{"id":2467780,"date":"2025-07-28T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-fabulist-kessler-leaves-behind-more-fiction-than-fact\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:24:35","slug":"wapo-fabulist-kessler-leaves-behind-more-fiction-than-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-fabulist-kessler-leaves-behind-more-fiction-than-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Fabulist Kessler Leaves Behind More Fiction Than Fact"},"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\">18<\/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-fabulist-kessler-leaves-behind-more-fiction-than-fact%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=2467780&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--><p>The article criticizes Glenn Kessler, the longtime lead fact-checker at The Washington Post, who is leaving the paper after 14 years. It portrays Kessler as biased in favor of the Democratic party, accusing him of using his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politifact-bias-201-trump-pants-on-fire-zero-for-harris-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Politi... bias: 201 Trump \u2018Pants on Fire,\u2019 zero for Harris - Washington Examiner\">fact-checking platform<\/a> to support leftist political narratives and attack conservatives, particularly former President Donald Trump and his allies. The article highlights Kessler&#8217;s coverage of the Russia collusion investigation and Russiagate as examples where he allegedly perpetuated falsehoods, despite later revelations supporting some claims initially dismissed as false. It also accuses him of ignoring or defending falsehoods by Democratic figures like Joe Biden, downplaying Biden family corruption, and defending controversial issues such as COVID-19 policies and abortion drugs. The piece asserts that Kessler&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fact-checking damages journalistic integrity<\/a> and free press principles, and warns that the Washington Post&#8217;s fact-checking department will continue in this vein even after his departure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After 14 years of twisting the narrative to benefit his preferred political party, the face of The Washington Post&rsquo;s fake fact-checking program is finally leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-are-concerned-that-bowsers-budget-tactics-could-lead-to-gop-involvement-in-dc\/\" title=\"Democrats are concerned that Bowser&#039;s budget tactics could lead to GOP involvement in DC\">capital city&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s oldest and largest publication.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Kessler announced on Monday that he plans to abandon his post as a lead propagandist and Pinocchio patron for the paper after accepting a buyout of unspecified value. In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/washington-post-fact-checker-takes-buyout-says-paper-has-yet-find-replacement-before-exit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exit statement<\/a>, Kessler lauded the world&rsquo;s first fake fact-checkers, including himself, as &ldquo;brave and diligent.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My fact checks were routinely the most-read articles on The Post&rsquo;s website,&rdquo; Kessler bragged. &ldquo;I had my detractors, from both the left and right, but many readers appreciated my efforts to sort out the truth in political rhetoric.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To anyone who has read Kessler&rsquo;s X feed ramblings, his self-promotion is unsurprising. What is surprising, however, is Kessler&rsquo;s claim that the roughly 3,000 articles he banged out on his keyboard were &ldquo;truth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the winding word salads that often disgraced WaPo&rsquo;s front pages were tools of tyranny cranked out by Kessler for weaponization by Democrats and the deep state.<\/p>\n<p>One of Kessler&rsquo;s biggest and longest failures was his treatment of the Russia collusion hoax. He didn&rsquo;t simply bolster the coup; he kept it on life support with ongoing fact-checks and X posts about the importance of debunked documents like the Steele dossier.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&rsquo;s worth rereading the dossier these days. Some material unverified or salacious. But you can see why the FBI saw it as a Rosetta Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hLAyomEvn1\">https:\/\/t.co\/hLAyomEvn1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/920995401632833536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>His infamous tracker rounding up President Donald Trump&rsquo;s alleged &ldquo;lies&rdquo; during his first term totaled around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/how-fact-checker-tracked-trump-claims\/2021\/01\/23\/ad04b69a-5c1d-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">30,500<\/a>. Many of the statements Kessler and his team claimed were falsehoods, however, centered on assertions about Russiagate that we now know are true, even more so now after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard&rsquo;s recent document dumps.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Kessler kept up the Spygate schtick for the better part of a decade. Less than one week before he announced his buyout, Kessler penned an article claiming the bombshell findings confirming the Obama administration and intelligence agencies participated in what Gabbard called a &ldquo;seditious conspiracy&rdquo; were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/07\/22\/gabbard-trump-obama-fact-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;based on thin gruel.