Mark Trammell: Only liberals love Snopes.com
Re “Report on Khan’s links to terror” (Letters, Aug. 19): Snooped on snopes.com. Why would it seem odd to me that a left-wing rag would use a left-wing Internet site, snoops.com to verify their opinions. Snopes.com is run by two people, Barbara and Daved Mikelson. They a California couple with no vast searching staff or no huge search engines. The snopes.com site gives liberals the benefit of doubt they love to hammer conservatives. So, every time I see the editorial board rebuke a certain article writer I swallow with that grain of salt.
Mark Trammell, Modesto
Editor’s note: Snopes.com founder David Mikkelson is a registered independent and his organization is non-partisan. The attempt to link the Khan family to Muslim Brotherhood was debunked by The Washington Post, Slate and the man who first publicly made the claim, Roger Stone. Among rumors Snopes has refuted: that Donald Trump gave $100,000 an anti-gay church, that a dragon fell from the sky in Tibet and that Donald Trump said Harriet Tubman’s face belongs on food stamps.