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WaPo Pulls the Plug on Its Facts Machine

Posted on Friday, January 22, 2021
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fact checkingThe Washington Post will have a lot more time on its hands now that Joe Biden has been sworn in. According to the paper’s spokesperson, they can call off their whole fact-checking operation. Apparently, it’s not necessary now that their preferred party is in office.

The Daily Caller’s Shelby Talcott reached out to the Post after it published its final tally of “lies or misleading statements by Donald Trump.” The newspaper’s alleged total? 30,573. (Of course, considering the media’s inability to trade in facts themselves, no one will ever know how many of those Pinocchios are real.)

Now, regardless of Biden’s own issues with the truth, the Post says it has “no plans” to keep a Biden database of falsehoods “at this time.” “The database of Trump claims was started a month after Trump became president as a way not to overwhelm our fact-checking enterprise,” the Post spokesperson said. Don’t worry, the paper insisted, we’ll still try to keep track of both parties’ statements.

But Biden, Talcott pointed out, has plenty of baggage when it comes to untruths. She pointed to a list of public embarrassments, dating as far back as 1987 when C-SPAN found footage of him lying about his graduating rank in law school. It was such a scandal that Biden had to drop out of the presidential race. Then there were the stories that no one would confirm about Biden being arrested in South Africa when he said he was trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison. The Washington Post’s own fact-checkers looked at that claim last year and called it “ridiculous.” Before that, the Post had called him out for an account he shared about his trip to Afghanistan. “In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony,” the Post insisted.

Now, when the stakes are highest, Biden gets a free pass? Does the Washington Post suddenly believe that facts are partisan? Ironically, this news about the fact-checkers broke on the same day as a new poll, showing that record numbers of Americans think the press is intentionally trying to deceive us. If you were one of the only people on earth still giving the media the benefit of the doubt, this should make it clear: the press has an agenda — and protecting Democratic leaders is one of them.

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Jon
Jon
3 years ago

The Washington Compost hasn’t been a newspaper for years. The best thing anyone can do is to not read the lies, half-truths, and bias coming from that yellow journalistic rag.

Woody
Woody
3 years ago

Washington Compost it is.

David B.
David B.
3 years ago

All of the MSM is complicit in the lies against Trump. They ARE the enemy of the people- look at who all owns the various rags.They have infiltrated the media to the point of creating an incestuous cesspool of globalist disinformation meant to steer your thoughts towards the NWO.

Nicki Kroetch
Nicki Kroetch
3 years ago

The press hide behind the First Amendment as if it only applies to them! Yet they use it against the people they disagree with or wish to censure which is not their right! The minions of the Left are
in a full on war against the conservative population and use their inalienable right given them by our forefathers to suppress, intimidate, verbally assault and disparage us. And we just sit here and take it? Really? We need leadership now, more than ever. Our country is being pulled down the darkest rabbit hole we have ever encountered and she will become nothing more than a memory if we don’t act.

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