A midnight story of Paul Revere. It's actually about 2:00a.m. here but I can't sleep and was reading some interesting diaries, two of which mentioned this subject. Maybe the racists and nutty right are right: maybe it's time to stop listening to the bloody savages.
And by "savage" I mean Michael Weiner (pronounced "whiner" by virtue of its German spelling) and his son Russell. And their crappy "energy drink". And their stupid "Paul Revere Society" which I only found out about by reading sad pony guerilla girl's diary which I only stumbled upon having read various other Streisand vs. Teh Intartubes stories about this rubbish over the past few days.
Follow me across the fold. You know you want to.
It was over at reddit I saw the kerfuffle explode and first thought "Streisand Effect". And I was right. But this has happened so many times before that it's getting boring and smart money's on the PR firm that figures out that to prevent the effect they need to slam media even more with the story so that everyone gets fatigued and simply doesn't care. You read it here first.
ANYway...
sad pony guerrilla girl mentioned that Savage et al. had formed the Paul Revere Society and built a craptastic Web site for it, a site which has been so thoroughly scrubbed over the past few years that you have to go back to November 5, 2005 to see what they were about. The actual site is now a landing spot for a load of ads, currently registered with an anonymous DNS provider (backslapdomains).
To hell with the technical, let's get straight to the historical.
Paul Revere was hardly an English-only kind of guy. Far from it, his father was a Huguenot. In a word, French. As a silversmith Revere also spoke French (you can see some of his works here.
Almost everything people "know" about Paul Revere is false (so perhaps a good choice by "Savage"). He never screamed "The British are coming" because everyone living in the Colonies at the time was British. Despite his great skill as a silversmith (his Boston Massacre depictions so accurate they were used in court) he was a coward, having dressed as a Mohawk Indian to take part in the Boston Tea Party (in which colonials did dump British tea, but did so dressed as American Indians in case they got caught). He was also never a member of the Old North church where the famous lanterns were hanged.
So in a nutshell, the lying bastard and his son created an un-American site promoting English-only in a country comprising at least one state which has at least one other foreign tongue as an "official language", named after a cowardly, half-French, left-wing, French-speaking artisan who called himself "Esquire" even though he wasn't a lawyer or "gentleman" in the sense of the word at the time, and who repeatedly violated the law, from disobeying an order as a lieutenant general to producing silver works on a Sunday despite trading laws which prohibited any work being done on Sundays (based on the Market Laws of 1377 [Richard II])
Basing your hate group on lies and propaganda? Stay classy, Mike.
Edit: I forgot to mention that Revere became a Freemason. How does Savage explain that one away?