Posted on 10/07/2021 11:04:42 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
CNN's Jake Tapper is one of the most well-known television journalists in the US.
Tapper values truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness, according to interviews. He's naturally skeptical and, to remain neutral, he doesn't vote.
Politico says he could be the best current television interviewer in the US.
He grew up in a Philadelphia "hippy" household, but one focused on what was right and wrong.
After three years he left Washington City Paper to become the Washington Correspondent for Salon. His editor at the time Joan Walsh said it was clear that he wasn't ideologically driven.
Tapper's wife says her husband isn't too hard to explain. He's honest and truthful and gets mad when other people aren't.
The day after the 2008 presidential election, Tapper was named ABC's senior White House correspondent.
From 2015 on, he's become one of CNN's go-to election debate hosts. In 2016, he asked then-presidential candidate Donald Trump 23 times whether comments he made about a federal judge were racist.
According to Vogue, this was when "it began" for Tapper. It wasn't until Trump entered the ring that Tapper began to come into his own and become a "viral sensation."
In February 2017, he had his now-infamous interview with Kellyanne Conway. What was scheduled to be a 10 minute interview ran for 25 minutes without breaks. He took on Conway about CNN's coverage of terrorism, false reports on murder rates in the US, and an entirely made-up massacre. He listed inaccurate statements made by Trump and said "false" after every one of them.
In 2019, he moderated the second Democratic presidential debate and was criticized for his relentless observing of time restrictions.
Since Trump became president, Tapper's said he's been reminded a journalist's job is to take a stand over facts, truth, and human decency.
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“champion of truth”
ROFLMAO.
BS
“Tapper values truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness”
What a pile of...
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There, fixed it
An “icon?”
M’kayyyy…
Champion of truth???
This is a joke, right? This touch-hole wouldn’t know the truth if it hit him in the arse
He grew up in a Philadelphia “hippy” household, = red diaper, doper baby
Is the Barf tag MIA?
BTT
Lefties are guardians of the “truth.”
Ask Pelosi, Obama, Biden, Schumer, Eric Holder, Milley, Austin, Psaki, Dan Blather, Tom Brokejaw, Rachel Maddow, ...
Pass the barf bags. He’s a typical POS, liberal socialist.
CNN’s Jake Tapper worked in 1997 as a spokesman for Handgun Control, Inc., the precursor to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. CNN and Tapper have failed to disclose Tapper’s anti-gun activism in advance of the town hall. (from Wikipedia)
In 1992, Tapper served as a Campaign Press Secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13), and later served as her congressional press secretary. Tapper also worked for Powell Tate, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm run by Democrat Jody Powell and Republican Sheila Tate. Tapper also worked briefly for Handgun Control, Inc. (now the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence) in 1997.
Tapper was quoted by the Chicago Tribune on September 12, 1997, attacking then NRA first vice president Charlton Heston.
The New York Times quoted Tapper on November 6, 1997 attacking the NRA after a gun control initiative failed in Washington State.
“Champion of truth”? Seriously?
Jake Tapper is a Champion Of Truth in the same sense that Joseph Goebbels, Lord Haw Haw, and Tokyo Rose were.
You’re an idiot and a fool.
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