The Washington Post's fact-challenged 'Fact Checker' is a propaganda mill
Post Editorial Board
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If there was such a thing as shame anymore, the Washington Post’s pompous “Fact Checker” column would close up shop.
New revelations in “Original Sin,” a book about President Joe Biden’s decline, show how the White House covered up the obvious — and propaganda outlets like the Fact Checker shamed any media that broke ranks.
Take Biden’s wandering off from a group of world leaders at last June’s D-Day celebrations: The New York Post’s front page read “MEANDER IN CHIEF,” which sent Fact Checker writer Glenn Kessler into a fit of apoplexy: “ ‘Cheapfake’ Biden videos enrapture right-wing media, but deeply mislead” was his headline.
Kessler gave us “Four Pinocchios” for promoting a “false narrative.”
Yet CNN anchor Jake Tapper, co-author of “Original Sin,” now says this is exactly how the White House’s spin shop worked.
He references another video, when former President Barack Obama helped a shuffling Biden offstage: “When people showed that clip and asked what was going on, [they] said it was a cheap fake,” Tapper says.
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