On 1/7/2016 7:06 AM, burfordTjustice wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 03:50:34 -0800 (PST)
>
> snopes owners voted for obama twice and are all in
> for pantsuit. their "research" consists of nothing more
> than Internet searches.
>
The Snopes owners are Canadian. How would they
vote in US election?
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https://www.truthorfiction.com/snopes/
As with many forwarded emails, the criticism did not include any example
of what the writer of the email claimed was the difference between what
Snopes.com reported and what Barack Obama had actually said.
Snopes.com is an excellent site that has become an authoritative source
for information about urban legends and forwarded emails. We regard
David and Barbara Mikkelson, the founders and operators of Snopes.com,
as colleagues and professional researchers who have earned a good
reputation for what they do.
We can give a unique perspective on this story because we do the same
kind of work as Snopes.com and have sometimes been the target of similar
criticism.
We’ve got a collection of emails that have come to TruthOrFiction.com
accusing us of being “right wing whackos” as well as “liberals” and
“communists.” We’ve been suspected of being owned and operated by both
Republicans and Democrats. We’ve been called “Christian propagandists”
as well as “atheists pretending to be neutral.” We occasionally receive
emails that have elaborate theories about who “really” owns us and what
our “real” motives are.
The bottom line is that if you try to report the truth, there will be
those who don’t like the truth you’ve reported and who will develop
suspicions about why you did.
That, in our view, is what is happening with Snopes.
The 2008 presidential campaign has been one of the most intense and
unique in our nation’s history and has prompted more political eRumors
than any presidential campaign in our experience, especially about
Barack Obama.
These anti-Snopes emails have probably been prompted by someone who does
not like Barack Obama and does not like the fact that Snopes (or
TruthOrFiction.com for that matter) has debunked some of the emails that
are not true about him.
One of the versions of the eRumor mentions TruthOrFiction.com and
recommends our site. We appreciate that, but we want to say for the
record that we’ve had nothing to do with this eRumor about Snopes.com
and we condemn it.
Snopes Exposed?
In August 2010 this rumor morphed when President Obama appointed Elena
Kagan to the Supreme Court. An August 4, 2010 World Net Daily article
alleged that this was a political payback for several cases questioning
the President’s citizenship that were denied by Kagan. Snopes reported
that these allegations were false. Shortly after that inboxes were
flooded with emails with the subject header “Snopes Exposed!” alleging
that they lied about their findings to protect Obama.
TruthOrFiction.com also investigated this rumor and found that World Net
Daily released the story but the filed court cases did not question the
President’s birth records.
World Net Daily corrected the story and posted a comment that said, “An
earlier version of this story incorrectly described a series of cases
for which Elena Kagan represented the government as eligibility cases.
Those cases, in fact, were a series of unrelated disputes pending before
the Supreme Court and the references have been removed from this
report.” Click here for our findings.
The George Soros Connection?
In 2011 this eRumor once again went viral with the additional allegation
that George Soros was financing Snopes. Snopes denies this on the
F.A.Q. page on their website. Soros has been known to contribute to
MoveOn.Org and Media Matters.
updated 08/15/11