Is Snopes.com a Hoax??

I got this from a friend, and must admit that I've wondered about some of the "findings" and / or "lack of findings" from SNOPES .... but again must admit ... I've been a user for a long time ..................

After doing some research of my own, I have to say.............ABSOLUTELY A
 HOAX! 
Thank you Craig. 




Snopes.com is not giving you the whole story! I always suspected David and Barbara Mikkelson who were behind "Snopes"
 were 
Obama and liberal oriented --now I (we) know! 


Who watches the watchers?  Please read it all to the bottom! 


Guess we have to use "Truth or Fiction" now. 


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 


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
 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 in 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, 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 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 web site findings. Gee, what a shock? 


So, I say this now to everyone who goes to 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; 

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 i
n half-truths If there 
is any subjectivity they do an immediate full left rudder.
 www.truthorfiction.com A better source for verification, in my opinion. I have recently discovered that Snopes.com is 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 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 conservatives 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.com anymore for fact checking and
 make 
your friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think Snopes.com is neutral and they can be trusted as
 factual. 

We need to make sure everyone is aware: that Snopes is a hoax in itself