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To: FreeManN

The pathetic thing is that if you wrote to him and tried to explain that Snopes is baised left, he’d probably dismiss you as some kind of hopeless kook. We are so screwed.


15 posted on 03/05/2009 10:27:35 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/snopesbias/index

Obama site:Barack Obama does not take advice from Fannie Mae executives -cites “non-partisan” Snopes
Monday, October 06, 2008 12:09:17 PM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098770/posts

Snopes’ bias, Part II
Friday, June 09, 2006 6:44:37 AM · by connell · 2 replies · 521+ views
ModernConservative.com ^ | Christopher Cook
...”The credibility that they’ve established is based on the laziness of reporters who have used them as a source.” That last quote is quite chilling: A Los Angeles-based husband and wife-—just two people with goodness knows what agenda or leanings-—have somehow managed to establish themselves as a pretty big boulder in the information stream. Most people accord the Mikkelsons a fair amount of credibility as the best source for confirmation or refutation of widely distributed Internet memes. Given how much reliance is being placed on their determinations, it seems like we do very well to know where they’re coming from....
I no longer trust Snopes... and neither should you
Wednesday, June 07, 2006 8:42:08 AM · by connell · 23 replies · 1,269+ views
ModernConservative.com ^ | Christopher Cook
...For the Boudreaux photo, one would have to assume that Lance Cpl. Ted J. Boudreaux Jr. is pretty darned stupid to have 1) written a sign saying that he had killed the boy’s dad and then impregnated his sister, 2) posed for a photo next the boy holding that sign, and 3) allowed the photo to become public. Given the disparity in the status assigned the two entries, one has to assume that the Mikkelsons believe that it is at least possible that LCpl. Boudreaux is that stupid, but that it is not at all possible that the Muslim protesters...

Autodesk’s founder reports gross errors by Limbaugh, CNN, Snopes (Remember “Columbia’s Last Photo?”)
Sunday, March 30, 2003 3:44:05 AM


20 posted on 03/05/2009 10:36:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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