About snopes.com

The snopes.com website was founded by Barbara and David Mikkelson, a husband and wife team who live and work in the Los Angeles area. What they began in 1995 as an expression of their shared interest in researching urban legends has since grown into what is widely regarded by folklorists, journalists, and laypersons alike as one of the World Wide Web's essential resources. Snopes.com is routinely included in annual "Best of the Web" lists and has been the recipient of two Webby awards. The Mikkelsons have made multiple appearances as guests on national news programs such as 20/20, ABC World News, CNN Sunday Morning, and NPR's All Things Considered, and they and their work have been profiled in numerous major news publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and an April 2009 Reader's Digest feature ("The Rumor Detectives") published as part of that magazine's "Your America: Inspiring People and Stories" series.

With over 15 years' experience as professional researchers and writers, the Mikkelsons have created in snopes.com what has come to be regarded as an online touchstone of rumor research. Their work has been described as painstaking, scholarly, and reliable, and has been lauded by the world's top folklorists, including Jan Harold Brunvand, Gary Alan Fine, and Patricia Turner. The couple has been approached by many publishers and publisher's agents about doing a series of books, but they remain uncommitted at this time, preferring instead to continue focusing their efforts on their web site. Nevertheless, hundreds of the Mikkelsons' articles have been cited by authors in a variety of disciplines (an October 2011 search of Google Books for such citations netted 6,230 results for Barbara Mikkelson alone), and various of their articles have been published in textbooks currently in use in the U.S. and Canadian school systems.

Because snopes.com is all about rumors, it was only a matter of time before rumors began to circulate about it and its operators, such as the following:

Snopes receives funding from an undisclosed source. The source is undisclosed because Snopes refuses to disclose that source. The Democratic Alliance, a funding channel for uber-Leftist (Marxist) Billionaires (George Soros etc.), direct funds to an "Internet Propaganda Arm" pushing these views. The Democratic Alliance has been reported to instruct Fundees to not disclose their funding source. The snopes.com web site is (and always has been) a completely independent, self-sufficient entity wholly owned by its operators, Barbara and David Mikkelson, and funded through advertising revenues. Neither the site nor its operators has ever received monies from (or been engaged in any business or editorial relationship with), any sponsor, investor, partner, political party, religious group, business organization, government agency, or any other outside group or organization.

Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen and as such cannot vote in U.S. elections, register an affiliation with a U.S. political party, or donate to any U.S. political campaign or candidate. David Mikkelson is an American citizen whose participation in U.S. politics has never extended beyond periodically exercising his civic duty at the ballot box. As FactCheck confirmed in April 2009, David is a registered independent who has never donated to, or worked on behalf of, any political campaign or party. The Mikkelsons are wholly apolitical, vastly preferring their quiet scholarly lives in the company of their five cats to any political considerations.

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FactCheck is owned by annenburg foundation - go back and see the connections.....LOL

Why don't you tell us how YOU fact checks all the rumors and BS on the net? LOL.

"Factcheck run by Annenberg Foundation 
To better understand the potentially conservative bias of the website -- factcheck.org -- it is first worthwhile to examine who runs it -- namely the Annenberg Foundation. The Annenberg Foundation is one of the twelve largest organizations in the US operating under a 3 billion dollar grant given by Walter Annenberg. The foundation's primary goal has been to provide grants to schools in order to improve quality of education. However, a number of satellite media-related organizations have sprung from Annenberg-funded projects, one of them being factcheck.org.

Walter Annenberg -- A Powerful Conservative Publishing Mogul and Ambassador to England 
Examining the Foundation itself, it is worthwhile to take a look at is founder Walter Annenberg. Born in 1908, Walter was raised by his conservative father who resourcefully scratched together a media empire by the name of Triangle Publications. Walter later inherited Triangle and used its various publications to vitriolically attack a number of liberal politicians. Annenberg's efforts endeared him to a number of conservative politicians including Richard Nixon, who appointed him as ambassador of England, and was close friends to Ronald Reagan whom he first introduced to Margaret Thatcher. While in England Annenberg gained notoriety by facilitating a number of business deals between US and British interests."

From http://voices.yahoo.com/factcheck-run-conservative-philanthropist-annenberg-2018865.html?cat=75

Yes, grossman, really, you appear to have no qualifications as an expert on any of these matters and yet write posts as if you do. Big talk, nothing behind it. And you appear to have an angry attitude toward anyone that doesn't agree with you.  Have you been wrongly persecuted during your lifetime?  And if so why take it out on posters here?  Now take Ninja, I know someone that knows him.  Ninja has a long history of credibility and reason and he is well respected outside of PDB.  He does not make outlandish claims he cannot reasonably support.  You may mean well and you may love your country but I do not think you have any in depth understanding of who really runs things or why. You seem to spout politics of hate quite often, rather than reason and i don't think you really know much about real US history.  I don't think you understand that the US Republic was hijacked in 1913-14 by offshore based foreign banksters who can issue all the money they need to buy off most politicians and officials.  Everything wrong with this country now, the poor economy, the illegal unConstituitional, unprovoked foreign wars, the illegal drug problem, all the puppet presidents since JFK, this all goes back to the "money monopoly"coup de etat of 1913-14.  This is basic history and yet it is something most folks do not pay attention to.  This factual history of the takedown of the USA is all readily available on the Internet for anyone who wants to do serious research.  Until the USA takes back its own monetary production and distribution system, nothing will improve.  Right now the wall street banks have approx 750 trillion dollars in derivatives worldwide which are supposed to be equity backed but have almost zero backing.  Once this house of cards starts to collapse which can be anytime in the next year or two, you will see a world wide economic restructuring that will be very extensive and will likely involve serious austerity measures.

Here is a recent article folks might enjoy:
http://fredw-catharsisours.blogspot.com/2012/07/another-point-of-view-on-zombie-attacks.html

More of your conspiracy theory BS.