Ehh, this is one of those situations where there's more going on than meets the eye, I suspect.
First, the author of this piece, Karin McQuillan, says:
QUOTE
I was a professional writer for fifteen years, and take great pleasure in accurate research. I wrote three books that were translated into five languages and am most proud that my two fact checkers found only one error in the last book. So it was natural that in retirement I thought it would be meaningful to contribute to Wikipedia.
In fact, Ms. McQuillan wrote and published exactly three mystery novels over a 7-year period, all set in Africa:
Deadly Safari, Cheetah Chase, and
Elephant's Graveyard. Admittedly I haven't read any of these novels, but I doubt they have anything to do with the Holocaust, the New York TImes, or the American newspaper business in general. And of course, it's
not the least bit "natural" for anyone, much less a professional writer, to think it would be "meaningful" to contribute to Wikipedia, in retirement or otherwise. Moreover, these three novels have not been deemed sufficient to cause anyone to create a BLP article about her, which for most people is seen as a slight (they simply don't realize how lucky they actually are, of course).
For some odd reason,
our thread on Bali ultimate never mentions Ms. McQuillen's WP account by name (it's
CimicifugiaÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
, named after a
flower sometimes used by the Chinese to ward off bedbugs). She's also been working on an article entitled "
Nazism in the Middle East," detailing various contacts, etc., between Muslim political figures and the Nazis.
While her FrontPage article is mostly accurate about WP's internal squabbling and general brain-mashing, she doesn't mention the strongest (IMO) counter-argument against her "New York Times and the Holocaust" article, which is that nearly every other US newspaper behaved essentially the same way during WWII, if not worse. To single out the NYT for this is simply unfair; there's almost no question that she wants to do it as payback for the NYT's unfairly-perceived "liberal" slant on Israel-related subjects in recent years, and she's using the classic
"OMG Holocaust Denier!" accusation to intimidate others into letting her do it - something we've definitely seen before, just not so much lately.
There's no question that Bali ultimate is obnoxious and rude, but if you ask me, he's obnoxious and rude about (mostly) the right things.