Is Glenn Beck trying to discredit fact-checker websites? (MediaMatters.org)

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By Terry Krepel
Media Matters
June 01, 2010 

On his Monday radio show, after repeating guilt-by-association claims by the Obama-obsessed WorldNetDaily reporter Aaron Klein that President Obama is linked to the Gaza flotilla through Bill Ayers, Glenn Beck and his crew took aim at fact-checking websites such as Snopes.com and FactCheck.org.

Beck asked of Snopes, “Aren’t they originally funded with [George] Soros money?” Nope -- it started in 1996 as a list of urban myths and legends by amateur folklorists David and Barbara Mikkelson and evolved into fact-checking. As The New York Times reported earlier this year, the Mikkelsons still run the website, which is self-supporting through advertising. Further, the idea that the Mikkelsons are driven by liberal ideology has been debunked by FactCheck.org, which noted that Barbara Mikkelson is a Canadian citizen, while David Mikkelson is a political independent who was previously a registered Republican and has no public record of having made political donations.

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