Snopes.com owners detained by police
Aug 22, 2015 16:30:56 #
Snopes.com CEO arrested on charges of fraud and corruption
8/6/2015, 12:07 am
Snopes.com editor attacks messenger, shoots pianist, leading police to discovery of corrupt and fraudulent practices inside the organization.
LOS ANGELES, CA - Snopes.com owners Barbara and David Mikkelson were detained by police today after an unrelated investigation of a Snopes.com editor lead police onto a paper trail of corruption, bribery, and fraud at the very heart of the fact-checking organization.
Evidence obtained by police has revealed that Snopes.com, which markets itself as "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation," has a history of accepting money and favors from left-leaning and pro-Islamic political groups and individuals for helping them to advance their cause by rigging public discourse with selective fact-finding and deliberate manipulation of public opinion.
Late Monday morning, Brian Williston, a Snopes.com editor, who also doubles as the accountant, found himself at a flea market on the outskirts of Los Angeles. As he was browsing the different tables and tents looking for antiques, an old mechanical piano began playing Dixie's Land, a song that was adopted as a de facto anthem of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and is now considered offensive by some due to its link to the iconography and ideology of the Old South.
The tune sparked an outrage in Williston, who began yelling and cursing those who "would like to bring back slavery and racial separation," and ordering the vendors to "turn off that racist music." When no one nearby claimed to know how to turn off the one-hundred-year-old machine, Williston became violent. He started grabbing various antique objects from the vendors' tables and throwing them at the antique piano in an attempt to silence the music.
A bystander, later identified as William Barksdale, working as a courier for the L.A. Messenger Service, attempted to calm Williston down, saying that "someone is just trying to see if that the piano still works" and "it's only a song, don't shoot the pianist," but that only prompted the infuriated editor to redirect his rage to the messenger. Williston, who is white, began to choke Barksdale, who is black, while screaming "Shut up! Shut up!" as the mechanical piano continued to play Dixie's Land in the background.
After some of the shoppers intervened and pried Williston's hands off the courier's throat, the Snopes.com editor fled the scene of the incident. LAPD quickly identified Williston by the personal check he left with one of the vendors, which contained his full name and address. While inside his home, Williston ignored commands to open the door, causing police to use forced entry in order to detain him.
The arresting officer caught Williston slipping some papers under a Persian rug, which prompted the police to remove the rug and examine the documents underneath it. One of them turned out to be a handwritten ledger, containing names of well-known individuals and organizations who have been paying Snopes.com to debunk stories that cast them in a bad light, while validating damaging half-truths and rumors about their political opponents.
Having established their website as a reputable resource for validating and debunking stories in American popular culture since 1995, the Mikkelson couple soon found themselves in a position to influence public discourse by punishing or rewarding certain cultural and political biases. Before long they were accepting money to promote some rumors and downplay or completely ignore some others, which over the years have brought them millions of dollars, according to the source.
Especially scandalous may be the website's possible collaboration with left-leaning national media organizations, which started with payments to Snopes.com to overlook or validate their inaccurate and biased reporting, and eventually evolved into a full-scale coordinated effort with left-leaning groups and public relation firms to construct a media narrative that gave legitimacy to certain opinions, political causes and public figures, while discrediting other opinions, causes, and public figures.
The list of groups and individuals paying to use the website's clout ranged from local politicians to transnational entities to foreign governments, including Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Palestinian Authority. None of the specifics or individual names are being revealed while the investigation is still ongoing, but a police source has indicated that "the shockwaves will rock the world of the media and the political establishment."
Several watchdog groups have already condemned Snopes.com as a corrupt organization with zero credibility and urged their readers to disregard any political debunking from this tainted source. But some media experts predict that, given the high-profile names involved, as well as the power and magnitude of the political opinion-generating machine of which Snopes.com was only a small wheel, the story may never be allowed to reach a full-blown scandal and will soon be discarded as an urban legend, joining a long line of other similar stories debunked by Snopes.com.
