Check this out about SNOPES
Received this from a friend who was in Panama, then to California and now on
the east coast. Worth putting into your thought process as you try to
unsnarl all the BS out there.
For the past few years www.snopes.com has positioned itself, or others
have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and
email. But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was
behind snopes.com.
Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda makes you
wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband
and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and
researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that
began as a hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of
California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal
background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it
gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past
couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did
they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or
skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line
facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven
wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really
investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville
hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash
across the Internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelson's cla im to have researched
this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement
they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking
down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. I
personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he
would want to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg's contact
phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big
exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been willing to speak with
him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg no one
from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com
issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did
all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very Democratic (party)
and extremely liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election,
liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be
conservative.. There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with
people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing itself in their
website findings. Gee, what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get what they
think to be the botto m line facts...'proceed with caution.' Take what it
says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their
references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus,
you can always Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems
apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After all, I can personally vouch
from my own experience for their 'not' fully looking into things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to
verify on Snopes and they said they were False.... Then they gave their
Liberal slant....!!! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some
time now, but I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any
subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder. Truth or
www.truthorfiction.com a better source for verification, in my opinion.
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming
liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama. There are many things they
have listed on their site as a hoax and yet you can go to Youtube yourself
and find the video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see, you
cannot and should not trus t Snopes.com....ever for anything that remotely
resembles truth! I don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are
hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about snopes.com
<http://snopes.com a few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little
research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it
is true. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com anymore for fact
checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well.
Many people still think Snopes..com is neutral and they can be trusted as
factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in
itself.
