Wikipedia: Rep. Matthew Hill

The Johnson City Press this mornning (April 25, 2006) featured an entertaining and somewhat critical editorial regarding the massive Wikipedia open-editing reference web site. One part in the Press editorial mentions how some elected officials are attempting to enshrine their own favorable political histories within the free, online encyclopedia:

Most recentlty, Wikipedia has uncovered efforts by some politicans to amend and sanitize their personal histories.

Talk about "the pot calling the kettle black" --- the Johnson City Press has a decades long history of sanitizing the history pertaining to the late 1st District U.S. Representative James H. "Jimmy" Quillen (R, Kingsport) with regard to Quillen's 1940-late 1942 draft deferment --- even while Rep. Quillen criticized 1992 presidential candidate Bill Clinton as being a "draft dodger" --- and grossly "overstating" the official U.S. Navy combat record of the U.S.S. Antietam during World War II.

You might want to view the Wikipedia information pertaining to Rep. Matthew Hill and other Northeast Tennessee members of the Tennessee General Assembly.