In an interview with the Scandinavian-American cultural magazine Nordic Reach, former Vice President and U.S. Sen. Walter Mondale sounds fed up with social media and crowdsourcing. He was unaware he has a MySpace page until the interviewer tells him about it:
“I won’t take responsibility … Somebody told me about Wikipedia, where people can put in whatever they want into, in my name. I tried to correct some of it … somebody decided I had a pet rooster, somebody else said I was an international opera talent, but I decided not to go into it, and you know what … this is bull.”
Mondale’s Wikipedia entry has apparently since been scrubbed of any poultry or operatic claims.
The interview — which focuses on Mondale’s views as an elder statesman and his new role as honorary Norwegian consul-general in Minneapolis — appears in the latest issue of Nordic Reach but took place on June 4, the day after Barack Obama announced he’d clinched the Democratic nomination for president at the Xcel Center in St. Paul. That was the same day on which Mondale switched his own endorsement from Sen. Hillary Clinton to Obama — although on MySpace, the interviewer informs Mondale, Obama was already one of his top friends.













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Comment posted December 28, 2008 @ 8:20 pm
Yeah, Wikipedia is known as the oracle of truth, but like the Oracle at Delphi it is sometimes
hard to interpret correctly. And FaceBook-MySpace etc, pix of the veep trying to get the SUV
out of the snow bank after a few too many at the Sons of Norway hall no doubt.
And don’t forget the veeps tweets on Twitter, followed by the likes of Condy Rice and Albright, even
Dastardly Dick Cheney…
Spare us the all the new tech fadista pastiche, most of it is useless.
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