Ellison’s Four Pinocchios: Sunday’s Comic

WaPo Gives Ellison ‘Four Pinocchios’ For Lying About Farrakhan Relationship

The Washington Post’s fact checker has awarded Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison “Four Pinocchios” for claiming that his relationship with Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan ended before he entered Congress.

The Post’s Glenn Kessler cited The Daily Caller’s reporting in the fact check, which hammered Ellison for misleading about his relationship with Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite. “Four Pinocchios” is the Post’s worst possible rating, reserved for “whoppers.”

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