{"id":1571005,"date":"2022-07-26T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571005"},"modified":"2022-07-26T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T11:50:58","slug":"wapos-fact-checker-goes-to-battle-with-rncs-research-arm-loses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapos-fact-checker-goes-to-battle-with-rncs-research-arm-loses\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo&#8217;s Fact Checker Goes to Battle With RNC&#8217;s Research Arm, Loses"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwapos-fact-checker-goes-to-battle-with-rncs-research-arm-loses%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=1571005&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><\/div>\n<p>In the Trump era, the <em>Washington Post <\/em>&#8216;Fact Checker&#8217; squad kept a gaudy list of President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;lies and false statements&#8221; and even put together a book titled <em>Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth<\/em>. But under Biden? The same squad is rushing to Biden&#8217;s defense, most recently in attacking the &#8220;RNC Research&#8221; account on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>On July 15, their Digital Video Editor Adriana Usero demonstrated how hypersensitive they could be in an article (with\u00a0video) titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/07\/15\/rnc-biden-cheap-fake-paints-misleading-picture-mental-fitness\/\">RNC\u2019s Biden \u2018cheap fake\u2019 paints a misleading picture of mental fitness.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The RNC team showed just seven seconds of Biden in the Mideast asking &#8220;What am I doing now?&#8221; Usero complained this &#8220;shows just how easy it is to pick apart a seemingly innocuous moment and imbue it with disingenuous meaning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Usero pointed out &#8220;High-profile leader-to-leader diplomatic visits are especially detail-oriented, with an eye toward striking visuals for the cameras.&#8221; So it&#8217;s okay for the White House press shop and advance team to micro-manage Biden&#8217;s arrival for &#8220;striking visuals,&#8221; but it&#8217;s wrong to make fun of it. Usero sounds partisan as she explained &#8220;the visit is expected to test his <strong>deep foreign policy acumen<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the more recent case of Biden loosely talking about how he got cancer in Delaware. On July 20,\u00a0<em>Post <\/em>&#8220;Fact Checker&#8221; chief Glenn Kessler turned feisty against the RNC for merely doing a spit-take and asking if Biden just said he had cancer. There&#8217;s no &#8220;fact&#8221; asserted in the tweet:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>How dumb is this tweet? Check out Biden&#8217;s medical report. Before he became president, he&#8217;d had non-melanoma skin cancers removed. Has no one at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RNCResearch<\/a> ever had this common procedure? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TS9VWtKcYC\">https:\/\/t.co\/TS9VWtKcYC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itklkVZIor\">https:\/\/t.co\/itklkVZIor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1549833485552058370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t flinch at the president clumsily implying he currently has cancer. Kessler didn&#8217;t explain how Big Oil in Delaware gave Biden skin cancers before he was president. He just hands out the White House medical press release for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/sister-toldjah\/2022\/07\/21\/sad-trombone-plays-for-glenn-kessler-after-embarrassing-biden-fact-check-gets-walked-back-n599090\">Sister Toldjah at RedState<\/a> offered the &#8220;Sad Trombone&#8221; update, pointed out that Townhall embarrassed him, and he had to take the L.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Regardless, the White House used Kessler\u2019s tweet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/nick-arama\/2022\/07\/20\/wh-tries-to-clean-up-bidens-cancer-comment-trips-over-facts-and-his-prior-remarks-n598891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as an explainer<\/a>\u00a0for what Biden supposedly meant, which backfired on both them and Kessler when Kessler later caught wind \u2013 via Townhall.com editor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katie Pavlich<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 of the fact that Biden has told this story before, except in the prior story he claimed it was asthma he got from the oil-slicked windshield, not cancer:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Well, good catch by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@townhallcom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiePavlich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@KatiePavlich<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lnjw6Qk6BJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/lnjw6Qk6BJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1549897015638769666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Kessler weren&#8217;t such a knee-jerk defender of Biden and the Democrats, he might have looked into this (or put Usero on it) instead of assuming the RNC is always wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Trump era, the Washington Post &#8216;Fact Checker&#8217; squad kept a gaudy list of President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;lies and false statements&#8221; and even put together a book titled Donald Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575660,"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-1571005","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\/1571005","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}