- See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/snopes-com-ceo-arrested-on-charges-of-fraud-and-corruption-t16805.html#sthash.aQWCjbRG.dpuf
8/6/2015, 12:07 am
Snopes.com editor attacks messenger, shoots pianist, leading police to discovery of corrupt and fraudulent practices inside the organization.
LOS ANGELES, CA - Snopes.com owners Barbara and David Mikkelson were detained by police today after an unrelated investigation of a Snopes.com editor lead police onto a paper trail of corruption, bribery, and fraud at the very heart of the fact-checking organization.
Evidence obtained by police has revealed that Snopes.com, which markets itself as "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation," has a history of accepting money and favors from left-leaning and pro-Islamic political groups and individuals for helping them to advance their cause by rigging public discourse with selective fact-finding and deliberate manipulation of public opinion.
Late Monday morning, Brian Williston, a Snopes.com editor, who also doubles as the accountant, found himself at a flea market on the outskirts of Los Angeles. As he was browsing the different tables and tents looking for antiques, an old mechanical piano began playing Dixie's Land, a song that was adopted as a de facto anthem of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and is now considered offensive by some due to its link to the iconography and ideology of the Old South.
The tune sparked an outrage in Williston, who began yelling and cursing those who "would like to bring back slavery and racial separation," and ordering the vendors to "turn off that racist music." When no one nearby claimed to know how to turn off the one-hundred-year-old machine, Williston became violent. He started grabbing various antique objects from the vendors' tables and throwing them at the antique piano in an attempt to silence the music.
A bystander, later identified as William Barksdale, working as a courier for the L.A. Messenger Service, attempted to calm Williston down, saying that "someone is just trying to see if that the piano still works" and "it's only a song, don't shoot the pianist," but that only prompted the infuriated editor to redirect his rage to the messenger. Williston, who is white, began to choke Barksdale, who is black, while screaming "Shut up! Shut up!" as the mechanical piano continued to play Dixie's Land in the background.
After some of the shoppers intervened and pried Williston's hands off the courier's throat, the Snopes.com editor fled the scene of the incident. LAPD quickly identified Williston by the personal check he left with one of the vendors, which contained his full name and address. While inside his home, Williston ignored commands to open the door, causing police to use forced entry in order to detain him.
The arresting officer caught Williston slipping some papers under a Persian rug, which prompted the police to remove the rug and examine the documents underneath it. One of them turned out to be a handwritten ledger, containing names of well-known individuals and organizations who have been paying Snopes.com to debunk stories that cast them in a bad light, while validating damaging half-truths and rumors about their political opponents.
Having established their website as a reputable resource for validating and debunking stories in American popular culture since 1995, the Mikkelson couple soon found themselves in a position to influence public discourse by punishing or rewarding certain cultural and political biases. Before long they were accepting money to promote some rumors and downplay or completely ignore some others, which over the years have brought them millions of dollars, according to the source.
Especially scandalous may be the website's possible collaboration with left-leaning national media organizations, which started with payments to Snopes.com to overlook or validate their inaccurate and biased reporting, and eventually evolved into a full-scale coordinated effort with left-leaning groups and public relation firms to construct a media narrative that gave legitimacy to certain opinions, political causes and public figures, while discrediting other opinions, causes, and public figures.
The list of groups and individuals paying to use the website's clout ranged from local politicians to transnational entities to foreign governments, including Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Palestinian Authority. None of the specifics or individual names are being revealed while the investigation is still ongoing, but a police source has indicated that "the shockwaves will rock the world of the media and the political establishment."
Several watchdog groups have already condemned Snopes.com as a corrupt organization with zero credibility and urged their readers to disregard any political debunking from this tainted source. But some media experts predict that, given the high-profile names involved, as well as the power and magnitude of the political opinion-generating machine of which Snopes.com was only a small wheel, the story may never be allowed to reach a full-blown scandal and will soon be discarded as an urban legend, joining a long line of other similar stories debunked by Snopes.com.
