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lanlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-14-07 05:53 PM
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Vote on the most shameful Wikipedia spin jobs
Not surprisingly, Republicans and sleazy corporations are the top spin-sters:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-14-07 05:54 PM
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1. Conservapedia is the worst. nt
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Madspirit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-14-07 05:57 PM
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2. Wikipedia
Wikipedia actually has a link to my Firefly episode review.
I can't diss them...

I can diss those who are on the Right and fuck with Wiki...
Diss diss.

Lee
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WoodrowFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-14-07 06:05 PM
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3. check out Jim Powell's
Check out the entry for Jim Powell. He's a far RW liberterian who think's he's a historian and he keeps trying to puff himself up with the entry on himself.

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

It's much shorter than it used to be but the guy is a class-1 asshole.
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slowry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-14-07 06:13 PM
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4. Saw this on Slashdot -- great idea. Second result from a Monsanto IP:
Edited on Tue Aug-14-07 06:14 PM by slowry
Adding a few paragraphs in Michael Moore's entry, under the "Criticism" section.

There are probably 10s of thousands of embarassing edits, from various corporations. They'll probably start using proxies a lot more, after this.
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