Wikipedia Scrubs Ayers and Wright From Obama Biography

newsbusters.org ^ | March 8, 2009 | Noel Sheppard

[Free ThinkerNY]

Wikipedia users have scrubbed all references to homegrown terrorist William Ayers and the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Barack Obama's entry at the online encyclopedia.

Apparently, any information posted about Ayers or Wright in the text of the Obama biography is not only immediately taken down, but the offending user is banned for three days.

Such was revealed by World Net Daily moments ago:

The entire Wikipedia entry on Obama seems to be heavily promotional toward the U.S. president. It contains nearly no criticism or controversy, including appropriate mention of important issues where relevant.

For example, the current paragraph on Obama's religion contains no mention of Wright, even though Obama's association with the controversial pastor was one of the most talked about issues during the presidential campaign.

That paragraph states: "Obama explained how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand 'the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change.' He was baptized at the Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and was an active member there for two decades."

Ayers is also not mentioned, even where relevant.

[snarks_when_bored]

Wikipedia Scrubs Ayers and Wright From Obama Biography

By engaging in such whitewashing of the resumé of the first black man to occupy the White House, Wikipedia proves that its pretensions to being a reliable internet-based reference work are just that: pretensions.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Two words...George Soros...”

Wrong George.
The Orwell guy better descibes these types.

[Nachum]

The List, ping

full list at www.nachumlist.com

[Dick Holmes]

A slight quibble with this article: the actual WND article is titled Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility... Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users banned

The original article is mostly about the question of 0's eligibility to be president. The last part includes a "scrubbed" entry example about Ayers:

"Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995 to 1991. Ayers was the founder and director of the Challenge."

I think I would have deleted this entry, too. Obviously, Annenberg is the founder of his own challenge, not Ayers or Obama.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I remember well when my Dad and his crowd(VFW/AL/DAV)

wanted Ayers and that bunch shot AND hanged!!!

[curth]

Someone should wipe the whole thing out since it’s all bullshit anyway.

[preacher]

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2007/jan/21/news/chi-0701210456jan21

[MissouriConservative]

Nobody but liberals use Wikipedia anyway. I know of college professors who have given an “F” to students who use it as a resource for their papers or essays.

It’s unreliable for the very reason mentioned in this article, it’s skewed towards one ideology and most of the information is made up anyway.

[CaliGangsta]

Wikipedia is nothing more than leftist propaganda. There are libs who spend every waking minute of their time on that site censoring anything that goes against their agenda. I learned when I made some edits to the Joe Mccarthy entry mentioning that Mccarthy was right all along as proven by the Venona documents. I had an edit war with some lib for a while, but in the end he won because I had better things to do.

Do not trust Wikipedia, it is a tool of the left.

[Repeal 16-17]

Everytime someone comments about this on the "talk page" for the Barack Obama article, an editor, by the name of "Baseball Bugs," removes that comment. You can say hello to him at the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Baseball_Bugs

[ETL]

Obama’s Challenge
The campaign speaks to “Radicalism.”
By Stanley Kurtz, August 18, 2008

Today, in a piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools,” I offer a report on my research into the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education foundation once headed by Barack Obama. As I explained in “Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?” the Richard J. Daley Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago first agreed to grant, then abruptly denied me, access to the files of this foundation. Subsequently, the Daley Library again reversed their decision and made the CAC files available. ..."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=
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Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?
A cover-up in the making?
By Stanley Kurtz, August 18, 2008

Excerpt:

Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers.

During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.

This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is likely to flesh out the story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies. Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question. ..."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=
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ETL Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

[denydenydeny]

For example, the current paragraph on Obama's religion contains no mention of Wright, even though Obama's association with the controversial pastor was one of the most talked about issues during the presidential campaign.

He took the title of his book from Wright, for Pete's sake.

[ETL]

Thanks. Too tired now to read it (11:20PM ET). Will do tomorrow.

