Bachmann fans float Wikipedia edits to cover candidate’s recent gaffes

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Bachmann, who officially launched her campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.

Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.

Another edit came after she declared Tuesday morning that the nation's sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was a "founding father," even though he was just a child when his father, the nation's second president, signed the Declaration of Independence.

Sure enough, in short order Adams's Wikipedia entry was changed to call him a "founding father." The page's administrator quickly struck down the revision, insisting that users not make edits "based on current events."

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/28/bachmann-fans-float-wikipedia-edits-to-cover-candidate%E2%80%99s-recent-gaffes/

[AndyTiedye]

1. That Trick Never Works

They should know better than to mess with Wikipedia.

[BlueJazz]

2. "based on current events." He means "Based on current Dumb-Asses"

:rofl:

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. How low can CONservatives go? What a bunch of LOSERS!

[proReality]

4. Are we sure it wasn't her or her staff who made the changes?

I wouldn't put it past them.

[krispos42]

5. "I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own"

[kokoro]

6. The history book on the shelf, is always repeating itself

Considering her grasp of history, I expect the next thing she'll say is that she hopes her campaign is as successful as Napoleon's campaign at Waterloo. I hope so too.

[marasinghe]

7. liberal hackers (Anonymous) take down CIA & fascist websites;

right wingnut hackers edit Wikipedia - with obvious, childish lies.
:rofl:
no surprise there.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. Wikipedia does a pretty good job at policing that shit...

It will be corrected and hopefully locked so it can not be changed.

[Xithras]

9. Wow. I wonder if these morons realize that this is part of the plot of '1984'

Smith's career was to rewrite history to fit with the statements and policies of todays politicians. What is has always been. What is not, never was. No politician was ever wrong, because any inconsistencies would be fixed by rewriting history to fit.

Teabaggers, bringing the Minitrue to a Wikipedia page near you!

[deacon]

10. Pathetic. n/t