Examples of Bias in Wikipedia: Conservative Personalities
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This article lists examples of Bias in Wikipedia, as it relates to Conservative Politicians and Personalities:
- Wikipedia has thousands of obscure pages for individuals that the public never heard of or recognize. Conservative undercover journalist Hannah Giles is not given her own page mostly likely due to the fact she has taken on the liberal establishment and won. A search of Hannah Giles gives her an obscure paragraph in what Wikipedia titles the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy. [2]
- For liberal politicians, Wikipedia uses flattering photos. But for conservative politician Sally Kern, about whom homosexual activists have had a sissy fit, Wikipedia used an absurd, uncharacteristic photo.[1]
- The most popular talk radio hosts in America are all conservative. Siding with liberalism and hiding from conservative dominance, Wikipedia chose not to categorize conservative radio hosts. However, they did categorize Progressive talk show hosts even though they lack talent or an audience. [3]
- Amid the libel controversy against Rush Limbaugh during his bid to purchase an NFL team, the St. Louis Rams, Newsbusters revealed the false quote's Web source appeared to be from Wikipedia.[2] The quote has been removed and replaced several times since 2005. And the Wikipedia entry did not provide a transcript link to Limbaugh's show with the citation, because the quote did not exist but was part of a bias strategy by Wikipedia to label Limbaugh a racist. While the talk host criticized the website that bills itself as an "online encyclopedia," Wikipedia editors were busy discussing their strategy for handling the controversy.[3] It was later revealed that the quotes were added by a highly controversial, bias user with the IP address of 69.64.213.146.[4]
- Alma mater normally refers to a college that a person actually graduated from. [5] However, at Wikipedia, the biography for co-founder Jimmy Wales prominently lists two colleges he didn't graduate from as alma maters. [6] Sean Hannity attended but did not graduate from NYU. Wikipedia does not list NYU as Sean Hannity's alma mater because he is a conservative. [7]
- Wikipedia tries to smear conservatives as "conspiracy theorists," even when they are not, and yet omits that epithet for liberals who insist there are vast conspiracies, such as Hillary Clinton's claim of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Compare Wikipedia's entry on Phyllis Schlafly, which repeats a false assertion that she "veers off into conspiracy theories,"[8] with Wikipedia's entry on Hillary Clinton, which provides her quote of a "vast" conspiracy yet refuses to describe her as a conspiracy theorist.[9] Wikipedia's entry on liberal Michael Moore, the biggest conspiracy theorist of all, does not even include any reference to the word "conspiracy"![10]
- The Wikipedia page on Phyllis Schlafly implies that she took a stance in favor of segregation in 1960, and that she used Jewish code words. The source is a NY Times book review of a book about her, but the review does not say those things. The book review criticizes the book author instead. The Wikipedia article does not identify the book reviewer as Jewish, even though she is a Jew raising a Jewish issue. A user who tried to correct these errors was blocked indefinitely from Wikipedia, and a comment was even removed from the Talk page.
- The Wikipedia page on John Lott, a respected conservative commentator and academic, cites supposed errors in Lott's characterization of liberal bias against gun owners in his book More Guns, Less Crime. In fact, Lott's figures are accurate, and Wikipedia's sanctimonious claim of "bias" for his exposure of liberal media bias smacks of liberal hypocrisy. The rest of the entry is also filled with other unfounded smears and accusations attempting to silence his factual conservatism, characteristic of Wikipedia's liberal censorship. [11]
- Despite Wikipedia's policy on not including "neologisms", the disgusting and hateful term Santorum is listed on Wikipedia and ranks #2 in Google. This was a smear term specifically invented by gay rights activist Dan Savage to be derogatory of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Wikipedia:Biographies of Living Persons also is said to restrict material that may cause "harm to the subject." The page has existed for five years, was nominated for deletion, but all the liberal editors of Wikipedia had their say, and the article has been kept.
