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		By: Bob McFee		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446999</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bob McFee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the top of the Babylon Bee&#039;s page is a huge tagline that says &quot;FAKE NEWS YOU CAN TRUST.&quot; Snopes takes itself way too serious. The Babylon Bee taking flak from snopes means they are right over their target.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the top of the Babylon Bee&#8217;s page is a huge tagline that says &#8220;FAKE NEWS YOU CAN TRUST.&#8221; Snopes takes itself way too serious. The Babylon Bee taking flak from snopes means they are right over their target.</p>
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		By: Criticas		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446987</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Criticas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Democracy Dies in Darkness” WaPo 

Remember, that&#039;s not a warning, it&#039;s their GOAL.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Democracy Dies in Darkness” WaPo </p>
<p>Remember, that&#8217;s not a warning, it&#8217;s their GOAL.</p>
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		By: neo		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446984</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[neo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hanuman:

Would that that were true.

Alas, no. Snopes believes it is doing a public service by enlightening us.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hanuman:</p>
<p>Would that that were true.</p>
<p>Alas, no. Snopes believes it is doing a public service by enlightening us.</p>
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		By: ted		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446979</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ted]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Snopes is for Dopes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Snopes is for Dopes.</p>
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		By: Hanuman		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446976</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hanuman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 10:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if Snopes is also satiring backatcha]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What if Snopes is also satiring backatcha</p>
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		By: Glen H		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446955</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glen H]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My money is now and always will be on the Babylon Bee.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My money is now and always will be on the Babylon Bee.</p>
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		By: steve walsh		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446901</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[steve walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you take yourself and these things so seriously that you cannot laugh at obvious jokes then you need therapy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you take yourself and these things so seriously that you cannot laugh at obvious jokes then you need therapy.</p>
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		By: Julie near Chicago		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446892</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julie near Chicago]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well I don&#039;t care what Snopes or the Bee or anybody says.

Pineapple on pizza is morally and philosophically WRONG.

!!!!!

Now &lt;strong&gt;Garbage,&lt;/strong&gt; = sausage + pepperoni + black AND green olives + mushrooms + onions + green pepper + anchovies + shrimp (easy tomato sauce &#038; mozzarella go without saying):  That is the Pizza of the Angels, indeed of the Great Frog its/his/her very own self.

N.B.  It isn&#039;t quite the real real real-deal pizza, but St. Peter also readily opens the Gates to the bacon + onion pizza, hold the cheeze. :grin: :grin:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I don&#8217;t care what Snopes or the Bee or anybody says.</p>
<p>Pineapple on pizza is morally and philosophically WRONG.</p>
<p>!!!!!</p>
<p>Now <strong>Garbage,</strong> = sausage + pepperoni + black AND green olives + mushrooms + onions + green pepper + anchovies + shrimp (easy tomato sauce &amp; mozzarella go without saying):  That is the Pizza of the Angels, indeed of the Great Frog its/his/her very own self.</p>
<p>N.B.  It isn&#8217;t quite the real real real-deal pizza, but St. Peter also readily opens the Gates to the bacon + onion pizza, hold the cheeze. 😀 😀</p>
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		By: Artfldgr		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446865</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is a biggie and why we are going to lose this once boomers go to sing for the choir triumphant... 

&lt;b&gt;Warren warns of economic trouble ahead. Is she right?&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren became a household name thanks to her prescient warning of what became a global financial crisis. Now she’s staking her credentials on another forecast of fiscal trauma ahead.

But even economists who like her prescription are skeptical about her diagnosis.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Well, they erased Eliza Pinkerston, unless you want to read the Congressional Record
or the back copies of the press of the period wallpapering the forgotten history... 

but now, your watching them write future history, for when people look back and pull out a newspaper article, a la 1984 (but no central state doing it), they can say that she was so keen on finances she was prescient

Her prescience made her a household name? 

vote for me i am the oracle of delphiniums Communist BS and see the future financial (and everything else, and would make the kind of person whose five year plans will work (this time))

