Originally Posted by RichieLion

You're picking at straws. The basics of Palin's recollections of Revere's famous night were correct and you're nit picking. You can't deny that Revere told the British the colonists were waiting for them, as Palin said. (By your account, maybe we should remember Revere as a traitor)

As noted in the article, she said this on the fly, from her memory and without the use of cue cards, tele-prompter or writing on the back of her hand.

Meanwhile, there's no qualified historian who would ever suggest that Lincoln was the Republican Party's founder. Obama spoke in error in a speech that was prepared well in advance and written to portray himself in the best light. If, as has been suggested, he deviated from the script and that's how he made this error; well it just makes Palin look even better by comparison.