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PageOneQ Donating Member (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 05:58 PM
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Conservative launches crusade against Wikipedia
WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah has kicked off a mission to slay the "dragon" that is Wikipedia.

Farah's outrage is due to an unknown party repeatedly editing the opening line of his biographical entry on the collaborative online encyclopedia to read: "Joseph Francis Farah is an Evangelical Christian American journalist and noted homosexual of Lebanese and Syrian heritage."


http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Conservative_launches_crusade_again_1215.html
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:00 PM
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1. why would anyone take offense at being called
Lebanese?


I must be missing something.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:01 PM
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3. it's most offensive calling him a journalist
yes INDEED
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TygrBright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:01 PM
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2. BWAHAHAHAHAH! This oughta be good for more than a few laughs...
:popcorn:

interestedly,
Bright
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Kurska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:02 PM
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4. Joseph Farah Raped and killed a man in 1999
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:32 PM
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9. I've heard that before ...
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 06:59 PM
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5. "It is a wholesale purveyor of lies and slander: that's *my* job ,says WND founder
"What's more, when Wikipedia does it, it's for free, where I make a profit out of spouting BS on the 'net. That means I'm True American, while it must be a dangerous commie pinko plot."
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:05 PM
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6. Er, what does this fuckwit expect to DO, actually? Censor them, sut them down?
Making donating to them illegal? Erecting a China-like firewall?

He doesn't have a clue how Wikipedia works. He seems to think of it as a left-wing cabal in a smoky room or something.

What a putz.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:06 PM
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7. Yawn
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:30 PM
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8. I see nothing wrong with this ...
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Obamarama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:41 PM
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10. You need read no farther than "WorldNetDaily founder" for reason to roll your eyes on this one.
That clears it up for me. Wingnut freak, no doubt about it.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 07:49 PM
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11. That no talent right wing hack who ran one of our town's papers into the ground.
And now we're a one paper town and the Bee's even lamer than normal for lack of even half-assed competition.

May his eyes be eaten by maggots for that alone. Asshole.
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DRoseDARs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 08:00 PM
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12. Er, has anyone bothered to tell him that Wiki can put a lock on his page to prevent this?
When someone spray paints your building, you don't boycott the police. :shrug:
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DRoseDARs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 08:00 PM
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13. .
Edited on Mon Dec-15-08 08:00 PM by DRoseDARs
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Libertyfirst Donating Member (583 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-08 08:29 PM
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14. Free entertainment.
When the stupid take on the impossible.
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