Paul Revere

Last week an event occurred that reminded me of something that happened to Hilary Clinton right after her husband was elected president. I will get to the event later. When Hilary became first lady one of the first public things she did was to object to poor people having to pay for immunizations. She announced that the government would pay. Only later did she find out that all communities offered shots at no cost to those who could not afford them. The whole thing just quietly went away and that was that.
Now to last week: Sara Palin noted that Paul Revere rode to Lexington to warn the British and the intellectual elite in the east immediately pounced on her remarks. It was later revealed that most of these intellectuals had confused what happened with the poem by Longfellow and within two days the whole thing disappeared from the news.
Revere rode quietly from town to town not wanting to alert the British troops but he did warn local leaders who were mostly British colonist about the planned moves of the British Army. He most certainly did not yell that the British were coming. The press seemed to have confused the colonist with the army or at least considered them on in the same.
This sort of thing happens to the press on a regular basis but no one makes a big deal out of it and that’s OK with me since they are not public officials and I take what they say with some degree of doubt. More and more people are distrusting of the press.