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Snopes Caught Lying About Lack Of American Flags At Democratic Convention
Daly Caller ^ | 28 Jul 2016 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 07/28/2016 2:44:23 PM PDT by oblomov

Myth-busting website Snopes flagrantly lied about the lack of visible American flags on the first day of the Democratic Convention, claiming an image from the second day of the convention was actually from the first day in an attempt to debunk a factual story from The Daily Caller.

First, the facts. TheDC reported on Monday about the lack of visible American flags at day one of the convention. Several flags were briefly on stage for the national anthem and pledge of allegiance, at which point they were carried off stage, as the C-SPAN video for Monday clearly shows at the 35:40 mark. Even PolitiFact, which tends to lean to the left, noted that “when the color guard left, so did the physical flag.” After that point, the stage was devoid of any American flags for the remainder of day one.

As reported by TheDC, the DNC added flags to the stage for the second day of the convention — Tuesday, July 26. That same day, Snopes writer Dan Evon wrote a “fact-check” article declaring it “false” that: “No American flags were on display at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; dnc; flag; noamericanflag; snopes; snopeslies
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1 posted on 07/28/2016 2:44:23 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: oblomov

Snopes is Sorros funded.

It has been a constant source of Obama disinformation.


2 posted on 07/28/2016 2:45:37 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: oblomov

Maybe Trump can play Rope-a-Snope.


3 posted on 07/28/2016 2:47:24 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s not a myth buster. It’s an anti Christian propoganda website.

You’re right.


4 posted on 07/28/2016 2:47:27 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: oblomov

A lot of what Snope’s debunks is because they can not find any proof to validate, and I often times think it is because they purposely do not look in the first place.


5 posted on 07/28/2016 2:48:21 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Last I heard, Snopes is a married liberal couple with an agenda themselves.


6 posted on 07/28/2016 2:50:16 PM PDT by tioga
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To: oblomov

I find Snopes useful to identify internet hoaxes, but it is unreliable as to any issue with a political angle. They definitely tilt left.


7 posted on 07/28/2016 2:50:22 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: oblomov

Snopes are two extreme left-wing liberals that lie when liberals are facing exposure.


8 posted on 07/28/2016 2:51:16 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Robert DeLong

Exactly! It’s hard to prove a negative!

Add Soros money to the mix and it’s just another media disinformation machine.

*SPIT*


9 posted on 07/28/2016 2:51:51 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: oblomov

Who’s going to Snopes Snopes?


10 posted on 07/28/2016 2:52:45 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: oblomov

Why should there be. God was absent also.


11 posted on 07/28/2016 2:53:23 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: oblomov

Lies, damned lies, and Snopes.


12 posted on 07/28/2016 2:54:20 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: CodeToad

You know what they say, absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.


13 posted on 07/28/2016 2:54:42 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: oblomov

Well DUH ... it is Snopes ... it is what they get paid to do.


14 posted on 07/28/2016 2:55:15 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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They must be really good since they were able to solve every murder associated with the clintonistas.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp


15 posted on 07/28/2016 2:56:49 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: oblomov

Snopes caught lying? Who’d thunk it?


16 posted on 07/28/2016 2:57:06 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: TigerClaws

snoops needs to be called out on there lying for political reasons...


17 posted on 07/28/2016 2:57:09 PM PDT by PCPOET7
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To: oblomov

So is that called Lying about Lying?
That should make Hillary giggle.


18 posted on 07/28/2016 2:58:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: TexasTransplant

Tis a bold-face lie there are no American flags at the DNC! There plenty of them...being burned in the parking lot.


19 posted on 07/28/2016 2:58:31 PM PDT by FiddlePig
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To: oblomov

Maybe Snopes should fact-check this:

The DNC had no flags for the stage, so they took them from the Capitol Building in Philadelphia. (cheap bastards wouldn’t go out and buy some American Flags).


20 posted on 07/28/2016 2:58:35 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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