Sista & Villager II:

Snopes is NOT funded by George Soros. That is a LIE.

David and Barbara Mikkelson started the site in 1996 and it is funded by ADVERTISING.

When I looked to see where this rumor started, I got pointed back to Glenn Beck (who seems to see Soros behind everything the way people used to see commies under the bed):

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006010050

http://www.snopes.com/info/aboutus.asp

Someone made the jump from claiming Snopes was wrong on one particular item (regarding Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court) and has apparently had people quoting THAT incident as 'proof' of Soros funding them.

Furthermore, the person claiming SNopes was wrong appears to deliberately mislead people. He said that Snopes denied there was any "tit for tat" going on (Obama nominating Kaga in exchange for her help on the birther issue) and that they were wrong because he found several hits on the Supreme Court's website when plugging in Obama and Kagan's names. Snopes then went into those dockets and they had NOTHING to do with the birther issue.

Of course, now that the birther issue has been settled (by Obama finally releasing his birth certificate), you'd think the Snopes/Soros crap would go away but it doesn't. Not only does it remain in internet caches, but the original poster hasn't refuted or corrected his remarks and people are still using that MISINFORMATION to support their claims.