Lately, I've been accused of creating a meme regarding a bogus comment that was attributed to Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. This was a meme that I did in fact share with my friends on Facebook.
I have told everyone that I did not create that meme, but I simply shared it. I also used incorrect punctuation when I commented on it when I asked the question, "She really did say this?!"
I told people that I did share the meme just as I have many others sent my way from friends. And with 5,000 friends, who can honestly say where every meme comes from? but I did not create it or fabricate it in any way.
On Facebook, I stated this and told people that I'd like to find where it did in fact come from. Well, I've found it on Pinterest. And one more thing. If you look at the dates when people commented on this meme, you can see that it was commented on a long time before I shared it on Facebook.
That specific Elizabeth Warren meme can be found edited and not edited in multiple locations on Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/422071796312155962/
https://www.pinterest.com/HuntFishRace/the-disease-of-liberalism/
https://www.pinterest.com/AuntT/politics-1112/
I've searched in an effort to clear my name. Now I can prove that it was out there long before I shared it. But there still is two questions that I would like answered.
First, how is it that SNOPES does such lousy research that they couldn't track it down to before I shared it, or to when it originally appeared? And second, while I have been trying to get this blog further away from politics, especially in the last year, why did SNOPES target me?
The reason I ask is that though my small blog does a modest 40,000 visits a month. And yes, some months better than that. Fact is my blog does not compare to big Conservative websites. So why attack me?
Of course, there could be another reason. I can't help but wonder if this attack by SNOPES was purely ideological since many tell me that SNOPES leans to the Left and is a huge supporter of Democrats while I'm not.
So if SNOPES was not trying to attack my blog, The American Cowboy Chronicles, were they attacking me because I distribute Conservative news and information via Facebook where I have the limit of 5,000 friend and a large number of followers? Some of my Facebook friends believe this is the case, and now I'm wondering if this is true?
At this point, my little blog may take a hit and lose visitors. But frankly, I really want the truth to come out and have SNOPES admit that that meme was in circulation long before I shared it.
I have contacted SNOPES with the information that I've found. I hope they are honest with their readers, and correct their article.
Tom Correa
Remember when Snopes kept posting those Betty White death hoaxes until she actually died? Yeah, they actually WILL do that. If they can do that with Betty White, imagine everybody else they have done this to. Could you imagine Snopes doing a death hoax on you? You would look at that and laugh and go, "Yeah right, buddy, I'm not dead". But they do that! And I hate it. I'm never going on there again.
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