[Iowan]

Many thanks for your updates, LucyT

Thanks for archiving the info ETL!

Ping

[Repeal 16-17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Barack_Obama/Article_probation#Log_of_sanctions

Copy and paste above link to see all of the Wikipedia ediotrs who have been "blocked" for "promoting" this "fringe" theory.

[anglian]

Faith and My Church By Barack Obama
Posted March 14, 2008

Most importantly, Rev. Wright preached the gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life. In other words, he has never been my political advisor; he’s been my pastor.”

“What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice,” Obama said. “He’s much more of a sounding board for me.”

“In Wright [Obama] had found both a spiritual mentor and a role model.”

“Wright helps keep his priorities straight and his moral compass calibrated.”

“Obama consults with Wright before making major political decisions.

“Though Wright and Obama do not often talk one-on-one often, the senator does check with his pastor before making any bold political moves.” http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/religion/chi-070121-relig_wright,1,271630.story?page=2

[ETL]

"In late 1993, Bill Ayers, now an associate professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus, organized a team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge. The money was to be used by Ayers and co. to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.

The grant application was successful and in early 1995 Barack Obama was named chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was named co-chair of the Challenge’s operative and strategic body, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. Ayers and Obama work together for the next five years on raising an additional $60 million in matching money from local foundations and corporations and using the money to intervene in the governance of the Chicago public schools.

The Challenge through a multi-million dollar Leadership Development Initiative intervened in the School Council elections in the middle of what was known as the Chicago School Wars. At the same time Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was pushing, successfully, to gut the power of the Councils."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/
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"The Small Schools Workshop was founded in 1991 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to provide support for teachers who were trying to create new smaller learning environments. Its director is Michael Klonsky, a former professor of education at UIC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Schools_Workshop
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Some background on Bill Ayers' SDS comrade, Michael Klonsky
(Chicago Annenberg Challenge-related)

"One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 [not to be confused with Communist Party USA. CPML no longer exists, CPUSA formed decades earlier and is still around-ETL], he travelled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago.

While driving a cab there he [Michael Klonsky] was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught.

In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000.

The Annenberg Challenge also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site."

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/12/the-obama-ayers-top-ten-highlights-of-the-20-year-obama-ayers-connection/
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In 1977, the October League was reorganized as the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [again, not Communist Party USA (CPUSA) -ETL] and former SDS activist Michael Klonsky became party chairman. Also in 1977, Klonsky traveled to China and the CPML was recognized by the Chinese Communist Party as its official sister party in America.

(snip)

In January 1981, Michael Klonsky resigned as party chairman, and the CPML disbanded that same year.

The previous Red Encyclopedia description of the CPML was incorrectly combined with that of the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).

http://reds.linefeed.org/past.html
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

[George Smiley]

The good thing about Wikipedia is that anybody can create or change an entry.

The bad thing about Wikipedia is that anybody can create or change an entry.

However, it keeps a history of changes:

(cur) = difference from current version, (prev) = difference from preceding version, m = minor edit, → = section edit, ← = automatic edit summary

(cur) (prev) 03:10, 9 March 2009 Cosmic Latte (talk | contribs) (138,713 bytes) (Undid revision 275955550 by Kfedup (talk) quit adding unsourced, WP:UNDUE, WP:FRINGE baloney, please)

( cur) (prev) 03:08, 9 March 2009 Kfedup (talk | contribs) (138,714 bytes) (→Family and personal life)

(cur) (prev) 03:05, 9 March 2009 Cosmic Latte (talk | contribs) (138,713 bytes) (revert to last sane version)

(cur) (prev) 03:02, 9 March 2009 Kfedup (talk | contribs) (138,644 bytes) (→Family and personal life)

(cur) (prev) 03:02, 9 March 2009 Wikidemon (talk | contribs) m (138,645 bytes) (Undid revision 275954350 by Neophytesoftware (talk)rvv)

(cur) (prev) 03:00, 9 March 2009 Kfedup (talk | contribs) (138,657 bytes) (→Family and personal life)

(cur) (prev) 03:00, 9 March 2009 Neophytesoftware (talk | contribs) m (138,725 bytes) (restored the disputed tag. Libtards stop trying to vandalize as worship your God of the Damned.)

