| − | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Politcal Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". [http://www.namebase.org/news02.html] By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the politcal shpere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former JFK Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170] when the two worked together in the 1980s for ''ABC News'', was asked to remove Brandt's criticism of PRA, and it's Senior Researcher, [[Chip Berlet]] [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352], from Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribtution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes]which at the time would have denied using Berlet as a source for any article in Wikipedia on the basis of being published in "extremeist publications". Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a guilt by association smear -- be aligned with Holocaust denial. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, then could not be cited as a ctitic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of being aligned with extremists. | + | Brandt wrote in 1991 of [[Politcal Research Associates]] (PRA), such a group will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal". [http://www.namebase.org/news02.html] By mid 2005, precisely these type of activities of PRA described by Brandt were pervasive in the politcal sphere in Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who is reputed to be former JFK Press Secretary [[Pierre Salinger]]'s chief researcher Linda Mack [http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=3910&st=0&p=15170&#entry15170] when the two worked together in the 1980s for ''ABC News'', was asked to remove Brandt's criticism of PRA, and it's Senior Researcher, [[Chip Berlet]] [http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352], from Wikipedia. SlimVirgin, who wrote most of Wikipedia's Attribtution policies, rewrote the Reliable Source policy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Rangerdude/Workshop#Request_of_finding_for_ex_post_facto_policy_changes]which at the time would have denied using Berlet as a source for any article in Wikipedia on the basis of being published in "extremeist publications". Before she was through, she created the Daniel Brandt bio ''citing Berlet as a source'' to accuse Brandt of a guilt by association smear -- be aligned with Holocaust denial. Brandt, having been smeared by the cabal of Berlet & SlimVirgin, then could not be cited as a ctitic of Berlet or PRA, on the basis of being aligned with extremists. |