John Edwards “Skank Ho, Baby Daddy” Gate not Wikipedia worthy
After all this Mickey Kaus blathering about MSM gatekeepers censoring the news and preventing the reader from learning “what happened yesterday” (or, at this point, last week), it’s wonderful to see the citizen-journalists and crowdsourced new guardians of information acting just as ridiculously about this supposed John Edwards scandal.
As you’ll recall, the National Enquirer caught John Edwards sneaking into a hotel late one night to visit former staffer Rielle Hunter and her child. When they confronted him on his way out, he hid in a bathroom.
Fox News confirmed the visit. But none of this meets Wikipedia’s high standards of notability! You won’t find Rielle or the Beverly Hilton even mentioned on the Edwards entry.Despite the fact that the basic facts of the evening seem to be proven, Wikipedia’s power-mad power-users are immediately deleting any and all mention of the John Edwards lovechild scandal the second any other user adds it. You could go over there and add “In July of 2008, Edwards was confronted at a Beverly Hills hotel by National Enquirer reporters searching for evidence of his participation in an extra-martial affair”—all true and verified by more “reliable” sources!—and it wouldn’t last two minutes. (Actually you couldn’t add that. The entry has been locked.) It’s not notable enough for them, apparently. Though this is. And hell, so is this!
This story gives me an excuse to link to an old post from Jezebel: Faggots can be womanizers: Is John Edwards Cheating On His Cancer-Stricken Wife?
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