- See more at: http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/snopes-com-ceo-arrested-on-charges-of-fraud-and-corruption-t16805.html#sthash.aQWCjbRG.dpuf
Aug 22, 2015 16:32:23 #
Aug 22, 2015 17:04:53 #
Black Bart
Loc: Indiana
Jackel wrote:
Snopes.com CEO arrested on charges of fraud and co... (show quote)
No surprise we knew it was a Left wing Bullshit site.
Aug 22, 2015 17:31:32 #
Aug 22, 2015 17:35:05 #
venturer9
Loc: Newton, Il.
Black Bart wrote:
No surprise we knew it was a Left wing Bullshit site.
I am not a fan of Snopes, but do believe that it is a made up false story, perpetrated by a "Faux News site"
Mike
Aug 22, 2015 17:56:52 #
Aug 22, 2015 18:06:58 #
Black Bart
Loc: Indiana
venturer9 wrote:
Mike you may want to check this out.I am not a fan of Snopes, but do believe that it is a made up false story, perpetrated by a "Faux News site"
Mike
Mike
Sure a lot of people reporting on it.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Snopes.com+owners+detained+by+police+
Aug 22, 2015 19:20:18 #
Well, Gee- 33 seconds of googling uncovered the bullshit story.
Q: Is Snopes.com run by very Democratic proprietors? Did they lie to discredit a State Farm insurance agent who attacked Obama?
A: A chain e-mail that exposed Snopes contains falsehoods. And in fact, the site is run by someone who has no political party affiliation and his non-voting Canadian wife. A State Farm spokeswoman confirms what they reported about the Obama-baiting agent.
FULL QUESTION
Can you verify?
Chain e-mail: Snopes Exposed
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 2:29am
⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full text ⬏
FULL ANSWER
This widely circulated e-mail contains a number of false claims about the urban legend-busting Snopes.com and its proprietors, Barbara and David Mikkelson, who started the site in 1995 and still run it. Theyre accused of hiding their identities, doing shoddy research, producing articles with a liberal bent and discrediting an anti-Obama State Farm agent out of partisanship.
The Trouble with Bud
Well deal first with the most specific allegation, which is that the Mikkelsons fabricated an account about State Farm agent Bud Gregg.
Bud Gregg's State Farm sign
At issue is a sign Gregg posted last summer outside his office in Mandeville, La. It said, A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. Snopes.com wrote it up in an article headlined Chicken Hawked. The e-mail writer says that 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. But thats exactly what did happen, according a company representative.
In her article, Barbara Mikkelson didnt actually use the word pressured as the e-mail claims. What she said was:
Snopes.com: A State Farm representative said that Bud Greggs office sign bore these messages until 3 July 2008 and that the company had requested the sign be removed as soon as they became aware of it because the sign was inconsistent with State Farms policy of not endorsing candidates or taking sides in political campaigns.
And State Farm spokeswoman Molly Quirk-Kirby confirmed in a letter to us the same thing she had told Snopes.com earlier:
State Farm: Management requested the sign be removed as soon as its presence became known. It was taken down on July 3, 2008. Mr. Greggs sign was not endorsed by, nor consistent with State Farms corporate practices. The company does not endorse candidates, nor take sides in political campaigns.
The e-mails author says the Mikkelsons didnt call Gregg, and David says thats true. He says he sent the insurance agent an e-mail, but did not receive a response.
Politically Preferential?
The e-mail goes on: Then it has been learned the Mikkelsons are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal, adding: There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. The author cites no evidence and no sources for either of these propositions.
We asked David. He told us that Barbara is a Canadian citizen, and as such isnt allowed to vote here or contribute money to U.S. candidates. As for him, My sole involvement in politics is on Election Day to go out and vote. Ive never joined a party, worked for a campaign or donated money to a candidate.
