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Tapper Tees Up Governor to Smear Protesters as Confederates, Nazis
May 4th, 2020 5:04 PM
On Sunday's State of the Union, CNN host Jake Tapper tossed softballs to Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, suggesting protesters against her lockdown policies are frightening and even comparable to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville. Leftist protesters are generally presented as the forces of democracy and justice, but conservative protesters get the shaft. The CNN chyron was "PROTESTERS,…
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Will Media Object to Pelosi Telling Tapper to 'Just Calm Down'?
April 27th, 2020 7:19 AM
The liberal media love to complain when they feel that President Trump has disrespected them. So how, if at all, will the MSM react to Nancy Pelosi telling Jake Tapper to "just calm down" when he asked about her failure to get state and local funding in the latest bailout bill? Pelosi has been all over television getting softball questions. So when Tapper asked if she made a "tactical mistake,"…
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CNN Abandons Tara Reade After One Story; Network Sunday Shows Skip
April 26th, 2020 4:10 PM
CNN offered one single story on a Saturday afternoon on Tara Reade’s allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden – soon after NewsBusters unearthed a video clip of a woman she says is her mother calling into CNN saying a “prominent senator” had wronged her daughter. CNN’s Sunday shows went back to ignoring the story today – there was nothing from Jake Tapper on State of the Union, or from…
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Tapper Rebuked By Dr. Birx, Declares GOP Be Remembered as ‘Villains'
April 26th, 2020 1:48 PM
Conceited CNN host Jake Tapper was supposedly a journalist, but has proven himself to be a liberal activist. Tapper concluded Sunday’s State of the Union by lashing out at congressional Republicans and those within the Trump administration by declaring history will remember them as "villains." Although, Dr. Deborah Birx of the Coronavirus Task Force did put him in his place for trying to continue…
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CNN’s Tapper Beclowns Himself With Rant Suggesting Trump Doing Nothing
April 5th, 2020 3:56 PM
CNN host Jake Tapper concluded Sunday’s State of the Union with a self-righteous rant he thought was going to make President Trump look like he was doing nothing to combat the coronavirus. Instead, Tapper came off as foolish since many of the supposedly tough questions that had no good answers actually did have answers, ones that CNN would like to be kept hidden from their liberal viewer base.
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Jake Tapper Under Fire for NOT Fact-Checking AOC on Trump 'Hoax' Lie
March 23rd, 2020 7:07 AM
Emma Colton at the Washington Examiner reported Team Trump upbraided CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper on Sunday for failing to fact-check socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after she -- like many leftists -- pushed the lie that President Trump called the coronavirus a "hoax," when he said the Democratic attempts to ruin him by exploiting the coronavirus response was a "hoax."
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Dr. Fauci Tells CNN to ‘Get Real’ With Their Microphone Freak Out
March 15th, 2020 1:50 PM
CNN has been so intense with pushing the narrative that President Trump didn’t care about dealing with the coronavirus correctly, that they’ve been hyperventilating about an image of him and Dr. Anthony Fauci touching a microphone at the same time during a White House press conference. When CNN fill-in host Brianna Keilar pressed Fauci on what happened, the nation’s top immunologist chuckled and…
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Tapper Gets SCHOOLED By Surgeon General on White House Virus Response
March 8th, 2020 3:58 PM
Despite multiple attempts by CNN host Jake Tapper to seemingly embarrass the Trump administration with their response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) during Sunday’s State of the Union, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams schooled him on the facts. Tapper even questioned if President Trump was even listening to the advice of medical professionals, only to be told the multiple doctors in the room were…
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CNN's Dana Bash Hits Klobuchar From Left on Crime
February 16th, 2020 7:56 PM
On Sunday's State of the Union show on CNN, as fill-in host Dana Bash interviewed Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar, instead of pressing her on whether she really is a "moderate" as many journalists have described her, the CNN host hit her from the left on whether she was too tough on criminals as a prosecutor, and invited her be critical of a couple of her Democratic opponents…
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'View': 'Masterful' Pelosi Was Trump's 'Fact-Checker' at SOTU
February 5th, 2020 1:34 PM
The morning after President Trump gave the State of the Union address, the hosts of The View were practically bowing down to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for dramatically tearing the speech in two. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin were enthusiastic about the disrespectful display, lauding Pelosi “masterfully” “playing hardball” with Republican “fascists and criminals.”
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Tapper Toes Biden Line: 'No Evidence...Anybody Did Anything Illegal'
February 3rd, 2020 7:39 AM
On his Sunday show State of the Union, CNN anchor Jake Tapper tapdanced on the Biden line again, that harrumph, of course, there's "NO evidence anybody did anything illegal regarding the Bidens and Ukraine." The obvious retort is "including President Trump. But they impeached him anyway."
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CNN Grills Pompeo on Airstrike, But Treated Iran With Kid Gloves
January 5th, 2020 1:14 PM
As NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham recently reported, CNN’s Erin Burnett conducted a sit-down interview with Iranian ambassador to the U.N., Majid Takht Ravanchi on Friday where she treated him to some slow-pitch softball questions. The network took a complete 180 on Sunday when State of the Union host Jake Tapper unloaded on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by grilling him on the airstrike…
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CNN Complains Trump Shared Too Much, Didn’t Thank the CIA (He Did)
October 27th, 2019 1:03 PM
Mere moments after President Trump got done announcing that the United States had eliminated ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, CNN was off to the races criticizing much of what the President said. CNN host Jake Tapper was leading a largely anti-Trump, Obama-era panel of former intelligence community officials during a special two-hour edition of his Sunday show, State of the Union.
Bozell & Graham Column: Republicans vs. Screaming Anchors
October 8th, 2019 10:52 PM
Politico posted a curious headline the other day. “News anchors fight back against GOP senators’ refusal to condemn Trump.” Is it really news at this point that “news anchors” are fighting the GOP? A better question might be: What took so long? Republicans accomplish nothing by appearing on MSNBC and CNN other than to give them some notion of nonpartisan credibility, something they manifestly don…
