Shifting away from baseball for a second, I just discovered something called Conservapedia. Apparently, there is such liberal bias in Wikipedia that a conservative version is called for. It's hard to tell how much this actually reflects conservative thought, as some of the entries have clearly been messed with, but it's a comically misguided and fundamentally flawed concept nonetheless. A few of my favorites:
-Democrat, "Right-wing critics claim, however, that the Democrat voting record reveals a true agenda of cowering to terrorism, treasonous anti-Americanism, and comtempt for America's founding principles such as freedom of religion."
-Gravity, "Some have criticized gravity, reminding us that it is only a theory, and that no scientist has ever seen a graviton or a space curve."
-Wikipedia, "The administrators who monitor and control the content on Wikipedia do not represent the views of the majority of Americans, and many are in fact not American."
[Here's a fun game: keep hitting random page and see how long it takes to find an entry that isn't hilarious or maddening, or both. For example, I was shocked to find that the page for Libertarian is actually kind of reasonable.]
Now the best part: the Fox News page. It turns out "the success of Fox news over every other news channel is because it is fair and balanced." And how do we know that's true? Because a source is given! And what, exactly, does the author cite as evidence of Fox News' fairness and balance? This page, from Fox News' own damn site. And the source for the statement that Fox News is best because "they only report the news unbiased and then allow the viewer to decide" is simply a link to their damn logo with that "We Report, You Decide" slogan. I don't even know where to start going off on everything that's wrong with this, so I'll stop before I become tempted to go outside and charge full-speed into oncoming traffic.
Ok, one more quick thing. How do we know Sean Hannity's a great American? Because someone did a Google search and found this, which is about a damn car giveaway!
Saturday, March 3, 2007
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