THE TRUTH ABOUT SNOPES.COM
Letter to the Editor
I'd like to know why otherwise intelligent conservatives believe ANYTHING snopes has to say on ANYTHING:
Do you believe everything you read on the Internet
and in your emails or do you check it out with snopes first? If you use
snopes read on!
For the past few years
"http://www.snopes.com/" 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 "http://www.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
"http://www.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 a 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
"http://www.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's contact 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 NO ONE from "http://www. snopes.com/"
ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, "http://www. 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 purposeful 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
"http://www.snopes.com/"
to get what they think to be the bottom line 'facts...'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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.comI received this from a friend, and it sheds new light on a lot of things I have attempted to find the truth about on snopes, that didn't "jibe" with other findings.
I would highly recommend you completely quit using http://www.snopes.com/ for any reason.
I have had better, more credible results using http://www.truthorfiction.com/
by The Regulator, Oathkeepers