EXCLUSIVE: Oops! Wikipedia Pronounced Rush Limbaugh Dead (Liberals are evil)
Looks like the folks at Wikipedia were prepared for the worst when it came to Rush Limbaugh. Actually they were a little too well prepared.
Shortly after the news broke that the conservative political radio talk show host was hospitalized, Wikipedia updated his page – and pronounced him dead.
Folks (like us) who happened to take a look at Limbaugh’s biography, saw this:
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (pronounced /ˈlɪmbɔː/;born January 12, 1951, died December 30, 2009) is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. It airs throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks.
That was posted shortly after midnight, EST.
Rush, of course, was very much alive and about 15 minutes later Wikipedia pronounced him so, altering their bio by removing the information that he had died.
Limbaugh remains hospitalized Thurday.
Read more at RadarsOnline
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Our apologies - we do try to keep the rubbish out of biographies of living people, and this sort of prank is an example of why!
Hopefully people will take it as an example of why Wikipedia is useful, but you have to keep your critical faculties about you and remember it’s just written by people … and check the references.