Posted on 07/28/2025 8:55:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
The man behind The Washington Post's "Pinocchios" is leaving the paper without anyone to fill his shoes.
Glenn Kessler, the editor of The Fact Checker, announced Monday he has taken a buyout, ending his lengthy career at the Post.
"After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout," Kessler wrote on his Facebook page. "Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss."
Kessler said he wrote or edited more than 3,000 fact checks as editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker.
"When I started in 2011, there were only a handful of fact-checking organizations around the world, and I have been thrilled to watch the movement expand across the globe. So many of these brave and diligent fact checkers have become good friends," Kessler wrote.
"My fact checks were routinely the most-read articles on The Post’s website. I had my detractors, from both the left and right, but many readers appreciated my efforts to sort out the truth in political rhetoric," he added.
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Certain facts are not checked when a propaganda outlet disseminates information.
maybe WaPo would have a better chance at hiring replacement if they changed the job title to more accurately reflect the job function, namely “Fact Spinner” instead of “Fact Checker” ...
Obviously, no one is better than he.
Still deciding between AI engines.
He is the guy who’s family used to run Shell Oil who attacked Tim Scott’s rags to riches story based on the fact that Scott’s great-grandfather owned a lot of land a century ago. Maybe Kessler should be paying a buyout to the Post, rather than getting one from he paper.
Wonder what the “Pinnochio ratio” was for conservatives vs. libs/RINO’s over the course of his career?
One sided fact checking needs no fact checker.
Washington Post fact checker. Is this one of those no show, no work type of jobs like the mobsters get?
a fact checker at the WashedUp Post is like teats on a boar
Beyond parody.
The media, or ‘free press’, are SUPPOSED to be ‘fact checkers’. The very notion of another ‘layer within media’ to ‘check facts’ is a red flag.
It was only the need to replace the lying media with something else, because we all knew the media was lying, that they were created. Just use ‘fact check’ in the title and viola! Now you have ‘truth’.......from the same media organizations that were lying to you before.
Besides this turd, here’s a list of rodents that have been squeezed out since January 20. An updated list of those in the fake media schlonged during Trump’s ongoing Golden Age…
This list was compiled by John Nolte:
Glenn Kessler stops lying at the Washington Post.
Jonathan Capehart– Stomps out of WaPo in tears (I’m guessing).
Philip Bump– documented serial liar exits Washington Post.
Catherine Rampell– Leftist WaPo columnist accepts buyout.
Terry Moran– Self-immolated out of ABC due to TDS meltdown.
Ruth Marcus– Washington Post columnist resigns.
538– Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
Paul Krugman– Always-wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
Jim Acosta– CNN anchor forced out.
Norah O’Donnell– Failed CBS anchor out.
Chuck Todd– NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
Andrea Mitchell– NBC harridan ages out of job.
Chris Wallace– Son of Someone out at CNN.
Jennifer Rubin— Lunatic columnist quits Washington Post in a snit.
Joy Reid– Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
Neil Cavuto– Fox News anchor scurries away.
Alex Wagner– Demoted at MSNBC.
Ayman Mohyeldin– Lost MSNBC show.
Olivia Nuzzi– Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
Katie Phang– Lost MSNBC show.
Jonathan Capehart – Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
Lester Holt– Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
One-thirdof New York Times Editorial Board – Say, bye.
Eugene Robinson– Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
Ryan Lizza– Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
Bill Owens—60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.
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