# Really folks, Snopes isn't exactly a new site **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822 "2006-03-17T22:52:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/81 "2012-01-25T17:31:56Z")
I frequently send Snopes pages to friends and relatives who send me such glurge. On one occasion I got a glurge page that _itself_ had a Snopes link, as if in a pre-emptive strike. The relevant piece of glurge was that some relatively-famous supposedly sent out an e-mail critical of Barack Obama. The Snopes link sacknowledged that the mentioned quasi-0celebrity did, indeed, send out such a letter. I think they just wanted to be able to point to a Snopes story that, for once, proved their case was true. My reaction is that proving that a conservative celebrity really did send out an anti-Obama mailing is setting the bar pretty low. Since then I’ve sent her references from places other than Snopes, to show her that Snopes isn’t the only debunking site out there. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/82 "2012-01-25T18:00:32Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > It is a well-known fact that Snopes is funded by the Trilateral Commission and is dedicated to spreading doubt, cynicism and disrespect about our American institutions. Actually you comment in jest has truth to it. Snopes is being branded as a far left web site (take a guess by who) and efforts are being made to discredit the site. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/83 "2012-01-25T18:03:38Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > One of my favorite “Waaaaa! Facts?!? I hate facts!!” [moments of doucheyness](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=318482014863323&set=a.284444838267041.74398.284438941600964&type=1&theater) ever. Heh, you beat me in linking to that. If I had to choose a facebook post that summarizes whats wrong with the human race, that’d be the one. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/84 "2012-01-25T18:05:20Z")
But it’s already been checked with Snopes. It says so right in the email! ---
**Author:** ![homeskillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@homeskillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/homeskillet)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/85 "2012-01-25T18:12:10Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > Let me belatedly, but enthusiastically join in this pitting. My cousin just sent me one so old it has whiskers–the Neiman Marcus $250.00 Cookie story. > > I gave up directing her to Snopes years ago. Sigh! In fairness though, those cookies were DELICIOUS! I wonder if it’s the same recipe… ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/86 "2012-01-25T18:24:57Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Actually you comment in jest has truth to it. Snopes is being branded as a far left web site (take a guess by who) and efforts are being made to discredit the site. _scoff_ That’s pure UL! Read it on Snopes! ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/87 "2012-01-25T18:32:25Z")
[Obligatory link.](http://xkcd.com/250/) ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/88 "2012-01-25T19:48:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You mean Stormfront, right? Yeah, probably. I can’t check now, I’m at work. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/89 "2012-01-25T20:20:02Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > [Obligatory link.](http://xkcd.com/250/) I was thinking of that one, too. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/90 "2012-01-25T21:02:52Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#): > > [Obligatory link.](http://xkcd.com/250/) Pick any topic, any topic!, and XKCD has a cartoon about it. There should be an internet rule about this. Randall’s law, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/91 "2012-01-25T21:56:43Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > One of my favorite “Waaaaa! Facts?!? I hate facts!!” moments of doucheyness ever. Oh, great, thanks _a million_. There go the next four hours of my life. ::wanders off to check out that site:: ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/92 "2012-01-25T23:56:47Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Exactly! I kept thinking- “MySpace, Really?” I sometime don’t notice zombies, but “MySpace” and “computer savvy” in one line tipped me off to this one right away. ---
**Author:** ![BottledBlondJeanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/0ea827/32.png) [@BottledBlondJeanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BottledBlondJeanie)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/93 "2012-01-26T01:15:06Z")
Old thread or new, grammar and spelling are painful. I can oy hope the OP was posted by phone. Otherwise, eek. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/94 "2012-01-26T02:01:47Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Old thread or new, grammar and spelling are painful. I can oy hope the OP was posted by phone. Otherwise, eek. Oy, indeed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822/95 "2012-01-26T02:06:37Z")
> [@BottledBlondJeanie](#): > > Old thread or new, grammar and spelling are painful. I can oy hope the OP was posted by phone. Otherwise, eek. Gaudere’s Law, oy! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-folks-snopes-isnt-exactly-a-new-site/348822.md?page=4)