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There was also some other facts that popped up back in about '00 where someone found out Snopes.com slanted things in a liberal way. I couldn't find that one (might not have looked long enough too, but I'm wore out today), but this one is just as good.
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For the past few years (http://www.snopescom/ 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 <http://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 <http://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
<http://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 that no one from
snopes.com <http://snopes.com/> ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet, snopes.com <http://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
<http://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.wikipedia.org/ <http://http/www.wikipedia.org/>
or Http://www.snopes.com/ <http://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.
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com <http://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
<http://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
<http://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. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com
<http://snopes.com/> anymore for fact checking and make your friends
aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think
Snopes.com <http://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. 91604-5039
----------
For the past few years (http://www.snopescom/ 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 <http://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 <http://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
<http://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 that no one from
snopes.com <http://snopes.com/> ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet, snopes.com <http://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
<http://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.wikipedia.org/ <http://http/www.wikipedia.org/>
or Http://www.snopes.com/ <http://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.
I have recently discovered that Snopes.com <http://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
<http://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
<http://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. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.com
<http://snopes.com/> anymore for fact checking and make your friends
aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think
Snopes.com <http://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. 91604-5039
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