Snopes

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 e-mail.  

Snopes 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 and surreptitiously became a spreader of Leftist Propaganda..
 
Left Wing Progressives, David and Barbara Mikkelson, started the web site about 13 years ago in California’s San Fernando Valley - and have no formal background or experience in investigative research.  After a few years it gained popularity as Americans, believing it to be unbiased and neutral, accepted it as cetain truth.  But over the past couple of years people started wondering who was behind it and what was their 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 issues when in fact, they have been proven wrong so often.  There were criticisms that the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues but, instead, use it to promulgate their Leftist Agenda.
 
When I discovered that Snopes falsely claimed that Obama's Birth Certificate had been properly validated – which it has not – it was then that I realized something was askew with their research and/or their credibility – or both.  It seems something is seriously wrong.  Could Snopes be lying?
 
Then, a few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama’s birth certificate it made a big splash across the Internet.  Supposedly the Mikkelsons 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, I gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers.  Bud was going to give him phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who were willing to speak with him about it.  Mikkelson lied, neither he nor his wife ever called Bud.

In fact, I 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 homework and got to the bottom of things.  Not!  They are typical of the Left, passing off bogus opinions as "fact".  The truth is that they are liars hoping we do not research their lies, etc…

It has been disclosed that the Mikkelsons are hard core Democrats and are extremely liberal.  As we all now know, from this presidential election, liberals have a calculated, insidious agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative.  There has been much criticism lately over the Internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their web site findings.  Gee, what a shock!

So, I say this now to everyone who goes to 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 exactly what the Mikkelsons do.  After all, I can personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not' fully looking into things.

For those of you that are fond of referring to Snopes as a verifier of the truth, please stop the practice.  They are bold face liars promoting their own Leftist Agenda.

Tony Passaro
The Old Maryland Line