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WaPo ‘Fact-Checker’ mocked for excuse for newspaper ignoring Hunter Biden laptop story

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WaPo 'Fact-Checker' mocked for excuse for newspaper ignoring Hunter Biden laptop story
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler is getting a hefty helping of pushback after suggesting the paper should ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story because they weren’t getting hard drive access until mid-2021.

Kessler joined Washington Post national columnist Philip Bump in getting defensive about the revelation of Elon Musk’s Twitter files and offering a defense for their own reluctance to report on the Biden laptop.

Bump argued that “Other outlets” couldn’t match the bombshell story originally reported by the New York Post, because “they couldn’t access the laptop data.”

Kessler, who we want to reiterate has the term “fact-checker” in his title, agreed.

“Not until mid-2021 did a source provide The Washington Post with a copy of the hard drive. Then my colleagues immediately started working on it,” he tweeted. “We hired experts to assess veracity and produced articles based on material that could be verified.”

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Glenn Kessler’s excuse for not covering Hunter Biden’s laptop doesn’t hold water

It’s impossible to overstate the absurdity of Glenn Kessler’s excuse for not beating the Hunter Biden laptop story.

First, if major newspapers reported only articles they had direct access to, they would soon go out of business for lack of material.

Second, accepting Kessler’s premise means that the Washington Post should never have reported on the laptop’s validity. But that’s not what happened.

It took the Post 532 days to finally confirm that the emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop were genuine. And yet somehow they repeatedly offered commentary to downplay the validity of the story countless times during those 532 days.

The Washington Post was part of the media blackout over the story, stating that the emails were “unverified,” that they had “never been verified,” and published a news analysis dismissing the New York Post’s coverage as “sketchy.”

They also published opinion columns that made the Hunter story a “non-scandal” and “fake.”

How could they have reported so definitively without access to the hard drive?

Third, the need for firsthand verification doesn’t seem to have stopped the Washington Post from reporting other news stories that actually turned out to be “fake” or “non-scandals.”

Conspiracy with Russia, the Steele dossier – in which they made numerous corrections after it was refuted – a story about Rudy Giuliani who received advance notice from the FBI that he was the target of a Russian influence campaign, the Nicholas Sandman lubricate, etc.

Those topics have not been verified before printing, because they could not are verified. The Washington Post went with them anyway.

And fourth, contrary to Kessler’s claim, Jack Posobiec, editor-in-chief of Human Events, made a “standing offer to every member of the MSM” for a copy of the laptop’s hard drive.

“None of them have even tried to accept it,” he claimed.

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Skepticism everywhere

Suffice it to say, Twitter followers didn’t necessarily buy what Glenn Kessler sold regarding the Hunter Biden story.

Several responded with little more than skepticism about his apology for the Washington Post’s failure to report the scandal.

Kessler, Bump and the Washington Post are either actively misrepresenting the truth about why they refused to cover the story, or they are incredibly bad at their jobs (equally likely).

 

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