Snopes Is For Dopes
th...@anhywhere.usa
This is a disgusting revelation for all who thought Snopes was in the
business of validating information. I have been saying this for some
time myself and this adds validity to my thoughts. It is time
everyone knew this so the number of hits on Snopes will drop to zip
and advertisers bring it down. I too have found that much information
is correct despite Snopes claims it to be false. Jim
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 animmediate full left rudder.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/ is the better source for verification,
in my opinion.
Just FYI guys. I have been wanting to send you all some information on
Snopes.com for a while and I will get around to that soon.
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 Youtube
yourself and find the video of Obama or others 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 few
months 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. This
website is backing Obama and is covering up for him. They will say
anything that makes him look bad is a hoax and they also tell lies on
the other side about McCain and Palin.
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.
primord...@yahoo.com
LOL!
Ylem
Florida
> Jim wrote:
> This is a disgusting revelation for all who thought Snopes was in the
> business of validating information. I have been saying this for some
> time myself and this adds validity to my thoughts. It is time
> everyone knew this so the number of hits on Snopes will drop to zip
In other words, help you destroy an independent source of
information. Help you reduce the web to incoherent blog-noise. Like
when repubs deliberately put false info in Wikipedia and then ran
around the net yelling "Wikipedia lies!" "Don't believe Wikipedia!"
And the whole world looked at them with contempt.
Ken
Right wing motormouth Rush Limbaugh knows all about dope and dopes,
with him being both a drug addict and a dope
George Z. Bush
> Shill ? Mouthpiece ? And more.
That's odd....it was my son, the registered Republican, arsenal owner and
long standing member of the NRA who steered me to it and always, to this
day, uses it to check out stuff that turns his bullshit indicator light
bright red. I wonder why somebody in the Party didn't share the truth with
him as they apparently did with you.
George Z.
primord...@yahoo.com
For true idiocy unleashed, check out "conservapedia". For the theory
of evolution they have a picture of Adolf Hitler! LOL!
It must be terrible to wake up one morning and discover that
everything you think you know is wrong.
"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that
must be kept from it." (Eric Hoffer - The Passionate State of Mind.)
Ylem
Ken
> For true idiocy unleashed, check out "conservapedia". For the theory
> of evolution they have a picture of Adolf Hitler! LOL!
>
> It must be terrible to wake up one morning and discover that
> everything you think you know is wrong.
>
That site and Bagdhad Bob's Polling Service must be where FAUX NOISE,
Bill "Butthead" O'Reilly, and Ann "I'm a man" Coulter find most of
their babbling points and political stats
Islander
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:37:34 -0400, th...@anhywhere.usa wrote:
>
> Shill ? Mouthpiece ? And more.
What exact entries in snopes.com are lies? The above post by Jim only
makes claims without any information to support them. This sounds like
simply an attempt to discredit an organization that does, in fact, find
truth that is uncomfortable for Jim to acknowledge.
Islander
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:37:34 -0400, th...@anhywhere.usa wrote:
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>>
>>
>> This is a disgusting revelation for all who thought Snopes was in the
>> business of validating information. I have been saying this for some
>> time myself and this adds validity to my thoughts. It is time
>> everyone knew this so the number of hits on Snopes will drop to zip
>> and advertisers bring it down. I too have found that much information
>> is correct despite Snopes claims it to be false. Jim
>>
>> 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 animmediate full left rudder.
>>
>> http://www.truthorfiction.com/ is the better source for verification,
>> in my opinion.
>>
And, checking truthorfiction.com:
Snopes.com is a secret tool of the Democratic Party to promote Barack
Obama- Fiction!
Summary of the eRumor:
An eRumor about Snopes.com accusing them being owned by a flaming
liberal and this man is in the tank for Obama.
The Truth:
In October, 2008, stories began circulating via forwarded emails that
the popular urban legends site Snopes.com was owned by liberals and was
"in the tank" for presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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.
Evelyn
"Gary" <n...@none.com> wrote in message
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> 12 times. But no matter what the subject was ... they always found
> the truth was whatever favored Obama. I find that strange ...
> bordering of untruthfulness. I observed that honest people usually
> find facts to fall both for and against a certain politician.
Ahhhhhh ...... so you all are angry with Snopes for debunking republican
lies!!!!!!
I should've known!!!!
LOL
:-)
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Best Regards,
Evelyn
(Our) enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship,
cupidity, hatred and discrimination, which lie within the heart of man." --
Thich Nhat Hanh
Al. E. Gator Sr.
<th...@anhywhere.usa> wrote in message
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LMAO, you fell for the same kind of mass e-mailed type of urban legend
that snopes refutes, I'm surprised they didn't say the guy was a muslim
damn, you ignorant hillbillies beat everything, yall know that ?,
Ken
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Good find.
One can assume that this is just the latest attempt by the Repugnut
liars trying to Swift Boat the Snopes people.
So f**kin typical of them with their "The ends justisfies any means"
moral code
Joan F (MI)
Harry Thompson
"Gary" <n...@none.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:22:20 -0700, Islander <nos...@privacy.net>
> wrote:
>
> 12 times. But no matter what the subject was ... they always found
> the truth was whatever favored Obama. I find that strange ...
> bordering of untruthfulness. I observed that honest people usually
> find facts to fall both for and against a certain politician.
I don't believe you, Gary. You checked Snopes several times, maybe, and not
necessarily on Obama.
The couple of times you checked a claim against Obama, you were disappointed
that the claims were false. Your conclusion should have been that
Republicans are lying about Obama. Repeatedly.
If the Cretan lies repeatedly, and the Athenian always debunks the Cretan,
it is not evidence that the Athenian is biased. It is evidence that the
Cretan is a liar. Your justification that facts should fall both for and
against Cretan claims is specious.
Ken
wrote:
The problem is...they make up their own TRUTH, no matter how fictional
is turns out to be
Ken
> If the Cretan lies repeatedly, and the Athenian always debunks the Cretan,
> it is not evidence that the Athenian is biased. It is evidence that the
> Cretan is a liar. Your justification that facts should fall both for and
> against Cretan claims is specious.- Hide quoted text -
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Well said....K
High Miles
They aren't the sharpest blades in the rack after all.
Maybe they just hope that screaming their lies over and over will work.
mg
> <th...@anhywhere.usa> wrote in message
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> news:4a93g4lnkfl43gtcr...@4ax.com...
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> LMAO, you fell for the same kind of mass e-mailed type of urban legend
> that snopes refutes, I'm surprised they didn't say the guy was a muslim
>
> damn, you ignorant hillbillies beat everything, yall know that ?,
Are wingnuts like "th" brain damaged or do they act that way on
purpose?
clams_casino
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>Right wing motormouth Rush Limbaugh knows all about dope and dopes,
>with him being both a drug addict and a dope
>
>
I haven't heard his name in years. When's he due to be released from
prison?