Did you know that "Fox and Friends" co-host Steve Doocy is a 61-year-old stripper who tragically died today? No, he is not, but according to a Wikipedia edit today he is. The November 26 edition of "Fox and Friends" discussed word of some school districts banning Wikipedia and the false information some readers add. As a result, some apparently angry viewers proved their point and added wild information to their pages.
Apparently, Steve Doocy died in a car accident today, is 61, and a stripper. Brian Kilmeade has been dead for ten years. Perhaps his ghost now hosts "Fox and Friends."
Several months ago, MRC President Brent Bozell warned of unreliability of Wikipedia. One internet user falsely claimed there is an ongoing feud between Bozell and famed media critic Bernard Goldberg.
For the record, Gretchen Carlson’s and Brian Kilmeade’s pages have been changed back and editing by "unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled." Steve Doocy’s page has not been disabled, but apparently a Fox fan recently edited it to add a very glowing and positive profile of Doocy most conspicuous in this passage.
"Doocy has been involved extensively in fundraising for the poor and disadvantaged, he has helped build homeless shelters in northern New Jersey, stock food pantries around New York City, and was a national spokesman for the March of Dimes."
Relevant conversational points about Wikipedia throughout the show are below.
GRETCHEN CARLSON: Have you guys ever gone to Wikipedia to look for something? Well, it is the online encyclopedia.
STEVE DOOCY: Because it’s free.
CARLSON: The problem is, I guess anybody can go into these pages and adjust what’s on them? So is it really factual? Well, now some schools are saying "look, we’re going to ban this at our schools because we don’t think this is the best way for our students to be learning about history and other information." And I wholeheartedly agree. The last time I went to my Wikipedia page, guys, they had a fact on there that wasn’t right.
DOOCY: Really?
BRIAN KILMEADE: Your own personal one?
CARLSON: Yeah.
KILMEADE: Oh okay.
CARLSON: So, I mean, I don’t know how to go in and change it. I probably should learn how to do it.
DOOCY: I looked at mine one day, because somebody sent me something about it. And I looked, and it said that I was a Catholic. And then- it said Steve Doocy, Roman Catholic- and then it talked about, said all of these vile things about the pope and stuff like that.
KILMEADE: That you said about the pope?
DOOCY: I never been connected to the pope before. And it talked about where I live. There’s-the problem is if somebody watching right now has got an axe to grind with one of us, doesn’t like us, they just go on and you can anonymously change it.
[...]
DOOCY: But if Paul McCartney asks you to go to the prom, you go.
KILMEADE: That’s true too.
DOOCY: Everybody would go. If Paul McCartney’s watching, I’m available.
CARLSON: Uh oh! I’m going to add that to your Wikipedia page!
DOOCY: I’m sure it’s on there!
CARLSON: And he wants to date Paul McCartney.
[...]
DOOCY: Just to prove my point that Wikipedia is a worthless source when it comes to reliability. According to- you’re seeing a technological and medical marvel right now, because according to Wikipedia, I’m dead.
KILMEADE: In a car accident.
DOOCY: I died today according to what somebody had put in there. Now, listen to you Mister, I wouldn’t be getting-
CARLSON: What does his page say?
DOOCY: Now his page says you died in 1997.
KILMEADE: Really?
CARLSON: Since we’ve been talking about this, somebody went in and adjusted the pages?
DOOCY: On my page somebody has made ten edits already in the last 15 minutes.
[...]
DOOCY: Now according to Wikipedia I’m 61. It’s wrong, of course I’m 67.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: At least you’re alive again.
DOOCY: Thank you! I’m alive again!
KILMEADE: And everyone got over my death in ‘97 pretty quickly.
CAMEROTA: Small blessings.
DOOCY: Hey, you’re still dead.
CARLSON: They had my birthday wrong as well.
KILMEADE: They did?
