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# Sorry, Who’s the President Now?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/sorry-whos-the-president-now/
- Published: 2021-03-04T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-03T21:13:28.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Media, Politics, USA Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

The third but definitely far from least of my [“Three Laws of the Media”](https://goodoil.news/how-not-to-be-fooled-lushys-laws/) is: **Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you**.

You’ll almost never be wrong.

“Fact-checkers” are, in fact, anything but. In reality, they’re mainstream media (which is to say, left-wing) confirmation-bias generators. A classic case is Australian MP Craig Kelly. When Kelly asserted – 100% correctly – that over the last 100 years, Australia had recorded increasing rainfall, the ABC’s “fact-check unit” rated it “flawed”.

**Now, yet another “fact-checker” has been exposed for their ludicrous bias.**

> **Glenn Kessler**, who works at *The Washington Post* as a political fact-checker, took a swipe on Sunday at former President **Donald Trump,** who had just delivered a stem-winder of a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. In his hour-plus address, Trump at one point blasted President Joe Biden for continued school closings.  
>  
> “Trump complaining about kids not back in schools yet. Who was president a month ago?” Kessler wrote on Twitter.

Kessler tweeted this on February 28th. Put your thinking caps on and cast your mind back to a month before that date.

> But, uh, Biden was president a month ago. In fact, he had been president for 40 days when Kessler posted his tweet.  
>  
> Twitterers teed off, pointing out that a month before Trump’s speech was January 28, eight days after Biden took office.  
>  
> “Fact check: today is Feb. 28th. a month ago was Jan. 28th. **Joe Biden** was sworn in to office on Jan. 20th. So, Joe Biden was president a month ago,” wrote one.  
>  
> Wrote another: “That would be Joe Biden, Glenn. Need ice for that boomerang hit?”

Now this might seem – and some tried to defend it as such – a trivial error. **But recall: this is a “fact-checker”.** Someone whose job is literally to get facts right. “The best part about this tweet is this guy is literally a professional ‘fact checker’”, [as one respondent noted](https://twitter.com/thejtlewis/status/1366197143720067073?ref=goodoil.news).

> “Who will fact-check the fact checkers in post-America when there’s only the Official Narrative on social media and everywhere else?” wrote another.

Beyond this egregious failure of a “fact-checker” to check even the most basic facts, ask yourself: what would “fact-checkers” do if Donald Trump had made the same mistake?

You know perfectly well what: they’d chalk it down as “another Trump lie!”, mock the former president as supposedly mathematically illiterate, and just generally lose their minds.

**To further prove the blatant bias of “fact-checkers”, they’re admitting that they won’t be applying the same blowtorch to Joe Biden’s feet.**

> Kessler kept track throughout Trump’s term of everything his team deemed “false and misleading statements \[…but…\] the Post team won’t be keeping score on Biden.  
>  
> “Trump’s departure also equals an end to having a false claims project for the current president, as *The Post* said it does ‘not have plans to launch a Biden database at this time,’” the *Daily Caller* wrote.  
>  
> [The Daily Wire](https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-was-president-a-month-ago-washpost-fact-checker-swings-at-trump-misses-badly?ref=goodoil.news)

Always remember: these people are lying to you and they’re not even bothering to hide it.

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