Duff discovers Wikipedia is written by people with opinions
Yes, Gordon Duff discovered this weekend that Wikipedia is what everyone else on the planet knew it was – an encyclopedia written by regular old people online. So he jumps off the deep end, calls it another Mossad plot and bans references to the website;
Evidence is now clear. Wikpedia, the vast online encyclopedia used as a reference source by amateur and professional scholars, journalists and researchers of all kinds is now proven to be subject to a massive assault by the government of Israel. Hundreds of Wikipedia editors are being recruited and trained each week, tasked by the Israeli government with instilling open “Zionist” bias in even the most innocent areas, not just news, but personal biographies and, especially history.
Veterans Today, with great sadness and reluctance, is now forced to ban all Wikipedia content from the site, under the assumption that such content is adversarial to the security of the United States and its military forces.
So, the Israelis are planning to take over the US using Wikipedia as a weapon? I don’t think that will happen since the rest of the civilized world has known about Wikipedia since it’s inception and no one uses a single search (on the internet!) for research. Everytime I use Wikipedia, I go in assuming it’s wrong – because most of the entries are written by someone with an agenda. It’s only good for dates and names and external links.
But, we all know Gordon needed something to take a shot at the Joos today.
Category: General Whackos
Does Duff ever tire of finding the “Jooooooooooo’s” hiding behind every cabinet, under every bed and behind every post in the world?
And, WTF does Veteran’s Today have to do with the “security of the United States and its military forces”?
Has Duff also noticed that the sun tends to rise in the east? And come on, get a new conspiracy. Blaming the Jooooooooos is worn out – let’s go back to the Trilateral Commission or Rosecrucians or something.
LittleRed1, don’t forget the Bilderbergers.
You know 40 years ago this fruit basket would have been detained and committed to a padded cell until his brain was back in working order.
Rich: I don’t think his brain was ever in working order.
LittleRed1: You forgot the Illuminati as well.
Gordy just can’t get over his moronic thinking of “It’s the Jooooos!”
And in breaking news, the video of the XO of the Enterprised leaked to CNN was a Zionist plot to weaken national security.
Dear Gordo, to borrow a phrase, “Lighten up, Francis.”
Maybe someone can convince him that the internet is a vast conspiracy too….
“Wikpedia, the vast online encyclopedia used as a reference source by amateur and professional scholars, journalists and researchers of all kinds”….
Huh? I admit I do not know many researchers or scholars, only those that were my college professors but each and every one of them would give you a seriously bad grade if anyone in the class ever used Wikipedia as a reference for anything.
This Duff guy seems to be batshit crazy. I wonder if Hollywood will do a film about him like they did with McCarthy.
Memo to Gordon:
Nice catch with that Wikipedia/opinion thing. Really hep, cat.
If you think that’s something, there’s this 23-skidoo band from England called the “Beatles.” No, they’re not really bugs, but they are the bees knees! It’s just a play on the name “beetle” with “beat” in their name. I know! I was confused at first too, but now it seems so peachy-keen!
Gosh, there’s so much to see and learn and love when you come out of the bomb shelter!
It appears that Israel wants to “control the message”.
So does everyone else. The Left, the Right, the Zionists, the anti-Zionists, the communists, the labor unionists, the Ron Paul zombies, the global warming alarmists, the global warming skeptics, the conspiracy theorists, the UFO enthusiasts. Everyone.
Wikipedia, being the quick reference of choice among young people, is valuable territory to be conquered. With that in mind, it’s best to take everything you read on there with a grain of salt. Personally, I see a lot of left-wing bias on the site. Editors and “fact-checkers” supposedly review the pages on a regular basis, removing errors and distortions. What is an error or distortion? It’s what they say it is.
The fact that editors might have their own axes to grind seems pretty irrelevant to Wikipedia. Let’s imagine for a moment that the editors include Michael Moore, Amy Goodman, and Medea Benjamin. Or Gordon Duff, for that matter. They would go through Wikipedia with their fine toothed comb, removing and changing all kinds of information, deemed–by THEM!–to be spurious.
Such bias is pretty inocuous when it comes to completely uncontroversial topics–yeast, New South Wales, or Haley’s Comet, for example. But when the topic is something that people wage political war over…well, you see what happens.