Youd be hard-pressed to find two more apolitical people, David Mikkelson said. We checked online to see if he had given money to any federal candidates, and nothing turned up. Mikkelson even faxed us a copy of his voter registration form. He asked us not to post an image of it here, but we can confirm that it shows he declined to state a party affiliation when he registered last year, and also that when he registered in 2000 he did so as a Republican.
Do the Snopes.com articles reveal a political bias? We reviewed a sampling of their political offerings, including some on rumors about George W. Bush, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, and we found them to be utterly poker-faced. David does say that the site receives more complaints that it is too liberal than that it is too conservative. Nevertheless, he says, We apply the same debunking standards to both sides.
Hiding in Plain Sight
The e-mail also accuses the Mikkelsons of hiding their identities. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it, the message claims. Thats nonsense. It may well be that the author of this e-mail was ignorant of the Mikkelsons until recently, but its never been a secret who is behind Snopes.com.
We even dug up a reference to David Mikkelson from 1995, a year when the Internet was in its infancy. A collection of short items under the headline A Special Report: The Virtual Valley in the Los Angeles Times included a photo of him. Reporter David Brady wrote: Meet David Mikkelson, above. Known in cyberspace as snopes, the Agoura Hills resident spends much of his time debunking urban legends via the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. The Mikkelsons were hardly holed up in an undisclosed location, even then.
David says the couple has done hundreds of media interviews over the years. Some of the major national pieces are listed on the site, including a new (April 2009) Readers Digest feature on them.
Lift That Bale!
Another claim in the e-mail: That the Mikkelsons have been criticized for not really investigating and getting to the bottom of various issues. The message gives no examples, but theres plenty of evidence that the couple expends a great deal of effort to find the truth. Take, for example, Easily Lead, Barbara Mikkelsons attempt to ascertain whether lipstick contains dangerous levels of lead, as one chain e-mail claimed. Mikkelson had an extensive conversation with a federal Food and Drug Administration compliance officer, conducted her own experiments rubbing various metals across lipstick and wax smears on white paper, dug up a number of articles about and industry memos on lead in lipstick, and sifted through medical literature on the topic. The list of sources at the end of the article doesnt come close to doing justice to the amount of work that went into it. (Bottom line: Lipstick is safe, at least in the U.S.).
For another piece, Chubby Bunny Death, the Mikkelsons verified that a child had indeed died while playing a game that entails stuffing as many marshmallows as possible into ones mouth and trying to say the words chubby bunny. However, they dispelled the notion that the death occurred because the marshmallows had emulsified, forming a sticky liquid that choked the child and was difficult to extract in time to save her. Instead, it was a case of marshmallows blocking her air passages. The Mikkelsons knew that because they reviewed a number of articles about a lawsuit that resulted from the incident. But they also conducted their own experiment, David Mikkelson told us in an interview, in which he held marshmallows in his mouth to determine how long it takes them to dissolve. Now thats research.
And no account of the lengths to which the Mikkelsons will go to chase down the facts would be complete without a mention of Crash Course, their shredding of the rumor (repeated in Time magazine and elsewhere) that Clark Gable had run over and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk one night in 1945, and that his studio, MGM, paid an employee to take the rap for him. The Mikkelsons checked four biographies and other books, which had conflicting accounts, and a number of old newspaper articles (all on microfilm) to sort out the truth, which was that Gable did have a car wreck, but he never hit a pedestrian. Their account of the extensive research process is worth a read.
Although our sites have somewhat different emphases we focus on whats being said in political ads, speeches, interviews and debates, while Snopes.com concentrates more on such things as whether former Monkee band member Michael Nesmiths mother was the inventor of liquid correction fluid (she was) Snopes.com does take on some claims in the political realm. That has given us an opportunity to evaluate the Mikkelsons work from time to time. We have found it solid and well-documented. We even link to Snopes.com when its appropriate rather than reinvent the wheel ourselves, which we consider high praise.
