Posted on 06/23/2024 6:51:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 1994, practically at the dawn of the internet, Snopes was a fun site that saw two married socialists debunk pervasive urban legends about razors in Halloween candy and hooked hands stuck to car door handles. During the Obama years, it turned into a Democrat mouthpiece that masqueraded as a fact-checking site.
That Democrat fealty explains why it’s taken the site seven years to debunk the “very fine people” hoax that painted Trump as a white supremacist and that Joe Biden used to open his 2020 campaign.
Snopes was fun in the beginning but decayed badly when the founding couple, Barbara and David Mikkelson, divorced, and David took over the site. It didn’t help when David Mikkelson married a porn actress and hired her to fill his sociologist ex-wife’s place. Barbara alleged that, at the same time, David embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company for vacations and prostitutes. David, in turn, alleged that Barbara enriched herself to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As you can imagine, the site degraded in quality very quickly at this time. It also took a hard left turn. And because all hard leftists are humorless scolds who ape the old Soviet apparatchiks for whom a joke was an arrestable offense, Snopes even went so far as to fact-check The Babylon Bee.
Image: Biden and the Big Lie. Facebook screen grab. (Red text added to the original image.)
In other words, Snopes is not a serious site. However, because it’s leftist and keeps churning out anti-conservative “fact-check” content, people in media and politics take it seriously.
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Those of us who believe in facts, of course, know that the “very fine people” claim was a lie from beginning to end.
“...the rush to erase our nation’s history was a Jacobin error.”
Exactly true.
This country buried the hatchet after Appamatox only to have it dug up again for nakedly political purposes.
The other day, Biden again repeated the lie that Trump called immigrants “animals” - Trump was talking very specifically about MS-13.
There it is.
Only Dopes use Snopes.
I heard what Trump said when he said it and knew what he meant, and Snopes had the same access to the information that I did. Is Snopes supposed to have some kind of credibility?
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