{"id":1552398,"date":"2022-07-13T11:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552398"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:50:03","slug":"fact-checkings-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkings-final-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checking\u2019s Final Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-checkings-final-frontier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1552398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The Washington Post\u2019s Glenn Kessler doesn\u2019t take issue with the facts, but with \u201csuggestions\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/washington-free-beacon-editors\/\" title=\"Posts by Washington Free Beacon Editors\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Washington Free Beacon Editors<\/a> \u2022 July 13, 2022 11:40 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>We at the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> love the fact-checkers. When they\u2019re &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; us, we know we must be doing something right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The righteousness of our reporting has pushed this genre of faux journalism to its very limits: rules bent, reasoning contorted, and the endless invention of new ways to accuse us of <\/span><span>hurting Democrats<\/span><span> purveying misinformation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The latest from the <\/span><i><span>Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span>\u2019s Glenn Kessler is a master class in the left\u2019s crusade to conflate objective truth with Democratic spin. The ostensible target of his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/12\/misplaced-outrage-over-hunter-biden-us-oil-reserves-bought-by-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>fisking<\/span><\/a><span>: a tweet from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) based, as he notes, on a <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> about the Biden administration\u2019s sale of a million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yes, the Biden administration did this, Kessler concedes. Them\u2019s the facts. But three Pinocchios for Grassley and for us, he says, for turning &#8220;simple facts&#8221; into &#8220;something nefarious.&#8221; You know, like the fact that China was also supposed to be releasing oil from its reserves in order to ease global fuel prices, according to the White House, but is instead <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/money.usnews.com\/investing\/news\/articles\/2022-02-25\/exclusive-china-boosts-oil-reserves-ignoring-u-s-push-for-global-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>boosting its own reserves<\/span><\/a><span> by hoarding barrels from our stockpile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But far be it from us to imply that the Biden administration\u2019s strategy here is amiss: &#8220;<\/span><span>Anyone who suggests the Biden administration is doing something wrong here\u2014as opposed to following the rules\u2014<\/span><span>earns Three Pinocchios,&#8221; Kessler writes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here\u2019s how the fact-checker Democrat nexus works. White House adviser (and former &#8220;Grillary Clinton&#8221; apron model) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/ian-sams-grillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Ian Sams<\/span><\/a><span> is now <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanSams46\/status\/1546848397776359427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>waving<\/span><\/a><span> Kessler\u2019s assessment around on Twitter, accusing Republicans of &#8220;pushing false conspiracies about the President.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Our last run-in with the fact-checking community was over our massively viral <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/fact-checkers-to-voters-dont-believe-your-lyin-eyes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>video<\/span><\/a><span> that plainly shows President Joe Biden shaking hands with thin air. Not true! they said, having studied the footage like the Zapruder film in order to conclude that what any viewer can see with his own eyes is &#8220;entirely misleading.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before that, it was our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> on the Biden administration\u2019s plan to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its &#8220;harm reduction&#8221; approach to drug addiction. Fact checks, including Kessler\u2019s, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/joe-biden-crack-pipe-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>relied entirely on the ass-covering say-so\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span> of Biden administration officials to undermine our shoe leather reporting, which has now been corroborated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/yes-safe-smoking-kits-include-free-crack-pipes-we-know-because-we-got-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>by us<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/the-biden-administration-insisted-it-wouldnt-fund-crack-pipes-a-new-report-shows-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>others<\/span><\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your condemnation is the metric of our success, every Pinocchio and Pants on Fire another notch on our belt.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media The Washington Post\u2019s Glenn Kessler doesn\u2019t take issue with the facts, but with \u201csuggestions\u201d  Getty Images  Washington Free Beacon Editors \u2022 July 13, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}