Democracy Is A-OK With Biden! Post Ends Prez Fact Checking Database

April 27th, 2021 4:26 PM

The Washington Post, which infamously added “democracy dies in darkness” to its front page once Donald Trump took office, has now apparently decided that everything is just fine. As noted by The Washington Times, the liberal Post is ending its presidential database of fact checks.

WashPost Fact Checker Tags Tim Scott with Exaggerating Family History

April 23rd, 2021 4:13 PM

On Thursday, Republicans announced that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina would offer the GOP response to President Biden’s address to Congress. By Friday morning, The Washington Post “Fact Checker” jumped into investigating Senator Scott’s story about his grandfather. Conservative Twitter had a field day with this

WashPost 'Fact Checker' Threw FOUR Pinocchios at Biden's Georgia Lies

March 30th, 2021 10:32 PM

Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler surprised readers on Thursday by throwing "Four Pinocchios" at President Biden over his claims that Georgia's Republicans would "end voting at five o'clock when working people are just getting off work."

WashPost 'Fact Checker' Promoted 'There's No Migrant Surge' Article

March 26th, 2021 3:23 PM

On Tuesday, Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler retweeted a very questionable Washington Post article using the headline “There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border. Here’s the data." After an uproar about their border "denialism," the headline was revised to “The migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border is actually a predictable pattern.” (In other words, don'…

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WashPost 'Fact Checker' Admits They Won't Count Biden's False Claims

January 23rd, 2021 9:17 PM

Glenn Kessler and his Washington Post “Fact Checker” squad celebrated their end-of-term count of President Trump’s “false and misleading statements” – 30,573. Shelby Talcott of the Daily Caller put the Post on the record explaining what he all could expect: there will be no False & Misleading Claims count for President Biden. Kessler touted Biden would be like Obama, easily…

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Heritage Foundation Takes on WashPost 'Fact' Whacking of Mike Pence

August 11th, 2020 1:18 PM

Voting expert Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation took on Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler after he awarded “Four Pinocchios” to Vice President Mike Pence. The veep told Martha McCallum on Fox News that voter fraud is “real,” which unfortunately has to be said when the liberal media suggests routinely it’s almost nonexistent. 

WashPost Fact-Checker Scorched for Spinning Biden's Gaffe on Blacks

August 10th, 2020 12:07 PM

It's bad enough that Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler is now touting he's found 20,000 "false or misleading statements" by President Trump -- and even wrote a Trump-bashing book this year to expand his attacks. Kessler's also making embarrassing attempts to spin Joseph Biden out of his gaffes. Conservative Twitter was brutal. 

Column: The 'Fact Checkers' and the Big Lie

June 10th, 2020 5:47 AM

The Washington Post is promoting a new election-year tome from the "Fact Checker squad at the Post -- their chief Glenn Kessler and his lieutenants Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly. The title is Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims, and Flat-Out Lies.

WashPost Assigns Trump '3 Pinocchios' -- and Then Shows He's Right

April 21st, 2020 10:02 PM
Leon Wolf of The Blaze expressed amazement that Washington Post “Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler would assign Donald Trump three Pinocchios….and then include a raft of examples showing what he said was true. Trump said the World Health Organization "parroted and publicly endorsed the idea that there was not human-to-human transmission was happening." Kessler showed that was true. So why the…

WashPost 'Fact Checker' Throws Misdirected 'Four Pinocchios' at Fauci

March 30th, 2020 7:35 PM
Dr. Tony Fauci has become widely seen as a nonpartisan health expert during the coronavirus pandemic. But that didn’t stop Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler from throwing a harsh “Four Pinocchios” (pants on fire) verdict for a statement to NBC anchorman Lester Holt that Italy's terrible infection and death rate came because "they had an open border, they let people in."

For a 'Fact Checker,' WashPost's Kessler Can Be a Reckless Tweeter

March 28th, 2020 7:47 AM
Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler tweets much less than he retweets on Twitter. He retweets a lot of liberal-media themes. Sometimes his tweets are mangling the facts. Sister Toldjah at RedState noticed on Wednesday that Kessler “pulled a Schiff” the other day – he passed off a nasty parody of Trump as the real thing: "Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile…
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WashPost, Snopes Tag Biden for Fake Story About Arrest in South Africa

February 26th, 2020 3:30 PM
This week, the "fact checkers" at both The Washington Post and Snopes.com have thrown the penalty flag at Joe Biden for his repeated claim that he was imprisoned in South Africa in the 1970s while trying to visit Nelson Mandela at the Robben Island prison. Sadly, the networks didn't seem to notice this historical gaffe before the South Carolina debate.

Even Leftists Can Be Right About Opinionated 'Fact Checkers'

January 19th, 2020 9:01 PM
Conservatives are not going to agree with a lot of points in The New Republic -- and it's more liberal than it used to be in the last century. But there's some common ground when it comes to the media's "fact-checking" operations. There is a lot of opinion smeared all over the "facts."

WashPost Fact Checker Wails the Trump Beat Is 'Incredibly Depressing'

January 7th, 2020 2:07 PM
Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler was one of many liberal pundits tapped by the Columbia Journalism Review to assess the challenges of Campaign 2020. Kessler found it "incredibly depressing" that Trump never seems to change his misleading ways after being flagged 15,000 times by the Post.