http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/snopes/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:33:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412865/posts One would think an entire think-tank university staff is behind Snopes. Not so. It's a couple — husband and wife. Their opinions are considered bible by countless who check out "the facts" by going to Snopes.com. These countless include college profs, Congresspersons, the National Review writers, and masses climbing all over the grassroots. RenewAmerica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412865/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402605/posts A rumor that won’t die is the myth that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake. There are different theories on where Obama was born, if he was not born in Hawaii as he claims. A prevailing belief is that he was born in Kenya, and as a native Kenyan, is not eligible to be President of the United States. Some have also claimed that his full name includes the name “Mohammed,” adding to speculation that Obama is a secret Muslim. At this point, mountains of evidence are in and they all point to the fact that Barack Obama is a... The Carroll County Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402605/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 04:26:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394029/posts Stop it. You are being duped on many occasion by two political and theological liberals. That's right. Liberals. RenewAmerica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394029/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:25:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349062/posts The crew of a naval vessel was vaccinated with H1N1 vaccine in order to “see what happens”. Well, what happened was that the Captain and the Chief Petty Officer died. Worse than that, it has become clear (yet again) that the vaccine actually CAUSES swine flu. If you choose to give either yourself or your kids a swine flu vaccine, you need your head examined. Here is the testimony from Navy wives of the affected crew via the internet radio show A Marines Disquisition, with Drew Raines. http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/1362067 : Ignore at your own peril. After the testimony is the actual... The Gadfly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349062/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322786/posts AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truely scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend your formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me because you... Snopes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322786/posts#comment Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:08:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316924/posts Read content at source only Snopes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316924/posts#comment Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:51:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2307857/posts On the morning drive Quinn & Rose radio show, I heard about the famous high school graduation exam from Salina, Kansas which Snopes had debunked as a hoax. I remember when they did this as I checked their site which categorically stated that such an exam did not exist. Well, it turned out that such an exam does exist and is preserved by a historical society in, of all places (drum roll, please) . . . Snopes.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2307857/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:57:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307102/posts Lou Pritchet is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat. Mr. Pritchett confirmed that he was indeed the author of the much-circulated "open letter." “I did write the 'you scare me' letter. I sent it to the NY Times but they never acknowledged or published it. However, it hit the internet and according to the ‘experts’ has had over 500,000 hits. AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Snopes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307102/posts#comment Mon, 3 Aug 2009 15:31:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203168/posts Millions of Americans, including national leaders, who rely on the popular online hoax-buster Snopes.com as the ultimate authority in separating truth from fiction, may be surprised to learn that behind the Wizard's curtain, is just a husband and wife doing research on their own. In fact, Snopes, routinely cited by many as the final word on both frivolous and important stories, is not the well-staffed think tank of researchers, journalists and computer hacks one might expect – but rather, the work of David and Barbara Mikkelson, living in a Los Angeles suburb. World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203168/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:42:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2295264/posts Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me because you have never run a company or... Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2295264/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288676/posts If you happened to read online news sites such as United Press International or the popular hoax-busting Snopes.com anytime up until Tuesday night, you would have seen definitive statements that President Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. But checking back now, both sites are suddenly providing an entirely different location, the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children, also in the capital of the Aloha State. Within hours of a WND report revealing Obama's birth being reported at two different Hawaiian hospitals, both sites changed their information to suddenly fall in line with the president's... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288676/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 06:42:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288483/posts Below is a letter Obama sent to Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii at a Centennial Dinner on 01/24/2009 which was read by Rep. Neil Abercrombie. Obama clearly references this hospital as his hospital of birth. Values Voter News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288483/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276860/posts http://www.snopes.com/politics/graphics/mugshot1.jpg Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276860/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:52:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2249979/posts > If the immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and > Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, > who worked from 1944 until 2004. > > She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in > 1924 and there's a 'catch 22'. > > It is interesting that the federal government provides a > single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each > can also obtain an additional $580 in social assistance, > for a total of $2,470 a month. > > This compares to a single pensioner, who... e-mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2249979/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 14:13:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233154/posts Irena Sendler, a candidate for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, is credited with saving 2.500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233154/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:17:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200433/posts Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., has referred constituents raising concerns over President Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office to an online "fact" organization that relies for its answer partly on information from the Obama campaign. The response from Kyl to an Arizona constituent was revealed just one day after a Florida WND reader alerted WND to the fact Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., had told him that Obama's eligibility was affirmed by voters who supported him in the Democratic primary and general elections in 2008. The response from Kyl to a voter who asked about Obama's ability to meet the constitutional... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200433/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:08:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200434/posts Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., has referred constituents raising concerns over President Obama's eligibility to occupy the Oval Office to an online "fact" organization that relies for its answer partly on information from the Obama campaign. "Thank you for your recent e-mail. Senator Obama meets the constitutional requirements for presidential office. Rumors pertaining to his citizenship status have been circulating on the Internet, and this information has been debunked by Snopes.com, which investigates the truth behind Internet rumors." World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200434/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 06:10:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2195441/posts From ripoffreport.com: Perhaps you want to discover the origin of an urban legend or verify that the photo of a 45-pound cat someone emailed you isn't a doctored photo. Maybe you want to know if Proctor & Gamble's logo is really satanic. Snopes.com (hereafter “snopes") is good for verifying unimportant stuff like that, but don't count on them being “fair and balanced" when it comes to anything political or religious. Although Snopes hasn't any political philosophy explicitly stated on the website, snopes' selectivity and analysis of political emails oozes with partisanship. Religious emails don't fare much better and typically get... Ripoffreport.com/notoriouslyconservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2195441/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:18:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2175836/posts Bangkok: A hippopotamus swallowed a circus dwarf in a "freak accident" in northern Thailand according to a columnist in the Pattaya Mail. The Grapevine column reported" A circus dwarf nicknamed Od,died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a yawning hippopotamus waiting to appear in the next act" "Vets said Hilda the Hippo had a gag reflex which caused her to swallow. More than 1000 spectators continued to applaud wildly until they realized there had been a tragic mistake" unknown newspaper via internet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2175836/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:02:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2140832/posts Ford, Chrysler and GM's contributions after 9/11 An interesting commentary...You might find this of interest: 'CNN Headline News did a short news listing regarding Ford and GM's contributions to the relief and recovery efforts in New York and Washington. email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2140832/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:23:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119743/posts Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. that's just 1 of 50 snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119743/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:32:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100778/posts I have seen an email circulation about three Obama insiders being past Fannie Mae looters (my term). Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100778/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:50:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086785/posts You have to click on the link because Snopes won't let me copy and paste. There is a rumor circulating apparently via email that Biden will drop out in early October (some say the 5th) citing health reasons, and Hillary will replace him. Snopes says the rumor is "undetermined" at this point, but they question whether Obama would switch because doing socould hurt him. They point out that switching hurt McGovern in 1972. An article written yesterday at the liberal Huffington Post thinks it would benefit Obama greatly and urges for it to happen. Do you think there is any... Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086785/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:24:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086731/posts Snopes referring to the Michelle Obama thesis. Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086731/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:43:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080378/posts CALL TO ARMS Snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2080378/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:48:58 GMT