Fact-checkers came running to President Biden's defense again. In Sunday's Washington Post, "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler wrote an article headlined "Biden's claim that his 'great grand-pop' was a…
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May 30th, 2021 10:49 PM | Tim Graham
May 28th, 2021 5:59 AM | Tim Graham
Pardon the whiplash! It feels like the media suddenly decided the theory that the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is now considered plausible when it was aggressively dismissed by…
May 26th, 2021 10:19 PM | Tim Graham
Last year, conservative Senators like Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz were slammed for pushing a "fringe theory" that COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan lab. Now, suddenly, the media have decided that's not…
May 22nd, 2021 6:58 AM | Tim Graham
In his newsletter, Brian Stelter wrote “This case is getting a ton of attention among media types on Twitter.” Jeremy Barr of The Washington Post reported Emily Wilder, a brand-new staffer at The…
May 4th, 2021 10:00 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Republican Senator Tim Scott caused media heads to explode when (in his response to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress) he declared “America is not a racist country.” Even though President…
May 3rd, 2021 8:41 PM | Tim Graham
The latest edition of the NewsBusters Podcast explores how easy it is to prove that The Washington Post is a paper by Democrats, for Democrats -- a partisan broadsheet.
First, there's Post…
May 2nd, 2021 11:10 PM | Tim Graham
Washington Post "fact checker" Glenn Kessler drew a lot of fire for digging deeply into the family history of Sen. Tim Scott to suggest his life story was exaggerated. On Sunday night's All Things…
April 28th, 2021 11:56 PM | Nicholas Fondacaro
Casual racism was the disgusting tone CNN decided to go with following South Carolina Senator Tim Scott’s delivery of the Republican response to President Biden’s address to Congress Wednesday…
April 27th, 2021 4:26 PM | Scott Whitlock
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…
April 26th, 2021 6:32 PM | Tim Graham
In the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss the politics of the Oscars. Some liberals on Twitter were upset that white Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor over the late Chadwick Boseman. But…
April 23rd, 2021 4:13 PM | Tim Graham
On Thursday, Republicans announced that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina would offer the GOP response to President Biden’s address to Congress (a State of the Union-like speech). By Friday morning…
April 3rd, 2021 7:45 AM | Tim Graham
Is PolitiFact proving how objective they are by holding a “United Facts of America fact-checking festival” from May 10 to 13 starring CNN’s Brian Stelter? No, they’re further proving they are part…
April 1st, 2021 9:37 PM | Curtis Houck
For White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, it must be quite a life knowing you’re never going to be sternly fact-checked (or fact-checked at all) by the liberal media. Thursday’s briefing…
March 30th, 2021 10:32 PM | Tim Graham
Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler surprised readers on Thursday by throwing "Four Pinocchios" at President Biden over his claims that Georgia's new voter-integrity law would “end voting…
March 26th, 2021 3:23 PM | Tim Graham
On Tuesday, Washington Post "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler promoted a very questionable Washington Post article using the headline “There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border. Here’s the…
February 20th, 2021 7:14 PM | Tim Graham
We have good news and bad news on The Washington Post Fact Checker.
The good news? They caught up with Vice President Kamala Harris telling Axios there was “no national strategy or plan”…
February 6th, 2021 7:30 AM | Tim Graham
Snopes went first among liberal "fact checkers" in defending Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez against conservative critics of her Instagram Live testimony about the trauma of the Capitol riot, but other…
January 23rd, 2021 9:17 PM | Tim Graham
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. Their level of aggression clearly…
January 11th, 2021 3:35 PM | Joseph Vazquez
Forbes magazine abandoned any illusion of its free-market stance by issuing a threat to any company that chooses to hire some individuals who worked for President Donald Trump.
Chief…
January 1st, 2021 5:59 AM | Tim Graham
The Poynter Institute is a Florida-based journalism group that runs PolitiFact. On Poynter.org, they run a daily media report by Tom Jones, who sounds like Brian Stelter’s identically thinking…
October 19th, 2020 4:00 PM | Kathleen Krumhansl
¿Dónde está Hunter? Esa es la pregunta del día dado el ensordecedor silencio en los noticieros hispanoparlantes de la nación en torno a los múltiples escándalos relacionados con Hunter Biden, hijo…
August 27th, 2020 8:30 PM | P.J. Gladnick
The very first two words in a video clip of Mike Pence on Wednesday noting that Demcrat presidential candidate Joe Biden did not say one word about the violent rioting were "last week." Got that,…
August 14th, 2020 9:46 PM | Tim Graham
Now that the Democratic ticket has been set and the (virtual) convention is about to launch, it's a good time to evaluate how tilted The Washington Post "Fact Checker" is when it comes to not just…
August 11th, 2020 1:18 PM | Tim Graham
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…
August 10th, 2020 12:07 PM | Randy Hall
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…