WaPo ‘Fact-Checker’ Glenn Kessler Is Out

Glenn Kessler, whose fact checks were famous for using Pinocchios to rate the truthfulness of various claims, is having his far too long nose cut off. 

It’s about time. He has been one of the key players in Pravda’s misinformation complex. 

NEW: Longtime Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler announces he has taken a buyout and that the paper has yet to find a replacement.

His last day is July 31. He was at The Post for 27 years. https://t.co/Mq0lBRAmVL

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) July 28, 2025

I wish I could say Kessler was fired, but it is more accurate to say that he bailed out of a damaged aircraft before his career ended in a ball of fire. 

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.”

As you are aware, The Washington Post is shifting its direction, having lost more than half a million subscribers since 2020. The biggest shift, we are told, is a move back to the center and a commitment to free markets and free people. 

Kessler has had an outsized impact on American politics, being a member of the elite class that determines what Narrative™ can be told. He literally claimed to establish what was fact and what was fiction, and his mission has been promoting the fiction that Democrats own the facts. 

Kessler was a poster boy for the regime propagandists. There wasn’t a false narrative pushed out by the left that Kessler didn’t parrot, and there wasn’t a fact that helped Republicans–especially Donald Trump–that he wouldn’t “debunk.”

Kessler was a major defender of the Steele Dossier, and of course was all in on the COVID deceptions. He believed Biden was “sharp as a tack,” and when Biden made a major whopper, Kessler dismissed them as minor examples of misspeaking. Donald Trump could note that something cost a billion dollars, and Kessler would give it four Pinnocchios because the true cost was $999,000,000.01.

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Kessler fit the Philip Bump/Taylor Lorenz mold of Washington Post columnists. Brazen liars, their value was that they would give cover to hoaxers and scoundrels using the credibility of their positions at The Washington Post to sell lies. 

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. 

“My fact checks were routinely the most-read articles on The Post’s website. I had my detractors, from both the left and right, but many readers appreciated my efforts to sort out the truth in political rhetoric,” he added. 

You would have thought that the Biden years would have provided more than adequate material to exercise his “fact-checking” skills, and in a sense, he took advantage of that. Biden provided Kessler more than enough material to keep him covering up for Biden and the Democrats. 

When Trump spoke of the media as “the enemy of the people,” I was repelled by the language. But over the years, I came to understand that Trump was merely being blunt, telling the truth in unvarnished terms. 

Kessler will be gone before the end of the week. Good riddance to bad rubbish. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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