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Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Smilin' Norm scrubs Wikipedia
MRW has a great post on Sen. Smilin' Norm Coleman's (R-MN) efforts to clean up the page about him in the Wikipedia . Here's what Smilin' Norm didn't want you to know:
- Coleman was a liberal as a college student became Coleman was an activist as a college student.
- Coleman campaigned in 2002 for the United States Senate, after being persuaded by Karl Rove not to run again for governor. Although Coleman tried to position himself as a moderate Republican candidate who would reach across party lines, his votes during his first year in office in 2003 lined up 98% of the time with President Bush, according to Congressional Quarterly. This became Coleman campaigned in 2002 for the United States Senate as a moderate Republican candidate who would reach across party lines.
- The following was added: However, the most recent revelations in the case have actually led to an investigation of Galloway by British Authorities, as documents provided by the Investigations Subcommittee seem to prove that the charges against Galloway can be corroborated. Also, recent video surfaced showing George Galloway meeting with Saddam Hussein's late - and notoriously brutal - son Uday in 1999, where Galloway told Uday "we are with you 'til the end". I've graciously fixed Coleman's staffer's bad spelling.
- This paragraph was rewritten in its entirety to remove references to Karl Rove and to pump up Coleman's "accomplishments": Coleman became the lead Senate Republican defender of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and the allegations of him illegally leaking the name of a covert CIA operative. Karl Rove reportedly convinced Coleman to seek a Senate seat in 2002 instead of running again for governor. In December 2005 he voted for a budget bill that cut funding from a number of programs, but kept funding for sugar beet farmers in Minnesota after Rove arranged the change. Coleman told Congress Daily that he wouldn't vote for a bill that cut sugar beet funding but "Karl Rove called me and asked what I wanted. A few hours later it was out of the bill." Coleman's staffers rewrote the paragraph to say: In December 2005 he voted for a deficit-reduction bill in Congress, while successfully working to eliminate proposed cuts to Food Stamps, provide additional funding for low-income energy assistance, protect a farm safety net for dairy farmers and sugar producers, and scale back deep cuts to Medicaid recipients.
While it would be appropriate for Coleman to correct errors of fact or dispute unbalanced language in his Wikipedia entry, that's not what Smilin' Norm has chosen to do. Rather, he has tried to rewrite his Wikipedia entry as a campaign brochure by scrubbing inconvenient facts and spinning controversial votes.
I've learned a lot from the Wikipedia; today I learned a lot about the kind of man Smilin' Norm Coleman is.
