Sarah Palin Supporters Attempted To Edit Wikipedia Page On Paul Revere

HUffpost Politics: Sarah Palin Supporters Attempted To Edit Wikipedia Page On Paul Revere
Last week, Sarah Palin told a local news station in Boston that Paul Revere "warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms." As the news media rushed to point out that Revere was, in fact, warning the American colonists, not the British, Palin's supporters apparently attempted to update the Wikipedia entry on Revere in order to make the facts conform to Palin's version of history.

According to the revision history on the Wikipedia page, Palin supports attempted to add the line in italics below:

Revere did not shout the phrase later attributed to him ("The British are coming!"), largely because the mission depended on secrecy and the countryside was filled with British army patrols; also, most colonial residents at the time considered themselves British as they were all legally British subjects.
That revision was deleted with the explanation "content not backed by a reliable sources [sic] (it was sarah palin interview videos)."

On Sunday, Palin, a paid Fox News contributor, told "Fox News Sunday" that she was correct. She says there were British soldiers in the area for years before Revere's legendary ride, and that he was warning them, as well as his fellow colonists.

"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that 'hey, you're not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.'"

She blamed her previous answer on the media, saying it was a "gotcha question."

The Paul Revere House's website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.

[The thing about Paul Revere is that he was never an important historical figure until the start of the Civil War, when poets were trying to call together the whole country - in an effort to stop the war. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem, Paul Revere's ride, and the only reason why he chose Revere was because his was the only name that could rhyme with hear. There were two other men, also sent out, and only one wasn't caputured and succeeded in his mission - Willliam Dawes.

"Listen my chidren and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of William Dawes."
Nope - doesn't scan!