Live Breathe and Die

The range of resources I use is far-reaching, and my research folders contain thousands of links.  In the past, the on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia, had been a reference source. Not any more.

The changing dynamics of news and opinion sources has allowed a minority voice to be heard from the conservative portion of the population.  Political viewpoint programs on Fox, conservative national radio programs and a smattering of conservative blogs have allowed for some small balance to the overwhelming influence of the old line/main stream media.  The half of the U.S. population that has tired of the liberal slant on all things newsworthy has gravitated to the ‘new media’ sources for balanced or right-leaning opinions and story presentation.

With the rise of the Internet came thousands of political blogs, political/social viewpoint websites and an on-line encyclopedia called Wikipedia.  Wikipedia was meant to be a neutral source of information on thousands of topics, written and edited by those in the know.  It’s stated approach was to include a ‘neutral point of view’ (NPOV).  One would hope that a resource used by students at every grade level and those seeking comprehensive information on a myriad of subjects would be shielded from even more liberal bias in their research source. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I must admit that despite a noticeable bias, I had used Wikipedia as a reference on several occasions. What I discovered recently though, made my mouth drop. 

I had posted a comment on the liberal blog; HuffingtonPost.  Although my comment was very concise, fact-based and did not disparage the author, the HuffingtonPost moderators made certain that my comments were never seen.  I believe that someone who provides a strong counter-argument to one of their contributors, including factual data, is persona non grata at Huffington.  I decided to see what Wikipedia had to say about the HuffingtonPost.  What I found was a commercial for the left-wing blog.

Motivated by seeing the clear promotion of the Huffington blog by Wikipedia, I read their entries on some of the leading conservative blogs as well as another leading liberal blog. The contrast in presentation is striking.  Not only is there liberal bias in the biographies of each blog, but the distortions, slanted opinions and one-sidedness of  the Wikipedia entries, under the guise of NPOV,  is utterly disgusting

Comparing Wikipedias entries for the HuffingtonPost, The Daily Kos, Michelle Malkin, Instapundit and Little Green Footballs, one realizes the depths that liberals have gone to, to spread their bias using the most insidious methods.  These five blogs represent some of the largest, most visited examples of political opinion on the Internet.  The Daily Kos and the Huffington Post being the two leading liberal websites and the Michelle Malkin blog, Instapundit and Little Green Footballs on the right-leaning side.  The two left-wing blogs get a commercial on Wikipedia; the right-wing blogs are lambasted.

Readers of this blog know the concerns I have with the indoctrination of K-12 students and college students who are daily exposed to a liberal viewpoint through textbooks, liberal faculty, youth-oriented mass media and liberal teen-icons.  The fact that we are seeing example after example of liberal propaganda coming from teachers and college faculty, and the exposure it is finally getting, is disturbing. 

I really believe that the Democratic Party is exposing young people, as a captive audience to mind-numbing propaganda via teachers in a concerted, orchestrated effort to start winning elections again.  The Democratic Party is clearly working on voter registration drives aimed at new voters, fresh out of a twelve year liberal boot camp. The fact that a resource used to research school assignments and research papers is part of this propaganda tool is a disgrace of epic proportions. 

Stay tuned in the coming days, as I present hard evidence of the assertions above.  Just as I was shocked at the transparent, deliberate nature of Wikipedia’s strongly biased point of view, you will be also.  In addition, I will highlight past reviews of this same subject matter by PBS (a true example of the fox guarding the chicken house) and the website, NewsBusters.  The expose’ you will read in the coming days should turn the blogosphere and cyberspace on its proverbial head. (more in a few days)