Yes. Figured it out long time ago. Do the have a fixed set of authors or is it “free contributors”.
INTREP
Yes, Snopes is owned by a liberal. Can’t remember his name but he’s for Obama.
TRUE: Snopes is in the tank for Obama.
I know a professor, O groupie, and fan of all things liberal-especially the ACLU.
Prof uses and has students use Snopes to check for the “truth” of their info.
I used to use them to debunk stuff about W. Haven’t been there lately. Should be easy enough to read the passages in his book and compare to Snopes. I would be interested to know if they are fudging it.
Snopes is a victim of his own BS and thinks he’s omniscient.
Yes, Snopes lied about Kerry on the Swift Boat stuff that I had seen confirmed by multiple sources (including raw documents).
It’s a fun site, but completely biased.
Snopes is a Leftist site run by Leftist activists who use their False Authority to promote the Leftist Agenda.
In 2003, they took down the Clinton Body Count and linked the Bush Body Count in its place.
That same March they publicly stated their opposition to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I refuse to give that site the Web hit they so desperately need.
Yes, in my OPINION, both Snopes and FactCheck.org lean left.
This isn’t to say that both sites don’t sometimes debunk a LEFTY lie. But they still lean left. It’s like seeing a non-leftist editorial in the NY Times or The Nation; on such occasions, one can point to these websites and say, “Why, even the left-leaning Snopes says this Howard Dean comment is baloney.”
Here’s a site I used to go to before I found Snopes. Have no idea what their leaning is, but could probably compare some controversial stories. Who knows they may be liberal also. http://www.truthorfiction.com/
ALTERNATIVES TO SNOPES
COMMON SENSE CONSERVATIVE
http://commonsenseconservative.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/liberal-myth-busters.html
MY HERITAGE
http://www.squidoo.com/myheritageMythBusters
TRUTH OR FICTION
TruthOrFiction.com
FACT CHECK
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/huckabees_fiscal_record.html
FIND ARTICLES
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_12_18/ai_84396670
URBAN LEGENDS
http://urbanlegends.about.com/
SCAM BUSTERS
http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html
Yes, they certainly seems to be Obama supporters.
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?”
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.
Yes, definitely yes but still useful.