Sarah Palin was dead on when she said that Paul Revere did…whatever it is she thought he did. And to prove it, Stephen Colbert reenacted Revere’s midnight ride with a bell, a musket and a mechanical horse.
“It’s just like we all learned in grade school,” Colbert said. “‘One if by land, bells if by two, hey, British, you’re warned, sailed the ocean blue.'”
“I could not have said a random string of words better,” he added, referencing Palin’s subsequent garbled defense that she hadn’t flubbed her facts.
So, donning a tricorn hat, Colbert hopped aboard a coin-operated horse ride and showed what Palin’s version of history would have looked like.
Watch the video below:
