Talk:Billy Carter

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According to this news paper, Carter's 1976 run was his second run for mayor, and he had run in 1974 for the position as well. So the 1976 run was not his only one. --74.65.49.92 (talk) 00:55, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19761207&id=vO5XAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JOgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5568,1813693

I deleted a large paragraph about a supposed scandal with the reporter who brought Billygate to the press. The citation on this paragraph was https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/07/yellowcake200607 and the way the paragraph was written on Wiki was that Billygate was a "disinformation" scheme. The cited Vanity Fair article references the scandal, but Vanity Fair only talks about an article written about Billygate years after it was over. In the Vanity Fair article, Michael Ledeen (a freelance writer) denies all the claims against him and points out that you can't call Billygate "disinformation" when it not only was true but Billy Carter admitted taking $220,000 from Libya. (This is why I looked at the citation in the first place- it didn't make sense that Billygate was listed as a fact but at the same time the wiki author was calling it "disinformation." Facts cannot be "disinformation," something the Vanity Fair author also seems confused about ^[1]). I deleted the paragraph and bad citation. If the information from that source is going to be included a much more in-depth description needs to be included explaining what the Vanity Fair article really claims, and that description does not belong under a Billy Carter post because the information in the article was more concerned with foreigners (Italians) influencing the Carter-Reagan election (I don't know any analyst that claims Billygate lost the election for Carter ^[2]). It could also go under a specific new article focusing on Billygate or perhaps Michael Leeden. 2602:306:341B:C620:7556:B735:D15C:6D38 (talk) 16:14, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The paragraph seems perfectly reasonable for this article and I've re-added it with some edits and an additional reference. Iggy pop goes the weasel (talk) 20:42, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]