Another far left journalist is leaving the Washington Post, this time their ‘fact checker’ Glenn Kessler.
The reason so many liberal journalists are leaving the WaPo is because Jeff Bezos, the paper’s current owner, wants the paper to begin focusing on issues of liberty rather than just being a mouthpiece for the Democrat party. He offered a buyout to any staffers who felt they couldn’t get in line.
The people who are leaving are basically admitting that they don’t want to work in an environment that doesn’t allow them to be Democrat activists.
FOX News reports:
Longtime Washington Post fact checker takes buyout, says paper has yet to find replacement before exit
The man behind The Washington Post’s “Pinocchios” is leaving the paper without anyone to fill his shoes.
Glenn Kessler, the editor of The Fact Checker, announced Monday he has taken a buyout, ending his lengthy career at the Post.
“After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout,” Kessler wrote on his Facebook page. “Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss.”
Kessler said he wrote or edited more than 3,000 fact checks as editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker.
“When I started in 2011, there were only a handful of fact-checking organizations around the world, and I have been thrilled to watch the movement expand across the globe. So many of these brave and diligent fact checkers have become good friends,” Kessler wrote.
During Trump’s first term, Glenn Kessler kept a database to track Trump’s supposed untruths. After the 2020 election, he decided the database was no longer needed. That should tell you everything you need to know about him.
FOX News reported in 2021:
Washington Post ripped for ending Biden fact-checking database for rest of his term
Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler drew fierce criticism Monday after saying he did not plan to maintain a “database” for President Biden’s falsehoods beyond his first 100 days in office.
“I have learned my lesson,” Kessler tweeted. “‘Learned my lesson’ means who knows what the next four years will bring.”
The Post famously maintained a database of former President Donald Trump’s falsehoods during his entire term in office. Kessler called it a “wild ride.”…
In a writeup in the soon-to-be-mothballed database, the Post wrote the “Joe Biden era has offered a return to a more typical pattern when it comes to a commander in chief and his relationship with the facts — one that features frequent spin and obfuscation or exaggeration, with the occasional canard.”
That says it all. In Kessler’s world, Trump must be ‘fact checked’ endlessly. Democrats like Joe Biden got the benefit of the doubt.
Kessler was one of the many journalists who defended Biden by pushing the ‘cheap fake’ narrative.
Glenn Kessler, the longtime “fact checker” behind the Washington Post’s “Pinocchios,” announced today that he is LEAVING the paper after 27 years.
Here is just one example of Kessler’s work pic.twitter.com/4aQbq4oHuv
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 28, 2025
Kessler will not be missed. He’ll probably end up on Substack like the rest of his biased former WaPo colleagues.
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