One other far left journalist is leaving the Washington Submit, this time their ‘reality checker’ Glenn Kessler.
The rationale so many liberal journalists are leaving the WaPo is as a result of Jeff Bezos, the paper’s present proprietor, desires the paper to start specializing in problems with liberty reasonably than simply being a mouthpiece for the Democrat social gathering. He provided a buyout to any staffers who felt they couldn’t get in line.
The people who find themselves leaving are principally admitting that they don’t need to work in an surroundings that doesn’t enable them to be Democrat activists.
FOX Information stories:
Longtime Washington Submit reality checker takes buyout, says paper has but to seek out substitute earlier than exit
The person behind The Washington Submit’s “Pinocchios” is leaving the paper with out anybody to fill his footwear.
Glenn Kessler, the editor of The Truth Checker, introduced Monday he has taken a buyout, ending his prolonged profession on the Submit.
“After greater than 27 years at The Washington Submit, together with nearly 15 as The Truth Checker, I will likely be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout,” Kessler wrote on his Fb web page. “A lot as I’d have preferred to maintain scrutinizing politicians in Washington, particularly on this period, the monetary concerns have been unattainable to dismiss.”
Kessler stated he wrote or edited greater than 3,000 reality checks as editor and chief author of The Truth Checker.
“Once I began in 2011, there have been solely a handful of fact-checking organizations all over the world, and I’ve been thrilled to look at the motion develop throughout the globe. So many of those courageous and diligent reality checkers have grow to be good associates,” Kessler wrote.
Throughout Trump’s first time period, Glenn Kessler stored a database to trace Trump’s supposed untruths. After the 2020 election, he determined the database was now not wanted. That ought to inform you the whole lot it’s good to find out about him.
FOX Information reported in 2021:
Washington Submit ripped for ending Biden fact-checking database for remainder of his time period
Washington Submit fact-checker Glenn Kessler drew fierce criticism Monday after saying he didn’t plan to keep up a “database” for President Biden’s falsehoods past his first 100 days in workplace.
“I’ve discovered my lesson,” Kessler tweeted. “‘Realized my lesson’ means who is aware of what the following 4 years will carry.”
The Submit famously maintained a database of former President Donald Trump’s falsehoods throughout his total time period in workplace. Kessler referred to as it a “wild journey.”…
In a writeup within the soon-to-be-mothballed database, the Submit wrote the “Joe Biden period has provided a return to a extra typical sample in relation to a commander in chief and his relationship with the information — one which options frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard.”
That claims all of it. In Kessler’s world, Trump have to be ‘reality checked’ endlessly. Democrats like Joe Biden received the advantage of the doubt.
Kessler was one of many many journalists who defended Biden by pushing the ‘low cost faux’ narrative.
Glenn Kessler, the longtime “reality checker” behind the Washington Submit’s “Pinocchios,” introduced as we speak that he’s LEAVING the paper after 27 years.
Right here is only one instance of Kessler’s work pic.twitter.com/4aQbq4oHuv
— Every day Caller (@DailyCaller) July 28, 2025
Kessler won’t be missed. He’ll in all probability find yourself on Substack like the remainder of his biased former WaPo colleagues.
