Ruthless podcast pans WaPo fact-checker: He tried to say Tim Scott's family 'had it easy' in Jim Crow South
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The co-hosts of the conservative podcast Ruthless took aim at Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler over his widely-panned "fact-check" of Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
"He was so out of pocket- he was essentially in this article making the argument that Tim Scott's Black family in the Deep South decades and decades and decades ago had it easy," co-host Comfortably Smug said. "He was like, 'Listen, Tim Scott talks about pulling himself up by the bootstraps, but his family had land during the Jim Crow South.' That was his argument! Like, that was the fact-check!" Holmes questioned the timing of Kessler's fact-check, which came just 12 hours after it was announced that Scott would be giving the GOP response to President Biden's address to Congress, and how it must've taken fact-checker a "long time" to obtain the historic records for his report. Kessler himself insisted the timing of his fact-check was a coincidence.More Related News