[WikiEN-l] “Can you imagine the president of the American Camellia Society having three stuffed bears in the courthouse?”

[crock spot]

Yes, it's all over the blogosphere too. The spin is all about how stupid
Rush Limbaugh is to be taken in by a hoax on Wikipedia, and not the least
about how a hoax could be on Wikipedia in an article about a living person,
complete with a forged/fictional citation. Apparently it is a given out in
the world that one should not believe a word of what is written on
Wikipedia, and no longer newsworthy.

Crockspot

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just heard about this from Keith Olbermann's show.  Rush Limbaugh's
> researchers apparently grabbed a story from Wikipedia about Judge
> Roger Vinson and used it in one of his rants against health care.  The
> story, describing the judge as a keen hunter and taxidermist who hung
> stuffed bear heads above his courthouse in order to put "the fear of
> God" into defendants, turned out to be false.
>
> Apparently the judge doesn't hunt that much and prefes horticulture.
> “I’ve never killed a bear,” he told the New York Times on Wednesday,
> “and I’m not Davy Crockett.” He is the president of the American
> Camelia Society. The source cited in the Wikipedia article was dated
> June 31, 2003.  "Thirty days hath...June."  The New York TImes also
> reported that the editor who added the bogus story to Wikipedia at the
> weekend recently removed it.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/us/16judge.html
>
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