Hmmmm....and here I thought the site was legitimate. But
still...like the guy noted at the bottom....do your own
research...don't just read an email and assume that it is true. Do a
little research on the web to find out if it is or not...if you're
that interested in it.
Subject: So Much For SNOPES "research"
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:41:48 +0000
For the past few years www.snopes.com < 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 snopes.com < http://snopes.com/> . Only recently did Wikipedia
get to the bottom of it - kinda 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 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
< http://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 < http://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 snopes.com
< http://snopes.com/> ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet,snopes.com < http://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 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 www.snopes.com
< http://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. 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.
_
_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com>
still...like the guy noted at the bottom....do your own
research...don't just read an email and assume that it is true. Do a
little research on the web to find out if it is or not...if you're
that interested in it.
Subject: So Much For SNOPES "research"
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:41:48 +0000
For the past few years www.snopes.com < 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 snopes.com < http://snopes.com/> . Only recently did Wikipedia
get to the bottom of it - kinda 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 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
< http://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 < http://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 snopes.com
< http://snopes.com/> ever contacted anyone with State Farm.
Yet,snopes.com < http://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 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 www.snopes.com
< http://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. 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.
_
_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snopes.com>
