If you're going to take a dig at others, at least include them in the recipient's list. Freepers don't always read posts that aren't sent to them.
As I said in another post, I just listed that for everyone's perusal, and it does include links to local news sources. Feel free to review and draw your own conclusions.
Sorry, TwelveofTwenty, that post was not a dig at you, it was completely unrelated to you, which is why I didn’t even think I should have even included you. Don’t take it that way.
If I wanted to pick a fight with you on that, I would have made it a little more pointed at you.
It is humorous when a liberal flunky uses it because...it is a liberal echo-chamber. I did not presume you were a liberal flunky.
The lawyer in “The Caine Mutiny” who states that if a Naval Captain commits questionable acts that appear to be cowardice, those acts must ipso facto be driven by something other than cowardice, since a the Captain of a US Navy ship cannot be a coward.
In the case of a Freeper posting something from Snopes, I take much the same tack, that they can’t be a liberal flunky (even if we know sometimes they actually can be) but I did not presume that in this case.
There was a picture posted about 10 years ago about some guy who shot a grizzly bear that had been killing and eating people, and the bear looked huge. It looked like it must have been 20 feet high standing on its hind legs.
Here is kind of what the email that I got said, with pictures of partially eaten humans:
:...Do not view these photos if you get queasy at the sight of blood and bodies. This is not an “urban legend”. REAL life, REAL danger, WILD ALASKA. The photos are of a guy who works for the Forest Service. He was out deer hunting. A large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. He unloaded his 7mm Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him. The big bear was still alive so he reloaded and capped it in the head. The bear was over one thousand six hundred pounds. It stood 12′ 6″ high at the shoulder, and 14′ to the top of his head. It’s the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world. Of course, the game department did not let him keep it. It will be mounted and put on display at the Anchorage airport to remind tourists of the risks involved when in the wild. You would be level with the bear’s belly button when he stood upright. When on all fours, he would look you in the eye. To give it additional perspective, consider that this bear, standing on its hind legs, could walk up to an average single story house and look over the roof. The bear had killed at least two people. His last meal was the unlucky hiker in the third picture. The Forest Service found his 38-caliber pistol emptied. Although the hiker fired six shots, only four managed to hit the bear. (they ultimately found four 38-caliber slugs along with the seven 7mm slugs inside the bear’s dead body) The 38’s only wounded him—and really pissed him off. The bear killed the hiker an estimated three days prior to the bear’s own demise by the Forest Service worker..."
It was pretty lurid stuff. I sent it off to a bunch of people. Someone notified me it was a hoax, referencing Snopes for the factual information. I was completely embarrassed, forwarding hoax emails.
Abashed, I began using Snopes as a fact checking site, until...I began checking their facts. At that point, when I saw it was unreliable, I use Wikepedia instead. Wikepedia is notoriously and predictably politically unreliable as well, but it serves as a far better jumping off point to do research than Snopes does, IMO, simply because there is more information you can use there to branch off and look on your own.