Tim Huelskamp (R-Crazyland) Wikipedia entry hacked following Maddow interview.

[Snarkoleptic]

Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) did an amazing interview with Rachel Maddow following the SOTU (link below). This is what happens when they wander into town from the fevered swamps. He thought he was clever as he "gish galloped" and deflected questions about his SOTU tweets. Rachel did a nice job of trying to corral Huelskamp, who was visibly frustrated at being asked to defend his nutty comments/tweets/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Huelskamp

Timothy Alan "Tim" "Batshit Crazy" Huelskamp[1] (born November 11, 1968) is a politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district since 2011. The district, popularly known as the "Big First," spills across a 63-county swath of central and western Kansas--more than half the state. He is well-known for being a conspiracy theorist and is a part of the radical right wing of the Republican Party. He represented the 38th District in the Kansas Senate from 1997 until entering Congress in 2011.[2]

(I added the emphasis)

Here's the video, in case you missed it-
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/maddow-jousts-with-right-wing-rep-129629251906

[NuclearDem]

1. Just checked.

Hasn't been changed back yet.

(Though minor nitpick, it wasn't "hacked", just creatively edited)

[Jim Lane]

2. No, it wasn't "creatively edited" -- it was vandalized.

I just checked and it's been fixed. If it hadn't been, I would've taken out the "Batshit Crazy" part myself, even though I agree with it.

Sorry if I come across as a killjoy, but it ticks me off. A lot of us spend a lot of time and effort trying to improve Wikipedia. If you want to call a RWNJ a RWNJ, fine, go ahead, but do it on DU or Kos instead of on Wikipedia.

If someone really wants to help improve Wikipedia, there's plenty of information that the corporate media downplay but that a crowd-sourced website, with no advertisers to answer to, can make available. That will do more good than playing adolescent pranks.

[NuclearDem]

3. Hadn't considered it like that.

When you put it that way, yeah, it was vandalism.

Though mostly my point was that an article's content doesn't get "hacked", it gets edited. But yes, I get what you mean.

[DesMoinesDem]

4. I guess anyone that can press edit is a hacker!

Why was this thread made? Anyone at anytime can edit a Wikipedia page.