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President Biden is a man not known for eloquent speeches or truthful anecdotes. There's his yarn about Corn Pop (a bad dude), his Amtrak conductor, his time as a semi-truck
NPR devoting 8 full minutes for WaPo's Kessler to defend Tim Scott's family fact check and more round out today's top media headlines. NPR allowed the Washington Post's "fact-checker" Glenn Kessler eight minutes to defend his widely criticized piece that questioned Sen. Tim Scott's, R-S.C. story about how his family made their way "from cotton to Congress." Kessler explained that Scott's origin story, like those of many politicians, sounded a little too "tidy," and so he decided it would make an "interesting" fact check. Kessler noted in his piece that Scott's humble beginnings wer...