Posted on 02/24/2006 7:41:53 AM PST by MrSanders
Hello - this is my first post so I apologize if the formatting is wrong. I've been a Republican for over 20 years and listen to Limbaugh and Hannity, and I've read your site before.
I want to alert you to something that is happening at Wikipedia and ask for your help because I've been overrun by leftists! There's this radical liberal nutcase named Chip Berlet who is a pundit on the far far far left wing that some of you may know of.
If you don't know him here is conservative author David Horowitz's profile on who he is - http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1243
Anyway, two days ago I read some stuff by this thug who thinks all conservatives are little Hitlers and I went to find out more about him at Horowitz's site. What was there didn't surprise me but it showed how awful this guy is. He's a shill for the National Lawyers Guild and was an apologist for the communist Enver Hoxha dictatorship in Albania, plus an activist with just about every left wing and communist cause in the U.S. possible. Berlet writes articles for all the fringe newspapers on the far left like High Times and the Southern Poverty Law Center report and is hooked up with all these socialist groups.
Google led to his article at wikipedia but when I read it something struck me as wrong -- the wikipedia article had almost NOTHING about Berlet's real history and was overwhelmingly positive. There was only one tiny paragraph about his kooky left wing politics and everything else looked like his personal resume. It also made him sound like he was a lawyer even though he's a college dropout.
So I sign up at Wikipedia and decide to add some of the facts about Berlet from Horowitz and the other places on the internet I'd read to balance it out. At first it works fine, but then the next day things start going sour. First a cabal of liberal editors shows up and censors out just about EVERYTHING I added. One guy deleted the entire paragraph and another tried to hide the fact that Berlet is not an attorney even though his resume of involvement in the National Lawyers Guild - a liberal bar association - was worded to suggest that he was.
Then it got even worse. Chip Berlet himself showed up and started directing what content could and couldn't appear in his article (which I previously had thought was a no-no at Wikipedia). First Berlet makes a vitriolic post against me accusing me of fabrications and all sorts of other stuff. Then he demands that anything negative about him be purged...and the liberal editors there who are all his willing accomplices take his orders and purge the thing.
At first I tried to fight back and restored the material he ordered purged - an embarrassing but fully documented quote by Chip Berlet where he more or less said the entire slate of 1992 presidential candidates except for his hero Bill Clinton were all fascists who had secret connections to Mussolini (this guy's like Michael Moore - one of those "Bush is Hitler" nuts). That got the leftists all mad at me and one of them - a Wikipedia sys-op named Gamaliel posted a nasty note threatening to ban me for "incivility" for simply saying that they were censoring negative material about Berlet and that Berlet himself was aparantly urging them to do it!
So I do some more research and lo and behold all the people in Berlet's little cabal are Wikipedia sys-op administrators and liberal ones. When a non-liberal sys-op showed up and favored restoring the stuff they deleted, they even overruled him at Berlet's behest.
I'm posting this to alert any Free Republic wikipedia users out there about this guy and to alert everyone that yet another left wing personality has been caught manipulating his own wikipedia article.
If you want to see it all the article is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Berlet
Chip Berlet himself posts as "Cberlet"
It is pretty useless.. too many in the media and other venues take it as fact..
Or "Scooter?"
BTW you sure don't sound like a "Reagan fanatic" to me. Only a liberal would want to ban somebody for exposing another liberal.
Where who is leading who? That's a strange reply to making a post about a leftist who is censoring information about himself.
Who is IBTZ?
See 19 & 22.
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Hey Mr. Sanders, if your a conservative, ignore the clowns and except a welcome to FR!
Psst...see the post above yours (#27).
That's a mighty complex conspiracy theory you got fer yourself there. Are you honestly accusing me of being some sort of leftist conspirator trying to trap you? Do you really think that your posts on an internet message board are so influential and so important that people actually follow you around looking for you to commit acts of hypocrisy so you they can publicize them? That's not a healthy mindset, and neither is your rudeness in response to a post that was made in good faith to alert people who are SUPPOSED to be fellow conservatives of what the extreme left is doing. Rude people like you who make insulting conspiracy theories like that - and yes I am offended that you would imply that I'm a liberal - are almost as bad as venom like Berlet himself.
So put the insults aside and ask yourself: what have YOU done to help the GOP or conservatism today? And please note that gratuitously insulting other conservatives is not a helpful thing.
Welcome to FR...hope you enjoy your stay here.
BTW, what is your opinion on the DPW deal?
Methinks he doth protest too much.
I joined up on wikipedia and they immediately slammed me for being conservative and they've been insulting me there ever since - especially Berlet himself when he showed up to censor his own profile.
You'd think that if I sought out a place where conservatives post on the internet they'd at least be friendly to somebody with common political views. And many of you have been. But now I'm getting slammed by people who call themselves Reagan supporters (though with that kind of behavior I have to doubt it is true) and people who think I'm part of some sort of conspiracy against them! Ridiculous and paranoid!
Methinks you are a paranoid and boorish person.
Great catch...thanks for the links.
"It helps still having a mod account at DU w/ message alerts..."
LMAO...the DUmmies that read this thread are going to break their heads over the identity of the mod.
Hi. I agree basically with what Savage was saying last night. Handing our ports over to Dubai is an invitation to terror infiltration. The left is only grandstanding on it to get Bush, but the critics on the right are correct.
Some folks here are suspicious of "newcomers" who start certain types threads immediately upon signing up here.
This is because we get many leftist impostors who are skilled at pretending to be "one of us".
So sit tight and,if you're for real,you'll be accepted.
If you continue with your personal insults (against FR rules), you'll be toast soon.
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