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Glenn Kessler
Barnicle Defends Biden: 'One of the Most Normal, Honorable People'
In response to a comment about President Biden made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday night, Mike Barnicle of Morning Joe calls him "One of the most normal, honorable human beings you will ever meet."
WashPost: Three Pinocchios, 'Incendiary' To Claim Soros Backs Bragg
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler was the April fool on Saturday as he gave those claiming that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is currently prosecuting former President Donald Trump, is funded by George Soros three Pinocchios. Even worse, Kessler claimed such claims were “incendiary” and play “into antisemitic conspiracy theories.”
60 Minutes Segment On Declining Navy Sinks A Decade Of Fact-Checks
Sunday’s edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes sounded the alarm on China’s rapid naval expansion and included premier PLAN expert Toshi Yoshihara warning that China is outbuilding several Western nations combined and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday declaring his top priority is cutting down the Navy’s excessive maintenance delays that limit the Navy’s ability to keep up. The…
10 Lies the Nets Are Letting Biden Get Away With
It’s not just the gaffes. President Joe Biden has a serious and well-documented problem when it comes to repeatedly telling outright lies. We at NewsBusters wanted to look at some of the most egregious fibs Biden has made just during his administration and how much time (if any) the broadcast networks devoted to knocking them down.
WashPost 'Fact Checker' Throws 3 Very Lame Pinocchios at Nikki Haley
Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler was a State Department reporter, so he tends to put the most swagger into his foreign-policy Pinocchio-throwing. On March 1, he threw Three Pinocchios at Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, quibbling with her statement on Fox Business that “The number one thing I would do is stop giving foreign aid to our enemies.”
Morning Joe Lies That Trump Team's to Blame for Ohio Train Derailment
On Morning Joe, Jen Psaki and Joe Scarborough lie that the East Palestine train derailment is the fault of the Trump administration. Says Scarborough: "They deregulated it. This is on them." In fact, as the Biden appointee who heads the NTSB has said, "even if the rule had gone into effect, this train wouldn’t have had ECP brakes.”
Kessler the Opinion Checker Throws Pinocchios at Ted Cruz, Ron Johnson
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler runs their shop called “The Fact Checker.” But often, they’re just expressing hostilities – and tossing Pinocchios – at Republican opinions. They should call themselves “The Opinion Checker.” Kessler’s latest attack is a “Three Pinocchios” analysis of Senators Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz for daring to suggest Hunter Biden may have received government…
Kessler Admittedly Uses Faulty Data to Dismiss Good Guys With Guns
In a supposed “fact-check” on Tuesday, Washington Post editor and “fact checker” Glenn Kessler published an analysis to tackle the understood notion that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. But the piece, titled “What’s more common: A ‘good guy’ without a gun — or with one?”, muddied the waters and argued that the data is incomplete and inconclusive.
WashPost Rushes to 'Fact Check' on Schiff -- Their Anonymous Source?
Washington Post chief "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler is on a partisan run again with two hostile "checks" on new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. On Sunday, Kessler appeared in the paper aggressively defending Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell against "McCarthy's specious revenge attacks" with a "Four Pinocchios" hot take. Could this be because these Democrats are major leakers to …
Biden’s vs. Trump’s ‘Lies’ — What a Difference an Administration Makes
During Donald Trump’s presidency, The Washington Post kept a running tally of his alleged lies and/or misleading statements. But, when Joe Biden became president, the Post fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, announced an end to the database operation, saying: “Maintaining the Trump database over four years required about 400 additional 8-hour days over four years beyond our regular…
WashPost 'Fact Checker': Abrams Offers 'Rhetorical Twist' on Denialism
In Sunday’s paper Washington Post “Fact Checker” sought to downplay the “election denialism” of Stacey Abrams. She wasn’t a Liar to say she “won” her 2018 election for governor of Georgia, or to say it was “stolen from the people of Georgia. No, it was merely twisty rhetoric, no cartoon Pinocchios needed.
NewsBusters Podcast: 'Fact Checkers' or DNC 'Flying Monkeys'?
Stephen Kruiser of PJ Media said it was "beyond ludicrous" for liberal media outlets to have "fact checkers" when they sound like "flying monkeys" for the Democrats (like The Wizard of Oz.) Washington Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler claims you can't say Democrats favor no limits on abortions -- which is true -- because late-term abortions are rare and whenever they happen,…
Kessler Twice Falsely Defends Democrats' Pro-Abortion Spin
Glenn Kessler defended Democrats on abortion not once, but twice on Thursday and both times the Washington Post’s resident fact-checker got his facts wrong.
WashPost 'Fact Checkers' Now Fighting with 'RNC Research' Twitter
In the Trump era, the Washington Post 'Fact Checker' squad kept a gaudy list of President Trump's "lies and false statements" and even put together a book titled Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth. But under Biden? The same squad is rushing to Biden's defense, most recently in attacking the "RNC Research" account on Twitter.
