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Wikipedia Entries 'Cleaned' By Political Staffers
worb writes "According to the Lowell Sun, U.S. Rep Marty Meehan's staff has been heavily editing his Wikipedia bio, among other things removing criticisms. In total, more than one thousand Wikipedia edits in various articles have been traced back to congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six months."
Coming up after the break, we'll have the weather, and Tom will present his special report, "Are All Politicians Scumbags?" The answer may surprise you. But first, is your computer rotting your brain? You may be dead and not even know it yet.
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(Edited Sunday January 29, 03:26PM by RonPaul)
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Hopefully we'll have a War on the Human Condition soon so we can fix that annoying little problem and make the world a little safer for Freedom when it gets here.
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Completely open systems vulnerable to abuse. News at eleven!
Didn't the wikipedia guys ever have a subscription to "Duh!" magazine?
Good idea, ruined by humanity once again.
There you go again confusing politicians with human beings...
You forgot:
FARK Headline: [OBVIOUS] Congressman's staff corrects "sloppy writing" in his Wikipedia entry, like the part where it mentioned that he broke his promise not to serve more than four terms
Two days ago, even. Link
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Yeah, if only there was some way for us to choose who made up the government.
"Wikipedia operates on the principle that the 'truth' is whatever most people agree it is."
:-)
Finally, a testable hypothesis!
Let's charter a plane, fly a dozen Wikipedians up to about 12000 ft sans parachutes, and see if they can all agree that they can float gently to earth once they are prematurely deplaned
Hmmm, seems to be a page which has had a lot of edits. Which 'version' of Truth do you trust?
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Tom DeLay has been unanimously admonished by the House ethics committee run by his own party 3 times now? 4 times?
If you're looking for an innocent victim of scandal here, Tom DeLay is probably not one.
You can make your IP address change every hour, but you can't spell "wikipedia" correctly? Somehow, I'm underwhelmed...
And one more:
The Onion Headline: Republicans can read!
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