Senior Gingrich Campaign Official Scrubbed Infidelity, Tiffany Credit Line From Wikipedia Page

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/06/419919/senior-gingrich-campaign-official-scrubbed-infidelity-tiffany-credit-line-from-wikipedia-page/

Newt Gingrich loves technology, but apparently it doesn’t always love him back enough on its own and sometimes needs encouragement.

Gingrich has already been caught vastly inflating his Twitter following with phony accounts, and now CNN now reports that the campaign’s communications director, Joe DeSantis, has been aggressively making dozens of edits of Gingrich’s Wikipedia page. DeSantis has attempted to scrub or embellish embarrassing information about Gingrich’s marital troubles, House ethics investigation, and $500,000 Tiffany credit line:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/06/gingrich-spokesman-defends-wikipedia-edits/

Wikipedia records show DeSantis has made over 60 adjustments to entries in the online, publicly-edited encyclopedia to the biographical entry on Gingrich, the similar page on his wife, Callista, and a separate page on one of their books, Rediscovering Good in America.

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While it’s common for campaigns to monitor and request edits to their candidates’ Wikipedia pages, what’s surprising is the degree to which DeSantis, a senior campaign official, has personally gone to great lengths to micromanage his boss’s entry.

[csziggy]

1. Have the pages been restored to a more realistic version of Newt's history?

I'd be disappointed in Wikipedia if someone hasn't done so!

[Enrique]

2. once this story gets around

Mr. DeSantis might have to get an assistant to keep up with the edits to Newt's page.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. I'm surprised they didn't have an entry saying he personally led the mission to kill bin Laden.

And that the last words of St. Ronald Reagan were "If only Gingrich could become president to fulfill my hopes for America, I could rest in peace eternally."