Jon Carroll messes up

Jon Carroll, in a June 8 column, blasts Sarah Palin's comments on Paul Revere as embarrassing and garbled.  Others have been even less charitable.  When I first heard her comments, I thought the same thing.  But it turns out that she had the facts more or less correct.

BLOCK (the interviewer): So you think basically, on the whole, Sarah Palin got her history right.
Prof. ALLISON (the guest): Well, yeah, she did.

And this was a couple of days before Jon Carroll's column.  Now, maybe there is a lead time, and he wasn't aware of the NPR interview when the article was written.  However, it is now nearly a week later and he should apologize.

BTW, for an interesting take on Paul Revere as "not much of a hero", read The Fort by Bernard Cornwell.