This site will discuss bias in Wikipedia's articles about U.S. politics: spin, distortion, errors, lies, and, most importantly, the facts that their articles don't cover. Anyone can submit posts, but see this first. Note that about a dozen more entries need to be added, but that will take a while because the history needs to be looked through.

Rush Limbaugh smeared at Wikiquote with bogus, unsourced quote

For years, Wikiquote has been smearing Rush Limbaugh by falsely pretending that he said the following (en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Rush_Limbaugh):

You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed.

Wikipedia helps NYT cover up David Rohde kidnapping

New York Times reporter David Rohde was kidnapped last year in Afghanistan and, in order not to raise his value to his captors, the NYT was able to get other news organizations to keep the news secret. Another source that agreed to keep it secret was Wikipedia (link).

Valerie Jarrett (Obama advisor)

Valerie Jarrett is a close advisor to Barack Obama who's now part of his administration. Her Wikipedia entry is miraculously missing any negative information on her, despite a few attempts to put some of it in. The entry also fails to note her role in the alleged attempts by Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama.

Hare Krishna

[NOTE: This entry was originally posted as a comment by user Chris Johnson on 08/27/2008. This site has no knowledge of this issue and hasn't verified any of the claims.]

Hare Krishna/ISKCON Domination on Wikipedia Hindu articles

Michael Medved

[NOTE: This entry was originally posted as a comment by user chipdouglas on 05/15/2008. This site has no knowledge of Medved except as a NAU denier and hasn't verified any of the claims.]

Specious "Criticism" Sections

Two things:

(1) How does one make their own post? I don't necessarily need to do it myself, but it would be helpful if the following could be addressed:

NAFTA Superhighway

The three month old NAFTA Superhighway article is very brief and doesn't give an accurate overview of the topic. It doesn't fully address the controversy surrounding the topic, with mostly alternative media sources presenting evidence that it exists (or a larger version is planned) and with the mainstream media presenting cookie cutter articles designed to "debunk" claims made by the alternative media.

Naomi Oreskes

The article "Wikipedia's zealots" from Lawrence Solomon of the Financial Post (link) details issues with the WP article about University of California San Diego professor Naomi Oreskes, who wrote a paper claiming that there was wide consensus about global warming. The paper was challenged by UK scientist Benny Peiser:

World Heritage Site

The World Heritage Site entry contains absolutely no negative or contrary information of any kind and lends the false impression that that United Nations program is completely uncontroversial. Yet, it does have its detractors and it is controversial in some quarters. Any information on controversies surrounding the program has been missing from the entry for over six months.

Wikipedia Information

From "Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts" (link):

Asa Hutchinson

Certainly, not all the bias at WP is explicitly liberal. Some of it just redounds to the benefit of those with liberal-friendly policies, such as former Congressman and former DHS Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson, a Republican and a failed candidate for governor of Arkansas. The only noteworthy incident that occured during his DHS career has had a very hard time sticking in his WP biography.

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