Snopes and Political Conservatives, such as Troy Neff, who are Avid Practitioners of Selective Perception

It is not uncommon for me to do fact-checking the best I can. Frequently, I have cited articles from Snopes.

This past March 18, 2018, political conservative Troy Neff posted a status update on his Facebook wall in which he wrote,

“Here’s more of your peaceful protest. And this ain’t California.” and to which he attached a link to a Fox News Article entitled, Student with ‘Trump’ flag assaulted by mob during National School Walkout.

I responded as a reply to that posting on his Facebook wall by posting two links to articles without making any comment of my own. One link was to a fact check article by Snopes entitled “Did Donald Trump Encourage Violence at His Rallies?” The other was a link was to an article from Mashable entitled “All the times Trump has called for violence at his rallies.”

Well, back on that Sunday of March 18, 2018 at 10:30 p.m., Troy Neff wrote the following on my Facebook:

"Your 1st Amendment right is extended to you on your page. Not mine. Snopes? Seriously gtfo here with that dumb shit. It’s called personal responsibility. But I’d guess a hypocrite would forget about Obama saying to bring a gun if they have a knife.
The left has been ridiculously violent. That’s ok. We’re over it.
You’re special for sure."

I responded to Troy Neff with:

"Government 101 Lesson, Troy Neff. First Amendment only applies to the national government.
p.s. My mother always said, 'Two wrongs do not make a right.'
It appears to me, Troy, that you fail to practice what you preach. Is it really necessary for you to use potty mouth language to make your point?"

To which, Troy Neff simply replied,

"Yes."

Fast forward to the morning of December 31, 2018: On my Roland's Ramblings blog, I received the following comment from Ditch Cuyahoga <dcuyahoga@gmail.com> {107.77.161.8} in response to Regarding Troy Neff of Toledo, Ohio, a Roland's Ramblings blog entry that I had posted on March 19, 2018:

"In all fairness, using Snopes to back your argument automatically makes your point invalid. It has been proven they are wrong more times than right. Easy to research that."

Consequently, I did indeed research Snopes.

Concurrently, while doing my research about Snopes, I read the following in a Wikipedia article:

Selective perception is the process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. It is a broad term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to tend to "see things" based on their particular frame of reference.

ref: Selective perception, Wikipedia

I did indeed find many articles concerning the veracity Snopes, in which many of the articles seemed biased in their dependence on selective perception in the same manner as selective perception has been used by both Troy Neff and 'Ditch Cuyahoga' (or whatever his or her real name might be).

I now selectively choose to refer readers to just one of the articles that I read. That article describes Snopes as being least biased and its fact reporting as high. You may read the report yourself over at:

• Media Bias/Fact Check, Snopes

I say, "Give me the facts." "Just the facts, ma'am."