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Reporting on the Mirror – WASHINGTON POST

Does anyone have dibs on Glenn’s red stapler?

The list of WaPo names fleeing the paper continues to grow, as the announcement came today that resident fact-checker Glenn Kessler would be accepting the offer of a buyout. The veteran of nearly three decades will be making his final truth detection on July 31.

No word yet on whether there will be a replacement for Glenn’s brand of factual analysis – that is to say, re-interpreting facts to fit an agenda. Kessler’s record is very well known to us, and we have detailed his exploits over the years. Glenn has always placed highly on our “Townhall 50,” the annual rundown of the worst journalism of the year.

It would be tough to find a “worst” example from Glenn, so we’ll just go with two favorites. The first displays how the supposed final word on the facts did not do the work needed to obtain those final words.

He tried to defend Pete Buttigieg after declaring that bridges were racist because they were made low to prevent buses from taking minorities to New York beaches. Glenn explained this claim was fully valid as he cited a book about the career of city planner Robert Moses, which he described as “a majestic biography.” He then came back the next day to correct his column to explain “this story has been largely debunked,” as the bridges were all built to existing........

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