CA: Former Feinstein staffer edited Wikipedia entries (cut references to Feinstein's net worth)

SFGate.com ^ | 2/9/06 | Carolyn Lochhead

[highlander_UW]

Looks like someone beat me to the punch.

LOL...liberally really hate the truth being known...but the size of the rocks they hide under is shrinking.

[antiRepublicrat]

Translation - Changes will stay as they are.

The net worth deletion has already been undone.

[Gordongekko909]

Singing lady's getting fatter.

[calcowgirl]

...staff members had been beautifying their bosses' biographies...

Some things just can't be beautified. Pelosi comes to mind.

[conservative physics]

Someone needs to add this line to Al Gore's bio:

Having received more votes than any candidate in US Presidential history, Al Gore is considered to be the biggest looser in US history.

[antiRepublicrat]

I wonder if under Al Gore it lists him as the inventor of the internet?

It mentions the comment and provides links to discussions of the whole story. In essence, his wording was easy to misconstrue. He did say "creating" and not "invent," and he was the first legislator to push for funding for the technology that would become the Internet. IOW, his legislative actions led to the creation of the Internet. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn (the two people most responsible for the actual inventing of the Internet) agree his statement is true.

Not that I like Gore, but it's not necessary to falsely bash him when there is plenty of true stuff to bash him for, even in the area of computers with his hatred of private encryption.

[antiRepublicrat]

Having received more votes than any candidate in US Presidential history, Al Gore is considered to be the biggest looser in US history.

Funny, but that would be vandalism and make the poster no better than Feinstein (does anyone actually believe it was just a lowly staffer acting independently?).

[calcowgirl]

Changed his name? Richard Blum is her third husband. They met in 1978 when he was head of Moscone's fiscal advisory committee. (Husband #1: Jack Berman--one child, marriage dissolved. Husband #2: Dr. Bertram Feinstein--died April 1978)

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

i know exactly where that house is and had no idea she owned it.

seems strange for her to have a house that is literally in one of SFs most famous tourists spots (steps at pacific heights)

[samadams2000]

The third one.

[calcowgirl]

Mr. Blum later announced he would donate all profits from his Chinese investments to charity."

But did he?

[calcowgirl]

He changed his name before he married her? Pre-1978?
What was his name before?

[edcoil]

You can do that when you get a 6 Billion dollar no bid contract from Uncle Sam for your "think-tank"

[GAB-1955]

Wrong. If you're going to edit a political article, register first. Then you have editing privileges. They're trying to avoid anonymous character assassination, rather than the pseudonymous character assassination we registered Wikipedians can do.

[Christian4Bush]

I know what Feinstein's "worth" is: less.

[weegee]

Someone's GOT to add the photo of him demonstrating gun safety...

[NormsRevenge]

...staff members had been beautifying their bosses' biographies...
Some things just can't be beautified. Pelosi comes to mind.


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lol.. thanks, now I know what it feels like when soup comes out my nose (and 2pac when she speaks the truth, which is rare).. ouch.

[dljordan]

"Wow, they've been all over the place over there. Harkin, Feinstein, Coleman..."

I read it. They need to block government IP addresses from updating their site. Too funny.

[pabianice]

Wikipedia is to knowledge as the DNC is to sanity.

[Constantine XIII]

Note that records are kept of updates and the IP addresses of those who make changes. People who make nuisances of themselves can be banned, and oft defaced articles can be locked.