It’s well known that Conservapedia is filled with a large contigent of dumb people. I mean, not just ignorant people. They’re outright stupid. Take this from their “news” section on the front page.
For those who cannot see the text, it reads:
An overweight and over-the-hill Bruce Springsteen is performing songs from the 1980s at the Super Bowl halftime. Wonder why? He supports the liberal agenda hook, line and sinker. But he hasn’t yet performed his “Born in the U.S.A.” … perhaps Obama types wouldn’t like that one???
Apparently, Conservapedians believe “Born in the U.S.A.” is a patriotic song, or at least in someway anti-liberal. On an aside, they also believe multiple question marks make good writing. They are wrong on both counts.
The Springsteen classic is about a young man who goes from his small town to killing people in a foreign country. Upon return, the man is given the crap we all know (except the morons at Conservapedia) was common for returning war vets.
Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow manBorn in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says “Son if it was up to me”
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said “Son, don’t you understand”
The song goes on to deride the war for being so meaningless and costly. The cost in the case being human life.
I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They’re still there, he’s all goneHe had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Far from being a song about how crazy, awesome, cool the U.S.A. is, it’s about working-class people who lost their lives during a pointless war. Conservapedia is composed of idiots who are repeatedly shown as idiots. Nothing more.
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For the Sake of Science 
When all’s said and done, Conservapedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, isn’t it?
I’m not very familiar with American history, so I decided to look up “Khe Sanh”, the battle mentioned in the song quoted above.
A couple of weeks ago the President gave his inaugural address, saying: “or us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sanh.” So this is a place name that can be expected to strike a chord with many Americans of a certain generation, I should think.
The search function in Conservapedia returned no matches.
A Google search restricted to results from site:www/conservapedia.com confirmed that that placename does not appear anywhere on Conservapedia.
Encarta, Britannica and Wikipedia contain articles, of varying quality, that discuss the battle. Conservapedia does not mention the placename anywhere.