“Wikpedia, the vast online encyclopedia used as a reference source by amateur and professional scholars, journalists and researchers of all kinds is now proven to be subject to a massive assault by the government of Israel.”
A comment on that. When I was in college, I didn’t know a single professor who would allow students to cite Wikipedia in any type of scholarly paper. Any student who did so would be laughed out of the room. I also wrote for the student newspaper. Standing policy: No Wikipedia citations!
I don’t know who Duff thinks is using Wikipedia. But professional scholars, journalists, and researchers SHOULD NOT BE.
I suppose he’ll start citing The Onion now.
@Ben Same here man. Our Lit teacher started the class out saying, “Do not cite Wikipedia. I will laugh at you then cut your score. Let’s see who’ll be the first in this class to make the mistake because one of you will.” Sure enough some genius would use it. Then get laughed at.
Funny thing is that when the anti-jew coalition gets cranked up they sound like a mix between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the crazy guy walking down the street talking to himself without a bluetooth earpiece (Hard to tell the difference sometimes).
The best source for facts and figures about countries is the CIA World Factbook. The CIA can bungle a lot of things, but their factbook is pretty thorough.
The best use of Wikipedia is not the opinions and articles it posts, but the sources it cites. While no one can be taken seriously that relies on Wiki as the source, if they responsibly use those sources at the bottom, one can sometimes fasttrack through infomation they’re looking for.
As to Duff’s Semeticphobia, well sometimes the best evidence against an argument is to simply let the person continue to use his 1st Amendment rights to prove his own ignorance, idiocy, or instability.
“sometimes the best evidence against an argument is to simply let the person continue to use his 1st Amendment rights to prove his own ignorance, idiocy, or instability.”
Lol, yep, love that line WOTN.
On the reliability of Wikipedia, just ask Rachel Maddow.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/d-s-hube/2009/06/04/maddow-slimes-limbaugh-phony-quote
In 2009, she said on her show (about Rush Limbaugh):
“When you get called racist by the guy who says the assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. should get the Medal of Honor, consider yourself honored. Also, nauseated.”
I know liberals who never listen to conservative radio shows who think that conservative talk hosts talk like this all the time.
Rush never said any such thing. He wouldn’t have a job right now if he had said it. So where did this quote come from? Well, if you trace it back, it appears to have come from Wikipedia. It has been added and removed several times. It has been removed because it isn’t true, but added again and again because somebody (or somebodies) want to paint conservatives as racist.
Dr. Rachel Maddow relies on Wikipedia for her show. Any other words, her standards are lower than my college newspaper’s.
I know liberals who never listen to conservative radio shows who think that conservative talk hosts talk like this all the time.
Rush never said any such thing.
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Yep, recall back when Rush was rumored to be part of a group which wanted to buy the StL Rams football team. The Left and MF-ing media went full riTARD and put out a bunch of made-up ‘quotes’ by Rush to paint him as a racist, unfit to own a football team.
I lost respect for a bunch of football players and sports journalists during that. The most egregious was PTI’s Michael Wilbon, who “quoted” the made-up quotes on his show to smear Rush and propagate the lie.
That’s how the Left works. They make shit up, keep repeating the lies and then Conservatives/Republicans are left trying to defend themselves against things they never said or did, but everyone believes to be true, simply because all the MF-ing media are saying it is true.
Even after the jackasses who spread the false quotes about Rush were told they were wrong, they defended themselves by saying “well, even if those quotes aren’t true, we all know Rush is still a racist”. In other words, ‘even though we have no proof for our assertion, it’s still true, because we say so’.
I may be a bit older than some commenters here, but back in the 1960s and early 1970s (BEFORE Wikipedia!) it was considered academic suicide to use ANY encyclopedia as a source. This is not some new-age crap, the purpose of encyclopedias for a researcher is as a jumping off point for actual, y’know, research.
As someone who has been an editor for Wikipedia for quite a few years, I can tell you that there are a host of subject areas where admins control the ideological tenor of any entry edits, and if an editor changes his overrided edits back he can get a nasty note, and even a ban. Their POV is so anti-Israel that the idea that anyone could edit entries so as to be kinder to Israel is foolish. The ravings of an antisemite like Duff can usually be picked apart easily, as this one was.