Avatar photoBenjamin Wetmore

Former writer for Human Events, Morris NorthStar, and The Federalist. 2023 ISI George Washington Statesman Fellow. Featured in the Washington City Paper, Washington Post, New York Times, and Playboy.

FACT-CHECK: NPR Wildly Exaggerates Studies to say Paying Addicts Keeps them off Meth

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This article is cross-posted from the Gateway Pundit Fact-Check Bureau: TGPFactCheck.com Almost every study says that ‘contingency management’ makes a small positive impact on addicts staying clean for a few extra weeks, NPR exaggerates to say that paying addicts works and should be tried everywhere Link NPR provides to the study backing up their wild claims is laughably broken Left-wing worldview once again at odds with actual science and what studies actually say, pretty obvious unethical reporter didn’t even bother to read them OUR RATING: Major Negligence.

FACT CHECK: Did Biden Actually Say Afghanistan Wouldn’t End with Rooftop Helicopter Evacuations?

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This article is cross posted at the Gateway Pundit’s Fact Check Bureau: TGPFactCheck.com Since the utter and shameful collapse of Afghanistan this month[3], a meme has been going around the internet that quotes Joe Biden with an especially poignant quote about the comparisons to the collapse of South Vietnam and the scenes of chaos as people were evacuated from the roof of the U.S.

JUNK JOURNALISM: WashPost Says Vaccine Skepticism is Fueling Violent Militias

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This article is cross-posted at the Gateway Pundit’s Fact Check Bureau: TGPFactCheck.com WashPost makes vaccine resistance out to be advancing the evil agenda of the violent militias that blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City Quotes one of the most discredited sources on domestic politics possible: the Southern Poverty Law Center No proof of violence except for events 25 years ago, but still tries to fearmonger about alleged militia’s fashion choices at a singalong in Buffalo OUR RATING: Trash Journalism, aka the Daily Beast.

FACT CHECK: NYTimes Promotes Doctor Child Abuse: Propaganda Over Reality

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This article is cross-posted from the Gateway Pundit’s Fact Check Bureau: TGP FactCheck Perri Klass gives “advice” on how to find an LGBT friendly doctor NYT continues to push radical medical measures on children Ignoring facts and scientific evidence, Perri Klass pushes an ideology rather than a serious attempt to address a complicated issue OUR RATING: Journalistic Malpractice.

EXCLUSIVE: Never-Before-Seen Drone Footage from Charlottesville 2017 Protests Reveals Enormous Extent of Media Lies and Propaganda

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Never-Before-Seen Drone Footage from Charlottesville 2017 Protests Reveals Extent of Media Lies Shows there was almost no chance convicted driver James Fields knew that he was turning onto a street with extreme left-wing protesters as a gathering left-wing crowd waited while protesting through the whole city.

NPR Reporter Upset that Communists’ Right to Advocate Killing Cops is Unpopular

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This article is also featured on TGP Factcheck Privileged VCU Student Body President and petit Communist Taylor Maloney tweets regularly about killing cops, VA NPR thus complains that ‘right wing media’ is ‘doxxing’ poor Maloney Utter hypocrisy of Communists complaining about not being protected enough by police and authorities while advocating their murder is completely lost on the humorless reporter Article lacks significant context that would show how irrational Maloney’s complaints are, such as the actual number of people killed by police each year OUR RATING: Journalistic Malpractice.

WashPost Complicit in Giuliani Smear, Alleges FBI Warning last fall that Rudy Completely Denies

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This article is cross-posted at TGP Factcheck WashPost reporters doing Biden’s dirty work, attempt to paint Rudy as a Russian agent Try to make all of Rudy’s efforts as discretely directed by Russian agents Supposed warning given to Rudy by FBI never happened, according to Rudy, whole story is likely false OUR RATING: Journalistic Malpractice.

Conservative White Evangelicals are the Problem for “Vaccine Resistance” according to Journalism Group

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Today in a Zoom meeting with journalists from across the country, mainstream journalists were coaching other journalists how to fight “misinformation” around vaccines, specifically noting that conservative white evangelicals were the main problem demographic for what was styled “vaccine resistance.” “The two subgroups that come up the most who do not want to be vaccinated are Republicans and white Evangelical Christians, along with those in rural areas, which there is some overlap there,” Jennifer Kates, HIV Policy Director at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said in a forum led by the Poynter Institute called “Vaccine Hesitancy: What Journalists Need to Know.”  Joie Chen, former CNN anchor, Al Jazeera and CBS correspondent led the group, which primarily heard from Kates with the Democrat-controlled Kaiser Family Foundation and also Houston journalist Chauncy Glover who was brought in primarily for the benefit of asking how to appeal to African American vaccine resisters.  The seminar revealed that Kates’ employer, the Kaiser Foundation, recently hired comedian Kamau Bell, while wearing a sweater that says “Powerful Black Voter”, to appeal to African Americans.

Snopes Gets Pissy about Urinals, Lies about Portland Bathroom Policies

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Snopes nitpicks Gateway Pundit article to rate it ‘mostly false’ when it is completely accurate MacGuill’s only point is to argue about whether urinals are banned in all buildings, or just the ones currently under renovation and all others moving forward Snopes has a history of nitpicking to declare things false that are actually true OUR RATING: Major Negligence. MSNBC-level basic journalistic negligence Indicted Outlet: Dan MacGuill | Snopes | Link | Archive Snopes, the falsely labeled fact check site that has, instead, functioned primarily as a satire fact check site for many years, debunked this article from the Gateway Pundit about Portland banning urinals.

WashPost lies about Sidney Powell, her Voter Fraud Court Claims

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Cross-posted from TGP FactCheck Washington Post’s Aaron Blake completely misrepresents Sidney Powell’s court filings, turning them into a false confession that she never believed her claims of voter fraud In fact, Powell’s filing is quite clear that she does believe her claims about voter fraud, and publicly posted the evidence she used to make her determination Blake lies to his readers and is committing serious journalistic malpractice to suit a left-wing narrative OUR RATING: Journalistic Malpractice.

Michigan Judge Who Tossed Pro-Trump Voter Fraud Suit Caught Releasing Child Molesters

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On November 13, Judge Timothy Kenny dismissed a lawsuit brought by witnesses to the voter fraud at the TCF Center in Detroit, because the witnesses were “not credible.”  This statement, dismissing Dominion Whistleblower Melissa Carone for example, has been used by dishonest fact-check organizations in order to say that a Judge found their witness statements, “not credible.”  Yet now that Judge has been exposed as using COVID as a pretext to release violent criminals before they served their time.  The Detroit News broke the story, and they have not been given all the records they requested.