Without even being “pressed”, there are two things we will admit we are absolutely obsessed about:

(1) People who spout off about history when they do not know what they are talking about.

(2) The “Old” dinosaur media slickers who include a pinko, left wing bleeding heart poison pill in every “news” presentation.

When there occurs a nexus between these breathtaking (for me) events, there are all kinds of explosions. My eyes become virtual eggs (though they are disabled); a huge burst of guffaws emerges from my belly, and my heart bursts with “Gotcha” Gratitude toward the Deity of Justice.

On Tuesday, I was perusing one of my favorite Internet Blog sites, Publius Forum, (http://tinyurl.com/y3jl5nn) when I came across a story about the great old newspaper, The Boston Herald, pulling a boner that amounted to actually, soiling its own nest.

They were re-enacting the Battle of Lexington, where the militia, armed with guns largely held together with baling wire, defeated British “Red Coat” regulars, with “the shot heard ’round the world”.

Except it wasn’t.

That shot, was fired in the Battle of Concord, where Ralph Waldo Emerson later lived and wrote those words for a memorial re-enactment of THAT battle.

Only way it could have been more delicious is of it had been the NYSlimes-owned paper, the Globe, that fouled the neighborhood.

Even more terrible was the gaffe by Cokie Roberts, well known left liberal interviwer, and daughter of two extremely powerful and savvy Congresscritters, Hale Bogga andhis widow, Lindy Boggs Cokie is also the wife of a very bright news correpondent, Steve Roberts who was with her….

When she likened the internment of Japanese in prison camps in California following the Pearl Harbor attack December 7, 1941 to the worst of immigration horrors.

But the thing IS, y’ see, all those internees were United States citizens…Nisei, as they called themselves. Many of them fought for the USA in Europe. I know this because I was 16 then and glued to the Philco.

I wish I’d been there at Concord, too. Or Breed’s Hill. Or ven better, Yorktown !

Ignorance is so sad in all these elitist left wingers. It’s a shame to giggle.

—–Bill Allen