[StBernard] We learn the "truth" behind Snopes.com

[Westley Annis]

For the past few years www.snopes.com has postioned 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 skepticims - 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.  I can personally vouch for that
complaint.
 
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.  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 bottomof 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 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!
 
Then 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.  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 all the Mikkelson's do.  After all, I can personally vouch
from my own experience for their "not" fully looking into things.

 
John Scurich