WaPo Blasted For ‘Racist’ Fact-Check Of GOP Senator Tim Scott, Leftists Defend Senator
Posted on AllSides April 26th, 2021
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The Washington Post and fact-checker Glenn Kessler received major pushback over a fact-check that the newspaper published on Friday about Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) family history that was widely condemned by pundits as racist.
The report came after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on Thursday that Scott would give the Republican Party’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress next week.
The article focused on the powerful story of Scott’s family history, which he describes as having gone “from cotton to Congress in one lifetime.”
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