06.06.11

Sarah’s Little Helpers

Posted in Extremism at 4:51 pm by George Smith

Here’s a snapshot of the Sarah’s Little Helpers phenom, a small number of GOP/Tea Party/Palin fanboys or girls who seemingly rushed to Wikipedia for the purpose of editing the entry for Paul Revere in support of her — or at least to sow confusion.

And, of course, the editing count also includes Wikipedia troops changing it back while beating off the assault.

Note that statistically no one was really interested in Paul Revere’s bio page. Then — magically — a radical jump in revision for June just in line with Sarah Palin’s display of unrepentant and bellicose stupidity.


Palin’s Loyalists, locked in hand to hand combat at Wikipedia.

Thanx and a tip o’ the hat to reader C.

“BEWARE of ‘revisionist’ tea partiers falsely rewriting history and spamming this page to cover up Sarah Palin’s misquotes,” reads one of at least two comments on the revision history page for today.

2 Comments

  1. bonze blayk said,

    June 6, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    Wikipedia may be considered as an intricate form of strategy game, with hard, fast, and inflexible rules… especially WP:IGNORE

    WORD

  2. DD said,

    June 6, 2011 at 10:09 pm

    Sarah’s Redcoats were just Being Bold!