Washington Put up fact-checker Glenn Kessler is getting a hefty serving of pushback after suggesting the newspaper needed to ignore the Hunter Biden laptop computer story as a result of they weren’t given entry to the arduous drive till mid-2021.
Kessler joined Washington Put up nationwide columnist Philip Bump in getting defensive over the Elon Musk Twitter recordsdata exposé and providing a protection for their very own unwillingness to report on the Biden laptop computer.
Bump argued that “different retailers” couldn’t match the bombshell story, initially reported by the New York Put up, as a result of “they weren’t given entry to the laptop computer information.”
Kessler, who we wish to reiterate has the time period ‘fact-checker’ in his title, agreed.
“Not till mid-2021 did a supply present The Washington Put up a duplicate of the arduous drive. Then my colleagues went instantly (to) work on it,” he tweeted. “We employed specialists to evaluate the veracity and produced articles based mostly on materials that might be verified.”
Not till mid-2021 did a supply present The Washington Put up a duplicate of the arduous drive. Then my colleagues went instantly work on it. We employed specialists to evaluate the veracity and produced articles based mostly on materials that might be verified. https://t.co/ERaFoPLwel https://t.co/330JZculDa
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) December 5, 2022
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Glenn Kessler’s Excuse For Not Overlaying Hunter Biden’s Laptop computer Doesn’t Maintain Water
It’s not possible to overstate the absurdity of Glenn Kessler’s excuse for not overlaying the Hunter Biden laptop computer story.
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First, if main newspapers solely reported on objects they’d direct entry to, they’d be out of enterprise moderately shortly for an absence of fabric.
Second, accepting Kessler’s premise means the Washington Put up ought to by no means have reported on the validity of the laptop computer in any respect. However that’s not what occurred.
It took the Put up 532 days to lastly verify that emails attained from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop computer had been real. And but, they someway supplied repeated commentary making an attempt to downplay the validity of the story quite a few occasions throughout these 532 days.
The Washington Put up was a part of the media blackout on the story, stating the emails had been “unverified,” they “have by no means been authenticated,” and revealed a information evaluation dismissing the New York Put up’s reporting as “sketchy.”
Additionally they ran opinion columns calling the Hunter story a “non-scandal” and “pretend.”
How may they probably have reported so definitively with out getting access to the arduous drive?
Glenn, Philip & WaPo had been very cautious to present any opinions on the @nypost Hunter Biden laptop computer story till they may confirm it… Oh wait pic.twitter.com/NG3DjUBaxH
— TheRightWingM 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@TheRightWingM) December 5, 2022
Third, needing first-hand verification doesn’t appear to have stopped the Washington Put up from reporting on different information tales that truly turned out to be ‘pretend’ or ‘non-scandals.’
Russia collusion, the Steele file – which they made quite a few corrections concerning after it was disproved – a narrative about Rudy Giuliani receiving advance discover from the FBI that he was the goal of a Russia affect marketing campaign, the Nicholas Sandmann smear, and so on.
These matters weren’t verified earlier than print as a result of they couldn’t be verified. The Washington Put up ran with them anyway.
And fourth, opposite to Kessler’s declare, Human Occasions senior editor Jack Posobiec made a “standing supply to any member of the MSM” for a duplicate of the laptop computer’s arduous drive.
“None of them have even tried to simply accept it,” he claimed.
It has now been 18 months since I supplied @JakeTapper and CNN a duplicate of Hunter’s laptop computer stay on Warfare Room
Standing supply to any member of the MSM too
None of them have even tried to simply accept it
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 1, 2022
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Skepticism Abounds
Suffice it to say, Twitter followers weren’t essentially shopping for what Glenn Kessler was promoting concerning the Hunter Biden story.
A number of responded providing little greater than skepticism over his excuse for the Washington Put up not overlaying the scandal.
Yeah, proper. There was merely no option to receive the arduous drive sooner.
h/t @JackPosobiec https://t.co/kdumc2Rn2V pic.twitter.com/aA1mz9QQSD
— IT Man (@ITGuy1959) December 5, 2022
However how did you establish it was “Russian Disinfo” such as you claimed it was?
Additionally why doesn’t WashPo do that with information articles about Republicans? Heck you all ran with Russian Collusion which was a lie. https://t.co/5hAFIXZXJn
— The Nice Mental (Corn/Pop) (@TheGreatIntell1) December 5, 2022
They’re nonetheless desperately making an attempt to justify their lockstep determination to not report on it to be able to assist Biden.
The most recent excuse is that they don’t report on something except they’ve the unique materials of their private possession. Calvinball. https://t.co/uRIX1SIIeF
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) December 5, 2022
Certain Glenn https://t.co/YyKoeUrJDH pic.twitter.com/AsJw2GQp8I
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 5, 2022
Right here comes much more psychological gymnastics from the crew that actively averted the story. https://t.co/i4h4WZCMhH
— Ford O’Connell 🐊 (@FordOConnell) December 5, 2022
Kessler, Bump and the Washington Put up are both actively misrepresenting the reality about why they refused to cowl the story, or they’re extremely unhealthy at their jobs (equally possible).
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