This is where fake news goes to die

A purveyor of fake news writing a story about a purveyor of questionable facts... how cute.

How ironic that this story comes to us via CNN. I used to rely on Snopes until I discovered that it has its own agenda. They debunk the easy stuff (like stories of Bigfoot) to establish credibility and then apply Progressive interpretations to political material.

And this is where Mr. Mikkelson shoots himself in the foot - On this particular day, the day after President Trump's big speech to Congress, Mikkelson and his staff are checking out a claim from social media that some prominent Democrats refused to stand and applaud when Trump honored a Navy SEAL's widow during his address.

"It's not true," Mikkelson chuckles to himself, while doing research on the computer at his desk. And he's right. Snopes determined, by examining video coverage of the speech, that the pictures used in social media posts -- of Democrats sitting and not clapping -- were from an earlier part of Trump's speech and not from when the president honored the widow. Mikkelson rated the claim "false."

If you watch it using the C-SPAN footage, you can start from the beginning of the Ovation and note that when it dies down the first time, that most of the Democrat side does sit down, some do return to standing when the ovation is continued, but a significant number remain seated.

Therefore it is Half False AND Half True.

And if you are too lazy to watch it yourself and continue to believe that SNOPES is not biased, well I think that you know what the acronym GFY means, and then apply it to yourself.

Mr. Mikkelson probably should have stayed with the Urban Myths and Legends debunking.