&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the get-go, Kessler was all in on the get-Trump campaign. He continuously claimed the Republicans lied about key issues such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/14\/this-washington-post-fact-check-of-trumps-election-integrity-claim-is-a-ragbag-of-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election integrity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/07\/25\/called-fact-checkers-keep-butchering-facts-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticism of Obamacare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it came to counting the cost of serial liar President Joe Biden&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/07\/how-long-can-the-media-cover-for-bidens-racial-gaffes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gaffes<\/a> and untruths, though, Kessler refused. Instead, he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/26\/local-man-who-said-a-fact-was-true-but-false-says-it-is-unnecessary-to-track-bidens-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complained<\/a> that he had &ldquo;not seen evidence&rdquo; of the lies and flip-flops spewed by Biden and his team.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler didn&rsquo;t simply ignore the Democrat administration&rsquo;s tangled web of deceptions. He actively defended the Biden White House&rsquo;s whoppers about the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/17\/washington-post-fact-checker-gets-owned-for-defending-bidens-vaccine-whopper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covid-19 jab,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/26\/washington-post-fact-check-claims-becerra-never-sued-nuns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">  lawsuits against nuns, <\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1949828260415602746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">footage of Biden&rsquo;s wandering<\/a>. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/28\/washington-posts-lead-liar-waves-away-mountain-of-evidence-to-claim-biden-corruption-proof-is-scant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">waved off<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/10\/democracy-dies-in-washington-post-fact-checker-washington-post-fact-checker-deserves-four-pinocchios-for-his-botched-biden-burism-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mounting evidence<\/a> of Biden family corruption and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/14\/hunter-bidens-alleged-laptop-an-explainer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempted to explain away<\/a> the Hunter Biden laptop scandal that started it all.<\/p>\n<p>Even after Biden got the boot, Kessler did his best to cover for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/09\/regime-approved-fact-checkers-rush-to-downplay-tim-walzs-stolen-valor-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat&rsquo;s would-be successors<\/a>. After all, he had to follow through on his quest to run interference for leftist presidents and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/10\/21\/no-fact-checkers-can-cover-hillary-clintons-ghastly-abortion-views\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed presidential hopefuls<\/a> such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/08\/19\/the-second-amendment-how-does-it-work-progressives-have-no-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The writer&rsquo;s propaganda rap sheet does not stop there. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1949828260415602746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied<\/a> Covid came from a lab, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/02\/washington-post-uses-debunked-reporting-to-issue-false-pro-pelosi-fact-check-and-bash-jim-jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">defended Democrats in Congress<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/14\/wapo-fact-checker-carries-water-for-leftist-dark-money-groups-behind-bidens-scotus-pick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dark money groups<\/a> propping up Biden&rsquo;s Supreme Court picks, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/04\/wapo-fact-checker-humiliated-after-smearing-criticism-of-soros-backed-da-as-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrongfully smeared<\/a> critics of a district attorney backed by radical leftist donor George Soros as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/03\/wapo-fact-checker-who-reported-on-influential-jewish-donor-now-says-its-antisemitic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">antisemitic<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/12\/wapo-fact-checker-abortion-pills-high-injury-rate-is-no-big-deal-because-it-has-a-warning-label\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretended<\/a> the abortion drug&rsquo;s high injury rate is no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Kessler led the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/23\/racist-washington-post-fact-check-calls-black-senator-privileged-for-family-history-of-picking-cotton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">racist charge<\/a> to dub black Sen. Tim Scott as privileged because his family had a history of picking cotton. And just like the rest of his corporate media allies, Kessler not only ignored the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-border-agents-are-bracing-for-disaster-expect-170000-illegal-immigrants-in-just-one-month\/\" title=\"Report: Border Agents Are Bracing for \u201cDisaster,\u201d Expect 170,000 Illegal Immigrants in Just One Month\">record-breaking border crisis<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/25\/wapo-fact-checker-mum-on-jennifer-rubins-false-claim-that-there-is-no-surge-at-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused to correct the record<\/a> when the ruling class pretended it didn&rsquo;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Time and time again, Kessler has offended Americans and the First Amendment principle of a free press with his activism. He&rsquo;s so proud of that fact that he pretended he was the only one at WaPo qualified enough to slap some Pinnochios on a webpage and repeat Democrat talking points.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn&rsquo;t work out an agreement,&rdquo; Kessler wrote in his announcement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for us, the worst part about Kessler&rsquo;s departure is that the entire WaPo &ldquo;fact-checking&rdquo; department isn&rsquo;t leaving with him.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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