CARLSON: But so far I am still alive. I think somebody got mad at us because we were talking about Wikipedia and they went in and sabotaged it.
DOOCY: Too bad! It just shows that you can go in and do it.
KILMEADE: If Brittanica turns on us, we don’t have a prayer.
[...]
CARLSON: What’s the latest on you on Wikipedia?
DOOCY: According to Wikipedia, I am now a stripper.
KILMEADE: And what about me? What did you just find out about me?
DOOCY: You are now alive again.
CARLSON: But I’m still really old.
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I think everyone knows that
Mon, 11/26/2007 - 17:23 ET by balboaI think everyone knows that you take anything on Wikipedia with a large, large grain of salt.
Most times it may be th
Mon, 11/26/2007 - 17:50 ET by Dan The Man 2Most times it may be th only page u can reasonably get and it will do for a start. But it is pure crap for important stuff.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
Yep ...
Tue, 11/27/2007 - 19:08 ET by jonathananderson... sure is P.C.
Jimmy Wales himself
Mon, 11/26/2007 - 17:58 ET by sarcasmoPut it best in Reason last June: "Apparently there was an error in Wikipedia. Who knew?" :) Wikipedia displays no pretense that it's right all the time because all it's "selling" is a bunch of opinions & ideas wrapped around the "open-source community" idea derived from the free software movement.
I'm pretty sure Wikipedia won't even pretend to be totally-unbiased, but their freewheeling & self-correcting existence still raises a ruckus here & in the rest of the media for some reason. I'm pretty-sure everyone still gets what they pay-for, to be brutally-frank. Besides, that "Conservapedia" thing still exists without problems, albeit without much traffic, either...
JMR
Rally online with fans of Dr. Ron Paul.
Just one step
Mon, 11/26/2007 - 18:09 ET by scamoramaI've long maintained that Wikipedia is just one step removed from making it up on your own.
Megaton of salt
Tue, 11/27/2007 - 05:27 ET by UnsaneA grain, you say?
A LARGE grain?
I say, a megaton grain of salt would suffice...
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
I still like Wik
Mon, 11/26/2007 - 17:36 ET by Lame CherryI still like Wik even with the malevolent souls who jump on that site and think they have accomplished something by breaking a commandment in false witness.
I keep Wik on my nav bar as it is a place on the net I can find out at least something about a subject quickly which in most cases is more reliable than if you enter in Obama and get nothing but Obama floosies with webpages.
At times I find it amusing as last year in doing research on a porn gal from Minnesota in profiling the tendencies of sexual acting out I turned to Wik and found someone who this woman apparently had really hurt had made a page for her and basically detailed all her sinful interactions in ruining people's lives. It was like reading the Book of Judgment. I still laugh at that page as it only lasted a few days before Wik found it and removed it for content, but for a moment in time it was one of the most honest statements on the internet.
One notices though that the spoofs usually track back to the children of the MSM, who are off on holiday and left with divorced parent who hauls them into work........and leaves the computer running and voila the little malevolent liberal child is attacking some Conservative with goofy things because mummy and daddy so hate that George Bush.
Wik does a 95% good job........and if Conservatives could ever be conned into paying money to edit things there I would suppose that things like this would happen to Hamrod Hillary. The problem is Conservatives are taught early not to waste money on things we can get for free and in the end our money is in investments and we do not give credit cards to our children to run up expensive tabs.
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Wicked-pedia Showcases ...
Tue, 11/27/2007 - 19:01 ET by jonathananderson... the one great weakness of an immature democracy : the wicked will always be heard.
Guess what folks, there is no "right" to free speech ... but there is a PRIVILEGE to speak the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth.
Titus 1:10-11
(10) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision [1st century Democrats and liberals] :
(11) Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake [for money].
When the good men are silent only the wicked are heard. - Edmund Burke
If the good men are silent the wicked will make the law of the land.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Democracy fails when the good men are silent.
Democracy is dictatorship when the good men are silent.