Posted on 03/23/2020 10:40:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
CNN’s Jake Tapper is admitting he knew Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a lie about President Trump on his Sunday show and he chose to not challenge or correct her.
Here’s what happened…
Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Tapper’s State of the Union Sunday and repeated the long-debunked lie that Trump described the coronavirus as a “hoax.”
After Tapper was criticized online for not challenging or correcting her, he smugly took to Twitter and admitted he chose to allow her to lie to his audience, and then bizarrely blamed Trump for his own moral lapse.
“I thought about it, because the president did not call the virus a hoax,” Tapper tweeted Sunday to someone who said he should have fact checked Ocasio-Cortez.
“But I didn’t because he *did* call a hoax the concerns of those saying that the response from the president was insufficient and that he was downplaying the gravity of the crisis. And that too was a lie,” he added.
Then came this jaw-dropping admission [emphasis added]:
I guess that’s the problem with a politician who lies so often; while I agree that Democrats are mischaracterizing what he said, what he did say was also false so it’s tough to justify taking the time for a fact check when it’s not taking a stand defining the truth.
It comes down to this…
Jake Tapper remained silent in the face of lies and disinformation because he hates Trump, and then after getting caught, he responds and rationalizes by attacking Trump.
All I can say is this…
Never once in the 30 years I’ve been monitoring the media, have I ever seen a so-called journalist justify and practically brag about allowing what he knows are lies and disinformation to take place on his own news program.
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Calling it a “news program” is so cute.
We don’t have professional journalists and haven’t had any for quite a while.
Tapper is no journalist. He’s a mouth piece for the DNC.
Pull this punks White House credentials now!
Wasn’t that guy Caliph Baraq’s favorite for questions?
All your heroes will let you down once in awhile. That’s why it’s important to think for yourself, do your own homework, and stand on your own two feet.
So did Fox when she went on the network.
Fake Tapper is as vile as that schmuck Chuck Todd.
No...he’s an ass.
Well, if the US sat still for, ‘We need to pass the ACA to see what’s in it’, then why are they surprised with f*&ks like this running around calling themselves ‘journalists’.
Right. First he says he's a "journalist" , then this. Good for laughs.
Heard due to ratings continuing to fall he has tried out a standup routine in the basement Comedy Cavern Open Mic Nights at several small college dorms. Didn't go over well. And now the colleges are closed down.
It’s not his job to correct her lies.
Fake Fapper
btt
By "let her" he means, he bought her a nice basket of muffins afterward.
What people like Tapper are totally missing, is that the ONLY thing that will give them a positive legacy, a meaningful legacy, and will define their professional lives in a positive way, is if they tell the truth and do their jobs with honor and ethics - without bias.
Everything else (e.g. a place in the Hamptons, hanging out with movie stars, getting invited to DC events and Manhattan cocktail parties, and being recognized as ‘celebrities’) means nothing. In fact, with regards their careers, the more that bs like that is part of their daily lives, the less substantive they appear to be, and are, as professionals. Ego is for people who need more growth, Jake. You need to grow.
Maybe Tapper feels some guilt about carrying water for the Chinese all these years.
You dare mention Jake Tap Her in the same sentence as ACoDC ?
Last I heard she’s all tapped out and ready for de-election.
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