Civic responsibility?

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In June 2011, political pundit Sarah Palin was in Boston when, as often happens to celebrities, someone shoved a microphone in her face and started asking questions. She responded – you can watch the YouTube video of this incident – with some misstatements about Paul Revere and the American Revolution. Now, most people walking down the street might fumble just as badly when ambushed by the media and forced to answer questions on the spot in front of a camera. But instead of admitting a mea culpa, Ms. Palin stood her ground in subsequent interviews and some of her followers even went so far as to try to alter the Wikipedia article on Paul Revere to reflect Ms. Palin's version of events.