Acceptable Humour from an earlier time.

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10 hours ago, gmgraves said:

I wouldn’t believe Snopes if they told me that the sun rose in the east! That man and wife team has a political agenda.

They divorced (rather nastily) in 2015. The site now has 10 writers. If you're going to make accusations, at least make sure your facts are up to date.

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Just now, gmgraves said:

Frankly, I don’t care, Mansr.

You cared enough to disparage the site with irrelevant accusations based on old information.

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18 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

Can you share just one?

That's a rhetorical question, right?

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37 minutes ago, Samuel T Cogley said:

Am I missing something?  I'm genuinely curious if Snopes is publishing non-factual information.

Is it "liberal" to say that it's true Kobe Bryant could play the piano? Or that a video of a fox purportedly suckling baby koalas is in fact showing perfectly normal fox pups and was filmed in Montreal? Those are both topics of recent Snopes posts. I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of either. After all, they back up their claims with references.

 

I suppose they could be biased in which stories they choose to investigate. It's impossible to tell. Most of the posts aren't really political at all. An alleged WD-40 ad certainly isn't.

 

Now George has previously made accusations of "liberal bias," then failed to provide any evidence to support the claims. I understand such behaviour perfectly normal for Americans of a conservative bent.

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15 minutes ago, gmgraves said:

Sort of, I guess. It was to do with a rumor about President Clinton. The rumor was that Clinton was “renting out” the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House in exchange for political contributions. Snopes said that it wasn’t true and was merely right-wing propaganda. It turned out that it was true, but Snopes never acknowledged that they erred or retracted their debunk of the rumor.

But, I ask you to keep in mind that I have paid no attention to Snopes in at least 10 years. For all I know, they have cleaned up their act and are more accurate now, with less bias - but, somehow, I doubt it!

I can't find anything regarding that story on Snopes. It's a long time ago, though, so it may have vanished in some site rebuild. Anyhow, a single mistake (and I'd be surprised if they'd never made one) is not evidence of any bias.

 

I also fail to see the relevance to this thread. Unless, of course, there was a can of WD-40 on the nightstand when those guests visited. To loosen up their wallets, naturally.

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7 minutes ago, Kimo said:

The whole world is polarized.

Yes, it's a giant magnet.

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Any system where decisions are made by simple majority vote will tend towards two blocks of roughly equal size. Each side may consist of one or more parties, the result is still more or less the same.