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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin supporters attempting to rewrite history on [b]Wikipedia[/b]
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While former governor Sarah Palin claims she wasn't wrong in her story on Paul Revere, some of her supporters have taken to Wikipedia to make it true. "I didn't mess up about Paul Revere...part of his ride was to warn the British ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin fans altering [b]Wikipedia entry on Revere[/b]
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Fans of Sarah Palin attempted to alter the Wikipedia entry on Paul Revere yesterday in light of Palin's comments about the historical figure, adding that a "disputed account suggested that Revere rang bells during his ride. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Editing [b]WikiPedia to Make Palin Right About Paul Revere[/b]
Slate Magazine (blog)
This is a hell of a get by Charles Johnson. Starting on Sunday, as Sarah Palin kept explaining that her version of the Paul Revere "Midnight Ride" was historically accurate, Palin fans emerged on WikiPedia to "fix" the Revere biography. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sarah Palin Fans Trying To Rewrite [b]Wikipedia History Of Paul Revere's Ride To ...[/b]
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After riffing on Paul Revere's ride during her bus tour last week--and making a couple of basic factual errors--Sarah Palin has responded by arguing that she got the facts right. Sarah Palin's fans, meanwhile, have responded by trying to rewrite ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin's Supporters Edit [b]Wikipedia To Make Her Paul Revere Flub Sound Right[/b]
Slate Magazine
Sarah Palin isn't backing down from her revision of the history of Paul Revere. WATCH: http://slate.me/khBC6c Is #TheKilling's nuanced portrait of grief the reason viewers are losing patience with it? http://slate.me/lAjBfv.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sarah Palin followers trying to change the Paul Revere [b]Wikipedia page[/b]
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Most familiar with the “One if by land, two if by sea” story know that Revere rode through the countryside to warn the Americans that the British regular army was arriving. Palin followers claim to have found one source which defends their version of ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin fans trying to revise [b]Wikipedia's Paul Revere entry[/b]
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Revisionist history is as wrong as it is fashionable, but rarely is it as obvious as on Wikipedia, where legions of Sarah Palin fans are reportedly editing the Paul Revere entry to make it match the former Alaska governor's version of the silversmith's ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sarah Palin Fans Accused of Editing [b]Wikipedia to Right Her Wrongs About Paul ...[/b]
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This past week, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin attempted to explain Paul Revere's historic midnight ride in a manner that many history buffs took issue with. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin fans trying to revise [b]Wikipedia's Paul Revere entry[/b]
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Revisionist history is as wrong as it is fashionable, but rarely is it as obvious as on Wikipedia, where legions of Sarah Palin fans are reportedly editing the Paul Revere entry to make it match the former Alaska governor's version of the silversmith's ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin supporters modify [b]Wikipedia "Revere" article to match "her-story"[/b]
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After suffering through several days of seeing Sarah Palin questioned on her confused understanding of American history, supporters of Sarah Palin decided to fix the problem—by changing the reported facts on Wikipedia's Paul Revere article. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin Fans Try to Rewrite History (Or At Least [b]Wikipedia) on Paul Revere[/b]
TIME (blog)
This weekend, Tuned In Jr., who is studying Boston and the American Revolution in school, mentioned that he was getting a "locked" error message while trying to load a Wikipedia page on Paul Revere. I know! As a father and a journalist, I should know ...

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While former governor Sarah Palin claims she wasn't wrong in her story on Paul Revere, some of her supporters have taken to Wikipedia to make it true. Palin denied Sunday that she messed up a bit of American history when she declared in an earlier ...

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While former governor Sarah Palin claims she wasn't wrong in her story on Paul Revere, some of her supporters have taken to Wikipedia to make it true. Palin denied Sunday that she messed up a bit of American history when she declared in an earlier ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Doublethink? Palin Fans Attempt To Rewrite Paul Revere's [b]Wikipedia Page To ...[/b]
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While Sarah Palin has refused to admit that her account of Paul Revere's famous ride may have been wrong, some Palin fans have taken it upon themselves to make it right. Over the weekend, as the story played ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Fight brews over Sarah Palin on Paul Revere [b]Wikipedia page[/b]
Washington Post (blog)
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sits with her youngest daughter Piper, left, and her mother Sally Heath, during a tour of the Old North Church in Boston's North End neighborhood, Thursday, June 2, 2011. (Steven Senne - AP) Supporters of ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin defenders attempt to edit [b]Wikipedia article on Paul Revere[/b]
Anchorage Daily News
Editors of Wikipedia are battling over the online encyclopedia's Paul Revere entry in the wake of Sarah Palin's creative re-telling of the story of Revere's famous ride (see video below). Among the disagreements: One Palin defender inserted a new ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sarah Palin comments over Paul Revere's ride prompt [b]Wikipedia revision[/b]
Beaumont Enterprise (blog)
The story of Sarah Palin's tangled explanation of Paul Revere's ride galloped off in a new direction today when Little Green Footballs and the Huffington Post reported that her supporters tried to edit the Wikipedia page on the 1770s patriot on ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Sarah Palin comments over Paul Revere's ride prompt [b]Wikipedia revision[/b]
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
The story of Sarah Palin's tangled explanation of Paul Revere's ride galloped off in a new direction today when Little Green Footballs and the Huffington Post reported that her supporters tried to edit the Wikipedia page on the 1770s patriot on ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Palin defenders attempt to edit [b]Wikipedia article on Paul Revere[/b]
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Editors of Wikipedia are battling over the online encyclopedia's Paul Revere entry in the wake of Sarah Palin's creative re-telling of the story of Revere's famous ride. Among the disagreements: One Palin defender inserted a new reference to a ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia in Tug-of-War Over Palin's Version of Revolutionary War[/b]
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Last week, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a highly idiosyncratic (read: inaccurate) portrait of American revolutionary figure Paul Revere to the media. ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Fends Off Sarah Palin Supporters[/b]
National Journal
Sarah Palin will not relent in defending her revisionist history of Paul Revere's ride from Boston to Lexington, in which Revere "warned the British." And her supporters similarly will not relent in revising the history of the event ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Fends Off Sarah Palin Supporters[/b]
National Journal
Sarah Palin will not relent in defending her revisionist history of Paul Revere's ride from Boston to Lexington, in which Revere "warned the British." And her supporters similarly will not relent in revising the history of the event ...

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