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carnies and rubes, my friend. carnies and rubes
Originally Posted by marylandkw
I want everyone to make an informed decision when voting and crap like this makes it darn near impossible. Emails like this and the Tax email posted in another thread are fabricated to make someone look bad. And then the unwashed masses believe them and get angry when proven wrong or simply refuse to believe it.carnies and rubes, my friend. carnies and rubes
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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Perhaps you want to discover the origin of an urban legend or verify that the photo of a 45-pound cat someone emailed you isn't a doctored photo. Maybe you want to know if Proctor & Gamble's logo is really satanic. Snopes.com (hereafter “snopes") is good for verifying unimportant stuff like that, but don't count on them being “fair and balanced" when it comes to anything political or religious.
Although Snopes hasn't any political philosophy explicitly stated on the website, snopes' selectivity and analysis of political emails oozes with partisanship. Religious emails don't fare much better and typically get a liberal hatchet job. In a nutshell, although snopes has to reluctantly admit that most of the conservative political and religious emails are “true" as far as snopes can determine, there is always a :arrow: caveat, :arrow: disclaimer, :arrow: footnote, :arrow: or lengthy oratory explaining why everything from crime statistics to reports from Iraq must be viewed and understood through snopes'
http://snopes.com/politics/mccain/warcriminal.aspOriginally Posted by GTR SILVER
Snopes.com has a liberal political agenda.:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
Perhaps you want to discover the origin of an urban legend or verify that the photo of a 45-pound cat someone emailed you isn't a doctored photo. Maybe you want to know if Proctor & Gamble's logo is really satanic. Snopes.com (hereafter “snopes") is good for verifying unimportant stuff like that, but don't count on them being “fair and balanced" when it comes to anything political or religious.
Although Snopes hasn't any political philosophy explicitly stated on the website, snopes' selectivity and analysis of political emails oozes with partisanship. Religious emails don't fare much better and typically get a liberal hatchet job. In a nutshell, although snopes has to reluctantly admit that most of the conservative political and religious emails are “true" as far as snopes can determine, there is always a :arrow: caveat, :arrow: disclaimer, :arrow: footnote, :arrow: or lengthy oratory explaining why everything from crime statistics to reports from Iraq must be viewed and understood through snopes'
http://snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp
http://snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.asp
http://snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
http://snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/bushwave.asp
Yeah, they never defend republicans or religion. :roll: