Why Did the Washington Post Fact-Check Tim Scott?
Elite media's obsession with race is making them increasingly blind to universal themes like class and social mobility.
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The Washington Post earned itself some ridicule this past week for conducting a deep investigative fact check of a story often told by South Carolina U.S. Senator Tim Scott about his family. As Scott tells it, his grandfather was forced to drop out of school as a third-grader to pick cotton on a farm. The story is essentially true, as it turns out, but …