I often see references to www.Snopes in the Wreck. I was under the impression that it was kind of investigative legal outfit.
Not so:
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008 SNOPES.com With Caution
For the past few years
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.
To the best of my knowledge that was not a secret. I've known that for a long time. Apparently, for many people it was a secret.
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 as people believed 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, 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.
Lt Colonel Ed Cathcart USMC (Ret), a customer and friend of Bud Gregg's contacted David Mikkelson (and Mikkelson replied back) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and 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, LTC Cathcart learned from Bud Gregg that no one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their research and got to the bottom of things!
As I said, the mom and pop operation was not a secret to me. Here's what was the secret to me;
It has been learned the Mikkelson's are Jewish - 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.
So, everyone who goes to
It is apparent that that's all the Mikkelson's do.
POSTED BY ICE CREAM SOLDIER AT 18:50