Snopes Discovers “Fake But Accurate”
While Snopes had little trouble labeling as “false” the notion that Al Gore falsely claimed to have invented the Internet (while burying the fact that he had in fact falsely claimed to have “created” it), or as confirming as “true” the allegation that news services described blacks as “looting” and whites as “finding” (while burying the fact that the two stories originated from different news services, and that one incident actually involved looting and the other actually involved finding), in this case, it just doesn’t know what to do with this:
If you read carefully, you’ll see that they had no trouble identifying this particular piece as a fake, and they’ve had no success in corroborating the other alleged sources it’s sometimes attributed to, yet it fits so well with their own stereotypes about the 1950s that they can’t bring themselves to admit this one’s false rather than “undetermined.” Lame.
