Insightful and good to know.
For the past few years (http://www.snopesco/ m/ has positioned itself, or others have
labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim
and email. But for several years people tried to find out
who exactly was behind snopes.com . Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda
makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we
know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big
office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's
just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara
Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the
website about 13 years ago and they have no formal background
or experience in investigative research. After a few years it
Gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but
over the past couple of years people started asking questions
who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a
result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions
or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also,
there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating
and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg
in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama
and made a big splash across the Internet, 'supposedly' the
Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting
their findings on snopes.com . In their statement they claimed the corporate office
of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in
fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted
David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want
to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg'scontact
phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to
the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been
willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud.
In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com
ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue
as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very
Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now
know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose
agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative.
There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with
people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing itself
in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get
what they think to be the bottom line fact 'proceed with caution.
' Take what it says at face value and nothing more.
Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link
to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always
Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems
apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After all, I can
personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not' fully
looking into things.
Http://www.wikipedi/ a.org/ or
Http://www.snopes/. com/
I have found this to be true also! Many videos
of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were
False. Then they gave their liberal slant! I have suspected
some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have
only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity
they do an immediate full left rudder.
Truth or Fiction, is a better source for verification,
in my opinion.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank
for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site
as a hoax and yet you can go to You tube yourself and find the
video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see,
you cannot and should not trust Snopes.com , ever for anything that remotely resembles truth! I don't
even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about Snopes.com .
A fewmonths ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research
to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual.
We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.
Thank you,
Alan Strong
Alan Strong CEO/Chairman
Commercial Programming Systems, Inc.
4400 Coldwater Canyon Ave. Suite
200 Studio City , CA. 91604-503
For the past few years (http://www.snopesco/ m/ has positioned itself, or others have
labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim
and email. But for several years people tried to find out
who exactly was behind snopes.com . Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda
makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we
know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big
office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's
just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby. David and Barbara
Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the
website about 13 years ago and they have no formal background
or experience in investigative research. After a few years it
Gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but
over the past couple of years people started asking questions
who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a
result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions
or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also,
there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating
and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg
in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama
and made a big splash across the Internet, 'supposedly' the
Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting
their findings on snopes.com . In their statement they claimed the corporate office
of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in
fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted
David Mikkelson (and he replied back to me) thinking he would want
to get to the bottom of this and I gave him Bud Gregg'scontact
phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him phone numbers to
the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have been
willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud.
In fact, I learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com
ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue
as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelson's are very
Democratic (party) and extremely liberal. As we all now
know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose
agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative.
There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with
people pointing out the Mikkelson's liberalism revealing itself
in their website findings. Gee, what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to snopes.com to get
what they think to be the bottom line fact 'proceed with caution.
' Take what it says at face value and nothing more.
Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link
to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always
Google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems
apparent that's all the Mikkelson's do. After all, I can
personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not' fully
looking into things.
Http://www.wikipedi/ a.org/ or
Http://www.snopes/. com/
I have found this to be true also! Many videos
of Obama I tried to verify on Snopes and they said they were
False. Then they gave their liberal slant! I have suspected
some problems with snopes for some time now, but I have
only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity
they do an immediate full left rudder.
Truth or Fiction, is a better source for verification,
in my opinion.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank
for Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site
as a hoax and yet you can go to You tube yourself and find the
video of Obama actually saying these things. So you see,
you cannot and should not trust Snopes.com , ever for anything that remotely resembles truth! I don't
even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on Myspace told me about Snopes.com .
A fewmonths ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research
to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com anymore for fact checking and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as factual.
We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a hoax in itself.
Thank you,
Alan Strong
Alan Strong CEO/Chairman
Commercial Programming Systems, Inc.
4400 Coldwater Canyon Ave. Suite
200 Studio City , CA. 91604-503
- This came to me via an email. The writer has no problem putting his signature on the document nor leaving references. Snopes is probably still good for many things, but remember that they have an agenda!
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