After she flubbed with regard to the history of Paul Revere’s Ride, Sarah Palin was quick to defend herself and many of her supporters attempted to alter history in order to justify their hero’s statements. They tried doing this via the online site, wikipedia. This is a good indicator one is on the losing side of an argument - The wikipedia loophole. All other news-related sites may counter Ms. Palin’s statement(s), but as long as wikipedia has her back, it proves she knows her history! It reminds me of the time I answered a question on my college algebra final wrong, but after I tinkered with wikipedia, I showed the professor and she gave me the 100% that I so deserved. It also reminds me of the time Ms. Palin and John McCain lost the 2008 presidential election, but after their supporters wrote that they had won the election via wikipedia, that sealed the deal for the Republican Party. Why I haven’t seen Maverick McCain in the Oval Office much in the past 2+ years is beyond me and has me quite perplexed.
Due to this lame attempt to change the course of history, I thought it’d be fun to turn the tables and create a wikipedia page entitled, “Sarah Palin Supporters”. Remember, since the following is in writing and on a fictionalized wikipedia page, it’s factual.
Sarah Palin Supporters
As of June 13th, 2011, Sarah Palin has 392,496 supporters, down from 2,995,214 the day after election day in 2008.
Of these supporters: 23.1% are literate; 42.3% have the name Sarah tattooed to some part of their body (numbers were not disclosed as to which body parts were the most popular); 92.0% don’t believe that both a subject and predicate are needed to form a complete sentence; 96.9% believe that George W. Bush was this country’s first president; 2.2% believe that 2 + 2 = 4; 89.1% want to go pheasant hunting with Dick Cheney and 50.1% want to one day fly to the moon via a Ford Ranger while listening to Toby Keith’s “Angry American”.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-fans-try-to-rewrite-wikipedia-history-of-paul-reveres-ride-2011-6
Due to this lame attempt to change the course of history, I thought it’d be fun to turn the tables and create a wikipedia page entitled, “Sarah Palin Supporters”. Remember, since the following is in writing and on a fictionalized wikipedia page, it’s factual.
Sarah Palin Supporters
As of June 13th, 2011, Sarah Palin has 392,496 supporters, down from 2,995,214 the day after election day in 2008.
Of these supporters: 23.1% are literate; 42.3% have the name Sarah tattooed to some part of their body (numbers were not disclosed as to which body parts were the most popular); 92.0% don’t believe that both a subject and predicate are needed to form a complete sentence; 96.9% believe that George W. Bush was this country’s first president; 2.2% believe that 2 + 2 = 4; 89.1% want to go pheasant hunting with Dick Cheney and 50.1% want to one day fly to the moon via a Ford Ranger while listening to Toby Keith’s “Angry American”.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-fans-try-to-rewrite-wikipedia-history-of-paul-reveres-ride-2011-6
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