Willfully Ignorant Righties simply unwilling to own up to their candidate's stupidity

zappasguitar

zappasguitar

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Here we go again...another bunch of lying Righties trying to re-write history rather than admit one of their candidates is wrong.


Bachmann fans float Wikipedia edits to cover candidate’s recent gaffes

Several strange edits have shown up on Wikipedia entries pertaining to famed Americans referenced by Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann -- specifically, it appears that her fans have attempted to rewrite the lives of actor John Wayne and President John Quincy Adams to fit her woefully inaccurate retellings of history.

Bachmann, who officially launched her campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.

Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.

Another edit came after she declared Tuesday morning that the nation's sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was a "founding father," even though he was just a child when his father, the nation's second president, signed the Declaration of Independence.

Sure enough, in short order Adams's Wikipedia entry was changed to call him a "founding father." The page's administrator quickly struck down the revision, insisting that users not make edits "based on current events."

The whole strange affair would seem to evoke memories of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's badly mangled retelling of Paul Revere's ride, which inspired her own fans to attempt a series of changes to Revere's Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia's editors struck those down as well, scolding Palin's fans for attempting to cover up history to make their favorite politician look good.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/...dia-edits-to-cover-candidate’s-recent-gaffes/
 
Zapped, it doesn't matter if she thinks the Earth is hollow and ferries are running around inside, and Santa's workshop hides the secret entrance... she is STILL a better choice for President than the current occupant. Now, I understand, Obama is a fascinating man, he is so optimistic he believes we have 57 states, and he can see dead veterans on Memorial Day... heck, he can even raise the dead to award posthumous medals of honor while they are still living! Oh, he's wonderful... he just can't run the country, he is way in over his head.
 
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When can we expect the liberals to own up to voting for the dumbest black SOB and electing him President. In three years what has he done to make things any better?

Now it would have been nice if any journalist had shown as much focus on historical gaffes that Obama has made. Here are a few reminders.

During the 2008 campaign he'd claimed that we should meet face-to-face with those we oppose just as Kennedy had met with Khrushchev when "We were on the brink of nuclear war." Except Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev had occurred more than a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis and was regarded even by JFK as a failure. In fact, Khrushchev concluded from his meeting with JFK at Vienna that the young president would not be a barrier to an increased Soviet hardline as he went on to approve the building of the Berlin Wall and the placement of missiles in Cuba.

Also during the campaign he bragged about his uncle being part of the liberation of Auschwitz when it was the Soviets who liberated the camps in Poland. His uncle helped to liberate a satellite camp of Buchenwald. I would have thought that, if he were truly so proud of his uncle's service, he might have read up on those experiences and learned more about what actually happened.

At his inaugural, he didn't know how many men had been president double-counting Cleveland. That was a small error, of course, but you'd think that for an Inaugural Address he or his speechwriters would get it right.

Obama's aides seem so impressed with the boss that they have lost all historical perspective. Remember Rahm Emanuel telling Obama that he had faced the toughest times that any president has ever faced. Apparently, Obama and his aides only remember Abraham Lincoln when they want to reach for some strained comparison between the two.

Obama's sense of himself seems so grandiose that he can make boneheaded comments like claiming that the reason he was so unpopular in Texas is that "Texas has always been a pretty Republican state, for, you know, historic reasons." Apparently, this man who supposedly learned so much from the civil rights movement was unaware that the Democrats were the party of the solid South and that Texas had been a Democratic state since its admission in 1845 until Nixon's election in 1972. That was the historic gaffe that led Scott Johnson of Powerline to say that "Obama's historical ignorance could be a full time beat for somebody who does this work for a living".

More importantly, his whole approach to the Middle East displays a vast historical ignorance. In that same Inaugural he talked about seeking a "new way forward" for our relations with the Muslim world and a return to the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.". As Charles Krauthammer pointed out at the time, Obama seemed ignorant of the true history of our relationship with the Muslim world.
Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The two Balkan interventions -- as well as the failed 1992-93 Somalia intervention to feed starving African Muslims (43 Americans were killed) -- were humanitarian exercises of the highest order, there being no significant U.S. strategic interest at stake. In these 20 years, this nation has done more for suffering and oppressed Muslims than any nation, Muslim or non-Muslim, anywhere on Earth. Why are we apologizing?

