Recently, @TheDailyShow launched the #AccordingToPalin Twitter meme after Sarah Palin’s gaffe about the mythos of Paul Revere. I admit to finding many of the tweets funny, even though the campaign is mean-spirited. While the degree to which she erred is debatable, one theme that keeps popping up on Twitter and the blogs is the false equivalence of Palin’s gaffe and a specific one made by President Obama during the 2008 campaign.

Speaking at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon in early May, then-Senator Obama said that he had visited 57 States, all except one, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. From the video, it’s clear that he was conflating “47 of 50” States, and he poked fun of himself later that day for starting to muddle his numbers. (If you still believe that he meant to say 57 States, then at least make fun of him for thinking we have 60 States, as implied by the full statement.)

This is not the same as someone who wraps herself in the mantle of the origins of the United States and continues to botch the history. Please stop with the invented pap. There are plenty of better Obama gaffes out there.