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Ben Marble
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Ben Marble is best known as the person who told Dick Cheney to "go fuck himself", while Mr. Cheney was talking to the press after Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Marble issued to Mr. Cheney a similar instruction as the instruction that Mr. Cheney had issued to senator Pat Leahy, Vermont.
Censorship on Wikipedia
The article on Ben Marble has been voted for deletion on Wikipedia almost unanimously[1]. Most people argued that the person is not notible enough. The proposition for the deletion was as following:
- Long story short, when going back to his Katrina-wrecked neighbourhood, the road to his home got blocked by Cheney's security personnel for the convenience and security of Vice President Cheney's vehicle. As a result, Mr. Marble had to take a longer route back home. To protest for having his road blocked, he says "Go fuck yourself Mister Cheney!" However, as far as issues go, a road being blocked by security seems to be a rather insignificant issue to be protesting about. As Wikipedia is primarily an encyclopedia, I suggest that this article be deleted as a non-encyclopedic self-promotion article. Tokek 07:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)[2]
During the discussion an anonymous post claiming to have come from Ben Marble oneself has been made with the following text:
- Keep. You people presume to know what I was thinking when you write ignorant things like this:
- "As a result, Mr. Marble had to take a longer route back home. To protest for having his road blocked, he says "Go fuck yourself Mister Cheney!" However, as far as issues go, a road being blocked by security seems to be a rather insignificant issue to be protesting about. "
- Well I have stated in numerous interviews that was only one minor part of the reason I said what I did. After seeing the lame response of the govt. to the disaster I know I was speaking for a hell of a lot of people. If my '15 minutes' have already expired why is it that I just finished shooting 3 days worth of footage in New Orleans on the set of the upcoming Denzel Washington/Val Kilmer movie "Deja Vu" and will be filming an interview in the upcoming Spike Lee movie "When the levees broke" in a week or so? Try doing a Google search for 'Ben Marble' and see exactly how many results you get. Last time I checked it was over 4 MILLION! Besides you all have admitted that I did in fact have '15 minutes' i.e. you are admitting the fact that I AM FAMOUS! So basically for whatever reason you don't like HOW I became famous. Seems to me that the motive for deletion is primarily fueled by the BUSHEEP and/or jealousy so to all of you who say to delete me I say...GO F*** YOURSELF!
Ben Marble, M.D.[3]
Besides this only one more Keep vote has been cast, with a person agreeing with Ben Marble and contesting the claim that no Google hits could be found when searching for the name.
