The author of this website recently penned an editorial with the title “Facebook can be a cesspool for seekers of truth.” While this seems like a noble and innocuous claim, he goes on to cite who he and others use to check for the “truth” when confronted with stories from Facebook or other places; “Snopes”, “Politifact” and “Factcheck.” I don’t know where he and others having so much faith in these sites of “truth” think they are the “end all” of truth, but doing a little fact checking on my own brought up some interesting findings.
Snopes is made up of a small group of volunteers. Based in the Tacoma Washington, a bastion of liberalism, the volunteers have liberal viewpoints and many are of the opinion the viewpoints of the “fact-checkers” are mostly liberal. Even Wikipedia says the majority of complaints are of liberal viewpoints, which evidently agree with the author on his insistence Snopes is unbiased. As long as he agrees with it?
Politifact is a off-shoot of the Tampa Bay Times. Anyone with any experience with the Tampa Bay Times knows it is more left of the leftist Miami Tribune. They have continually lost readership because of their leftist bent, and Politifact is suffers from this link.
Factcheck is an arm of the University of Pennsylvania and primarily funded by the Annenberg Foundation. This liberal bastion of the East with the likes of Princeton, Yale, Harvard and they are going to be unbiased and not have a liberal bent?
Who is fact checking the “fact checkers”?
The author then goes on to disparage the sites such as Brietbart, Fox News and Daily Caller. They have their viewpoints with a conservative bent.
I would encourage all who view news and have questions about a subject/news item to view all sources and make up their own mind. If you have all the viewpoints, you have enough information to form your own opinion… or you can just ignore everything (as most do anyway).
Mr. Young goes on to say he doesn’t like others to disparage President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congresswomen Cortez, Omar, or Talib. Anyone reading my posts knows my opinion of our former president Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and Speaker Pelosi — all enemies of common-sense, balanced budgets, the Constitution, and the majority of hard working American taxpayers.
Now we have to deal with the likes of known Socialists/Communists/Marxists Cortez, Omar, and Talib. Not only are they of the political idealism contrary to freedom and liberty, they have no real life experience at anything. Have they ever run a business, made a payroll, managed people? They are political lightweights that the media has elevated to hero status (no surprise because they cheer any opposition to the Republicans and President Trump).
The author is correct in that both Ranger Rick and Army Bob differ considerably from most of his other contributors (with the exception of Mr. Parks, a kindred soul of conservative ideas). With double of liberals against the two main conservative contributors, we generate enough heat to keep them in check.
For that I, and I’m sure Army Bob, thank you for your readership and mostly positive and some negative comments.
The rotting of America from within continues…
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