Fact Checking’s Final Frontier
13th July 2022
We at the Washington Free Beacon love the fact-checkers. When they’re “fact-checking” us, we know we must be doing something right.
The righteousness of our reporting has pushed this genre of faux journalism to its very limits: rules bent, reasoning contorted, and the endless invention of new ways to accuse us of hurting Democrats purveying misinformation.
The latest from the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler is a master class in the left’s crusade to conflate objective truth with Democratic spin. The ostensible target of his fisking: a tweet from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) based, as he notes, on a Free Beacon report about the Biden administration’s sale of a million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.
Yes, the Biden administration did this, Kessler concedes. Them’s the facts. But three Pinocchios for Grassley and for us, he says, for turning “simple facts” into “something nefarious.” You know, like the fact that China was also supposed to be releasing oil from its reserves in order to ease global fuel prices, according to the White House, but is instead boosting its own reserves by hoarding barrels from our stockpile.