Subject: Who's behind 'Snopes'?


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Who's behind 'Snopes'

I thought you might be interested in this article if you didn't know already.

About SNOPES.COM

Who watches the watchers?

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 made 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 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 Mikkelsons 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 Mikkelsons are Democrats 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 Mikkelsons 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
... 'precede 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
Mikkelsons do. After all, I can> personally vouch from my own experience
for their 'not' fully looking into things. http://www.wikipedia.org/
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's web-site
http://www.truthorfiction.com/ is a better
source for verification, in my opinion.

I have recently discovered that is http://www.snopes.com/
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
http://www.snopes.com/ for anything that remotely
resembles truth (SIC ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO LIBERAL vs CONSERVATIVE
CONCERNS)! I don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are
hoaxes anymore.

A few conservative speakers on MySpace told me about http://www..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 http://www.snopes.com/
anymore for fact checking and make your friends
aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think
http://www.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, CEO/Chairman
Commercial Programming Systems, Inc.
4400 Coldwater Canyon Ave. Suite 200
Studio City, CA. 91604-5039 Phone: 888-277-4562 EX. 306/
Direct 888-812-9234 or 818-308-8561
Mobile 818-522-9319
FAX 818-301-2054

The above was sent to me by an ole Friend Wayne Jirsa.

Take it for what it is.

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