Palin Fans Try to Rewrite History

I first saw this on NBC News but I had trouble locating it on their website.
No matter, there are other sources.


Since Sarah Palin stood Paul Revere on his head by saying that he was trying to warn the British, Palin supporters have been trying to revise the story on Wikipedia to fit Palin's version.
There should be a George Orwell Award for this sort of thing.




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Palin Fans Attempt to Rewrite History - Alaska Native News



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Thanks Dale... takes me back to Stephen Colbert's definition of Wikiality (Wikiality - Wikiality, the Truthiness Encyclopedia)

Also, here's a good article on the Palin subject... History bends in the hands of ideologues | StarTribune.com

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Just in case you guys happened to miss it, this topic has been beaten to death over in the American Politics forum---ten pages worth: http://www.christianforums.com/t7565786/

Yeah, I even mentioned the Wikipedia rewriting, but that got lost in all the "she was right" "was not" exchange. I agree that this is worthy of its own thread.

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If such people were amenable to facts, they would have gotten the point long ago...Whatever it is that is blocking the understanding of the "denialist", it is not access to facts or information. The blockage is most likely emotional, possibly based on fear, and one does not most effectively deal with emotional barriers by using facts as instruments of assault and battery. - Dan Murphy

You know your party is in trouble when people ask did the rape guy win, and you have to ask which one?

That's the problem with Wikipedia. Anything on Wikipedia has to be viewed with scepticism and verified elsewhere.

I look to Wikipedia for interesting to know stuff, but never use it as a source.

That's true of most sources.

I do use it as a source for myself, but to make an argument, the footnotes are the real source to cite.

For the time being, editing the Revere entry is restricted.

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If such people were amenable to facts, they would have gotten the point long ago...Whatever it is that is blocking the understanding of the "denialist", it is not access to facts or information. The blockage is most likely emotional, possibly based on fear, and one does not most effectively deal with emotional barriers by using facts as instruments of assault and battery. - Dan Murphy

You know your party is in trouble when people ask did the rape guy win, and you have to ask which one?

I think this is one problem with the overall concept of expansion and free access to knowledge - no matter what you give someone, they can always twist it and change it at will. Simply cannot be avoided, really, if you want to still have that freedom of access.

As it is, Wiki should -as with all sources of information available- be viewed with at least a good helping of skepticism, and a large heaping of background checks for anything you find there.


Also, to be fair, the Paul Revere conspiracy is likely not a new thing; and if it is? Conspiracy nuts come up with stuff like that all the time. It will, hopefully, run it's course, and then only a handful of hardcore crack-jobs will give it any real credence.

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The left must really fear Palin.

I fail to see what is scary about her. If she was smart, I might be afraid of her -like Hillary (she scares me)-, but...

Then again, I ain't exactly on "the left", so maybe that is why. haha

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Fear her? Are you kidding? If she's the GOP candidate, 2012 looks pretty good from where I'm sitting.

Heck, I just might vote Republican in the primary. I'll campaign for her if that's what it takes.

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