I’ve noticed this myself. They have to be dragged kicking and screaming to admit things that support a theistic worldview or paint liberalism in a bad light. There is definite prejudice in their own preconceptions and even the subject matter they cover. (I could suggest some well-documented and well-exposed myths for them to cover, but since they are atheistic myths I doubt they’d be interested in covering them.)
One interesting case is the infamous story of "Uncle Don" Carney's radio program in the early days of radio which snopes claims is an urban legend; my father tells me he heard it as it happened.
No kidding. The article missed a couple of doozies.
e-mail: Many statements by Democrats stating Hussein had MSM's.
Snopes: Well, yes those statements are true but some of them were said before the great Clinton wiped out the MSM's and all future capabilites to create them. (You can practically hear Snopes whine when they do this).
email: Hillary Clinton was a law student when she worked to get murderous Black Panther members released.
Snopes: She was only a law student at the time not their lawyers. And she only worked withing the law to help their lawyers. And they were released by the courts, not her.
Well whoopdy frigging do. How did they read the email. To them it must have said "And Hillary stood on the table with her shotgun, blew a hole in the ceiling and screamed "Release the brothers or I'll blow every pig muth******** one of you away!" And since she didn't do that you should never read one of those evil right winger emails.
Like the article says they confirm and dismiss.
I never did understand why everyone ran around thinking a few other people on a web site were the end all experts on everything. I routinely found issues with their reasoning.
It would have been nice for this article to also cite cases where the conservative email or viewpoint was treated differently or more harshly.
self ping
They also thought Mr. Ed (the horse) was a zebra. I saved that one Jan. 15 but they seem to have taken it down from their site since then.