this needs to be spread around
we all should start going through SNOPES articles one by one and do whatever investigation we can to discredit that source, people are under some illusion that they are private investigators or something or law enforcement and that they are pure and honest
Who, or what, is Snopes?
Anybody who's in the military and who isn't a conservative is a G-d damn fool.
Whoever forwarded an email from an active duty member serving in Iraq- with his identity intact- is a dam fool or worse. I urge anyone who sees the original or any other email from an active duty troop- to NOT forward it without purging the identity of the author.
Then, there’s also SNOPES and the Obama/Odinga/Kenya matter. Snopes unequivocably says these stories are false; despite the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of articles which suggest quite, otherwise.
Obama is a piece of trash. See below.
First person experience of a Viet Nam Vet
INTERESTING:
MUDMARINE
I am a VHCM member, I spent 12 months in Vietnam (147th CH47-CE) as most
of us did. I am also a disabled veteran;
I have been a wheelchair user for 35 years now. A few months ago I went to
listen to Barack Obama at a local college. When he was done with his speech
I got in lineto ask him a question. When my time came, my question was;
‘Senator Obama; I work with disabled veterans throughout the VA Hospital
system, what is your plan for our veterans, especially our disabled veterans
who use the VA Hospitals for their care. I stated we need mandatory funding
for our VA system to ensure the care is available when needed, especially in
light of the current situation in Iraq and the numbers of troops who are
coming home with severe disabilities.’
He told one of his aide’s to get my name, blew me off, did not answer my
question and I never heard from him or the aide again. Is this who we want
as our ‘Commander in Chief’?
He wouldn’t even answer a ‘veterans’ question, regarding other veterans.
Take it for what it’s worth. I just thought I’d pass on my experience with
Mr.Obama.
Regards,
Gary McDermott
147th ASH Hillclimbers
Vung Tau, RVN 68-69
CH 47 CE
If you are wishing for hope and change, you better know what the salesman
is selling.
Good job, cb!!
the “O-Force One” firsthand report via email from the field:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/07/more-witness-em.html
This isn’t exactly news. Snopes has been an Obama appologists for a while now.
Idid receive this e-mail, and I thought that was a little dangerous for the military man’s identity to be attached. I did forward it on, but I purged his name before I did.
I don’t know if this was Snopes or not, but there is another one that supposedly debunks urban myths. I received an e-mail from a fellow co-worker a while back recounting all the mysterious deaths associated with the Clintons. Sure enough, a liberal I work with only too gladly directed us to either Snopes or the other web site, where they tried to debunk all the deaths as either with Clinton were a bunch of “conspiracy theorists”. Of course, I tried to debunk the debunking, but I fear the damage had been done.
A lot of the language used in the urban myth story was right out of the pages of the Democrats’ talking points. I was wondering if I was the only one who had suspected this. It seems like every time a good story makes the e-mail rounds, someone tells us to go to Snopes, and I always wonder from where do they get their facts and how do we know that they are giving out accurate information?
Snopes peddling malware?
By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com
Published: January 28, 2008, 8:44 PM EST
Snopes peddling malware?
Every once in a while, we hear about a legit site pushing malware. The reasons are varied, with some sites getting hacked, others relying on 3rd party vendors that may be less than trustworthy or they may just plain not feel there is anything wrong with pushing annoying or downright bad software onto people.
Snopes has been targeted as one of them. It seems for half a year now the company has been pushing Zango, formerly 180Solutions, onto people visiting the site in one form or another. Zango, whose own (former) employees don’t have anything good to say about it, has been spotted more than once peddling their wares in shady ways. So much so that the FTC saw it fit to levy a huge fine on the company. So why would Snopes, a site that has gained a considerable amount of fame for interesting factoids in dispelling or confirming urban legends, want to associate with these folks?
Money is one reason, though third party association is another. Regardless, it seems Snopes is very well aware that they are divvying up ads for Zango. I suppose someone has to, else where would Zango get the money to pay their millions in fines the next time the FTC comes after them.
http://www.techspot.com/news/28789-snopes-peddling-malware.html
It’s all a big conspiracy.
bfl
...and the message is clear, and not one bit surprising. Obama's entire trip was a big political photo op and nothing more. He did not spend time with, care for, encourage, or visit the troops in general, and particulalry snubbed the wounded.
The man is unfit to serve as dog catcher as far as I am concerned.
Why give Snopes the traffic? Modern Conservative is probably doubling their traffic with all this stupid attention. And for what?
I still think there is alot of truth to the original letter. Here is the recant:
“I am writing this to ask that you delete my email and not forward it. After checking my sources, information that was put out in my email was wrong. This email was meant only for my family. Please respect my wishes and delete the email and if there are any blogs you have my email portrayed on I would ask if you would take it down too. Thanks for your understanding.”
Most of the time, if it’s non-political and non-ideological, Snopes and Wikipedia can be given the benefit of the doubt.
But I was taught in school many years ago always to analyze the news, never to take it for granted, and always to think for myself.
In many instances, all you have is probabilities, not complete certainties. For instance, is there a clinton body count? Well, we have plenty of evidence as to clinton’s bad moral character. We have more dead bodies surrounding his path through life than coincidence can account for. Dozens of people who worked for him have turned up dead in suspicious circumstances.
In cases like Ron Brown and Vince Foster, the evidence is circumstantial but, I think overwhelming.
Finally, we know that he has been involved in corrupt and criminal activities. He grew up among the Dixie Mafia in Hot Springs, he was involved with several drug smuggling enterprises, he was friendly even in the White House with drug smugglers, he and his brothers indulged in drugs themselves—cocaine, not just marijuana.
So, is clinton responsible for numerous murders? Probably. I’d say the odds are at least 999-1. But not certainly.
Newspapers used to get things wrong pretty often through sheer laziness and carelessness. When they wrote a story about something you knew about first hand, there were always at least small details that were wrong. For instance, in those recent terrorist stories, not knowing a backhoe from a bulldozer.
But in recent years they have been repeatedly caught telling outright lies or deliberately concealing the truth. So, anyone who trusts them on important matters without doing a bit of checking and analyzing, and considering what grounds they might have to tell a deliberate lie, is a fool.
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Karnak Says: Name three internet websites that have been ‘lavishly funded’ by Al Gore(google) and the DNC.