Leftist dullards mock Palin for correctly referencing Boston Tea Party
posted at 5:03 pm on October 19, 2010 by Allahpundit
Yesterday, at a Tea Party Express event in Nevada, she warned the crowd not to get overconfident, telling them they won’t be able to “party like it’s 1773″ until a bunch of tea-party candidates are safely elected. Lefty insta-meme: Idiot Sarah Palin doesn’t know that the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776! Because, after all, nothing happened in 1773 that could possibly be worth referencing at a tea-party rally, right?
Cuffy Meigs at Perfunction did the hard work of sifting through tweets from left-wing imbeciles, so I’m going to force you to click over there for his full round-up. I do want to steal this one, though:
That’s from Gwen Ifill, respected PBS fixture and — remember? — moderator of the Palin/Biden VP debate back in 2008, a job she landed right around the time she was working on her book about the glory of Hopenchange. You sure showed her, Gwen.
Via Hot Air alum Bryan Preston, here’s video of Palin at yesterday’s event standing in front of all sorts of signs referencing tea parties. Get it? 1773, tea party. Right? Exit question: I realize that the thought of protesting against taxes is anathema to lefties, but has their memory of the Boston Tea Party really faded that far? Good lord.
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Some lefty projection. She’s smarter than they are. That’s the one truth they cannot abide.
curved space on October 19, 2010 at 5:47 PM
Just another day for the supporters of the President of these 57 United States.
normschaef on October 19, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Tea Partiers are elitist history buffs!
/
Count to 10 on October 19, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Here’s a post by Dana Loesch:
Party Like It’s 1773 with the New American Tea Party
This one is dated February 25, 2009.
Rick Santelli called for another Tea Party on February 19th, 2009.
I don’t know if Dana invented the slogan, but as you can tell it goes back at least as far as one week after Santelli’s lit the match..
INC on October 19, 2010 at 5:51 PM
The Ortega clown is twisting himself into knots; sometimes it’s better to just quietly wallow in your humiliation.
JammieWearingFool on October 19, 2010 at 5:52 PM
“We are the Mainstream now”…Kos on “Meet the Press” in 2006
Del Dolemonte on October 19, 2010 at 5:52 PM
Because they can’t defend their own blatant stupidity.
Pain – 1 million
Lefties – sub-zero
The ‘superior’ ‘erudite’ ones have been had, and how.
Schadenfreude on October 19, 2010 at 5:53 PM
I’d like to salute AllahPundit for arriving at such a concise and accurate phrase to describe these idiots. I’m adding “leftist dullards” to my Little Brown Liberal Lexicon.
Y-not on October 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM
You can’t forget what you refused to learn … and these people are just awesome smart.
ya2daup on October 19, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Nice:
Esthier on October 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM
Nah, libs are too stupid and devoid of self insight/rational thinking to ever be shamed.
Picture Gwen’s noggin as a block of granite. Rational dialogue, let alone criticism, bounces off like pebbles.
justltl on October 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM
hmm, probably the same people as the ones at UDelSchLaw who idiotically mocked COD.
joeindc44 on October 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM
For fun, follow the #KosHistoryQuiz on Twitter.
pt on October 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Haw, haw, haw! Boy, that Sarah Palin sure is stupid. She actually thinks the Boston Tea Party occurred in 1773! Wait, what? It did? Are you sure? Ummmmm, never mind!
ncborn on October 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Oh lordy! So leftist/commies don’t know the tea party in Boston was in 1773, and the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776???
No wonder they hate the country. They don’t know it’s history, other than what they’ve been told, or made up! Pathetic.
They love this country? Really? So much so, they want to destroy it, and everything it’s ever stood for.
I find it really funny, that all this time they’ve tried to paint Palin as the moron, and they’re the TRUE, FOR REAL, WITHOUT A DOUBT, MORONS!!!!
capejasmine on October 19, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Thanks! That is funny.
