{"id":25677,"date":"2010-06-26T13:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/06\/26\/former-bachmann-political-dire\/"},"modified":"2010-06-26T13:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T13:03:25","slug":"former-bachmann-political-dire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/26\/former-bachmann-political-dire\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bachmann Political Director may have vandalized Democrat&#8217;s Wikipedia Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to prove, but the evidence certainly leads in that direction.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe former Bachmann campaign official in question is Luke Hellier, previously featured on Quiche Morain <a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2010\/06\/anti-democratic-blog-messes-up\/\">here<\/a>.  There is no doubt whatsoever that Hellier&#8217;s commentary on the <em>Minnesota Democrats Exposed<\/em> blog, regarding editing of Jim Meffert&#8217;s Wikipedia entry was dishonest.  I had not mentioned this in my earlier post at QM, but Ed Kohler of <em>The Deets<\/em> clearly and painstakingly documents that Hellier &#8220;quote mined&#8221; the Wikipedia change log to make it look like a Meffert volunteer was acting inappropriately.  It turns out that the volunteer was fixing vandalism that had happened earlier on Meffert&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>And there is some evidence, not conclusive but &#8230; interesting &#8230; that this vandalism was carried out by Luke Hellier.<\/p>\n<p>The details are complex and I would not do justice to the argument to repeat it here. Visit The Deets to learn more:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeets.com\/2010\/06\/25\/lukehelliers-lie-of-omission-regarding-wikipedia-vandalism\/\">@LukeHellier&#8217;s Lie of Omission Regarding Wikipedia Vandalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional information:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmeffert.com\/\">Jim Meffert&#8217;s campaign site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Meffert\">Jim Meffert&#8217;s Wikipedia page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/\">Minnesota Democrats Exposed (MDE)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2010\/03\/the-death-of-minnesota-democrats-exposed\/\">Some additional commentary on MDE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is hard to prove, but the evidence certainly leads in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3677,193,33,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6G9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}