Glenn Kessler Tries to Defend His Record to Mark Halperin – Twitchy

The ongoing, absolutely schadenfreudelicious death rattle of the legacy mainstream media continues. In late July, Washington Post ‘fact-checker’ Glenn Kessler accepted a buyout and posted his final Pinocchio column, which suitably got laughed into oblivion on X as Kessler failed to report the truth, just like he had failed throughout his 14 years at the newspaper. 

If Kessler had even an ounce of shame or self-awareness, he would have quietly retreated into oblivion after a career of spinning for the Democrats. 

Kessler possesses none of those qualities, however, so he followed up his departure by appearing on Mark Halperin’s podcast this week to try to defend his record, particularly with respect to Joe Biden and all of the reporting he and his newspaper didn’t do. 

Yeah, that went as badly for him as everyone could have hoped for. Watch: 

The Washington Post’s now-former Fact Checker, @GlennKesslerWP, offers an explanation for the paper’s lack of investigative reporting on Biden’s mental decline:

“We tried… but couldn’t get enough people on the record.”

Download and subscribe for @MarkHalperin’s FULL interview:… pic.twitter.com/WPVjNVPhQY

— Next Up with Mark Halperin (@NextUpHalperin) August 7, 2025

Wait, is he honestly saying that the Post never reported on Biden’s obvious yogurt brain because no administration officials would go on the record? And saying it with a straight face?

We believe the part about Biden’s inner circle refusing to go on the record, they were all in on the cover-up, but the Post routinely reports fake Trump scandals — or any ginned-up story about any Republican — based entirely on ‘anonymous sources.’

Careful, Glenn. We can see your nose growing as you speak.

unreal – he said it. He actually said it. https://t.co/Ftvm2rYu9G

— OldBamaDad (@mobilebierguy) August 8, 2025

We wonder if he believes it. He has been indoctrinated and such a leftist mouthpiece for so long, he actually might. 

No one else did, though. 

how far the WaPo has fallen – from Woodward and Bernstein scraping together the very hushed story behind Watergate to “well, we didn’t try very hard” about something that was more obvious than a green dildo on a WNBA court.

— workinglate (@Workinglate) August 7, 2025

They didn’t report it because they didn’t want to report it. Anything else Kessler says is pure drivel and deflection. 

And they didn’t just not report on Biden’s mental malfunctions; they tried to cover for them. 

Less than one month before Biden was forced out of the 2024 campaign because of his dumpster fire performance in his debate with Trump, Kessler rated the notion that Biden was out of it at Normandy a ‘right-wing cheap fake’ and gave it four Pinocchios. 

Tried to cover it while he was throwing out 32 Pinocchios to actual videos of Biden being a senile old fool.

— The Legalsaur (@legalsaur) August 8, 2025

Unearthed video of Glenn Kessler and WaPo covering Biden’s decline. https://t.co/uUhH43CYyw pic.twitter.com/ADcITbZGwn

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 8, 2025

If not for the debate, they would have continued to cover for him all the way through the election. 

Glenn was a well-known Biden enabler.

He can GTFOH with this BS.

— Jack Bauer after dark 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JackBauerAD) August 8, 2025

Kessler must think we are as stupid as he looks.

— Skeptical Stoic (@StoicSkeptical) August 8, 2025

He’s a journo, albeit an unemployed one. Of course, he thinks that. 

Just so brutal for Kessler…he should be nowhere near a newsroom ever again

— 👑King of Napa Valley (@SunWolf41512984) August 8, 2025

That’s not remotely likely. 

Maybe he’ll start a podcast no one watches like Don Lemon or Jim Acosta. (Let’s just hope he doesn’t interview any AI avatars of dead people.)

https://t.co/LfvYTe4qOD pic.twitter.com/LgOzkGOmWM

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 8, 2025

We give Halperin credit, on the other hand, for not letting Kessler get away with any of this BS. 

cc: @AceofSpadesHQ

Isn’t it the job of journalists to go DEEP IN THE WEEDS? https://t.co/Lb16svZdAM pic.twitter.com/j4gmmramKY

— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) August 8, 2025

Going into the weeds used to be the job of journalists. 

These days, their job is just typing up the talking points handed to them by the DNC. 

So the fact checker refused to tell us the facts?

SAY IT AIN’T SO. https://t.co/FsWmkefjfw

— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) August 8, 2025

We’re shocked. SHOCKED, we tell you. 

Sounds like the Washington post was easily distracted, confused, maybe had some memory lapses and possibly fell up a staircase or two. https://t.co/qdl3ZpwLYY

— Zach Ward (@UnrealZachWard) August 8, 2025

HA! 

At least Biden has dementia. What’s Kessler’s excuse? 

“We almost did our job but it was just too hard 🥺” https://t.co/2bOo5qfrkF

— LincolnRules2000 (@91Unforgiven) August 8, 2025

“There was no effort,”

I fixed it for them. https://t.co/JSl9wJN8vJ

— Mr. Ant over lord secret burger (@chewyantz) August 8, 2025

This was the most fascinating training wreck of an interview I’ve watched lately.

Glenn Kessler is completely delusional. https://t.co/ktcThvussa

— MrsKinder (@MrsKinder) August 8, 2025

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. 

But in honor of Kessler and his always-cringeworthy (and now dead) Pinocchio system of fact-checking, we’ll give him our own rating for his interview with Halperin.

https://t.co/YTDtEBxGsr pic.twitter.com/iNIGqDAQpT

— Lfoxy23 🇺🇸💙✭ (@lfoxy23) August 8, 2025

We hereby grant Kessler and his entire appearance 47 Marcia Bradys. 

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