January 21st, 2012
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As previously demonstrated, the internet is full of half-truths and flat out lies. It’s a good thing to carefully research the facts given to you by political pundits to seperate fact from fiction. Websites like Snopes.com meticulously go through political discourse objectively to separate fact from fiction. Or is that last sentence just a load of lemur crap?
At Snopes.com they claim objectivity about their owners thusly:
“Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen and as such cannot vote in U.S. elections, register an affiliation with a U.S. political party, or donate to any U.S. political campaign or candidate. David Mikkelson is an American citizen whose participation in U.S. politics has never extended beyond periodically exercising his civic duty at the ballot box. As FactCheck confirmed in April 2009, David is a registered independent who has never donated to, or worked on behalf of, any political campaign or party. The Mikkelsons are wholly apolitical, vastly preferring their quiet scholarly lives in the company of their five cats to any political considerations” (Snopes.com).
This is where another layer of political deception over the collective consciousness exists. Snopes.com pretends to uncover “urban legends.” Snopes.com is a tool of leftist big-government propaganda. The proof is in the objective analysis of their website.
Here is their analysis of a supposed racist quote attributed to Rush Limbaugh:
“They’re 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?” This statement has been indirectly referenced as something Rush Limbaugh once said on the air since at least as far back as 2000. But we have found no documenting source for it” (Snopes.com).
When a Nigerian is trying to scam Americans they will label the claim “FALSE” (Snopes.com). When Rush Limbaugh is said to say something that hurts his personal reputation, Snopes.com says, “we have found no documenting source for it.” That’s real objectivity, Snopes.con.
Another COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS analysis by snopes.com:
“Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela – who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing. “ Media Matters documents this statement (with an audio clip) as one made by Rush Limbaugh in the course of his radio program” (Snopes.com).
This is a quote attributed to Rush and somehow this qualifies as worthy of Snopes.com’s attention. What is Rush actually saying here? He is making the point that he always makes. The greatest chance at true equality and true “social justice” is through capitalism, not communism. Snopes.com seems to think that somehow Nelson Mandela has achieved deity status and his ideas being attacked are worthy of “urban legend” status.
Another dead give-away to snopes.com leftist slant is the fact that they use Media Matters as a reliable source. Media Matters is a merchant of half-truths and flawed logic. This has been documented by theradconservative.com . Any website that claims to be THE fact checker of urban legends would not use Media Matters as a source unless it had some hell bent liberal agenda. Media Matters exists as an attack vehicle to Fox News.
It’s true. Fox News has predominantly conservative commentators. The confusion that the left capitalizes on is the failure to distinguish commentary from hard news. Sean Hannity does commentary. He is a conservative Republican. Shephard Smith does hard news. Only Allah knows where his political loyalties lie. I think he’s into sports, and working out.
Anyone operating under the illusion that Snopes.com is the premiere fact-checker of the internet is merely drowning in another matrix of illusion.
~RC
Works Cited
Snopes.com. (n.d.). About snopes.com. Retrieved January 20, 2012, from Snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/info/aboutus.asp
Snopes.com. (n.d.). Bal Aire Mansion. Retrieved January 20, 2012, from Snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/belairmansion.asp
Snopes.com. (n.d.). Bone Voyage. Retrieved January 20, 2012, from Snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh.asp