{"id":449153,"date":"2021-04-24T11:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=449153"},"modified":"2021-04-24T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T15:35:56","slug":"wapo-blasted-for-racist-fact-check-of-gop-senator-tim-scott-leftists-defend-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-blasted-for-racist-fact-check-of-gop-senator-tim-scott-leftists-defend-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Blasted For \u2018Racist\u2019 Fact-Check Of GOP Senator Tim Scott, Leftists Defend Senator"},"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\">26<\/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-blasted-for-racist-fact-check-of-gop-senator-tim-scott-leftists-defend-senator%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=449153&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3580.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Post and fact-checker Glenn Kessler received major pushback over a fact-check that the newspaper published on Friday about Sen. Tim Scott\u2019s (R-SC) family history that was widely condemned by pundits as racist.<\/p>\n<p>The report came after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senator-tim-scott-to-give-gop-rebuttal-to-biden-address\">announced<\/a> on Thursday that Scott would give the Republican Party\u2019s rebuttal to President Joe Biden\u2019s address to Congress next week.<\/p>\n<p>The article focused on the powerful story of Scott\u2019s family history, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tim-scott-inspires-our-family-went-from-cotton-to-congress-in-one-lifetime\">describes<\/a> as having gone \u201cfrom cotton to Congress in one lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact check concluded by not rating Scott\u2019s statements about the harsh conditions that his grandfather experienced in the Jim Crow south, claiming that the story only missed \u201csome nuance\u201d and was shortened for \u201cpolitical consumption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commentators and politicians weighed in on the piece with the following comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenBassTweets\/status\/1385810327019966464\">Karen Bass<\/a> (D-CA): \u201cTim Scott is an honorable man. It doesn\u2019t matter what party you\u2019re in \u2013 the journey of his family, from cotton to Congress in one lifetime, should be celebrated.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karlbykarlsmith\/status\/1385581192641191938\">Karl Smith<\/a>, Bloomberg columnist: \u201cNot exactly covering yourself in glory here @GlennKesslerWP tl;dr Scott says his grandfather had to drop out of school at 10 yrs old to pick cotton, but ACKSHUALLY he was 11 &#038; it was only because his father was a cotton farmer &#038; the Great Depression had driven down prices.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley\/status\/1385610360468742150\">Nikki Haley<\/a>, former U.S. Ambassador: \u201cWhat WaPo did to @SenatorTimScott is shameful. When minorities refuse to be victims, disagree with liberal talking points, and think for ourselves, the media shames us and questions our credibility. It\u2019s why we must fight harder for conservative values that lift us all up.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejcoop\/status\/1385577835704766467\">John Cooper<\/a>, Heritage Communications: \u201cScott\u2019s claim is 100% accurate and Kessler knows it, which is why he doesn\u2019t actually challenge it. He just uses innuendo to imply that Scott is lying.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1385766376174854144\">Stephen Miller<\/a>, podcast host: \u201cLot of people are going to be googling Tim Scott after Biden\u2019s speech, which is why Wash Post hit publish on this today.\u00a0They know exactly what they are doing and why.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bakari_Sellers\/status\/1385624194671644675\">Bakari Sellers<\/a>, CNN commentator and former Democrat politician: \u201cWho thought this was a good idea?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Another political commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunnyright\/status\/1385811905730727940\">added<\/a>: \u201cWhen the media is outraged: When Fox News hosts don\u2019t post vaccine selfies. When the media isn\u2019t outraged: When a WaPo columnist publishes a racist hit job on a black senator\u2019s Deep South ancestors.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KayleeDMcGhee\/status\/1385573423456440323\">Kaylee White<\/a>, blogger: \u201cImagine telling someone his family\u2019s experience under slavery wasn\u2019t actually that bad.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MiaBLove\/status\/1385589926897594368\">Mia Love<\/a>, CNN commentator: \u201cPoliticians spend trillions on partisan projects while marketing them as something completely different (ie \u201cinfrastructure\u201d). Yet somehow this is a target for deeper analysis?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ComfortablySmug\/status\/1385578692898922504\">Comfortably Smug<\/a>: \u201cWashington Post is so woke that a white liberal can tell a black man his family\u2019s experience wasn\u2019t black enough.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBurgessOwens\/status\/1385698627335512066\">Burgess Owens<\/a> (R-UT): \u201c.@SenatorTimScott is the living embodiment of the American Dream, and I\u2019m proud to serve with him. This \u201cfact check\u201d is insulting and incorrect.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1385580284058423296\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>, Editor Emeritus, The Daily Wire: \u201cOwning Tim Scott by pointing out that his ancestors were an unbelievable American success story, buying hundreds of acres despite the crippling legal racism they had to withstand.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phillipmbailey\/status\/1385670905226006531\">Phillip Bailey<\/a>, writer: \u201cImagine the reaction to this if it were a fact-check of @MichelleObama or @CoryBooker \u2018s family tree during the Jim Crow era? To be honest the silence reminds me of similar reticence on race-baiting attacks by Democrats v. Republican @DanielCameronAG in \u201919.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rorycooper\/status\/1385586030250795009\">Rory Cooper<\/a>, political consultant: \u201cSenator Scott deserves an apology for this. It\u2019s everything wrong with the fact checking industry. The targeting. The lack of good faith. The personal side of it. It\u2019s bad.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Political commentator Erick Erickson weighed in with a lengthy thread on his analysis of the fact-check.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.4452296819788\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want to tell you why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GlennKesslerWP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@washingtonpost<\/a> should apologize for what they have done today.  They attempted to tell the story of a black man in the South by looking at public records.  That\u2019s relevant because at that time<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1385619863012532231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.528301886792\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By the time <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorTimScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorTimScott<\/a>\u2019s grandfather is born, black families are having to abandon schooling in the south because it isn\u2019t good, it isn\u2019t equal, and it is very separate.  They\u2019ve got to go save their land.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1385619867118804995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.435897435897\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is actually what racism of white elite often looks like.  They don\u2019t look at the story as lived, but as told by banks and legal records written at a time white society behaved one way and recorded things a different way.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1385619871560617989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Post and Kessler both responded to the backlash the report received by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/wapo-runs-hit-piece-on-tim-scott-hours-after-it-was-announced-he-would-give-gop-response-to-biden-address\">claiming<\/a> that research for the piece started several weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post and fact-checker Glenn Kessler received major pushback over a fact-check that the newspaper published on Friday about Sen. 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