Fact-Checking Snopes: Website's Political 'Fact-Checker' is just a failed Liberal Blogger
Thanks, Brown Deer. For many years, Freepers have known about snopes leftist propaganda, and inaccurate statements.
Posted on 07/02/2016 11:56:39 AM PDT by Stepan12
Popular myth-busting website Snopes originally gained recognition for being the go-to site for disproving outlandish urban legends -such as the presence of UFOs in Haiti or the existence of human-animal hybrids in the Amazon jungle.
Recently, however, the site has tried to pose as a political fact-checker. But Snopes’ “fact-checking” looks more like playing defense for prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton and it’s political “fact-checker” describes herself as a liberal and has called Republicans “regressive” and afraid of “female agency.”
Snopes’ main political fact-checker is a writer named Kim Lacapria. Before writing for Snopes, Lacapria wrote for Inquisitr, a blog that — oddly enough — is known for publishing fake quotes and even downright hoaxes as much as anything else.
While at Inquisitr, the future “fact-checker” consistently displayed clear partisanship.
She described herself as openly left-leaning” and a liberal. She trashed the Tea Party as “teahadists.” She called Bill Clinton “one of our greatest” presidents. She claimed that conservatives only criticized Lena Dunham’s comparison of voting to sex because they “fear female agency.”
She once wrote: “Like many GOP ideas about the poor, the panic about using food stamps for alcohol, pornography or guns seems to have been cut from whole cloth–or more likely, the ideas many have about the fantasy of poverty.” (A simple fact-check would show that food stamp fraud does occur and costs taxpayers tens of millions).
Lacapria even accused the Bush administration of being “at least guilty of criminal negligience” in the September 11 attacks. (The future “fact-checker” offered no evidence to support her accusation.)
Her columns apparently failed to impress her readership, oftentimes failing to get more than 10-20 shares.
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Who is fact-checking Snopes? Oh...the Clinton Foundation. All I need to know. Thanks!
Free Republic is not bad....they smoked out Dan Rather.
I can’t believe this site gets any respect. It makes me want to puke when I hear shows quote their statistics. I’ve heard people I generally like on American Family Radio - AFR largest Christian station in the country? refer to them. People need to get a clue. I realize conservatives and Christians wnat to appear nonbiased and credible but sites like snopes or SPLC should be given the cold shoulder along with much of the MSM and polling/ statistics companies.
Journalists know that they specialize in bad news; “If it bleeds, it leads.” This is justifiable on purely commercial grounds. But journalists also claim to be objective - and “one who claims negativity is objectivity” is a perfect definition of a cynic.Journalists are simpatico with “liberals” for the simple reason that socialism is cynicism.
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.So the answer to your question is obvious - you should only listen to me.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
The last time I looked at Snopes, they were debunking a tall tale about the local Walmart. It was kind of a shock--usually urban legends come from somewhere else, never one's own neck of the woods.
It took me exactly three perusals years ago to conclude that Snopes was typical leftist propaganda thinly camouflaged - like fig-leaf thin - as objective analysis.
Leftists are all about controlling all narratives.
Scopes.com has been knows for years as nothing but a liberal propaganda outlet. They always side with liberals and against conservatives. They leave out facts when it comes to liberals but decide rumors are facts when it comes to conservatives.
Snopes is fine for the non-political stuff. You should probably steer away from politics, except for checking the “OMG Franklin Roosevelt ate babies!” email that your mother-in-law forwarded you . . . .
You realize that Snopes used to be one of the references here. I guess their incompetence and neo Communism was not apparent at first. I’m not sure if I believe them on anything.
We should do our own reference. Library of older books or bing should be our references, for starters.
World Net Daily (a frequent target of Snopes), monitored Snopes and did print screen “freezes” of Snopes constantly changing Obama’s hospital of birth. Snopes changed its reports of the hospital of Obama’s birth according to the evolving narrative.
Even if I am “preaching to the choir,” articles such as this Daily Caller one are important! The Left and many uninformed people treat Snopes as an authentic debunking site instead of the Democrat narrative site that it truly is.
Fact-Checking Snopes: Website's Political 'Fact-Checker' is just a failed Liberal Blogger
Thanks, Brown Deer. For many years, Freepers have known about snopes leftist propaganda, and inaccurate statements.
All the way back in the mid-90s Snopes ‘fact checks’ of political things was hilarious. For example, they’d say things were false about Hillary, in an article that conceded it while dancing all around.
The Hillary/Black Panthers link ‘debunking’ was a classic.
Back when Jon Kyl was still our senator I emailed him about jug-ears’ lack of *papers*. He actually answered and said that SNOPES had proven all the birther questions as false. A sitting senator quoting snopes...we’re screwed.
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