INC on October 19, 2010 at 5:58 PM
I am always amused by the conceit, espoused by the left, that the left is the party of intellectuals and the right rubes…The left does fine, as long as no one minds them making up history.
They cannot crowd count
They make up history
They never correctly cite the Constitution
BUT
THEY are the intellectual giants of the political universe.
Or so THEY say….just ask them
JIMV on October 19, 2010 at 5:58 PM
Stupid lefties.
In typical leftist fashion they’ll hate her even more now instead of owning up to their ignorance.
darwin on October 19, 2010 at 5:59 PM
I wonder if Palin read that in a newspaper.
Chris of Rights on October 19, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!
-Any Liberal
tommer74 on October 19, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Schadenfreude,
sub-zero, Plain Zero!
rob verdi on October 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM
kesgardner Karl Marx was our greatest Founding Father. True or False? Correct answer: true. #koshistoryquiz
GadsdenRattlers RT @B2Journal: #KosHistoryQuiz Jimmy has 3 apples. Tommy steals them. Tommy is a (a) bully (b) Democrat (c) union thug (d) regime czar
JanC60 RT @B2Journal: #KosHistoryQuiz Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or give me..” (a) death (b) torture (c) Daily Kos (d) a,b & c – they’re interchangeable
INC on October 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Too close to the truth!
INC on October 19, 2010 at 6:01 PM
ROFLMAO!!!
capejasmine on October 19, 2010 at 6:03 PM
#KosHistoryQuiz Match number to subject. 1773, 1776, 2112, 73 : Boston Tea Party, American Revolution, b!tchin’ Rush album, Kos IQ
#KosHistoryQuiz The 1st Amendment guarantees the freedom (a) of speech (b) of 3-ply absorbency (c) to burn US military contractors alive
Esthier on October 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM
It isn’t their fault. They were educated in the public school system.
Beaglemom on October 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM
Great Job Allah!
We’ve been ponding these morons on Teh Twitters. Quite fun.
gary4205 on October 19, 2010 at 6:06 PM
The main point isn’t that these people are historically ignorant. It’s that they see themselves as the alpha and omega; the ultimate embodiment of all time and truth. There was no history before them, and there will be no history to follow them. This is why they have no regard either for the legacy of “dead white men” or of their legacy of debt burden to future generations.
rrpjr on October 19, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Someday we’ll be able to make stuff like this stick to ‘em.
In the meantime DE-FUND PBS!
Iblis on October 19, 2010 at 6:07 PM
spot on
cmsinaz on October 19, 2010 at 6:07 PM
Petard. Hoist. Wheee! OOuch!
SurferDoc on October 19, 2010 at 6:09 PM
Libs don’t acknowledge they ever said anything… they’ll just pretend this never happened.
mankai on October 19, 2010 at 6:11 PM
Funniest thing I have read all year. And the #KosHistoryQuiz is just icing on the cake.
I can not stop laughing.
Chris of Rights on October 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM
For the non-Twitter users (including myself) who want to watch the fun: http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Koshistoryquiz
strictnein on October 19, 2010 at 6:12 PM
I must have missed the memo that libs are intellectuals.
Seriously, think of a list of prominent liberals and do a mental vote-imbecile or intellect?
Here, I’ll start you off:
Sean Penn
Al Gore
Barbra Streisand
Obama
Joe Biden
Michael Moore
Maxine Waters
Barbara Boxer
Hell, the entire Democrat Party
justltl on October 19, 2010 at 6:15 PM
What’s so interesting is how absolutely certain they are of their superior knowledge. They didn’t even check. It apparently didn’t even occur to them.
The year “1773″ should have been a red flag to doublecheck their impressionistic perception of what she was talking about. Why would an unlettered dolt allude to 1773 at all?
But not even that “stop” flashed through their minds. They just assumed Palin’s a moron and started piling on.
J.E. Dyer on October 19, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Twitter trends can be screamingly funny. There are a lot of clever conservatives out there.
