Posted on 05/24/2017 9:24:16 PM PDT by Kevin in California
Can someone please explain to me how those liberal pukes at SNOPES became the "supposed" and "go to" website for verification on stories, rumors, etc?
Everytime someone tells me SNOPES said this or SNOPES said that, I laugh in their faces and tell them *s*, if SNOPES said it, it must confirmed and true. LMAO *s*
Snioes.com established itself as a reliable source for a time and then, when it got to be a first call utility it began to add in what liberals think you should believe rather than what is factual.
Follow the $$$.
It’s the circular citation game. Snopes says FactCheck is legit and FactCheck says Snopes is legit. Thus, both are ‘legit’ even though one is run by far left loons that refuse to make corrections to their errors even when given proof and the other is owned by the Annenburg complex (which means Soros).
It’s the same game they play with their books. Look at the references and citations in a Michael Moore screed versus those in Ann Coulter’s books. The few Moore might generally have are to biased and unsubstantiated sources that point to other equally unsubstantiated sources and so on. A giant blog-based circular reference but without any actual sources. Coulter’s works, OTOH, tend to have lots of references to actual source documents - court rulings, the Federalist papers, the writings of various Founding Fathers, or to the articles being referenced *in context* and so on.
Just comparing the bibliographies of their respective works is enlightening.
They were pretty reliable source to go find if something was a hoax before proliferating it.... I used to go there and check a lot, until they got into the lefty slanted political fact checking business too.
Originally they were dealing in most non-political matters and they were pretty good at debunking those.
Once they started dealing more and more with political issues, their biases became more and more obvious and their reliability on those has never been good.
Snopes Fact-checkers: A Prostitute, a Dominatrix, an Accused Embezzler.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3508935/posts?page=26
Some IDIOT sent me to SNOPES when I said Hillary sold 20% of our Uranium to Russia
I’m still waiting for Snopes to debunk the “hands up don’t shoot” narrative. But hell will freeze over, or longer than that, the Jets will win Super Bowl before that happens.
Snoops is very good if the subject is non political. If the subject is political they are very biased and left wing and not to be trusted.
Look it up in your Funk & Wagnalls. :)
So you are saying Hoawrd Zinn's history of America is false?
BAH!!( brb need more exclamation points) BAH!!!!!!
Zero footnotes or references for Zinn yet i get folks that tell me McCollough and others are revisionist BS'ers.Zinn appears to be a go-to book for history in colleges now. I wonder if Snopes or FactCheck would consider his Hx of America truuth or fiction.
Snopes is a wannabee. He came around about the time of IMDB, Drudges actual email list and eventual home page.
They’ve been caught dissembling, lying and omissions.
The original bulk of that site was ripped off from a series of books (well researched, with variants) by Jan Brunvand. He was even a participant online in the old usenet days discussing other urban rumors.
But anything political, naw, they’d shade the synopsis just so, so they could blur the line and call it false or mixed if they wanted to deny some truth.
They held out hopes for YEARS that Hitlery didn’t lie about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary, claiming at one point that perhaps her muther had lied to HER.
IMDB stole many of their original reviews/synopsis from rec.arts.movies (again, usenet 80s and 90s).
The communist Zinn has cherry-picked the worst of American history. It’s not that it’s totally false, just completely inflated in importance or lacking context.
1. headline
Hillary Clinton once said she was named after famed mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary, but she wasn't.2. tweek the headline slightly
Hillary Clinton was named after famed mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary3. rate the tweek
FALSE4. give a long involved origin of the story which can be summarised
Hillary Clinton once said she was named after famed mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary, but she wasn't
That’s a great summary of Snopes on political topics.
What they do is define the question, and then answer it. Questions that don’t fit their agenda, they redefined then to provide the desired answer, or they just don’t ask the question. Pretty slimy when you think about it.
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