Is Snopes polically biased?

[Slayhamlet]

Right, if you've never missed anything like "Officious" in the logo box as a clue a site was a parody, then I'd say you don't get on the Net much, or, you spend waaaay too much time looking for a source on a trivial matter.

WTF? No, this has nothing to do with a logo box. The fake quotation from Ashcroft was so obviously satirical that it would require either massive amounts of confirmation bias or a seriously out-of-touch person to take it at face value. Either way it doesn't speak much for the quality of your thought.

 

[Ladewig]

It looked real.

Oh well.

Here's Maureen Dowd's NYTs column saying she asked and was told the rumor was not true:


My point is the same. A direct question to Ashcroft settles the issue, it shouldn't leave it as "undetermined" unless there was some evidence Ashcroft was lying.

The change in status took place before Ashcroft denied it. I am relying on my memory and thus have no tangible evidence, but change was described by Snopes as being the result of complaints.

 

[Praktik]

How USEFUL is snopes? VERY!

Just got a forward, responded 3 mins later "reply all" with the following:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp

 

[SonOfLaertes]

It was a billion years ago, in internet time, but O'Reilly did once reference a snopes source. Unfortunately, the only reference I can find right now is MediaMatters, but here is what he said:

Thanks for this reference; I haven't checked in to this thread for a while, thought it had run its course.

 

[Snide]

How USEFUL is snopes? VERY!

Just got a forward, responded 3 mins later "reply all" with the following:

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp

I got a chuckle out of that, because I once "replied to all" and sent a Snopes link in an Obama-bashing e-mail from my ex. I added a message of my own syaing "please do not send me such falsehoods."

Four people replied back to me with, "I didn't send you anything." Two of them actually believed I was referring to her and not just calling out the original sender (my ex). The other two were ex-in-laws who were trying to scold me for replying to all. One of them even said words to the effect of, "I don't need a reply-to-all, aka a shotgun e-mail, to tell me not to send something I didn't send."

I declined schooling him further about what a shotgun e-mail really is. I pondered apologizing to him for replying to all with my additional "please do not send" message, but it wasn't the first time the ex had done something like that, so I had to call her out, and thus I did not apologize. I hope your experience went better.

Anyway, as you were...
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