Former Washington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler found himself on the receiving end of some overdue accountability this week.
In a revealing interview on Mark Halperin’s “What’s Next” podcast on Thursday, Kessler, who worked with the Washington Post for 27 years, squirmed and stammered his way through a series of straightforward questions about liberal media bias.
He was oblivious to such bias.
Halperin, to his great credit, asked the kinds of questions conservative Americans have been asking for more than a generation.
“My theory would be [that] … you attract a lot of liberal readers because your reporters are hostile to Republicans more than Democrats,” Halperin said, before asking his guest how he interpreted the theory.
“Yes, I completely reject it,” Kessler replied, before stumbling through a rambling defense of The Washington Post’s editorial tone.
“Uh, I think, um, uh — that … I mean, how to … how — how to — how to — I’m — how to phrase this?” he said.
No line more accurately summed up the cadence of the interview than that one.
Kessler laughably claimed the Washington Post was just as hard on former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton as it has been on President Donald Trump.
Hellbound and Down 