A Final Warning
The e-mails last paragraph advises that everyone who goes to Snopes.com for the bottom line facts should proceed with caution. We think thats terrific advice, not just in connection with material on Snopes but for practically anything a reader finds online including articles on FactCheck.org. The very reason we list our sources (as does Snopes.com) and provide links is so that readers can check things out for themselves.
Oh, we almost forgot: That Wikipedia entry mentioned in the e-mail? Not only was it not the first place to reveal the Mikkelsons identities, but it contains several factual errors, according to David. For instance, it says that he works part-time on Snopes.com. That was never true, according to David; early on he did hold another job as well, but even that hasnt been true since 2002. The mistakes could have been avoided if the authors had contacted the couple. None of them did, he said.
Viveca Novak
Sources
Brady, David E. Valley Newswatch/A Special Report: The Virtual Valley, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1995.
Interview with David Mikkelson, 8 April 2009.
Hochman, David. Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax? Readers Digest, April 2009.
Mikkelson, Barbara. Chubby Bunny Death, Snopes.com, 15 Sept. 2006.
Crash Course, Snopes.com, 9 Aug. 2007
Mikkelson, Barbara. Easily Lead, Snopes.com, 12 Nov. 2008.
Liquid Paperback Writer, Snopes.com, 26 April 2007.
Mikkelson, Barbara. Chicken Hawked, Snopes.com, 23 Oct. 2008.
Selected pages on George W. Bush, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, Snopes.com, various dates.
Q: Is Snopes.com run by very Democratic proprietors? Did they lie to discredit a State Farm insurance agent who attacked Obama?
A: A chain e-mail that exposed Snopes contains falsehoods. And in fact, the site is run by someone who has no political party affiliation and his non-voting Canadian wife. A State Farm spokeswoman confirms what they reported about the Obama-baiting agent.
FULL QUESTION
Can you verify?
Chain e-mail: Snopes Exposed
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 2:29am
⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full text ⬏
FULL ANSWER
This widely circulated e-mail contains a number of false claims about the urban legend-busting Snopes.com and its proprietors, Barbara and David Mikkelson, who started the site in 1995 and still run it. Theyre accused of hiding their identities, doing shoddy research, producing articles with a liberal bent and discrediting an anti-Obama State Farm agent out of partisanship.
The Trouble with Bud
Well deal first with the most specific allegation, which is that the Mikkelsons fabricated an account about State Farm agent Bud Gregg.
Bud Gregg's State Farm sign
At issue is a sign Gregg posted last summer outside his office in Mandeville, La. It said, A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. Snopes.com wrote it up in an article headlined Chicken Hawked. The e-mail writer says that 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. But thats exactly what did happen, according a company representative.
In her article, Barbara Mikkelson didnt actually use the word pressured as the e-mail claims. What she said was:
Snopes.com: A State Farm representative said that Bud Greggs office sign bore these messages until 3 July 2008 and that the company had requested the sign be removed as soon as they became aware of it because the sign was inconsistent with State Farms policy of not endorsing candidates or taking sides in political campaigns.
And State Farm spokeswoman Molly Quirk-Kirby confirmed in a letter to us the same thing she had told Snopes.com earlier:
State Farm: Management requested the sign be removed as soon as its presence became known. It was taken down on July 3, 2008. Mr. Greggs sign was not endorsed by, nor consistent with State Farms corporate practices. The company does not endorse candidates, nor take sides in political campaigns.
The e-mails author says the Mikkelsons didnt call Gregg, and David says thats true. He says he sent the insurance agent an e-mail, but did not receive a response.
Politically Preferential?
The e-mail goes on: Then it has been learned the Mikkelsons are very Democratic (party) and extremely liberal, adding: There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. The author cites no evidence and no sources for either of these propositions.
We asked David. He told us that Barbara is a Canadian citizen, and as such isnt allowed to vote here or contribute money to U.S. candidates. As for him, My sole involvement in politics is on Election Day to go out and vote. Ive never joined a party, worked for a campaign or donated money to a candidate.
