Posted on 07/02/2008 2:46:57 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
I’m glad you asked that here, and I was able to see fellow FReepers answers. I have read things on Snopes, and I have wondered if others too thought they leaned left. The problem is that Snopes is often cited as an all knowing source, but it is run by people (of course), and no one is perfect.
Though they try to disguise it, Snopes is liberal.
“Who watches the watchers?”
From Wikipedia:
Snopes is run by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a couple from California who married after meeting on the newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. The couple also founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, and were credited as the owners of the site until 2005. The site is organized according to topic and includes a messageboard where questionable stories and pictures may be posted.
Most of the write-ups are done but by Barbara "She's for Obama" Mikkelson.
snopes, google, who can you trust on the internet anymore?
Yes. Snopes is a Lib run flack site.
There are apolitical urban legends that they cribbed from Jan Brunvand’s wonderful books.
The rest is a bunch of partisan spin. They defend their biased spin which can flip a rumor from “true” to “false” to “a bit of both” by playing with the framing synopsis that they use to describe the rumor.
They sat out in hope that Hillary did NOT lie about her name for YEARS. Near the end the best they could do was to claim that maybe Hillary’s MOM had lied to her about the origin of her name (anything to no conclude that Hillary had lied). In the end, a campaign staffer came forward to say that it had all be a little white lie.
there is a keyword snopesbias, it has some more detailed examples.
Even Obama’s fight the smears scampaign will give an outright denial to rumors that do have an element of truth. For instance, Obama DID study the koran and HAS retained some of that knowledge (like the words to the Islamic call to prayer). The Madrassa bit was wrong but it is incorrect to say that he never had any muslim education.
Just as it is incorrect for the Obama staff to claim that Obama ALWAYS holds his hand over his heart during the national anthem.
Wikipedia is ALSO cited as an “all knowing” source.
And what know what that is worth.
The Liberal mantra is POLITICIZE EVERYTHING.
Not all of the hoax sites I referenced are
conservative, they are merely alternatives.
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxIndex.html
Their files still exist and even provide directions to minimize the spread of hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information being routed around the Internet.
Nope. Snopes seems to be self validating.
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&attid=0.1&disp=inline&view=att&th=11aea1a4a1a71894
Yes, definitely yes but still useful.
Snopes claims the story about Uncle Don Carney is an urban legend. My father heard the thing as it happened.
That’s funny!
There's a website ran by a fella who calls himself "Jim Rob" or something.
I think its called something like "Freeper Public" or something.
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