Lets just get clear about this. A big issue yesterday with TVO was the poor vetting of guests. How would they allow anyone like Shaidle on a respectable, government funded station? Well, by playing around with her wiki entry, someone is making it harder for, oh I don't know a tv or radio show producer, to uncover her let us just call it "colourful" past as a blogger.
Someone therefore sees the appearance of such comments as being not career enhancing. And they realized this sometime yesterday afternoon.
PS. Am I not famous enough to have a wiki entry? What does it freakin' take anyway?
PPS. I've made a couple of screenshots, although I think wiki is is pretty good about maintaining a history of entries. Anyone else wants to take a few more, feel free.
PPPS. Shaidle does apparently have an "agent", so the changes aren't necessarily the work of a sock-puppet. But that might be demonstrable one way or another.
h/t ARC.
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It'll all get there, eventually. The Internet never forgets.
... Still watching.
Wow.
This didn't last long.
On February 12th 2009 Kathy Shaidle appeared on TVO's ''The Agenda'' to discuss the advertising of atheism on buses and was met with mockery for saying that she did not watch Barack Obama's inaugural address "because if she wanted to listen to a Marxist professor she would have gone to college."[http://www.tvo.org/podcasts/theagenda/audio/TAWSP_YAgenda_20090212_779432_0_0x0_40k.mp3 link title] A professor engaged in the debate repeated Shaidle's statement and said that she was entitled to her own opinion. Shaidle did not explain or argue for her previous statement that the United States had recently elected a Marxist to the presidency and after a brief silence her debate partner quickly changed the subject.
The wikipedia policy is that for material to be included it should come from a 'reliable source', which effectively means that her appearance in the media should not be included until it gets noticed by the media.
Maybe she's doing the Rachel with Jimmy.
I mean its one thing to not like Obama but the best trash talk she can come up with is "Marxist Professor"? Seriously?
Maybe she should have gone to college.
Isn't this all just a little bit ironic? After all, Ms. Shaidle claims to oppose any form of censorship, yet she or one of her devout blog readers is doing their best to censor anything that put's her in a negative light.
Then again we all know that people like Ms. Shaidle has one set of rules for society and one for themselves.
Why do "you guys" keep talking about this twit.
This is why she gets the coverage she does, media outfits know that having her as a guest will generate an audience.
Like the saying goes any publicity is better than none.
Sounds to me like there is a lot of sour grapes out there.
Take Warren Kinsella he was a guest once on TVO at the same time as "five feet of stupid" did he withdraw in protest ...NO.So why does he protest now ?
Anyway here's a thought, quit talking about that hateful spiteful cow.Quit promoting her,I know its "hard",after all what would some people write about then ?
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