Glenn Kessler's hit-piece-in-progress on Christopher Rufo blew up in his facehttps://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/08/05/glenn-kesslers-hit-piece-in-progress-on-christopher-rufo-blew-up-in-his-face-n407013I really don’t dislike Glenn Kessler’s work most of the time. He’s certainly head-and-shoulders above some of the other fact-checkers out there and not averse to taking on Democrats as well as Republicans. But in this case he seems to have taken some advice from Wile E Coyote.
As Twitchy pointed out today, Kessler was working on a piece about Critical Race Theory opponent Christopher Rufo. He thought he had found something pretty damaging, evidence that Rufo lied when he claimed one of his stories was based on information from an anonymous tipster. Kessler, through a FOIA request, had found evidence the information actually came from another Twitter user. So not only was Rufo lying about an anonymous tipster, he was actually stealing someone else’s work without credit. Here’s the excited email he sent to the “victim” of that apparent theft:
The WashPost's "Fact-Checker" got
Smack-Checked, a double hit.
