More on congressional cretins editing Wikipedia entries...

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I think Declan McCullagh speaks for me, at least in the disdain
that I feel for the morons participating in this childishness.

[snip]

We already know, of course, that politicians live primarily for re-election and typically view the truth as an 
impediment to the higher purpose of unfettered self-aggrandizement. 

Still, we can be excused for feeling mildly nauseated when fresh confirmation of this distasteful aspect of modern 
politicking surfaces. 

The latest episode appeared last week in the form of a report that aides to Rep. Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts 
Democrat, deleted references to his broken term-limits pledge and massive campaign war chest on Wikipedia. 

Then the trusty editors at Wikipedia got together and compiled a list of over 1,000 edits made by Internet addresses 
allocated to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The IP address subsequently was blocked and unblocked. 

An extensive analysis reveals how juvenile official Washington secretly is, behind the mind-numbingly serious talk of 
public policy. 

One edit listed White House press secretary Scott McClellan under the entry for "douche." Another said of Sen. Tom 
Coburn, R-Oklahoma) that: "Coburn was voted the most annoying Senator by his peers in Congress. This was due to Senator 
Coburn being a huge douche-bag." 

(Keep in mind these are the same holier-than-thou political climbers tasked with writing laws telling the rest of the 
country how to behave. Or else.) 

This juvenalia is, of course, thoroughly bipartisan. Another change to the Iraq invasion entry shows that the anonymous 
congressional editor played up the dubious connections between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. 

It's true, of course, that the cretins who are behind the Wikipedia alterations can (and probably will) do this from 
their home computers in the future. But the difficulty in policing the political class shouldn't make us any less 
alarmed at the most recent evidence of its misdeeds.

[snip]

http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6033082.html

- ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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