Washington Post’s "Fact-Check-Gate"

The Washington Post's political "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler offers a curious defense of his Sunday column in which he gave the Obama campaign "four Pinocchios" for telling a "whopper" in an ad that called Mitt Romney a "corporate raider" who had outsourced American jobs, even as new evidence emerged that Romney was guilty on both counts.

After reading Kessler's column on Sunday, I noted that it was published two days after an article on Friday by his Post colleague Tom Hamburger, describing how Romney's Bain Capital owned companies that were "pioneers" in the practice of outsourcing jobs, and one day after a New York Times article on Saturday, detailing how Romney structured Bain's corporate takeovers to guarantee that Bain profited even when the companies failed.

I pointed out that it was Kessler who was ignoring the facts, including Hamburger's front-page article in the Post on Friday. In my view, it was Kessler who deserved the "four Pinocchios."

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