Youd be hard-pressed to find two more apolitical people, David Mikkelson said. We checked online to see if he had given money to any federal candidates, and nothing turned up. Mikkelson even faxed us a copy of his voter registration form. He asked us not to post an image of it here, but we can confirm that it shows he declined to state a party affiliation when he registered last year, and also that when he registered in 2000 he did so as a Republican.
Do the Snopes.com articles reveal a political bias? We reviewed a sampling of their political offerings, including some on rumors about George W. Bush, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, and we found them to be utterly poker-faced. David does say that the site receives more complaints that it is too liberal than that it is too conservative. Nevertheless, he says, We apply the same debunking standards to both sides.
Hiding in Plain Sight
The e-mail also accuses the Mikkelsons of hiding their identities. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it, the message claims. Thats nonsense. It may well be that the author of this e-mail was ignorant of the Mikkelsons until recently, but its never been a secret who is behind Snopes.com.
We even dug up a reference to David Mikkelson from 1995, a year when the Internet was in its infancy. A collection of short items under the headline A Special Report: The Virtual Valley in the Los Angeles Times included a photo of him. Reporter David Brady wrote: Meet David Mikkelson, above. Known in cyberspace as snopes, the Agoura Hills resident spends much of his time debunking urban legends via the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban. The Mikkelsons were hardly holed up in an undisclosed location, even then.
David says the couple has done hundreds of media interviews over the years. Some of the major national pieces are listed on the site, including a new (April 2009) Readers Digest feature on them.
Lift That Bale!
Another claim in the e-mail: That the Mikkelsons have been criticized for not really investigating and getting to the bottom of various issues. The message gives no examples, but theres plenty of evidence that the couple expends a great deal of effort to find the truth. Take, for example, Easily Lead, Barbara Mikkelsons attempt to ascertain whether lipstick contains dangerous levels of lead, as one chain e-mail claimed. Mikkelson had an extensive conversation with a federal Food and Drug Administration compliance officer, conducted her own experiments rubbing various metals across lipstick and wax smears on white paper, dug up a number of articles about and industry memos on lead in lipstick, and sifted through medical literature on the topic. The list of sources at the end of the article doesnt come close to doing justice to the amount of work that went into it. (Bottom line: Lipstick is safe, at least in the U.S.).
For another piece, Chubby Bunny Death, the Mikkelsons verified that a child had indeed died while playing a game that entails stuffing as many marshmallows as possible into ones mouth and trying to say the words chubby bunny. However, they dispelled the notion that the death occurred because the marshmallows had emulsified, forming a sticky liquid that choked the child and was difficult to extract in time to save her. Instead, it was a case of marshmallows blocking her air passages. The Mikkelsons knew that because they reviewed a number of articles about a lawsuit that resulted from the incident. But they also conducted their own experiment, David Mikkelson told us in an interview, in which he held marshmallows in his mouth to determine how long it takes them to dissolve. Now thats research.
And no account of the lengths to which the Mikkelsons will go to chase down the facts would be complete without a mention of Crash Course, their shredding of the rumor (repeated in Time magazine and elsewhere) that Clark Gable had run over and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk one night in 1945, and that his studio, MGM, paid an employee to take the rap for him. The Mikkelsons checked four biographies and other books, which had conflicting accounts, and a number of old newspaper articles (all on microfilm) to sort out the truth, which was that Gable did have a car wreck, but he never hit a pedestrian. Their account of the extensive research process is worth a read.
Although our sites have somewhat different emphases we focus on whats being said in political ads, speeches, interviews and debates, while Snopes.com concentrates more on such things as whether former Monkee band member Michael Nesmiths mother was the inventor of liquid correction fluid (she was) Snopes.com does take on some claims in the political realm. That has given us an opportunity to evaluate the Mikkelsons work from time to time. We have found it solid and well-documented. We even link to Snopes.com when its appropriate rather than reinvent the wheel ourselves, which we consider high praise.