(cur) (prev) 02:48, 9 March 2009 SMP0328. (talk | contribs) m (138,713 bytes) (Removed unsourced material of dubious relevance)

(cur) (prev) 02:44, 9 March 2009 Lamecherry (talk | contribs) m (139,404 bytes) (→2008 presidential campaign: Obama follows historical footsteps)

(cur) (prev) 02:24, 9 March 2009 SMP0328. (talk | contribs) m (138,713 bytes) (→Family and personal life: Wording tweak)

(cur) (prev) 02:08, 9 March 2009 Wikidemon (talk | contribs) (138,715 bytes) (Undid revision 275945109 by SMP0328. (talk)rv fringe material of insufficient weight to include)

(cur) (prev) 02:04, 9 March 2009 SMP0328. (talk | contribs) (138,884 bytes) (This is how a similiar situation was handled at the Sixteenth Amendment article)

(cur) (prev) 01:51, 9 March 2009 Newross (talk | contribs) (138,715 bytes) (remove repeated improper WP:DRIVEBY tagging by Neophytesoftware (talk))

(cur) (prev) 01:45, 9 March 2009 Neophytesoftware (talk | contribs) m (138,734 bytes) (Undid revision 275941213 by Guettarda (talk))

(cur) (prev) 01:42, 9 March 2009 Guettarda (talk | contribs) (138,715 bytes) (rm drive-by tagging; editor has not contributed to talk page, no evidence of NPOV dispute)

(cur) (prev) 00:46, 9 March 2009 SMP0328. (talk | contribs) m (138,734 bytes) (The tag is proper, as long as there is such a discussion on the talk page)

(cur) (prev) 00:22, 9 March 2009 Baseball Bugs (talk | contribs) (138,715 bytes) (If you've got an issue, take it to talk page.)

(cur) (prev) 00:21, 9 March 2009 SMP0328. (talk | contribs) m (138,734 bytes) (Consolidated just added neutrality tags [not to interpreted as an endorsement of those tags])

(cur) (prev) 00:11, 9 March 2009 Neophytesoftware (talk | contribs) m (138,735 bytes) (the left is censoring this a lot and filling it with propaganda, live birth means he wasn't found under a rock. he also has socialist and terrorist ties.)

(cur) (prev) 18:49, 8 March 2009 Dans-eng (talk | contribs) (138,715 bytes) (wikilnk lmo:)

(cur) (prev) 10:45, 8 March 2009 Brothejr (talk | contribs) m (138,694 bytes) (RM excess linking, only one link is needed on the page.)

(cur) (prev) 10:15, 8 March 2009 Joshdboz (talk | contribs) (138,750 bytes) (link to 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address)

(cur) (prev) 07:13, 8 March 2009 PhGustaf (talk | contribs) (138,650 bytes) (rm inappropriate cats re distant relatives)

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(cur) (prev) 04:16, 7 March 2009 Tarc (talk | contribs) (138,650 bytes) (Undid revision 275537123 by Equazcion (talk) - Reverting a bad-faith edit.)

(cur) (prev) 03:55, 7 March 2009 Equazcion (talk | contribs) (138,623 bytes) (Tarc, you make your case on the talk page too. This should be the final revert. I expect discussion now which is why I started the talk page section. You're both verging on WP:3RR. Discuss now. Thanks.)

(cur) (prev) 03:50, 7 March 2009 Tarc (talk | contribs) (138,650 bytes) (Undid revision 275530932 by Impm (talk) - Not a valid argument. make your case on the talk page, if you are able to.)

