The Washington Post is a failing, money-losing newspaper, a condition that owner Jeff Bezos is determined to remedy. He has said that he wants a pro-America, pro-free enterprise orientation, which would have been taken for granted by 95% of Americans a few short years ago, but today is anathema to the Left. And the Left accounts for probably 95% of the Post’s employees.
So we have seen one departure after another, all of them welcome. Today “fact checker” Glenn Kessler bit the dust:
The Washington Post’s chief fact checker accepted a buyout and is leaving the newspaper without a replacement.
The fact that Kessler is not being replaced suggests that the Post may be getting out of the Democratic Party “fact checking” business.
Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker, announced on Monday that he is leaving 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 said on Facebook.
‘Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era [i.e., the Trump administration], the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss.’
Of course, as everyone knows, Kessler’s job wasn’t to “scrutinize politicians.” It was to advance the Democratic Party line in response to statements made by Republicans, especially Donald Trump:
‘In 2018, when the Fact Checker team was compiling a database of more than 30,000 Trump claims, I told the New York Times that “I have the best job in journalism.”
Ed Driscoll features some of Kessler’s greatest “fact checker” hits, and they are pretty bad. For example, this gem, just five weeks before Joe Biden withdrew, humiliated, from the presidential race:
Don’t believe your lying eyes, believe the “fact checker”! That was pretty much the Post’s position throughout Kessler’s tenure. I tangled with him on the radio a time or two, and much of what he did was reprehensible. But, to be fair, occasionally he did get a fact right.
The demise of the Democratic Party press continues apace. Glenn Kessler, RIP.