And what of that happy U.S.-Muslim relationship that Obama imagines existed "as recently as 20 or 30 years ago" that he has now come to restore? Thirty years ago, 1979, saw the greatest U.S.-Muslim rupture in our 233-year history: Iran's radical Islamic revolution, the seizure of the U.S. Embassy, the 14 months of America held hostage.

Which came just a few years after the Arab oil embargo that sent the United States into a long and punishing recession. Which, in turn, was preceded by the kidnapping and cold-blooded execution by Arab terrorists of the U.S. ambassador in Sudan and his chargé d'affaires.

This is to say nothing of the Marine barracks massacre of 1983, and the innumerable attacks on U.S. embassies and installations around the world during what Obama now characterizes as the halcyon days of U.S.-Islamic relations.

Look. If Barack Obama wants to say, as he said to al-Arabiya, I have Muslim roots, Muslim family members, have lived in a Muslim country -- implying a special affinity that uniquely positions him to establish good relations -- that's fine. But it is both false and deeply injurious to this country to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized.​
Obama's recent trumpeting of desiring a return to the pre-1967 borders as a basis for peace between Israel and the Palestinians was another example of the result of having a president who is so ignorant of history.

So historical ignorance can be both embarrassing and crucial for a president. Critics shouldn't ridicule Michele Bachmann's errors unless they've also spent some time on Obama's errors. But that isn't stopping Bachmann's liberal critics from jumping all over her for her mistakes.
 
A nostalgic look at the good ol' days.

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ZappasGuitar said:
Here we go again...another bunch of lying Righties trying to re-write history rather than admit one of their candidates is wrong.


Bachmann fans float Wikipedia edits to cover candidate’s recent gaffes

Several strange edits have shown up on Wikipedia entries pertaining to famed Americans referenced by Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann -- specifically, it appears that her fans have attempted to rewrite the lives of actor John Wayne and President John Quincy Adams to fit her woefully inaccurate retellings of history.

Bachmann, who officially launched her campaign yesterday in Waterloo, Iowa, told a Fox News reporter that she was proud to be in the town where John Wayne was from, because she embodies his ideals. Unfortunately for her, it turns out that the actor John Wayne was not from Waterloo, but serial killer John Wayne Gacy was.

Shortly after the gaffe, the Wikipedia page for actor John Wayne was altered to change his birthplace from Winterset, Iowa to Waterloo, apparently as an effort to cover for the misguided politician.

Another edit came after she declared Tuesday morning that the nation's sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was a "founding father," even though he was just a child when his father, the nation's second president, signed the Declaration of Independence.

Sure enough, in short order Adams's Wikipedia entry was changed to call him a "founding father." The page's administrator quickly struck down the revision, insisting that users not make edits "based on current events."

The whole strange affair would seem to evoke memories of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's badly mangled retelling of Paul Revere's ride, which inspired her own fans to attempt a series of changes to Revere's Wikipedia entry.

Wikipedia's editors struck those down as well, scolding Palin's fans for attempting to cover up history to make their favorite politician look good.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/...dia-edits-to-cover-candidate’s-recent-gaffes/
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Do tell us WHO it was that made the edit. Because it could just as easily be a leftie doing the editing to make it APPEAR that people were trying to 'cover up' for Bachmann.

So unless you have evidence of WHO actually made the edits, perhaps you refrain from making blind accusations.
 
Superfreak said:
Do tell us WHO it was that made the edit. Because it could just as easily be a leftie doing the editing to make it APPEAR that people were trying to 'cover up' for Bachmann. So unless you have evidence of WHO actually made the edits, perhaps you refrain from making blind accusations.
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Because that's what SuperFreaky would've done, if only he'd thought of it?
 
Damn Yankee said:
That Hopey Changy thing didn't work out so well, did it? :)
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Michelle Bachmann represents red meat to the libs without a clue. Obama is a disaster as a president... But with salivating shills like chris, one would think he's just been the best ever-cuz golly-gee, just look at Michelle Bachman who lunmped John Wayne in with his folks for being from Waterloo- Never mind Obama's gaffe a minute missteps-I mean after all the media never reports on them-why should ol' ostrich face chris?
 
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