Wikipedia has been freeped - can someone correct this?

[Stephanie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating

Josh Marshall found it: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[marbuc]

1. How has it been freeped?

The definition I read sounds about right, and not complimentary to "swift boaters."

[Stephanie]

2. someone already fixed it!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5473666

[Selatius]

3. You read this?

"Swiftboating is American political jargon for truthful and accurate debunking of John Kerry's exaggerated military experience in Vietnam. The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth organization's ads against Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry in the 2004 election campaign revealed the candidate to be untruthful in his representation of his military record."

Truthful and accurate sounds about right to you?

[Stephanie]

5. it's been fixed already

[marbuc]

9. No I did not read that

I guess it had been changed by the time I got to it.

[mn9driver]

4. The page is changing as we speak.

WIKIWAR!!!

Yeehah!

[Stephanie]

6. it's hysterical - what this about Matt Drudge and eggs?

For example, the statements that Matt Drudge fucks eggs, Rush Limbaugh is a hillbilly heroin addict and that Bill O'Reilly masturbates over the phone and owns a vibrator shaped like a little cock are truthful, and thus not acts of swiftboating.

[tyedyeto]

7. That is gone now

Got a good chuckle while it lasted, tho. :rofl:

[silverlib]

8. How long will this paragraph last?

It's hysterical!.

[brainshrub]

10. It's still there! LMAO!

Whoever tried to freep the Wiki just got pwned.

[derby378]

11. "This page has been temporarily protected from editing..."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Swiftboating is American political jargon for the sensationalized portrayal of John Kerry's decorated military experience in Vietnam. The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth organization's ads against Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry in the 2004 presidential election campaign alleged that Senator Kerry was being untruthful in his representation of his military record. All available military records support Senator Kerry's accounts of his own service.

So there.