- Wikipedia uses trivia to push its liberal icons on readers. In its first 200 words about conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Wikipedia used to include the meaningless trivia that he was born on the same day as (liberal) Jimmy Carter.[12] Yet nowhere in Carter's entry does it say he was born on the same day as Rehnquist.
- Wikipedia biographies for conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin are usually saddled with large sections titled “controversies”. These “controversies” are often nothing but quotes or complaints by fringe liberal elements, and Wikipedia advises against such sections, but its liberal editors ensure the biased use of such sections.[13] However, the Wikipedia page for “Hanoi” Jane Fonda describes her obviously controversial propagandizing for the North Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War as “political activism” rather than “controversy”. [14]
- Wikipedia allows countless entries flattering obscure liberals, but lacks many entries about leading conservatives. For example, the Wikipedia entry on pro-life leader Judie Brown was previously nothing but a redirect[15] to an entry about an organization which barely mentions her.[16] A proper page for her has since been added[17].
- The Wikipedia page for Republican Mark Kirk[18] made no mention of the widely-reported and significant fact that, as a Navy reservist, he is the first U.S. Representative since WWII to make an overseas deployment to an imminent danger area (Afghanistan).[19] Instead, the Wikipedia page devotes an entire section titled "contributors" that attempts to smear Kirk with tenuous associations to controversial figures because of relatively small campaign donations. A grammatically-incorrect acknowledgment of Kirk's deployment eventually appeared.[20] Kirk's wikipedia page mentioned a $1,000 donation from Tony Rezko [21], but Obama's page does not mention the $54,416 [22] Rezko donation. [23] Only after this issue was brought up were issues corrected.[24]
- Wikipedia bias against movement conservatives is intense. Michele Bachmann won reelection in 2008 by 3% in a state that went heavily Democratic, but instead of crediting her conservative positions the biased Wikipedia entry states, "Despite fallout from controversial statements that she had made, Bachmann defeated her Democratic opponent Elwyn Tinklenberg in the 2008 election."[25]
- Wikipedia's entry on conservative Ron Paul smears him with unsubstantiated statements (newsletter "issues gave tactical advice to right-wing militia groups and advanced various conspiracy theories"[26]), misleading attributions of statements (Paul renounced the statements in 2001), and an overall political hatchet job ... and then locks the page to prevent correction![27]
- The Wikipedia entry on conservative Rick Scarborough falsely claimed that he said that HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, is God's punishment for sexually active young women. Wikipedia admits it has no support for this claim, yet has allowed the statement to remain in his entry for most of 2007.
- On July 28, 2010, the United States was listed as a "belligerent" fighting on the side of Iraq in Wikipedia's "Iran-Iraq War" article.[28] On July 15, 2010, Ronald Reagan was listed under "commanders and leaders" as a commander of Iraqi forces, alongside Saddam Hussein and his thugs.[29]
References
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Kern
- ↑ Limbaugh: Media 'scum' lying about fake racist quotes, WND, October 13, 2009.
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rush_Limbaugh#Legal_threat
- ↑ The Search for the Wikipedia Libelist (important update), American Thinker, October 21, 2009.
- ↑ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alma%20mater
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Wales&oldid=272581018
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sean_Hannity&oldid=272201242
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moore
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott#Media_bias_and_defensive_gun_use
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rehnquist
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Criticism&oldid=225325117
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judie_Brown&redirect=no
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Life_League
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judie_Brown
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Kirk&oldid=263357766
- ↑ http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/il10_kirk/Kirk_Completes_Reserve_Tour.html
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Kirk&oldid=263472629
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Kirk&oldid=268845790
- ↑ http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353782,CST-NWS-rezpols23.article
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&oldid=272320979
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Kirk&oldid=274813568
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann#cite_ref-33
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Paul&oldid=183792833
- ↑ The page was locked from January 8 to August 6, 2008. [1]
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=375898707&oldid=375895692
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=368133799&oldid=368122576
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