Snopes Exposed--George Soros and Leftists Fund it

[bobbyw24]

Snopes receives funding from an undisclosed source. The source is undisclosed because Snopes refuses to disclose 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.

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 - 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.
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of 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. 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 ever contacted anyone with State Farm.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/83/37...s_Exposed.html

[Elwar]

[Bruno]

I didn't find any evidence presented in that article that Soros funds Snopes.

[bobbyw24]

I didn't find any evidence presented in that article that Soros funds Snopes.

Yo Ice: Shhh-it's supposed to be a secret

[Humanae Libertas]

The fact that CIApedia aka Wikipedia, uses them as a 'reliable source' (no kidding), should raise red flags everywhere.

It's a disinfo site.

[Bruno]

Yo Ice: Shhh-it's supposed to be a secret

lol

Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

[Elwar]

Not true.

Debunked at snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/awortham.asp

j/k

[specsaregood]

Not true.
Debunked at snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/awortham.asp
j/k

I lol'd.

Did you know Mr. Ed was really a zebra?
http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp

[fj45lvr]

I lol'd.

Did you know Mr. Ed was really a zebra?
http://www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp

haha

as if a Zebra wouldn't show up in B&W....good one.

[Acala]

my theory:

My Dad forwards to me an amazing amount of neocon trash. It is mostly either Obama hate, Muslim hate, illegal immigrant hate, or some pro-war tear-jerking soldier story. Almost ALL of it is unbelievable on its face, yet he keeps sending it. I use Snopes to refute most of it. So my thoery is that the people who are distributing these lies to try and stir up hate and deflect public ire from runaway government onto Obama the man or some group of brown people, need to undermine the credibility of Snopes in order to prevent people from exposing their propaganda.

[johngr]

Not true.

Debunked at snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/awortham.asp

j/k

Unfortunately, there's no Snopes for Snopes.

[dannno]

I hate snopes.

[tropicangela]

snopes is saying mr ed was a zebra? how did that lighter patch on its snout show up then?

[fj45lvr]

snopes is saying mr ed was a zebra? how did that lighter patch on its snout show up then?

that's a "spoof"....just click on the link to the B&W photo and it mocks you!!!

[specsaregood]

snopes is saying mr ed was a zebra? how did that lighter patch on its snout show up then?

Not really.
They put that page up for a good reason:
http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.asp

It is meant to teach people a lesson about relying on snopes alone and to do their own research.

[WaltM]

I guess I'll go back to believing 9/11 was a conspiracy, Nigerian scammers, kidney heist.

[dannno]

I guess I'll go back to believing 9/11 was a conspiracy

Snopes has a lot of BS material on 9/11, I'll tell you that. I wouldn't believe any of it. If that is what convinced you that it was simply 19 hijackers with some help from some dudes in a cave, I'd start over again with your research.

Like for example, they have an entire article about how when flights were grounded after 9/11, they claim the Bin Laden family did not break the grounding rule and were not 'flown out of the country' during this time.


While partially true, in that they were flown out of the country after some types of flights were allowed to fly, many members of the Bin Laden family were in fact flown around the country while the grounding was still in effect in order to gather them together to take a single flight out of the country later on. Snopes did not mention this in their article as of 2007 or 2008, well over 6 years after the event.

[WaltM]

Snopes has a lot of BS material on 9/11, I'll tell you that. I wouldn't believe any of it. If that is what convinced you that it was simply 19 hijackers with some help from some dudes in a cave, I'd start over again with your research.

Like for example, they have an entire article about how when flights were grounded after 9/11, they claim the Bin Laden family did not break the grounding rule and were not 'flown out of the country' during this time.


While partially true, in that they were flown out of the country after some types of flights were allowed to fly, many members of the Bin Laden family were in fact flown around the country while the grounding was still in effect in order to gather them together to take a single flight out of the country later on. Snopes did not mention this in their article as of 2007 or 2008, well over 6 years after the event.

Honestly, snopes.com played very little in my decision to believe 9/11 conspiracy theories.

[Rael]

I think the bigger question to ask is, why should some yahoo and his wife be considered the final authority on anything?

[specsaregood]

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[BlackTerrel]

I think the bigger question to ask is, why should some yahoo and his wife be considered the final authority on anything?

As soon as anyone has a modicum of success they are attacked - always happens.

Snopes is a husband and wife team that usually provide pretty good documentation to prove or disprove many urban myths. I generally find them useful - sometimes I've even disagreed with what they've posted - I survive.

The "conspiracy behind every rock" crowd piss me off though. Where is the evidence in the OP because I think Snopes is funded by the Catholic Church.

Feel free to take everything they say as gospel then.

How about using them as one source of information and drawing your own conclusions? Is that possible or does one have to be either "The Gospel" or "CIA inspired disinfo"?

[WaltM]

just letting you guys know, I am very happy with a book I bought today.

The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros, by Mark Tier

Much more interesting than Rich Dad Poor Dad

[itshappening]

Claim: Wayne Allyn Root wrote in an opinion piece that President Obama is "purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp

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it says "correctly attributed"

strange...