Talk:Gary Hooser

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www.WhatReallyHappened.com[edit]

I am not entirely comfortable with this statement in the introductory paragraph: A controversy immediately erupted when Hoosier listed on his campaign website an anti-Semitic, 9-11 conspiracy, and Holocaust denier website as part of his "regular reading regime." [1]

In a cursory web search, the only evidence of controversy I found was in the Hawaii Free Press article that is referenced *The "Hawaii Free Press" is not a reliable source and has an anti liberal agenda. No mainstream media has ever reported on the so called "controversy"...the truth is there was no controversy except that which the Hawaii Free Press is trying to create.


(additional evidence of controversy would obviously include the Hooser campaign decision to scrub the link from its webpage)

, and the tone of that article is quite NPOV (hostile to Hooser). *Further evidence of NPOV is that The Hawaii Free Press "trolls the local blogs" inserting similar comments (It only seems that way because of the seriousness of the charge.) My other problem with this statement is that it implies that Hooser endorses the web site (no it doesn't) (http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com) and that this web site is antisemitic. (yes it is)*Another recent search of this site http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com did not yield any obvious antisemitic focus

The WhatReallyHappened web site is one of 25 that were listed (So?) at the Hooser web page (which can be viewed at [1], encompassing a wide range of viewpoints, and apparently it had been removed by the time the Hawaii Free Press article was written. (False)

I spent a little time at www.WhatReallyHappened.com, looking for antisemitism and holocaust denial and could not find any. (That statement alone should disqualify this writer.) *Another recent review of this site yields no anti semitic material

It seems plausible to me that such articles may have appeared there from time to time, (No it is constant)

because the theme of WhatReallyHappened is conspiracy theory and offbeat opinions, (So Holocaust denial, a crime in Europe, is OK if it is sandwiched in with a lot of other stuff???)

but it seems to me that the statement in our article, especially placed in the opening paragraph, implies an endorsement (No endorsement is imoplied by the HFP article, the only implied endorsement is the one readers might infer from Hooser's campaign putting WRH on Hooser's "Regular Reading Regime" list.)

of those views that has not really been shown to exist. Peter Chastain (talk) 17:08, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, since you need some help, here is a link to a WRH Holocaust-denier story. I found this in 30 seconds of searching at WRH: http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ree-speech-wins-church-case

And here is a direct quote you will find at this link:

"BW: I am going by the historical evidence according to people who have observed and examined the evidence. I believe what they conclude. If they change their conclusion, I’ll be likely to follow their conclusion because I think they judge by the evidence. I think that two to three hundred thousand Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none in gas chambers."

Now you have "found" some Holocaust denial at WRH.

Yes, Hooser's campaign choice to include this site is shocking, but it must be reported even to those who are afraid to confront the reality. Otherwise Wikipedia is reduced to pabulum. *The Hawaii Free Press is clearly a fringe publication whose mission is to attack and discredit liberal viewpoints and liberal politicians using half-truths and innuendo.

COI tag[edit]

Since Mikakeaulii (talk · contribs) has admitted to working for Gary Hooser, at least in a photography capacity (diff), I have applied the {{COI}} tag until the full text has been gone over to make sure it's still a neutral encyclopedia article and not a campaign brochure. —C.Fred (talk) 21:48, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This might be 10 years too late, but I started going through the article to conduct clean-up. The portion of the article describing his senate career and subsequent run for LG was largely a campaign brochure. Additional clean-up is still necessary; I'm going to leave the tag up for now and add this article to my to-do list. Aoi (青い) (talk) 23:55, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I made a few more edits to the article and I feel comfortable removing the COI tag now. There's still a lot of room for the article's sourcing to be improved though. Aoi (青い) (talk) 09:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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