Recently, emails have been circulating about how Snopes (www.Snopes.com) is a left wing commentator that supports Barack Obama, simply because someone didn't like Snopes outing the lies Obama's detractors wanted to circulate. As I have stated about Democrats and Saxby Chambliss, if you have to lie about it, get out of the business. There is enough misinformation being promulgated by both parties, but it is despicable to try to discredit an innocent third party that has very effectively vetted much of the BS out of our lives, simply because you dislike them outing your lies. I find it interesting that the email going around says Snopes is a bogus left wing site, but then points out that, "Truth or Fiction.com <http://truthorfiction.com/> is the better source for verification, in my opinion". So I checked out Truth or Fiction for their take on Snopes. Take a look at this URL to see what they think of Snopes. It speaks volumes:  

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/snopes.htm  

One of the tricks that bogus email writers try to pull is to say, "This has been checked out on (Fill in the blank) Snopes, Truth or Fiction, Urban Legends." They do that so you won't do your own vetting, because they think you are as lazy as the average reader who takes these things at face value and will waste their friends time by sending them on anyway.

Hey! I don't get enough worthless e-mail. How about you? Do you enjoy useless information that wastes your time? You can't even catch them in the spam scrubber because it often comes from people you know. One pretty accurate rule of thumb is: "If the claim being made in the e-mail gets you extremely upset because it is so absurd you are afraid it could be true, Google it, Snopes it, "Truth or Fiction" it, but for your friends' sake, don't blindly e-mail it to them simply because you are too lazy to vet it first. That wears thin in the long run.

Another obnoxious habit, which I must admit to having been guilty of, is to "reply all" with your response to a friend's controversial comments and make the recipients have to put up with your responses as the two of you duke it out in e-mail. If you think someone may want to hear what you have to say, start a blog. That is what they are for. Keeping people engaged in a long string of e-mails they didn't ask for is rude. I no longer do it for that reason. Besides, I created a blog to give all of my contacts a place to vent . It's a very cathartic exercise at the end of the day .

An additional site that cleans up the bull go to FactCheck.org > it's backed by Annenburg's group, so it is decidedly Republican, but it adds an interesting perspective.