[i really really hate the way they are trying to bribe people with the money the people give them, that&#039;s like me taking 100 out of your wallet and saying i will give you 100 to do X]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a biggie and why we are going to lose this once boomers go to sing for the choir triumphant&#8230; </p>
<p><b>Warren warns of economic trouble ahead. Is she right?</b></p>
<blockquote><p>
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren became a household name thanks to her prescient warning of what became a global financial crisis. Now she’s staking her credentials on another forecast of fiscal trauma ahead.</p>
<p>But even economists who like her prescription are skeptical about her diagnosis.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well, they erased Eliza Pinkerston, unless you want to read the Congressional Record<br />
or the back copies of the press of the period wallpapering the forgotten history&#8230; </p>
<p>but now, your watching them write future history, for when people look back and pull out a newspaper article, a la 1984 (but no central state doing it), they can say that she was so keen on finances she was prescient</p>
<p>Her prescience made her a household name? </p>
<p>vote for me i am the oracle of delphiniums Communist BS and see the future financial (and everything else, and would make the kind of person whose five year plans will work (this time))</p>
<p>[i really really hate the way they are trying to bribe people with the money the people give them, that&#8217;s like me taking 100 out of your wallet and saying i will give you 100 to do X]</p>
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		By: R.C.		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/07/26/snopes-is-not-amused/#comment-2446864</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[R.C.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 16:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Babylon Bee is daily reading for my older kids; along with Clean Memes. They find both hilarious.

(It helps that the Bee is largely intended for a politically-aware, grew-up-in-evangelical-churches audience, though of course it can be appreciated by a wider audience.)

I confess I don&#039;t know why on earth Snopes keeps making the mistake (?) of &quot;fact-checking&quot; a Babylon Bee satire piece. This is, what, the fourth time this year?

The folks operating Snopes these days are, in fact, hard-left. So I &lt;i&gt;can&#039;t&lt;/i&gt; really bring myself to say, &quot;surely they can&#039;t be that stupid?&quot; ...because of course they can.

But you&#039;d think they&#039;d catch on after four times that it&#039;s &lt;i&gt;making them look stupid&lt;/i&gt;. Surely that&#039;s bad for their brand?

In that case, why don&#039;t they &lt;i&gt;stop?&lt;/i&gt;

My best guess, at present, is that Snopes...
(a.) thinks the readers of Babylon Bee and the readers of Snopes are mutually-exclusive audiences;
(b.) thinks their own audience hates evangelical Christians, thinks they&#039;re stupid, and thinks that the Bee&#039;s readers genuinely are unable to distinguish between reality and satire;
...and thus, are perfectly willing to look stupid in the eyes of Bee readers, while trying to make Bee readers look stupid in the eyes of Snopes readers. They&#039;re playing to &quot;their base,&quot; as it were: &quot;Drinking their own ink.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Babylon Bee is daily reading for my older kids; along with Clean Memes. They find both hilarious.</p>
<p>(It helps that the Bee is largely intended for a politically-aware, grew-up-in-evangelical-churches audience, though of course it can be appreciated by a wider audience.)</p>
<p>I confess I don&#8217;t know why on earth Snopes keeps making the mistake (?) of &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; a Babylon Bee satire piece. This is, what, the fourth time this year?</p>
<p>The folks operating Snopes these days are, in fact, hard-left. So I <i>can&#8217;t</i> really bring myself to say, &#8220;surely they can&#8217;t be that stupid?&#8221; &#8230;because of course they can.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;d think they&#8217;d catch on after four times that it&#8217;s <i>making them look stupid</i>. Surely that&#8217;s bad for their brand?</p>
<p>In that case, why don&#8217;t they <i>stop?</i></p>
<p>My best guess, at present, is that Snopes&#8230;<br />
(a.) thinks the readers of Babylon Bee and the readers of Snopes are mutually-exclusive audiences;<br />
(b.) thinks their own audience hates evangelical Christians, thinks they&#8217;re stupid, and thinks that the Bee&#8217;s readers genuinely are unable to distinguish between reality and satire;<br />
&#8230;and thus, are perfectly willing to look stupid in the eyes of Bee readers, while trying to make Bee readers look stupid in the eyes of Snopes readers. They&#8217;re playing to &#8220;their base,&#8221; as it were: &#8220;Drinking their own ink.&#8221;</p>
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