This made me laugh:
Judge Roger Vinson is expected to allow a Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of health care legislation to proceed. Rush Limbaugh got that part correct.
However, the New York Times reports that the conservative talk radio host (and health care reform critic) wasn’t right on a few personal details about Vinson, who is a senior judge on the Federal District Court in Pensacola. Contrary to what Limbaugh said on air, the paper notes that Vinson isn’t an “avid hunter and amateur taxidermist who once killed three brown bears and mounted their heads over his courtroom door to ‘instill the fear of God into the accused.'”
Those were a few of the details added to—and since removed from—Vinson’s Wikipedia page. The Wikipedia user “Pensacolian” included the bear-killing anecdote earlier this week and attributed the bogus information to the Pensacola News Journal.
Maude
Rush got something right?
MikeJ
He’ll save children, but not the british children.
Punchy
I could buy hookers and blow if I had a nickel every time this statement were true.
beltane
Why are Limbaugh and his legions of fat, suburban couch potatoes so obsessed with hunting? Well, there’s always fake-hunter Sarah Palin to drool over.
Loneoak
I particularly loved the part about him actually being the president of the American Camellia Society.
Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: Faux macho posturing, I keep saying it.
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: And these are the same people who get out of breath walking to their mailboxes.
Bubblegum Tate
Killed him a bear when he was only three!
Rogerrrrrr, Roooooooger Vinson, king of the wild frontier.
Kryptik
Wikiality strikes again.
jibeaux
I like the part where the Limbaugh staffer steadfastly maintains that they found the information where the wiki editor attributed it to. Uh huh.
Omnes Omnibus
@beltane: Hence faux.
lamh31
OT, but, is there anymore dispute, that Sarah Palin and Rushbo is now the Leaders of the GOP?
Sarah Palin owns GOP.
BTW Rove walked it back
Loneoak
Dollars to donuts says the only things Rush ever killed were intellect, integrity, and dignity.
The Moar You Know
Again, the lesson not learned: Wikipedia is not a reliable source of information, period.
When you ban contributions from subject matter experts and allow anonymous posting, correction, and editing, you don’t have an “online encyclopedia”, you have a collection of rumors masquerading as fact.
They’ve been around long enough that the verdict should be obvious to all: “Crowdsourcing” doesn’t work. Wikipedia is an utter, total, and complete failure both as an experiment and a source of information.
soonergrunt
@lamh31:
Apropos of the Rude Pundit, who’s the leather slave now?
Breezeblock
Somewhat OT, HuffPo had a sneak preview of the new Bill Maher season, and he talked about “Glenn Beck and his army of diabetic mallwalkers”.
Sorry if that was mentioned before!
catclub
I recognize the picture in the Yahoo story!
I would bet that Bear is in the Natural History museum
in St Johnsbury, Vermont.
Also, famous for the county by county weather reports on Vermont Public Radio.
djheru
@Loneoak: And that hooker in the Dominican Republic
My favorite part of the fake source was the publish date: June 31.
Sue
You’d think Rush would be more suspicious, since he probably has to employ someone full-time to keep erasing the ‘Dominican Republic Sex Tourism’ fact that keeps popping up on his own Wikipedia entry.
mellowjohn
it wasn’t on wikipedia, but i seem to recall reading somewhere that “rush limbaugh is a big, fat idiot.”
and in response to beltane, they love them their great big guns to make up for their little tiny penises. i rather doubt limbaugh has seen his in years.
Socraticsilence
How much would you have to look down on your supposed core audience to believe this stuff- I mean its classic stereotyping of the South- seriously you think the Panhandle is so Cornpone that a courthouse would have Brown Bear heads mounted at the entrance (not to mention the whole “Brown Bears don’t live anywhere near Florida- anywhere east of the Mississippi for that matter”
Socraticsilence
Oh and about the case itself- its pointless- as the supposed “harms” wont come into affect for 3 freaking years- it’ll be thrown out on standing grounds regardless of Vinson’s decision. You think the right wing would get this after all the whackadoo abortion laws they’ve passed actually go into effect (and/or are stayed) before being overturned.
beltane
@catclub: Eye of the Sky! So funny. That’s bear’s been at the Fairbanks Museum since Limbaugh was tiny gleam of fat in his mother’s eye, probably longer. Just wait until he discovers the impressive trophy collection at the Glover General Store.
jibeaux
I lol’ed.
soonergrunt
@beltane:
So, where do you want your internets delivered?
maus
@djheru:
Rentboys != hookers.
@MikeJ: Hahaaaahahahah.
catclub
@beltane:
Fairbanks Museum!
I get to go to the Glover store every summer.
Jimmy is a great guy!
Ash Can
@lamh31: Oh holy crap. OK, I take back the polite golf clap I gave him yesterday for sticking to his guns. He’s fucking pathetic.
sukabi
would have been funnier if the bears were “Momma Grizzlies”…. would illustrate how far Limpballs is willing to go to stir up his base…
Tonal Crow
Gee, I thought that judges were supposed to be impartial and non-activist. My bad. Clearly they’re there to convict the people that the prosecutors — in their infinite godlike wisdom — have chosen to charge. But isn’t that deferring to Big Government? Wingers are soooo confusing!
slag
Ha! Sometimes you eat the bar. And sometimes the bar…well…he eats you.
jeff
Judge Vinson is certainly not of the tea party/Limbaugh wing–though he’s a Republican.
Robert Waldmann
The best part is a Pensacolian gave a cite for the information referring to the June 31 issue of a Pensacola Newspaper.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@The Moar You Know: Sorry, Moar, but Wikipedia is no worse than the encyclopedia’s that sat on my parents bookshelf, nor, as the Nature study showed (no time to look up) any worse than the online version of Brittanica.
But it has become an interesting experiment as well as a resource. People all of the time would like to rewrite history, while others try to keep it from happening. Now we get to see it in real time.
Randy P
I guess I lead a sheltered life, Wikipedia-wise. I tend to look up mostly scientific/math entries, entries with which I am at least a little familiar, and for the most part they pass muster.
catclub
@Randy P:
Isn’t there a wacko who has it in for relativity?
To the google cave!
… why yes, Andrew Schlafly , son of Phyllis – on conservapedia.