong. Even the professors say so, though they’re grudging to the point of churlishness. “Basically,” says Brendan McConville, a history professor at Boston University, “when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting.’” Revere, an honest tradesman,  probably didn’t employ “professor-speak” in the heat of the moment, with words like “mobilization” and “confronting,” but we can take the point. In the account of the most famous midnight ride in American history, the professor says, “the British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside they hear church bells ringing—she was right about that—and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”                    Hell, I didn't know that part                              Patrick Leehey of the Paul  Revere House in Boston says the midnight rider was probably bluffing his Redcoat captors, so maybe it could be construed that Revere was in fact warning the British. “But I don’t know if that’s really what Mrs. Palin was referring to.” Prof. McConville was even less gracious conceding that Mrs. Palin had got it right. He wouldn’t concede that her remarks were based on scholarship. No Ph.D, no tenure for her. “I would call her lucky in her comments.” [She gets it right,  You betcha; Wesley Pruden on June 7, 2011 ]

Y'all remember the media hysteria— after Sarah paused during an interview with Charlie Gibson?  Over what they saw as a "gotcha"  question? Gibson, "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?" Palin,   "In what respect, Charlie?" Poor, stupid Sarah.  Doesn't even know what the Bush Doctrine is. Just like she doesn't know U.S. history.   Of course, neither did Gibson before being  prepped with ambush questions.  But, as Charles Krauthammer was quick to point out,  Sarah was right to ask.  There are several aspects of "The Bush Doctrine."  He knows, because he created  it.  Like being mistakenly charged with being a pedophile, getting exonerated doesn't undo the damage, nor restore your reputation.  The media knew this;  Just another stitch in the "she's an idiot" tapestry they were weaving. One  of the few who did acknowledge Krauthammer's correction was the uberunctious WaPost progressive,  E.J. Dionne.  His Jack Armstrong moment (."Where I part company with Charles ... ),  escaping the snake filled pit,  is a beauty.   It appears then that Sarah Palin, like Ronald Reagan, has a good deal more depth than anyone is wiling to acknowledge.