Henry Ford and Idle Words

[271 words] Ever say something you wish you hadn’t? Henry Ford did. In a 1916 interview with the Chicago Tribune, the American motor vehicle pioneer said, “What do we care about what they did 500 or 1,000 years ago? I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across and I don’t care. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk.” Though Ford was mostly trying to say that what matters most to him is what he accomplishes in the present, many a media source ran with the thought that Henry Ford says “history is bunk.” Ford spent many years trying to put a positive spin on those words, most notably commenting in 1919 that he would build a museum focusing on industrial history. Controlling the tongue is a difficult task, even for the most inventive and industrious of people. Jesus reminded us all…