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Dos Equis:
Pretty funny.  Who is checking the fact checkers? 

Snopes.com Slams Babylon Bee Satirists as 'False' for Cosby-Planned Parenthood Joke
By Tim Graham | May 5, 2018
Our News Analysis Division has given this fact checker a rating of:
Deeply Distorted Deeply Distorted

The completely humorless fact-checkers at Snopes.com are trashing the satire site Babylon Bee again as “False.” The target is a hilarious send-up of Planned Parenthood claiming that only three percent of their services are abortions (about a third of a million deaths a year).

They offered this satirical Cecile Richards quote after Bill Cosby was convicted of sexual assault:

“Look, guys, let’s keep this in perspective,” she said in a press conference held at Planned Parenthood’s New York offices. “Cosby provided many needed services, like laughter, stand-up comedy, and a solid sitcom. You can’t paint him with the broad brush of ‘sexual offender’ just because a very small percentage of his activities were horrifying and abusive.”

The Snopes headline was:

Did Planned Parenthood Defend Bill Cosby?

Reports that the nonprofit organization defended the comedian after his felony sexual assault conviction stemmed from a Christian-themed satire site.

Snopes then explained:

The Babylon Bee is an entertainment web site with long history of publishing satirical articles. In this case, the web site appears to be spoofing an often-quoted statistic about the nonprofit organization; although many people may equate it with abortion, Planned Parenthood’s annual report states that these procedures only make up 3 percent of the medical services that they provide:

Then, for “facts,” Snopes helpfully provides a Planned Parenthood pie chart of their purported 2016 division of services. They failed to note that the Washington Post Fact Checker gave that statistic "Three Pinocchios."

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2018/05/05/snopescom-slams-babylon-bee-satirists-false-cosby-joke

Soul Crusher:
Snopes is such a sham and joke of a site.   

Dos Equis:
Snopes Bizarrely Claims It's 'Unproven' Nathan Philllips Lied About Serving in Vietnam
By Tim Graham | January 26, 2019
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/01/26/snopes-bizarrely-claims-its-unproven-nathan-philllips-lied-about

IroNat:
Snopes has been infiltrated with leftists.

A shame.

Skeletor:
Snopes used to be a good resource 10, 15 or 20 years ago about urban legends (stories like the guy waking up in a bathtub and discovering his kidney was removed etc). But in recent years it seems to have a more pronounced political bias. I don't know if that's a conscious decision by the website owner or it's because of all the new contributors/staff. That's not to say everything it mentions is wrong but sometimes the wording or the way it is presented seems biased.

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