Snopes is busted
Looks like I wasn't being paranoid in my observations from time to time about Snopes.com having a liberal bias.
Turns out that the site's chief fact checker is a former liberal blogger with somewhat dubious qualifications for the job.
I'm a bit of a cynic, frankly, about Snopes, PolitiFact, and others of that ilk. The reliability of a site whose purpose is to pass on the reliability of claims others make depends on it having an unimpeachable objectivity itself which few such sites can claim.
Turns out that the site's chief fact checker is a former liberal blogger with somewhat dubious qualifications for the job.
I'm a bit of a cynic, frankly, about Snopes, PolitiFact, and others of that ilk. The reliability of a site whose purpose is to pass on the reliability of claims others make depends on it having an unimpeachable objectivity itself which few such sites can claim.
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