Writer invents Wikipedia scandal to gripe about

What sort of idiot actually thinks Wikipedia has a liberal bias? A dumb one.

In the past few days, the fuckheadosphere has screamed its ugly face off about Wikipedia allegedly scrubbing any negative stories about President Obama. Naturally, Fox News dutifully picked up this story.

This couldn't possibly be the same Wikipedia where volunteer editors yanked the entry about The Online Lunchpail because of this blog's politics, could it? Why yes, it is. The Foxfux are delusional enough to believe Wikipedia has a liberal bias, even after that.

To nobody's surprise, it turns out the wingnuts' story of Obama-themed censorship is completely bogus.

The story was initially spread by Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem correspondent for far-right hate site WorldNetDaily. Klein is a major contributor to right-wing news organizations such as Fox News and the recently defunct incarnation of the far-right New York Sun.

Any story by someone from WorldNutDaily should be dismissed out of hand. That site has no credibility. At all. Fox just had to pump up this story though, didn't they?

It turns out though that someone working for Klein made the edits to the Obama entry that other Wikipedia users reverted. The edits were made under Klein's direction. Why were they reverted? Because they were designed to spread discredited conspiracy theories, like the birth certificate flap that was already debunked last year.

In other words, the Wikipedia flap is a manufactured story. Klein directed the posting of bogus information on Wikipedia - just so he'd have a reason to accuse "liberals" at Wikipedia of "censoring" it.

Aaron Klein calls himself a journalist? A real journalist would never pull this shit.

When another blog reported Klein's deception, Klein cried that he was being "defamed" - even though what the blog printed was true. Klein admitted that he oversaw the edits, but claimed it was "entirely legitimate journalistic practice." Uh, no. It's not.

I know this, because I studied mass media in college. What mass media classes did you take, Aaron?

Perhaps the bigger story is that Fox deliberately distorted the news by latching onto Klein's fraudulent story.

The FCC used to look very, very dimly upon stations distorting news. Other commenters here have pointed this out before and invited folks to read about the WLBT case. That case involved one of the most severe actions ever taken by the FCC against a station.

If the FCC was as on the ball now as it was in the '60s, there's no question Fox would be facing stiff sanctions.

My message for Aaron Klein: Obama won. Get over it.

(Source: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5167585/right+wing-writer-invents-his-own-obama-wikipedia-scandal)