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Wikipedia Scrubs Ayers and Wright From Obama Biography
newsbusters.org ^ | March 8, 2009 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 03/08/2009 7:19:57 PM PDT by 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.

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KEYWORDS: aaronklein; purge; wikipedia
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To: antiRepublicrat

Obviously the changes won’t stick. But what cannot be altered can certainly be disrupted.

This is a call for a form of online civil disobedience. worldnetdaily’s already on-board, soon others will cover this as well.


61 posted on 03/08/2009 9:03:59 PM PDT by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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To: ETL
OK, but my point remains. Annenberg was the founder of his own challenge, not Ayers or anybody else.
62 posted on 03/08/2009 9:15:14 PM PDT by Dick Holmes
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wikipedia: the online reference resource of the Ministry of Truth. Copyright: 1984. Published in London, Airstrip One.


63 posted on 03/08/2009 9:17:04 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: LucyT; ETL

Thanks for the ping, LucyT.

Somehow I knew a FReeper would have saved that. Didn’t know who until now. Thank you, ETL and stay safe.


64 posted on 03/08/2009 9:27:01 PM PDT by azishot (I just joined the NRA.)
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To: Dick Holmes

BTW, the bio on the link is wrong. Annenberg was appointed ambassador to England in 1969, by Nixon, not 1968.


65 posted on 03/08/2009 9:27:47 PM PDT by Dick Holmes
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Doesn't say anything about his trip to Pakistan either.

Apparently, according to the Obama campaign, In 1981 -- the year Obama transferred from Occidental College to Columbia University -- Obama visited his mother and sister Maya in Indonesia. After that visit, Obama traveled to Pakistan with a friend from college whose family was from there. The Obama campaign says Obama was in Pakistan for about three weeks, staying with his friend's family in Karachi and also visiting Hyderabad in Southern India.

66 posted on 03/08/2009 9:29:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Dear Mr. Obama - Please make it rain candy! P.S. I like jelly beans.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The traitors at Wikipedia should tell you everything you need to know. Our country has been infiltrated. Absent ardent and uncompromising resistance from patriots, they will eliminate all hope “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”


67 posted on 03/08/2009 9:31:15 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Stalin had a way of having his "Old Comrads" erased from memory too.


68 posted on 03/08/2009 9:37:20 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (We have nothing to fear but Obama himself.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They’ll delete this stuff but leave the ‘Bush Conspiracy on 9/11’ up. Simply amazing....


69 posted on 03/08/2009 11:38:20 PM PDT by Kent C
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The brainwashed maggots only will understand their place in the Party, or in a gulag...there is no in-between for the Marxist Media.


70 posted on 03/08/2009 11:56:35 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: CASchack
Too Late
71 posted on 03/09/2009 4:36:51 AM PDT by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: azishot; LucyT; All
Somehow I knew a FReeper would have saved that. Didn’t know who until now. Thank you, ETL and stay safe.

Little of what I have on Wright, Ayers or Obama's other communist associations, comes from wikipedia, although they actually are often a terrific source for information on these far left individuals and groups, as well as for many other subjects. Nearly everything there is linked to a published source. I'm not sure who started this rumor that they couldn't be trusted. If you look at the wiki excerpts I do have on my FR page, you'd be hard-pressed to say they were 'covering' for the left. Sure, they have pieces that DO omit or slant, but, by and large, they are pretty good, based on my experiences in researching this stuff.

72 posted on 03/09/2009 5:50:26 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: azishot; LucyT

Oops! Forgot to say you’re welcome. :)


73 posted on 03/09/2009 5:53:08 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

which makes sense for the governemtn to ban lead in ink and force books to be destroyed.

wikipedia can be changed on whim.

we need a deeper way to do a non left wing looney wikipedia.


74 posted on 03/09/2009 6:01:35 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What about the individual entry of Ayers and Wright?

They may have protected obama’s entry but they can’t protected all the collateral entries.


75 posted on 03/09/2009 6:04:22 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

Spread the word..
http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page

:)


76 posted on 03/10/2009 12:24:48 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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