Richard Tafoya
Mar 9th, 2009, 07:54 PM
Washington Independent:
http://washingtonindependent.com/33029/editing-libel-out-of-wikipedia-vandalism
I won’t link to WorldNetDaily unless I have to, and unless I’m typing with lead-lined gloves. But Matt Drudge linked the conspiracy site’s story about Wikipedia deleting Barack Obama Birther conspiracies, and the mysteriously popular GatewayPundit informs us (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/wikipedia-scrubs-dear-leaders-page-of.html) that this is tyranny.Communist tyrany (sic) Joseph Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/)out of photographs.
Wikipedia airbrushes any controversial information about Dear Leader from its webpage including his 20 year relationship with mentor Jeremiah Wright and his long relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers.
The Ayers comment is a lie: Wikipedia maintains a comprehensive page on the Ayers-Obama relationship. As it should. ... And this is fairly typical Wikipedia page management. George W. Bush’s page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) doesn’t even go into the CIA leak case, for example. It simply provides a link to that scandal’s Wikipedia page.
As to WND’s main complaint, that Wikipedia is “completely lacking… any mention of the well-publicized concerns surrounding Obama’s eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief,” that’s also untrue: Wikipedia maintains a page about discredited Obama conspiracy theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories), just as it maintains a page on 9/11 conspiracy theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories). What WND and Gateway Pundit are complaining about is the refusal of moderators to let racist, libelous junk into its main page on Obama.
http://washingtonindependent.com/33029/editing-libel-out-of-wikipedia-vandalism
I won’t link to WorldNetDaily unless I have to, and unless I’m typing with lead-lined gloves. But Matt Drudge linked the conspiracy site’s story about Wikipedia deleting Barack Obama Birther conspiracies, and the mysteriously popular GatewayPundit informs us (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/wikipedia-scrubs-dear-leaders-page-of.html) that this is tyranny.Communist tyrany (sic) Joseph Stalin routinely air-brushed his enemies (http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/)out of photographs.
Wikipedia airbrushes any controversial information about Dear Leader from its webpage including his 20 year relationship with mentor Jeremiah Wright and his long relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers.
The Ayers comment is a lie: Wikipedia maintains a comprehensive page on the Ayers-Obama relationship. As it should. ... And this is fairly typical Wikipedia page management. George W. Bush’s page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush) doesn’t even go into the CIA leak case, for example. It simply provides a link to that scandal’s Wikipedia page.
As to WND’s main complaint, that Wikipedia is “completely lacking… any mention of the well-publicized concerns surrounding Obama’s eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief,” that’s also untrue: Wikipedia maintains a page about discredited Obama conspiracy theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories), just as it maintains a page on 9/11 conspiracy theories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_conspiracy_theories). What WND and Gateway Pundit are complaining about is the refusal of moderators to let racist, libelous junk into its main page on Obama.