After 14 years of twisting the narrative to benefit his preferred political party, the face of The Washington Post’s fake fact-checking program is finally leaving the capital city’s oldest and largest publication.
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 exit statement, Kessler lauded the world’s first fake fact-checkers, including himself, as “brave and diligent.”
“My fact checks were routinely the most-read articles on The Post’s website,” Kessler bragged. “I had my detractors, from both the left and right, but many readers appreciated my efforts to sort out the truth in political rhetoric.”
To anyone who has read Kessler’s X feed ramblings, his self-promotion is unsurprising. What is surprising, however, is Kessler’s claim that the roughly 3,000 articles he banged out on his keyboard were “truth.”
In reality, the winding word salads that often disgraced WaPo’s front pages were tools of tyranny cranked out by Kessler for weaponization by Democrats and the deep state.
One of Kessler’s biggest and longest failures was his treatment of the Russia collusion hoax. He didn’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.
His infamous tracker rounding up President Donald Trump’s alleged “lies” during his first term totaled around 30,500. 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’s recent document dumps.
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 “seditious conspiracy” were “based on thin gruel.”
From the get-go, Kessler was all in on the get-Trump campaign. He continuously claimed the Republicans lied about key issues such as election integrity and criticism of Obamacare.
When it came to counting the cost of serial liar President Joe Biden’s gaffes and untruths, though, Kessler refused. Instead, he complained that he had “not seen evidence” of the lies and flip-flops spewed by Biden and his team.
Kessler didn’t simply ignore the Democrat administration’s tangled web of deceptions. He actively defended the Biden White House’s whoppers about the Covid-19 jab, lawsuits against nuns, and footage of Biden’s wandering. He also waved off the mounting evidence of Biden family corruption and attempted to explain away the Hunter Biden laptop scandal that started it all.
Even after Biden got the boot, Kessler did his best to cover for the Democrat’s would-be successors. After all, he had to follow through on his quest to run interference for leftist presidents and failed presidential hopefuls such as Hillary Clinton.
The writer’s propaganda rap sheet does not stop there. He also denied Covid came from a lab, defended Democrats in Congress and the dark money groups propping up Biden’s Supreme Court picks, wrongfully smeared critics of a district attorney backed by radical leftist donor George Soros as antisemitic, and even pretended the abortion drug’s high injury rate is no big deal.
In 2021, Kessler led the racist charge 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 record-breaking border crisis, but refused to correct the record when the ruling class pretended it didn’t exist.
Time and time again, Kessler has offended Americans and the First Amendment principle of a free press with his activism. He’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.
“I didn’t want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn’t work out an agreement,” Kessler wrote in his announcement.
Unfortunately for us, the worst part about Kessler’s departure is that the entire WaPo “fact-checking” department isn’t leaving with him.