Posted on 01/22/2021 7:57:16 PM PST by John Semmens
The Washington Post announced that it is ending its "fact-checking" program. Glenn Kessler, an editor and chief fact-checker cited "the lack of need for such a program under the new administration."
"During the four years Trump was president there were more than 30,000 instances where he made misleading or false statements that cried out for corrections by our staff," Kessler asserted. "During this same time span there wasn't a single instance in which a statement by Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, or any other prominent Democrat was found to be untrue. The elevation of Sen. Charles Schumer, a man of unquestioned integrity, to Majority Leader gives us even more confidence that there won't be anything for us to have to fact-check for the next four years."
"As everyone knows, the financial status of our newspaper has been precarious," Kessler admitted. "We endured the expense of fact-checking Trump because it was the right thing to do. Avoiding this expense during the Biden years is also the right thing to do. Besides, with Facebook and Twitter now taking on the responsibility for censoring incorrect ideas on their platforms we're confident that misleading and false statements are endangered species. Rather than having to go to the trouble of rebutting these evils they will simply and more efficiently be blocked from infecting the brains of the naive and deplorable segments of the population."
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De-Program them.
No need to fact check bidet and the hoor. Whatever they say is gospel. Baghdad Bob will be the new press secretary.
Biden broke the flak-checkin’ machine
I'm interested in seeing how the "fact check" industry handles this.-PJ
Now if they would only shut down their “check-kiting” service to themselves called “Money to the Unemployed Scam”.
Another one of your “greats”.......thx.
No doubt this was exactly how the WaPo boardroom discussion went.
No doubt this was exactly how the WaPo boardroom discussion went.
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Exactly. We see it as satire and evidence of rank hypocrisy but libs in the WaPo and rest of the media view it as a righteous moral crusade to drive the infidel away. Their sense of moral superiority puts them above reproach in their sick minds.
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