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Wikipedia's Memogate article rewritten based on Mapes talking points

Posted on 12/14/2005 12:17:27 AM PST by lqclamar

I just noticed this after another freeper commented that the Wikipedia article on memogate was generally favorable to free republic yesterday.

Literally a few moments after the post, some leftist wacko essentially rewrote the entire Wikipedia article on memogate using talking points that supposedly "refute" each evidence item that shows they were forgeries. He added a bunch of citations to TANG-Bush conspiracy sites and the site he used the most (12 times) was www.truthandduty.com.

In case you don't know www.truthandduty.com is Mary Mapes' website pushing her new book.

Here's the link of all the changes that were made - it's virtually a complete overhaul of the article that makes it look like the forgeries were genuine as Mapes still contends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killian_documents&diff=31140055&oldid=30934984


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1 posted on 12/14/2005 12:17:28 AM PST by lqclamar
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To: lqclamar

Wikipedia is useless as a reference for anything that involves politics.


2 posted on 12/14/2005 12:18:54 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey hey ho ho Andy Heyward's got to go!)
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To: lqclamar

bump


3 posted on 12/14/2005 12:19:19 AM PST by perfect stranger
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To: lqclamar

well, then some FReeper better set the facts straight


4 posted on 12/14/2005 12:20:13 AM PST by GeronL (Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Great home page you have there, Paleo Conservative. That optical illusion is cool (among the many other excellent pics there).


5 posted on 12/14/2005 12:22:02 AM PST by indcons
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To: Paleo Conservative
You're right about that. The people who edit it are libs from the radical fringe. The guy who added all the Mapes stuff's homepage shows he's one too.

He literally claims there that his mother in law "starve to death because of religious fanatics & right-wing politicians"

6 posted on 12/14/2005 12:23:08 AM PST by lqclamar
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To: Paleo Conservative
Wakipedia is basically useless for anything. School kids make a joke of screwing it up for something to do. Anyone using wakipedia for reference has got rocks in their head.
7 posted on 12/14/2005 12:24:47 AM PST by Forte Runningrock
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To: Paleo Conservative

useless for anything else as well. It's a liberal propaganda.


8 posted on 12/14/2005 12:25:57 AM PST by Wiz
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To: lqclamar
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia for the brain dead.
9 posted on 12/14/2005 12:26:19 AM PST by msnimje (http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_blog.php .. VOTE FOR MALKIN (everyday) -- DON'T LET KOS WIN!!)
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To: lqclamar

Ping for later


10 posted on 12/14/2005 12:27:51 AM PST by Lancer_N3502A
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To: Paleo Conservative
Wikipedia is useless as a reference for anything that involves politics.

There. That's much better.

11 posted on 12/14/2005 12:28:13 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (You know you have bird flu if you have usual flu symptoms + desire to crap on freshly washed cars.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Any "historical reference" with liberal influence is useless.


12 posted on 12/14/2005 12:31:14 AM PST by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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To: lqclamar
Search of FR articles on Wikipedia

All of the articles show the basic dangers and limitations of material Wikipedia contains. Anyone can edit and we must trust the editors to clean up mistakes or falsifications if we are to believe the content. Wikipedia should never be used as a sole source.

13 posted on 12/14/2005 12:31:19 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: lqclamar

Adding an active link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killian_documents&diff=31140055&oldid=30934984

We "could" always FReep them with facts.


14 posted on 12/14/2005 12:33:51 AM PST by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

CNN, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, and NY Times have all pushed hoaxes as "news".

NONE of them should be cited as primary references either.

When will this partisan crap be dropped from school libraries? Or at least label it as propaganda akin to Pravda and the Daily Worker.

Any schools subscribe to The Weekly World News?

If that seems ridiculous, consider that the Globe was the first paper struck in the anthrax attacks.


15 posted on 12/14/2005 12:36:48 AM PST by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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To: Wiz

Wakipedia is based on the retarded liberal belief that all mankind are born "good" and that the evil of mankind is a result of capitalism, religion (in the case of Islam that's true, but oddly, Liberals embrace it) and industral polution. If only mankind can revert to caveman like existance, than man well be good and at one with nature (but oddly, their vision of nature includes fags)


16 posted on 12/14/2005 12:36:51 AM PST by Forte Runningrock
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Someone HAS to revise that to state in the first paragraphs flatly that the actual hand signed and typed document has NEVER been produced.

Ergo there is no "genuine article" with which to prove the existence of the Hitler Diary, er "Bush National Air Guard Memo".

All of their smoke and mirrors about what "may" have been possible in the era is Bullzogby. Put up or STFU.

Goebbels could have used these lying brownshirts on his team.


17 posted on 12/14/2005 12:43:04 AM PST by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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To: Forte Runningrock

Islam wants the masses living like cavemen too. The royals get billion dollar palaces.


18 posted on 12/14/2005 12:44:45 AM PST by weegee (Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
>>>Wikipedia should never be used as a sole source.<<<

There. That's better. :)

19 posted on 12/14/2005 12:45:18 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (You know you have bird flu if you have usual flu symptoms + desire to crap on freshly washed cars.)
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To: weegee

There, fixed part of it.


20 posted on 12/14/2005 12:45:24 AM PST by Forte Runningrock
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