The last few months have been rough for the Democrats because they're losing some propaganda power in the media. "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" got canceled and will end next May and PBS and NPR are losing taxpayer funding (though PBS News was good enough to recently indicate they didn't really need it anyway).
Democrats also won't like to see the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler go, but apparently that's what's happening thanks to they buyouts at the paper:
NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.
— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) July 28, 2025
His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years. https://t.co/Mq0lBRAmVL
Kessler will leave behind a legacy of hack "fact-checking" doozies.
@Greg_Price11 remembered four of the ones that are at the top of the list.
Just a few of Glenn Kessler’s all time bangers. https://t.co/hT0AII6voU pic.twitter.com/eHXdHxiob4
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 28, 2025
Kicking things off, a Covid lab leak theory as Sen. Ted Cruz put forth was "virtually impossible" because Cruz didn't pay attention to the cartoon, or something:
I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab. Or the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves. https://t.co/TprMnaHSZL
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 1, 2020
Oh no, the "scientific animation" debunked Cruz? No, we all know how this turned out.
Remember when Karine Jean-Pierre invented the "cheap fakes" narrative as a rebuttal to people who simply noticed President Biden's declining state? Kessler dutifully picked up that ball and ran with it, as did many others in the media:
New #FactCkecker --> ‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead https://t.co/LQkoNsI4Go
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) June 14, 2024
The only thing "deeply misleading" was that fact-check.
But at least the Post's chief fact-checker put Sen. Tim Scott in his place:
ICYMI --> Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale. https://t.co/Pg4WSUNHFs
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 23, 2021
This guy was a ratio machine!
Here's one more that employs a familiar "fact-checker" trick:
New #FactChecker -> The incendiary claim that George Soros ‘funds’ Alvin Bragg https://t.co/wQr4klYmkU
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 1, 2023
"Incendiary claim."
So, basically the fact-check was that, no, George Soros didn't donate money to Alvin Bragg's Manhattan D.A. campaign. Why? Because Soros donated the money to a group, and they sent it to Bragg's campaign. We've seen that technique used quite a bit to cover for Democrats.
Here's one more that I remember, and it's Kessler's attempt to paint Trump as incorrect for saying that Laken Riley's death was a direct result of the open border under Biden, Harris and Mayorkas:
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign moved quickly to tie the killing of a Georgia nursing student, allegedly by a Venezuelan migrant who entered the country illegally in 2022, to the surge of undocumented immigrants at the southern border under the Biden administration. His campaign posted a video that, with pounding music, combines news clips about the case with clips of Biden administration officials assuring people that the border was secure. It ends with the blunt message above.
Never mind that violent crime rates, especially for homicide in large cities, have fallen sharply during Biden’s presidency, after a surge during the pandemic. Trump, as he often did during his presidency, is using anecdotal evidence to make an emotional case against undocumented immigrants.
Riley was murdered by an illegal alien who strolled into the country when Biden left the border open, and people in the U.S. illegally are by definition criminals. That's hardly "anecdotal evidence." Meanwhile there's little actual evidence that Kessler was ever interested in being a fair and objective fact-checker. The Democrats will miss his efforts at the Post.
