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The senator moves closer to entering the GOP primary

NPR devoting 8 full minutes for WaPos Kessler to defend Tim Scotts family fact check and more round out todays top media headlines. NPR allowed the Washington Posts "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler eight minutes to defend his  widely criticized piece that questioned Sen. Tim Scotts, R-S.C. story about how his family made their way "from cotton to Congress." Kessler explained that Scotts origin story, like those of many politicians, sounded a little too "tidy," and so he decided it would mak...

Journalist Zaid Jilani Friday weighed in Friday on The Washington Post’s much-criticized fact-check article on Sen. Tim Scott The Post last week published an article fact-checking the story of Scott’s grandfather, Artis Ware, who the senator says dropped out of school at an early age to work on a cotton farm and never learned to read and write. Scott has also told the story of his great-great-grandfather, Lawrence Ware, who at one point owned 900 acres of land in South Carolina. The Post sa...

The South Carolina senator said he went from "Cotton to Congress in one lifetime," but his ancestors owned unusually large amounts of land.

What Tim Scott Has Said About Racism On 4/29/21 at 7:50 AM EDT Senator Tim Scott said America was "not a racist country" when he delivered the GOPs rebuttal to President Joe Bidens joint address to Congress on Wednesday. He also described his own experiences of discrimination, however. The South Carolina lawmakers 14-minute address drew on his backstory as the son of a single mother and the grandson of an illiterate Black man. During the speech, he said: "I get called Uncle Tom and the n-word b...

Almost every communication ends with a plea for cash, all hyperventilating with the frantic, the-house-on-fire-save-the-baby! hysteria that is the official GOP tone: cry doom and rattle the cup. To be fair, Democrats do it, too, though I don’t get nearly as many. I’m not sure why. Maybe the same trolls who sign me up for fringe gun nut groups under the mistaken notion it bothers me also donate in my name to Republican candidates. Maybe the emails are sent to every known address including...

Dem Rep. Karen Bass Defends Black GOP Sen. Tim Scott After Cotton to Congress Fact Check Newsweek 4 hrs ago Benjamin Fearnow © Photo by Liz Lynch/Getty Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) leaves the Senate Floor at the U.S. Capitol on January 1 in Washington, DC. California Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass on Saturday defended GOP South Carolina Senator Tim Scott after a Washington Post fact-checking article highlighted several flaws in his longtime "cotton to Congress" stump speech....

Journalist Glenn Greenwald said the newspapers effort to debunk the story did the opposite on Fox News Primetime The Washington Post appears quite selective when it comes to the urgency of its "fact-checks" of certain prominent politicians.  Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., was the subject of a lengthy piece on Friday by the Posts star fact-checker, Glenn Kessler. The piece, "Tim Scott often talks about his grandfather and cotton. There’s more to that tale," examined the "origin stories" of comment...

Washington Post Fact Checkers Expose Truth About Tim Scott’s Black Privilege in Triumph of Accountability Journalism Andrew Stiles • April 23, 2021 3:15 pm SHARE If Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) was a Democrat, hed be one of the most celebrated politicians in the country. Raised in poverty by a single mother, he would go on to become the first black politician to represent a southern state in the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. Pretty impressive for someone whose grandfather dropped out of el...