A Final Warning
The e-mails last paragraph advises that everyone who goes to Snopes.com for the bottom line facts should proceed with caution. We think thats terrific advice, not just in connection with material on Snopes but for practically anything a reader finds online including articles on FactCheck.org. The very reason we list our sources (as does Snopes.com) and provide links is so that readers can check things out for themselves.
Oh, we almost forgot: That Wikipedia entry mentioned in the e-mail? Not only was it not the first place to reveal the Mikkelsons identities, but it contains several factual errors, according to David. For instance, it says that he works part-time on Snopes.com. That was never true, according to David; early on he did hold another job as well, but even that hasnt been true since 2002. The mistakes could have been avoided if the authors had contacted the couple. None of them did, he said.
Viveca Novak
Sources
Brady, David E. Valley Newswatch/A Special Report: The Virtual Valley, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1995.
Interview with David Mikkelson, 8 April 2009.
Hochman, David. Rumor Detectives: True Story or Online Hoax? Readers Digest, April 2009.
Mikkelson, Barbara. Chubby Bunny Death, Snopes.com, 15 Sept. 2006.
Crash Course, Snopes.com, 9 Aug. 2007
Mikkelson, Barbara. Easily Lead, Snopes.com, 12 Nov. 2008.
Liquid Paperback Writer, Snopes.com, 26 April 2007.
Mikkelson, Barbara. Chicken Hawked, Snopes.com, 23 Oct. 2008.
Selected pages on George W. Bush, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, Snopes.com, various dates.
Jackel wrote:
Snopes.com CEO arrested on charges of fraud and co... (show quote)
Aug 22, 2015 20:15:13 #
Always be suspicious if a blog post or article does not cite or embed a link to its news source.
A piece of news such as Snopes CEO being arrested should identify its news source a newspaper, a TV station, or a news agency like the AP. But this report doesnt.
Thats because its a made-up story. The Peoples Cube is a satire, faux news site yet another The Onion wannabe. From Wikipedia:
The Peoples Cube is a U.S. based satirical conservative website that was launched April 1, 2005
http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/08/22/dont-fall-for-the-snopes-ceo-arrested-for-fraud-story/
FAKE
:)
A piece of news such as Snopes CEO being arrested should identify its news source a newspaper, a TV station, or a news agency like the AP. But this report doesnt.
Thats because its a made-up story. The Peoples Cube is a satire, faux news site yet another The Onion wannabe. From Wikipedia:
The Peoples Cube is a U.S. based satirical conservative website that was launched April 1, 2005
http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/08/22/dont-fall-for-the-snopes-ceo-arrested-for-fraud-story/
FAKE
:)
Aug 22, 2015 20:19:06 #
Snopes has always been a Bay Area lefty POS source for the truth. The best thing that could happen to this country is to have California drift out to sea! Then we can work on what to do with Franks neighborhood.
Aug 22, 2015 20:24:39 #
idaholover wrote:
then you'd own some oceanfront property... I see your plan!Snopes has always been a Bay Area lefty POS source for the truth. The best thing that could happen to this country is to have California drift out to sea! Then we can work on what to do with Franks neighborhood.
Aug 22, 2015 20:41:40 #
green wrote:
then you'd own some oceanfront property... I see your plan!
I miss my seafood!
Aug 22, 2015 21:07:02 #
When will people learn, if its on a blog or politically leaning website (left or right it doesn't matter) it is total BS 95% of the time.
Aug 22, 2015 23:08:49 #
I regret publishing this message. It appears it's a made-up phony from a website that specializes in publishing phony information.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Aug 23, 2015 06:34:14 #
Black Bart
Loc: Indiana
Jackel wrote:
That web site may be phony but so is Snopes it is a left leaning site. I regret publishing this message. It appears it's a made-up phony from a website that specializes in publishing phony information.
Sorry.
Sorry.
The only ones that don't see that is those on the extreme left who will agree with every left leaning article that they put up.
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