“Jim” has seen the Light about Snopes v. Truth or Fiction

I received the following from a friend this week, and “Jim” has given me permission to share it with you:

Check Snopes out. Well well, lookie, lookie…I knew some things they were saying seemed out of whack with the facts…Beginning to understand why now…Sooooooo be careful when you go there… 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.com is the better source for verification, in my opinion. 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 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.

Here’s what I have found: Snopes was created in 1995 by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a California couple who met on the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup. The Mikkelsons also founded the San Fernando Valley Folklore Society, and were credited as the owners of the site until 2005. Barbara now works on the site full time, while David, a programmer, works on the site part time.

While I can’t prove it, I too am somewhat suspect of their leftward bent given their take (or lack thereof) on several Obama stories. An example is their take on the Obama/Ayers connection as opposed to truthorfiction.com’s take on the same subject. Snopes tends to minimize the connection categorizing the rumor as a ‘Partial Truth’ while truthorfiction does not downplay the connection at all, calling it a ‘Truth’, and in fact references a CNN (surprise, surprise) expose of the two, as well as a Wall Street Journal article about their connection. Snopes not only does not reference either source cited above, but instead lists a quote from an Obama spokesman as it’s main source(what a spin), leaving one to believe they are mere acquaintances.

Please compare these two entries:

• http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ayers.asp
• http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-ayers.htm

Here’s another comparison of Snopes vs. Truthorfiction’s treatment of the email that has gone out regarding ‘Obama’s 50 lies’. Notice that Snopes often adds editorial comments favoring Obama on unproven statements, or even on proven ones where they say he is ‘taken out of context’.

• http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/50lies.asp
• http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/obama-lies.htm