Yesterday, we told you about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ claim that the COVID vaccines were made with aborted children.
OK, so technically Justice Thomas never actually made such a claim, but it was just too good for the media to check before dropping everything else and running with it:
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1542569323390189568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1542569323390189568%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt-3136%2F2022%2F06%2F30%2Faxios-justice-clarence-thomas-suggests-covid-vaccines-are-made-with-aborted-children%2F
Quite a weird article by @abedelman @ariabendix. Claims at top that Justice Thomas said covid vaccines "are made with *cells from* 'aborted children.'" But he said they were "developed using *cell lines derived* from aborted children." Not same–and authors agree with latter! 1/ pic.twitter.com/l7muEGBRqe
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) June 30, 2022
Clarence Thomas suggests COVID vaccines are made with "aborted children" https://t.co/hHHG33qtQb
— Axios (@axios) June 30, 2022
What consumers of the news really could’ve used right about then was a solid fact-check from a solid fact-checker. Like the Washington Post Fact Checker himself, Glenn Kessler. Who better than a guy in charge of a column that’s literally called “Fact Checker” to take a closer look at this false narrative and thoroughly debunk it?
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As it turns out, it’s not actually all that hard to find someone better than Glenn Kessler. Because Glenn Kessler really sucks at fact-checking:
It's good the fact checkers are on top of this… oh https://t.co/EB5RSm9J4Q pic.twitter.com/Yf4nSdnlsP
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 1, 2022
In case we're just catching up, the lead fact checker for the Washington Post. @GlennKesslerWP, retweeted a false Politico headline making a claim about Thomas that Thomas didn't make. Didn't even investigate himself. Just pushed it out there.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 1, 2022
Like we said: too good to check. Even for a guy who gets paid to check stuff like this.
I'm beginning to suspect there are holes in this huge fact checking apparatus our press claims is so viral to a healthy democracy. Can you guess what it is, @GlennKesslerWP?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 1, 2022
We’ll give Glenn some time to think about it.
In the meantime, maybe we can help him out with a few subtle hints.
low information fact checkers
— Dr. Richard Harambe (@Richard_Harambe) July 1, 2022
When fact checkers are so biased they don't even bother to check.
— Ken (@Surfnsrq1) July 1, 2022
What can they say? Their priorities are elsewhere:
Busy writing a hit piece on the background of a black senator maybe
— Albie (@AlbieNotRob) July 1, 2022
To be fair Glenn is probably quite preoccupied investigating Thomas’ 23andMe.
— Groundless Gull (@GroundlessGull) July 1, 2022
Let’s just say we wouldn’t be remotely surprised if that were actually the case.
Who fact checks the fact checkers? We do. https://t.co/K3MxtOejjU
— 🍀☘ Tabatha-The Ginger Snap 🇺🇸🏴🇮🇪 (@Winning4Him) July 1, 2022
And then they wonder why no one trusts them.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) July 1, 2022
Mystery solved. Again.
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