INC on October 19, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Without benefit of the program that cannot be mentioned, we all know that Gwen Ifill would be a newsreader on some little tv station, probably in upstate New York. She’s no mental giant.
slickwillie2001 on October 19, 2010 at 6:16 PM
go back to skrool there gwennie….
cmsinaz on October 19, 2010 at 6:17 PM
I’ve done about four links in this thread to prove the slogan goes back to February 2009. This also indicates Ifill & ilk also know zilch about the present Tea Party!
INC on October 19, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Iowa Hawk = Pure, Golden, Bring on the ButtHurt Snark!!!
I’d hate to get on the wrong side of that guy….
HEH!!! There’s some really funny stuff over there….
BigWyo on October 19, 2010 at 6:28 PM
Salute!..I caught that Rush Limbaugh reference..
Dire Straits on October 19, 2010 at 6:30 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/rowanpelling/8017618/Its-better-Christine-ODonnell-was-a-witch-than-a-dullard.html
Del Dolemonte on October 19, 2010 at 6:30 PM
“Ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons.”
ChipDWood on October 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM
:)
cmsinaz on October 19, 2010 at 6:34 PM
As I noted earlier, she didn’t even get her Communications degree from one of the two best comm schools in Boston-the programs at BU and Emerson are internationally recognized as tops, while Simmons is basically only known here in New England.
Del Dolemonte on October 19, 2010 at 6:35 PM
A loyal conservative American would tell you a different 1773 Tea Party story.
The short of it.
Prior to 1773, tea was sold at Boston harbour (taxed) at 20 shillings a pound. Tea Smugglers (like John Hancock) sold it in the colonies (untaxed)at 17 shillings a pound and did good business. Then, mismanagement got the East India Company in deep financial doo. The Crown gave them a bailout and decided to forgo its primary taxation at the port of London until the company got back on track. Then tea sold at the Boston dock for 10 shillings with 3 shillings tax for a total of 13 shillings a pound. The smugglers were suddenly out of the very lucrative tea business and being influential, tied this to the gathering call for r ebelion and pulled off the Tea Party. Patriotic American males swore off drinking tea but their wives did not. There is a great tale from Westchester County of a troop of Patriot housewives, mounted on horse back hunting down merchants suspected of having a batch of tea and being forced to sell it at the ladies recommended price. The stories of those times are much richer than just the typical cliches tossed out on certain days of the year.
BL@KBIRD on October 19, 2010 at 6:36 PM
Lol.
peski on October 19, 2010 at 6:36 PM
To mangle (and borrow) a pretty good joke about a boxer…
Why to these people (the Palin-Phobic crowd) keep running back into the ring, just so she can hit them in the mouth again?
Like the boxer who told his corner, “Let me at him, he hasn’t laid a glove on me.” To which they answered, “Well, then, we better check out the referee, because somebody’s beating the hell out of you.”
They just really don’t get her, do they? They assume if she said it, it must be wrong because, if it isn’t wrong, then they are. Like the old adage, if there’s a stupid one in the crowd and you can’t figure out who it is, it’s probably you.
Well, at least it’s entertaining.
IndieDogg on October 19, 2010 at 6:43 PM
I love it when lefty retards make fools of themselves, it amuses me to no end. Lucky for me they do it so frequently I don’t have to resort to some inane tv show to get my laughs.
Paradox Drive on October 19, 2010 at 6:43 PM
ramrants on October 19, 2010 at 5:21 PM
She’ll say that Palin is embarrassing — embarrassing to her because Palin actually knew the date and she wouldn’t have the first clue.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on October 19, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Twitter!!! Show the entire world how stupid you are at nearly the speed of light.
BigWyo on October 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM
You missed one-Robert Redford, who was tossed out of college for being drunk.
As for the others you name:
Sean Penn-high school dropout
Al Gore-flunked out of college once and dropped out of college once
Barbra Streisand-high school dropout
Obama-refuses to release his academic records
Joe Biden-noted plagiarist. Ranked 506th of 688 in his class.
