Folks are talking about how ‘garbled’ her message is, but take into account the circumstances of this ‘interview’. She’s on vacation, it’s not a sit-down, so she hasn’t given any real thought to answering a reporter’s questions. Haven’t all of us, at one time or another, tossed off an answer on the run that sounded disjointed? She got her facts right, that’s what’s important, though the media, since their knowledge of the incident obviously comes from Longfellow’s “ Paul Revere’s Ride”, believes SHE is the one who is ignorant.
The Longfellow version is so pervasive a meme that Palin might do well (when format permits) to point out the misleading liberties taken by this version. As a poem qua poem, it’s OK. As history, of course it stinks (and many people know of only one “correction” to the poem in the vein that Paul Revere only began the ride while another man finished it).