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Announcer: Welcome back to The David Pakman Show.
David: Back on The David Pakman Show. A couple of new David Pakman Show members that I want
to say hello to, Louis. Stephen Duff and Devon Craft. Both are really incredible people.
Both of us go way, way back. I think I've known Stephen for probably about 30 years.
I knew him back when I was in the service, actually, way back when.
Louis: Didn't you see the Wolverine movie with him?
David: I saw "Wolverine" with him. And Devon, Devon Craft as well. I mean, Devon Craft is
a guy that, if he's not at a Motamedi family reunion, it's just... it's not a Motamedi
family reunion.
Louis: Devon, he... Devon Craft can actually do a backflip just using one foot. Yeah.
David: That's right, I've seen him do that. I have seen him do that.
Louis: It's pretty amazing.
David: And both of them now each have 10 entries into the iPad giveaway. I'm holding the iPad
here in front of me, and it's not going to be here that much longer, just a couple of
weeks left. www.DavidPakman.com/membership. We're giving this thing away, and I don't
know what else to say. People asking me a lot about my iPad experience.
Louis: There is none.
David: I've used an iPad for five minutes, it was my dad's iPad. I think I just like
set up his email for him. That's my only iPad experience. So, you know, at some point, if
people are no longer interested in us giving them away, I guess I'll keep one of them.
Louis: Yeah.
David: I don't know what else to do.
Louis: Yeah, why wouldn't you?
David: The Sarah Palin Paul Revere gaffe is incredible. I've been following this with
baited breath for days now.
Louis: This is... this is a Sarah Palin classic.
David: Sarah Palin visited Boston on... a few days ago, and gave the news media kind
of her own version of Paul Revere's famous midnight ride. Now, I'm going to play for
you exactly what she had to say, and I warn you, if there's kids in the room, this is
probably not something you want them to hear, because this could really affect their opinion
of American politics. This could actually scar a child for life. It could turn them
into Louis Motamedi and have them never vote as a result.
So I'm just warning you ahead of time, the way Bill O'Reilly does when he shows anything
that would be remotely concerning to a religious conservative, and he says you might want to
get the kids out of the room, I'm warning you, you might want to get the kids out of
ther oom, because a Fox News contributor made an absurd claim about Paul Revere. Here we
go. Are you ready for this, Louis?
Louis: I'm ready, yeah.
Matt Lorch: ... in the North End. She brought her tour of American historic sites to Boston's
Freedom Trail.
At Paul Revere's house, though, she had a little trouble with the history of Revere's
midnight ride.
Sarah Palin: He who warned the... the British that they weren't going to be taking away
our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town
to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going
to be free.
David: Yeah. So if you're confused, if that doesn't sync up with the History Channel's
version of what happened, then you're not alone. Sarah Palin really just does not seem
to know anything.
Louis: I really wish she would stay out of Massachusetts.
David: Yeah, no, that would be good. That would really be good. You know...
Louis: If only there was some way to enforce that.
David: Yeah, I don't think there is.
Louis: Yeah.
David: I really don't think there is. And the most amazing part of it is then she had
days to come up... she had days to be coached and days to come up with an explanation, and
she went on Fox News, of course, because she only goes on Fox News because she's a paid
contributor, and this is the best she could do, Louis, after days of being coached, OK?
This is the best she could do.
Palin: ... this bus tour. It's not a campaign tour.
Chris Wallace: I've got to ask you real... I've got to ask you real quickly about that,
though. You realize that you messed up about Paul Revere, don't you?
Palin: You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere. Here's what Paul Revere did.
David: By the way, "I didn't mess up." All right.
Palin: He warned the Americans that the British were coming, the British were coming, and
they're going to try to take our arms, so we gotta make sure that we were protecting
ourselves and shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so that they couldn't take
it.
But remember that the British had already been there, many soldiers, for seven years
in that area, and part of Paul Revere's ride, and it wasn't just one ride, he was a courier,
he was messenger, part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that
hey, you're not going to succeed, you're not going to take American arms, you are not going
to beat our own...
David: Right. So Sarah Palin stands by it. It's completely absurd, but she stands by
it. I... it's one of the most... that's the best you can do after days of being coached.
Louis: She could've just said I was really tired.
David: It's gotcha journalism, though. Asking a super... and incredibly basic question about
something she's doing right then and there within minutes that she doesn't know the answer
to, it's gotcha journalism.
Louis: But it's great that even on Fox News it was brought up.
David: I guess, I mean, I don't know.
Louis: I mean, come on, you have to... you have to admit that's...
David: It was brought up, you're right. I give Fox News credit for asking her about
making a fool out of herself.
She just seems to have everything completely backwards. I mean, what's next? She's going
to... at her next stop, she said, Louis, that a cherry tree once chopped down George Washington,
and then actually the tree told the truth about it instead of lying. That's what she
thinks happened. Next she's going to say it was Reagan who went to Berlin to warn the
Germans not to bomb Pearl Harbor. [Laughs] I mean, it's just, everything's backwards.
And I really thought, honestly, this reflects very poorly on John McCain, because where
I live, Louis, and it's a battle to get my neighbors to do this, but you're supposed
to clean up after your dog, and, you know, you bring along the plastic bag, the pooper
scooper, you pick up the mess that you've left behind. John McCain has not picked up
the mess that he has left behind from the 2008 election.
Louis: Nobody can pick up this mess, it's... it's huge!
David: We're scooping up this Sarah Palin stuff for... for years now we're cleaning
up after the mess John McCain left.
Louis: It would probably take a workforce of like 2 million people to clean up the poop
that Palin has left all over this country.
David: It would solve the unemployment crisis.
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