(cur) (prev) 03:06, 7 March 2009 Impm (talk | contribs) (138,623 bytes) (Undid revision 275526859 by Newguy34 (talk) No, it doesn't. Every other article has only the schools they graduated from.)

(cur) (prev) 02:35, 7 March 2009 Newguy34 (talk | contribs) (138,650 bytes) (Undid revision 275523667 by Impm (talk)Yes, Occidental really qualifies as an alma mater; look it up)

(cur) (prev) 02:10, 7 March 2009 Impm (talk | contribs) (138,623 bytes) (Does Occidental really qualify as an alma mater, since he didn't graduate from there?)

(cur) (prev) 21:20, 6 March 2009 Bobblehead (talk | contribs) (138,650 bytes) (→References: Wikilink)

(cur) (prev) 21:04, 6 March 2009 Ottre (talk | contribs) m (138,646 bytes) (→References: -convenience link, see talk)

(cur) (prev) 20:20, 6 March 2009 TKD (talk | contribs) m (138,715 bytes) (Reverted 2 edits by Chessmaster3 identified as vandalism to last revision by Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg. (TW))

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(cur) (prev) 20:15, 6 March 2009 Chessmaster3 (talk | contribs) (138,740 bytes)

(cur) (prev) 08:09, 6 March 2009 Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg (talk | contribs) (138,715 bytes) (→Early life and career: I understand this Soeharto is the official name but suharto is far more recognized.)

(cur) (prev) 17:35, 5 March 2009 Jackyd101 (talk | contribs) (138,724 bytes) (→Early life and career: correct name of half sister at time photo was taken)

(cur) (prev) 16:49, 5 March 2009 Cosmic Latte (talk | contribs) (138,711 bytes) (→Cultural and political image: "acknowledged" might be too strong a word, but these aren't unqualified assertions either)

(cur) (prev) 16:40, 5 March 2009 PhGustaf (talk | contribs) (138,713 bytes) (rv removal of cited material; note slow-motion revert war)

(cur) (prev) 16:29, 5 March 2009 Tripodics (talk | contribs) (138,459 bytes) (→Cultural and political image: Opinions are asserted; facts are acknowledged. This is not fact but opinion (and many citations exist for contrary opinions on this particular assertion.))

(cur) (prev) 16:14, 5 March 2009 Dalej78 (talk | contribs) (138,463 bytes) (There is no general consensus that Barack Obama speaks like Reagan, just liberal fantasy from a few partisan writers. Isn't Wikipedia a forum for facts and objective information, not liberal agenda?)

(cur) (prev) 01:16, 5 March 2009 Maxkramer (talk | contribs) m (138,717 bytes) (→Presidency: Minor grammatical change)

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(cur) (prev) 18:22, 4 March 2009 Scjessey (talk | contribs) m (138,716 bytes) (Reverted good faith edits by Extermino; Restore wording - it is the de facto birth certificate. using TW)

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(cur) (prev) 19:32, 1 March 2009 Newguy34 (talk | contribs) (138,519 bytes) (Undid revision 274207797 by Dalej78 (talk)rv unexplained deletion)

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[alecqss]

The Orwell guy better descibes these types.

Yep, I did not know that Ayers and Wright never existed. Wikipedia guys discovered that for me; they make me so proud.

[antiRepublicrat]

Once you have a dozen changes, go to the Obama article and it should let you edit.

It won't help. The liberal editors with administrative privileges are monitoring the article 24/7. Your change will be reverted and you will be suspended for a few days. Try it too many times and you will be banned permanently.

Despite the fact that much of the article is POV fawning over Obama, any attempt to inject some balance will be called NPOV. Anything negative about Obama, even if proven factual, will run up against the BLP (bio of living persons) rule against libel.

In the end you will always run up against the consensus rule, that even if what you have to insert is factual, the consensus (as defined and allowed by the admins) is that it shouldn't be there.