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GOT'CHA, SNOPES!!!!!
Recently, I was complaining to some old Seabee buddies about always getting nailed on things I'd post here for the troops...SNOPESwas always mentioned and usually I'd make apologies for my errors in judgement.. Here's a msg. I rec'd. from them just this morning 7/29/09... Chief



From Seabee Bill Tracy:
About Snopes: SNOPES is operated by a married couple who live near me in the San Fernando Valley, California, on Mulholland Drive about 20 miles from me. They are unreliable and inaccurate because their politics are Left Wing. They are registered Democrats so they never admit to any errors of that party. They have been operating SNOPES for about 15 years. Smart people don't rely onSNOPES.
Bill Tracy 

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GOTCHA SNOPES:

From Seabee Scott Williams:
I usually use Urban Legends from About.com < [link to urbanlegends.about.com] and enter a few key words in the search block. I have found this site to be reliable.
Scott
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I have to say that I have had a problem with snopes.com for quite a while. I read some of Barbara Mikkelson’s personal opinions on one of the Christian e-mails one time and I knew right away how liberal she was. There is another good website called truthorfiction.com that can be used instead. KG
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Info about Snopes.com

For the past few years www.snopes.com < [link to www.snopes.com>] has positioned itself, or others have labeled it as the 'tell-all, final word' on any comment, claim and e-mail.

But for several years people tried to find out who exactly was behind snopes.com. 

Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it -- kind of 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 (retired Jewish Ultra Liberal Democrats) 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 claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issues, 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.

When I saw that Snopes had falsely claimed that Obama's Birth Certificate had been properly validated, I realized something was wrong with either their research and/or their credibility. It seems something is seriously wrong with both. Then 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. 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. 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 snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet 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 Democrat 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! They were also big supporters of both Clintons and used Snopes to "debunk" any criticism of the Clintons without checking the validity of the item.

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to 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, and understand their liberal agenda. 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.

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