Caveat: That smell is freedom

Jeffrey Goldberg (of The Atlantic's Goldblog fame) Palinesquely channels Longfellow on the subject of Paul Revere.  Brilliant.  If you've been following the Palin-on-Paul-Revere controversy, it's quite hilarious.  An excerpt:

[broken link! FIXME] Images LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear  
Of the early evening ride of Paul Revere,  
On the twentieth, or twenty-first, of May, or possibly June, in Seventy-six, or maybe Seventy-seven;  
Hardly a man is now alive  
Who refudiates that famous day and year.

Then I will ride a Harley, that I was pulling on a trailer behind the bus, and spread the alarm,
Man, I love the smell of that emissions
That smell is freedom, carried by horse,
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
Not horse emissions, chopper emissions.
But horse emissions are very patriotic.
And I will warn the British that the British are coming.
Which should confuse them very much.

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