Posted By John Moore on September 4, 2009
Wikipedia is an important web resource that serves as an encyclopedia for far too many people. Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone, and is the largest encyclopedia in existence.
Unfortunately, as with many good things, the leftists have ruined it in areas of controversy, by aggressively editing articles, and persistently fighting to keep their own viewpoint dominant.
I was reminded of this today when reading the article on the so-called “Winter Soldier Investigation” – a 1971 propaganda travesty orchestrated by Jane Fonda, John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The purpose of this staged event was to record “testimony” of “Vietnam Veterans” who had seen and/or participated in atrocities. The intent was to invalidate the entire war effort. The organizing group (including John Kerry) had ties to North Vietnamese operatives and were clearly trying to damage the US war effort. A side effect of this effort was to badly damage the image of Vietnam Veterans, leading many to believe we were all baby killers or emotionally damaged.
And yet, today, the Wikipedia “authoritative” looking article on the subject, fodder for innocent history students, paints the entire event as completely legitimate and truthful. Not one reference (other than the ones I added today that will probably be removed by one leftist or another before you read this) exists to books and articles which debunk the veracity of the testimony, and the one brave participant who was courageous enough to publicly admit his lies (in an emotional speech to a 2004 rally organized by Vietnam Veterans for Truth, of which I was the Webmaster) is mentioned only to attempt to destroy his credibility.
This is happeniing on many pages on Wikipedia, and is part of the left’s quite successful campaign to re-write history, to make America look bad. Conservatives need to get active on Wikipedia and fight back.
To do so, you need to learn the rules and play by the rules. One silliness of Wikipedia is that anything you can make a reference to counts as important, but personal knowledge is worthless. This gives a natural bias towards the left, since they write most newspaper articles and most books and academic papers in areas of dispute.
But please, get out there and participate. Fight for the truth!
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