[GonzoII]

From the Washington Times: PRUDEN: She gets it right, you betcha

"Only now it turns out that she was right about Revere’s midnight ride, and the press claque was wrong. Even the professors say so, though they’re grudging to the point of churlishness.

...snip

“Basically,” says Brendan McConville, a history professor at Boston University, “when Paul Revere was stopped by the British, he did say to them, ‘Look, there is a mobilization going on that you’ll be confronting.’ ” ...“The British are aware as they’re marching down the countryside they hear church bells ringing - she was right about that - and warning shots being fired. That’s accurate.”

...snip

Patrick Leehey of the Paul Revere House in Boston says the midnight rider was probably bluffing his Redcoat captors, so maybe it could be construed that Revere was in fact warning the British. “But I don’t know if that’s really what Mrs. Palin was referring to.”

....snip

Mr. McConville was even less gracious conceding that Mrs. Palin had gotten it right. He wouldn’t concede that her remarks were based on scholarship. No Ph.D, no tenure for her. “I would call her lucky in her comments.” The rest of us would call her correct, but that’s just how professors think. Though not all.

“It seems to be a historical fact that it happened [her way],” says William Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell. “A lot of the criticism [of Sarah Palin] is unfair and made by people who are themselves ignorant of history.”

[GonzoII]

Sorry, wrong link at #18

Washington Times: PRUDEN: She gets it right, you betcha

[sr4402]

What is so funny about the NPR story is how the Historian tells NPR that he wasn't able to get too many to listen about Paul Revere until Sarah Palin came around.

In other words: NPR is not to interested in History really (except the liberal view).