{"id":2973,"date":"2008-06-27T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/06\/27\/wikipedia-flubbed-nixonian-entry\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T20:45:29","slug":"wikipedia-flubbed-nixonian-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/06\/27\/wikipedia-flubbed-nixonian-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Flubbed “Nixonian” entry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find the wikipedia article on the term “Nixonian<\/a>” very weird.\u00c2\u00a0 It has a strong Conservative Republican\u00c2\u00a0slant in its focus, stating that the term is primarily used in the way Conservative Republican use it — “akin to Rockefellar Republican, but more of a perjorative” — in advancing bigger regulation and the gummint and the like.\u00c2\u00a0 But line up 100 people on the street, making sure the street you are standing at is not across from a Convention Center\u00c2\u00a0where a\u00c2\u00a0CPAC Conference is occuring — and ask for a definition of “Nixonian” and I am pretty sure the definition\u00c2\u00a0will slide into the supposed “Democratic Party used” one\u00c2\u00a0of Corruption (not necessarily “Republican Corruption”) and the tangled issues with dirty electioneering.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at the discussion page, the bias appears to be simply a product of having been written by… a Conservative Republican who uses it in that manner.\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, his is a valid definition, but its placement shows that his vision is askew.<\/p>\n

Curious to see if “Consevapedia<\/a>” had anything on the\u00c2\u00a0phrase, I see that they don’t.\u00c2\u00a0 The most\u00c2\u00a0popular pages at Conservapedia, the wiki set up to combat the mighty Liberal biases of Wikipedia, focus on the rightness of Creationism and the theoretical problems of Evolution (note that this is the Daily Featured Article<\/a>) and the Evils of Homosexual.\u00c2\u00a0 The “Atheism” page is entertaining in its list of explanations of why people become such things.\u00c2\u00a0 Also of some perplexity is the back and forth on what appears to be a “Silly Season” discussion where Conservapedia users bat around the question: Are Cats Just Useless Dogs?<\/a>, which elicits the question “Where did that question come from?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find the wikipedia article on the term “Nixonian” very weird.\u00c2\u00a0 It has a strong Conservative Republican\u00c2\u00a0slant in its focus, stating that the term is primarily used in the way Conservative Republican use it — “akin to Rockefellar Republican, but more of a perjorative” — in advancing bigger regulation and the gummint and the like.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}