{"id":1909360,"date":"2023-04-03T20:57:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-fact-checker-who-reported-on-influential-jewish-donor-now-says-its-antisemitic\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T01:03:40","slug":"wapo-fact-checker-who-reported-on-influential-jewish-donor-now-says-its-antisemitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-fact-checker-who-reported-on-influential-jewish-donor-now-says-its-antisemitic\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Fact-Checker Who Reported On Influential Jewish Donor Now Says It\u2019s Antisemitic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fwapo-fact-checker-who-reported-on-influential-jewish-donor-now-says-its-antisemitic%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=1909360&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-->\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Glenn Kessler, a fact-checker known for needing fact-checking himself, is facing accusations of anti-Semitic behavior after he criticized Republicans for pointing out that the Manhattan District Attorney who indicted former President Donald Trump was backed with funds from George Soros, a billionaire financier. Kessler called it &#8220;incendiary&#8221; and &#8220;conspiratorial&#8221; to refer to Alvin Bragg as Soros-funded. <\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, have referred to Bragg as &#8220;Soros-backed.&#8221; Kessler, however, stated that such language plays into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, alluding to Soros&#8217;s Jewish heritage as a wealthy &#8220;puppet master&#8221; who uses his wealth to manipulate politics.<\/p>\n<p>However, this raised questions about The Washington Post&#8217;s coverage of Sheldon Adelson, a Jewish billionaire donor who supported Republicans before he died in 2021. Kessler, himself, also previously reported on Adelson&#8217;s political contributions in a way that some argue is not dissimilar from Republicans referring to Bragg as &#8220;Soros-backed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kessler&#8217;s fact-check was also flagged as &#8220;disinformation&#8221; by Twitter users, and his response to critics was dismissed as &#8220;trolls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post\u2019s chief fact-checker, antisemitic? By his own standards, yes. He\u2019s also a \u201cfact-checker\u201d who routinely needs fact-checking. On Saturday, the Post\u2019s fact-checker-in-chief smeared Republican claims tying the Manhattan district attorney behind former President Donald Trump\u2019s prosecution to billionaire financier George Soros. Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A. who secured Trump\u2019s indictment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1909361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[13755,6498,8125,17362,6550,6906,10692,7115],"class_list":["post-1909360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-antisemitic","tag-donor","tag-fact-checker","tag-influential","tag-its","tag-jewish","tag-reported","tag-wapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909360","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}