Huckabee's Wikipedia page hijacked

[babylonsister]

Huckabee's Wikipedia page hijacked
By Jordan Fabian - 11/30/09 01:47 PM ET

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's Wikipedia page has been edited to include hostile remarks about his commutation of an individual suspected in the fatal shooting of four police officers.

Huckabee (R) granted clemency Maurice Clemmons in 2000 who at the time was serving a 60-year sentence for burglary and theft of property. The now-37-year-old Clemmons is suspected in the shooting of four police officers in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.

Huckabee has faced criticism from some who believe that he wrongly released a man who was convicted of five prior felonies at the time. Clemmons has since been charged with seven additional felonies in Washington state aside from the shooting.

"WILL FOREVER BE KNOWN AS THE IDIOT WHO RELEASED THE COP KILLER MAURICE CLEMMONS HE WAS SERVING A 35 YEAR SENTENCE FOR ARMED ROBBERY THE IDIOT RELEASED HIM AFTER 9 YEARS," reads the addition made by an unknown user.

The user, or users, also added "THE IDIOT" to Huckabee's photo caption.

more...

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/69785-huckabees-wikipedia-page-hijacked

[malaise]

1. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Fuckabee is history.

[Libertas1776]

2. His goose is cooked. n/t

[DainBramaged]

3. BBBBBBBAAAAWHHHHHH

[blogslut]

4. Duh

Granted, I realize professional bloggers need to fill the page but seriously, the (news maker makes news > news maker's wiki entry suffers anonymous editing free-for-all > page is locked) scenario is as predictable as the sunrise.

[zbdent]

5. not a good idea ...

although the huckabee page should reflect, as it does plenty of other pages, the "controversy" of Maurice Clemmons's alleged cop-killing ...

[Turbineguy]

6. Leave Huckabee alone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OouNDEkPqM&feature=related

[mlevans]

8. thanks for the coffee now dripping from my nose n/t

[aikoaiko]

7. Seppuku: Its his only chance at politically rehabbing his image.

FU Huckabee. 4 cops are dead.

[formercia]

9. With a dull blade

And a swordsman who botches the coup de grace.

[starroute]

10. Sweet revenge

According to something quoted on one of the many other Huckabee threads:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00059.htm

At the start of his first term, Huckabee took a special interest in the Dumond case and had plans to commute his sentence. When an irate public stopped that, the new governor effectively lobbied the pardon's board. Just four months after they'd denied a Dumond parole request, the board ruled favorably. These events and a broader narrative of the case were well documented by investigative journalist Murray Waas. . . .

Huckabee continues to deny his role in the pardon despite the evidence amassed by Waas and others. On Aug. 31, 2007, Associated Press (AP) reported that the Wikipedia entry on Huckabee was edited to delete critical references to the Dumond pardon. AP traced the source of the edits to Arkansas state government computers.