Michael Moore-college dropout
Maxine Waters-married a pro football player.
Barbara Boxer-gave birth to a daughter dumb enough to marry Hillary Clinton’s brother.
Del Dolemonte on October 19, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Here’s more video of the rally – it’s the beginning of the speech. It cuts off before the “party like it’s 1773.”
However, this video, which had been available for use of any hopeful mocker,
shows Palin setting up for later by mentioning 1773 as the year the Boston tea party took place.
There was no being good at obvious puns necessary for anyone, even Gwen I.
SarahW on October 19, 2010 at 6:47 PM
Lefties depend on the electorate to forget that until 1913, direct personal taxation was ruled unconstitutional multiple times! Talk about short memories.
gryphon202 on October 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Link to vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_NLD3VJTlY
SarahW on October 19, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Dang, can’t find the tweet any more, but I loved the one that said “what color is the wallpaper in Sarah’s room inside your head?”
TeeDee on October 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Maybe they are afraid of the revolution and rebirth that is coming, and 1776 is the only reference they have.
jeffNWV on October 19, 2010 at 6:54 PM
.
You act like facts matter to lefties.
LincolntheHun on October 19, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Gwen Ifill reminds me of Cornholio: “I need TP for my keyboard because all of my writing is shit“.
jaime on October 19, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Tro-ols!! Come out, come out wherever you are!!
CurtZHP on October 19, 2010 at 7:02 PM
I think it’s because, they have enough of a following, who are complete morons themselves, and will despite evidence to the contrary, believe what they say as Gods truth. They don’t need to check…because idiots out there will just fall for it, and they know it.
capejasmine on October 19, 2010 at 7:02 PM
It’s tough when you’re inept and try to be perceived as an elitist.
Hening on October 19, 2010 at 7:08 PM
Ifill’s witty comeback?
“Stand down everybody. I was quoting Sarah Palin from her Nevada speech yesterday”
Ummm…
Planet Moron on October 19, 2010 at 7:11 PM
What does Janene Garofalo have to say about this?
NoLeftTurn on October 19, 2010 at 7:19 PM
That is definitely a Boom! Taste my nightstick! moment.
mizflame98 on October 19, 2010 at 7:26 PM
[Planet Moron on October 19, 2010 at 7:11 PM]
Yeah, what a jackass Ifill is. What’s the “ummm,” for Gwenny?
Dusty on October 19, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Being a positive SP post I have to ask, Allah, why do you hate Palin so much?
/sarc :)
ThePrez on October 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM
It’s a race to the bottom to see who can outdo whom at being a blithering idiot. For the moment, the libtards have the dubious honor of being so far in the lead that even Palin will have quite a ways to go to catch up.
Dark-Star on October 19, 2010 at 7:31 PM
I heard she tried to shave her armpits with her Iphone during her bimonthly shower..so she’s out of the loop for now…..it wasn’t pretty….
…not that it ever was.
BigWyo on October 19, 2010 at 7:31 PM
They’re all busy trying to get the moderators of their normal sewers to scrub their Palin posts away…..
BigWyo on October 19, 2010 at 7:33 PM
I think youse conservative guys are been very hard on us libruls. After all how many people in these hear 57 states knows that dat tea Party thingy was in 1773?
Basilsbest on October 19, 2010 at 7:39 PM
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant : it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
~~ Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
RedPepper on October 19, 2010 at 7:40 PM
ROTFLMAO Palin is getting very good at baiting these little traps!
ElectricPhase on October 19, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Pearl Harbor was named after
A) Pearl Bailey B)Pearl Jam C) Bruce Pearl D) Boston Harbor
Pelayo on October 19, 2010 at 7:43 PM
The Tea Party was perpetrated by
A)Chase and Sanborn B)Crook and Chase C)Chevy Chase D)The Coca Cola Company
Pelayo on October 19, 2010 at 7:53 PM
These lefty’s are really dumb OR they just don’t know American history. I’m sure it’s both.
mmcnamer1 on October 19, 2010 at 8:01 PM
That’s hilarious.
