I admit it.
Jake Tapper pushes all my buttons. He makes me shout and want to throw my monitor out the window. He makes me frothing at the mouth angry at the reality that he has a "blog" and a position as "chief political correspondent" at a supposedly professional trad media organization like ABC
And yet, I still find myself going back, day to day. I simply have to know what this guy is writing because I can't shake the suspicion that people are reading it. That he's helping to drive the news cycle.
Jake likes to insert himself into his posts a lot. He doesn't "mince words " with his readers, no no, he cuts through the b.s. and tells us "how it really is." Like when so called out that hyppocrite Obama for lying about having a few smokes. Or the other day when he declared that Obama trying to spin his small town remarks was a mathematical impossibility.
You'll note in that post how he goes after Obama for suggesting that small town Americans might be a little xenophobic.
Because, let us recall, Obama said that, small towners, faced with economic hardship and a dismissive Washington, DC, "get bitter" and "cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
The proud traditions of small town America.
For shame, for shame. Well, whatever. I could debate with him all day long about how he should watch the Charlie Rose video from 2004 where Obama makes the same point in a much less heated atmosphere. This isn't some position he invented to spin away controversy, he's been talking about it for a long time. I could have that debate. That would fall at least within the normal standards of discourse.
But then Jake goes and does exactly the kind of thing that pisses me off about him. See, today, ol Jakie-poo discovered, to his complete and utter shock, that some white Americans are still racist.
Worse yet, some of them live in mostly rural states. Gee? Who'da thunk it. Certainly not Tapper. Just look at the somersaults he does trying to show how outraged he is.
"I'm going to tell you something," said Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Kentucky, speaking of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, "that boy's finger does not need to be on the button."
Boy?
BOY?!?!
He's not a "boy," Congressman. He's a 46-year-old man.
What century does this guy live in?
We get it, Jake. You find racism offensive. You're not an evil white guy. Media Matters, are you listening? Jake Tapper is a racial progressive who would never NEVER say anything bad about black people or attempt to distort the realities of racism in America. Burn the dossier.
....I'll say it again. The fact that this guy works at ABC gives him more authority as a commentator than your average "blogger." The fact that Tapper chooses to use said authority in the manner of a 12 year old trying to impress his teacher makes him a douche.
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