The scourge of bothsidesism that ushered in President Donald Trump in 2016 continues to plague the mainstream media, if this week is any indication. Addicted to horse-race election coverage, the political press just can’t stop looking for ways to give Trump every single benefit of the doubt, all in an effort to create some supposed level playing field.
Case in point – check out the so-called fact-checkers.
The Washington Post issued a correction on Tuesday after resident fact-checker Glenn Kessler drew a deluge of backlash for insisting there was “no evidence that Trump sent” so-called “love letters” to foreign dictators. Tasked with fact-checking Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention, Kessler’s initial claim came in response to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech in which she said Vice President Kamala Harris “won’t be sending love letters to dictators.”….more