Cr4sh Dummy on October 19, 2010 at 8:06 PM
It’s both.
Cr4sh Dummy on October 19, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Gwen’s tweet didn’t even have the proper punctuation! It’s (it’s) not (its).
What a mumpy head.
lizzieillinois on October 19, 2010 at 8:10 PM
rofl
Iowahawk on a ROLL:
lansing quaker on October 19, 2010 at 8:15 PM
RedPepper on October 19, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Perfect quote for this! :)
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on October 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM
For libtards history started with Wilson.
Mojave Mark on October 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM
Can I just point out that Allahpundit said, “Good lord” ?
:-)
AbaddonsReign on October 19, 2010 at 8:17 PM
One doesn’t want to give these braying jackasses too much credit by thinking that they got their giddy thinking that Palin got the year of the Boston Tea Party wrong.
I would bet dollars to donuts that many, if not most, of these hyenas had no clue that the modern Tea Party movement alludes to the Boston Tea Party.
In fact, I would go even further and wager that many of these morons have never even heard of the Boston Tea Party.
It wouldn’t shock me if Iffel was in the latter group, thus her brilliant commentary, “ummm.”
justltl on October 19, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Just like anyone with a brain larger than a walnut would project an assumption of a modicum of intelligence onto Obama and figure that his 57 states comment was a slip of the tongue.
After two years of evidence, I’m not so sure.
justltl on October 19, 2010 at 8:32 PM
The beauty of this is that Palin has just inoculated herself to some degree from all future “Palin is stoopid” attacks.
@markos I can’t believe she just said that. How dumb is she?
@chrisofrights Whatever, dude. Party like it’s 1773. RT @markos I can’t believe she just said that. How dumb is she?
#KosHistoryQuiz
Chris of Rights on October 19, 2010 at 8:34 PM
And if you don’t think that anyone that stupid could rise to those heights, remember the nitwit that was concerned about Guam tipping over.
Yes, libs are that stupid.
justltl on October 19, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Oh yes it IS their fault: They run the public school system!!!
landlines on October 19, 2010 at 8:37 PM
I’ve been reading some of the twitter feeds for the people spotted in the Perfunction post.
It’s amazing seeing them try to spin their way out of it.
Fail. And still LOL over here. :)
Chris of Rights on October 19, 2010 at 8:42 PM
Has anyone made the party like it’s 1773 t-shirts yet? My capitalism dance card is all filled up, or I’d be out silk screening like a fool – that is a best seller – =)
Oh, btw, the only excuse I would accept as honest from those liberal tw
ieets would be “sorry, I call them Tea Baggers so often I forgot they are called Tea Parties and missed the reference to Boston”That would be stupid, but honestly stupid. Don’t hold your breath on it, though lol.
ace tomato on October 19, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Oh, someone asked for this earlier:
http://twitter.com/#!/iowahawkblog/status/27866020145
@pbsgwen What kind of wallpaper did Palin choose for her rent-free apartment in you head?
Chris of Rights on October 19, 2010 at 9:00 PM
A study guide for our leftist dullard friends:
NoLeftTurn on October 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM
My lil’ contribution:
@iowahawkblog #Koshistoryquiz Mythbusters has O as guest b/c a)He cn C Greece from the WH; b)Greek God meets Greek sci; c)3rd fail’s a charm
ProudPalinFan on October 19, 2010 at 9:07 PM
Gwen and her fellow leftist friends have a point. But if they wear a hat, maybe not as many people will notice
Niteowl45 on October 19, 2010 at 9:09 PM
A simple bumper sticker that is just “1773″ would convey a whole paragraph of meaning.
Pelayo on October 19, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Liberal elitism at it’s “best”…sheesh!
LEBA on October 19, 2010 at 9:27 PM
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