Occasionally, some of my friends will question the validity of a forwarded
article, news item or film clip . . . (like some of the Obama gaffes). They cite
'Snopes' claiming it to be 'false'. So, we found this:
Snopes receives funding from an undisclosed source. Snopes refuses to
identify that source. The Democratic Alliance, a funding channel for uber-Leftist
(Marxist) Billionaires (George Soros etc.), direct funds to an "Internet
Propaganda Arm" pushing these views. The Democratic Alliance has been
reported to instruct Fundees to not disclose their funding source, as well.
For the past few years 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 snopes.com. It is run by a husband and wife
team - 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, with no formal background or experience in investigative research .
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.comclaiming
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 State Farm agent, Bud Gregg in Mandeville
hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama, it made a big splash across the Internet.
'Supposedly' the Mikkelson's claim to have researched this issue before posting heir 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 - 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.comever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet, snopes.comissued 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.comto 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 search a subject and do the research yourself.
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.
I have recently discovered that Snopes.comis
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 tubeyourself 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. Anyway just FYI please don't use Snopes.comanymore for fact checking
and make your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people
still think Snopes.comis 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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