Caller just pointed out on the Ed Show that someone has deleted Professor Bell's

[mfcorey1]

Korean War service from the entry in wikipedia. Damn shame.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. I'm far from an expert in All Things Wikipedia

but a cursory search didn't reveal any mention of his service in the Korean War whatsoever...not to say it wasn't included earlier and deleted by some shitheel, that is. I'm just saying I never saw evidence of its removal in the edit log.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Who's Professor Bell?

[GeorgeGist]

8. Derrick Bell ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Bell

[SomethingFishy]

9. He's Hannity's "smoking gun"

Delivered posthumously by Breitbart. Obama apparently hugged this guy 25 years ago, so that makes him unqualified to be president. I caught a clip of Malkin on Hannity's show, it was hilarious. She was practically drooling over absolutely nothing.

[Demonaut]

3. Ed mentioned he served but didnt mention where and when, Bell's wife was awesome though on his show

Really liked her

[MerryBlooms]

4. I heard that, so I checked Wkki and then Professor Bell's official site

The official site does include info on his military service, but Wikki doesn't.

http://professorderrickbell.com/about/


I hadn't checked Wikki previously to hearing the call, so I don't know if the info was originally included there, or not.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It wasn't there before the current appearance in the news

and, while I haven't checked every single revision since then (but I have checked perhaps 10 of them), it doesn't appear to have been added until the last revision about half an hour ago.

[MerryBlooms]

12. Interesting, thanks.

[mercuryblues]

6. It has been

edited a lot since about march 7th and even some suspected vandalism.

[freshwest]

7. The GOP never stopped 'scrubbing' the internet to slant search results. It's epidemic now.

Try to google some event that doesn't support their reality, and it's almost impossible to find, even events that involved hundreds of thousands of people and were on mass media.

Ask a question trying to find a non-conservative speaker, and you get dozens of right wing slanted articles or smears. They're paid to do this all day and night. There was a thread here on DU about how they are hiring military to use better programs to disrupt any site that tends to be anti-war.

It's done by bots or sick individuals like O'Keefe and the many internet trolls who have shut down discussion boards with pornographic and shocking photographs, scatalogical language and personal attacks in shell posting. They only attack liberals, progressives and Democrats. They've infected the world wide web.

[Kingofalldems]

10. Looks like someone also scrubbed Hannity and Limbaugh's military careers

[Cleita]

11. I found this using Ask instead of Google.

http://www.answers.com/topic/derrick-bell

Personal Information

Born Derrick Albert Bell, Jr., November 6, 1930, in Pittsburgh, PA; son of Derrick Albert and Ada Elizabeth (Childress) Bell; married Jewel Allison Hairston, 1960 (died 1990); married Janet Dewart (in public relations), 1992; children: Derrick Albert III, Douglas Dubois, Carter Robeson.
Education: Duquesne University, A.B., 1952; University of Pittsburgh, LL.B., 1957.
Military/Wartime Service: U.S. Air Force, 1952-54; served in Korea.
Memberships: NAACP; member of the Bar of Washington, D.C., New York, Pennsylvania, California, the U.S. Supreme Court, several circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and various federal district courts.

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/derrick-bell#ixzz1p1rXsvJv

[RZM]

13. Happens to wikipedia articles all the time

Usually it's adding ridiculous stuff and it never stays up for very long at all.

I can think of two funny ones I've seen over the years:

'Dick Armey lives in Virginia with his life-partner'

In the entry for Lester Pearson (prime minister of Canada in the 1960s), one of the sub-headings under 'Personal Life' read 'Pimp of the Nation' and detailed his supposed amorous exploits.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. Anyone who uses Wikipedia or the bible as references...

...are immediately dismissed in my POV. So, who cares?