How bad is the “conservative in name only” WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin? We’ve seen a lot of examples over the years.

But her story this week on the number of people leaving Florida shines a big spotlight on just how low she’s willing to go.

As we reported, Business Insider published an inaccurate figure last week on July 11, claiming that more people left Florida than left California or New York. They claimed that 674,740 residents left the state, overtaking 433,402 residents leaving California and 287,249 residents moving out of New York. But the number they used for Florida was in reality the number of people moving to Florida.

Business Insider corrected the story — which was a truly egregious error — the same day.

“We got it wrong: More people moved out of New York and California than Florida in 2021.”

“This story has been updated to correct an error regarding Census data. In 2021, an estimated 469,577 people moved out of Florida, while 674,740 people relocated to the state. An earlier version of the story switched those numbers,” the editor’s note read.

But then, three days later, after the mistake in the numbers was a huge kerfuffle on Twitter and Business Insider had to correct the story, guess who cited them in her own article trying to attack Florida and its Gov. Ron DeSantis? Jennifer Rubin.

Florida has become not where “woke” died but rather where empathy, decency and kindness go to die. And it also is killing their economic future https://t.co/snTIg0QDFF

— Jennifer Now at Threads Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 14, 2023

Rubin published the column three days later on Friday. In her article, she claimed, “DeSantis likes to brag that more people are moving to Florida than ever. Not so fast. ‘An estimated 674,740 people reported that their permanent address changed from Florida to another state in 2021.’” She then published the false claim that meant more people were leaving Florida than New York or California, which Business Insider had already admitted was wrong and corrected.

What does that say about Rubin as a journalist if she can’t even check that basic fact? Either her work is just that bad and/or she allows her political hatred to prevent her from writing the facts. She’s gone after DeSantis in the past, as we have reported. Plus, what does that say about the fact-checking of the Washington Post that they let that false information go up? Don’t any of them check any facts?

As our Joe Cunningham said, “Hell, CNN fact-checked the hell out of an op-ed I wrote. But Jennifer Rubin gets all the free passes.”

Hell, CNN fact-checked the hell out of an op-ed I wrote. But Jennifer Rubin gets all the free passes. https://t.co/4JCUYdTHhI

— Joe Cunningham (@JoePCunningham) July 15, 2023

Not only did Rubin get the fact-checked by Community Notes with a truly great note regarding the poor job that she did, but the Washington Post also had to print a correction to the story.

Hahahahahaha

WaPo had to post a correction that the entire basis of Rubin's opinion article was wrong. Amazing. https://t.co/DB5gdSiYLL

— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) July 16, 2023

A previous version of this article mischaracterized Floridians’ state-to-state migration in 2021. According to the Census Bureau, more people moved into Florida than any other state that year. This version has been corrected.

Community Notes is now forcing some honesty. They probably should have just pulled the story since the facts disputed Rubin’s whole point.

Rubin also got the ratio of all time on Twitter for her false story.

But then how bad is Rubin’s punditry? As I previously wrote, she claimed John Bolton could win the GOP nomination over either former President Donald Trump or DeSantis. If that’s where you are, I don’t think there’s much coming back from that.