Thank you, Mark. I've tweeted and skeeted the windsock's Date with Monica story for a long time. I'm glad someone with longer reach than mine is calling Tapper out again.
My meemaw taught me 'Once a skeeve, always a skeeve."
I do like that phrase "the phony spectrum." I intend to use it going forward. Do people move left or right on the phony spectrum, or is it up and down? It's probably both.
Definitely only left since those on the right are sincere morons. No phonies there. Only morons. Those on the left are on the phony spectrum to the degree they need to win more than they need to do the right thing. Things are so pathetic we must sarcastically analyze rather than cry.
My point is that the spectrum itself is phony. The left-right dichotomy is phony. I learned long ago (I had a great high school history teacher) that left-right looks more like a horseshoe, with the far right and far left bending toward each other but not touching. In those days, "far left" was generally used to describe those who called themselves Communists, esp. in the Soviet Union and Mao's China.
More important in more recent decades, the left-right spectrum, or continuum, was devised mostly by white men of European descent so not surprisingly it reflects their history and their experience. It's not so good at reflecting the histories and experiences of, for instance, people of color, women of all colors, and people in regions colonized by Europeans.
Not to mention -- in the two-party U.S. system, Democrats are commonly described as "left" or "left-leaning," but by European standards most of them are nowhere close. Look at the freakout over Zohran Mamdani's calling himself a Democratic Socialist. This goes back to at least the late 19th century, when big business et al. made "socialist" a dirty word and used it to discredit labor organizers and anyone who sought to regulate run-amok capitalism. Since the Russian Revolution and right up to the present day it's been used to smear anyone working for civil rights or economic justice.
I disliked him before but didn’t despise him. Always took him to be trying too hard to appease but this took me to the far side. Thanks for sharing this. I’m done with him.
I'd take Joe any day, even old, stiff, and stuttering. None of that mattered when he was doing the job he was hired to do. Everyone seems to feel the need to take a swipe at Biden or blame him for everything when saying he did nothing. He's already a hero for having all that shit thrown at him and walking upright and decent in the face of the shit storm we are all in. Tapper, and all the butt kissing media, celebrity, and politicians are empty vessels of past ideals. Not one to look up to as someone with character, leadership and honesty.
I remain impressed by the yeoman's work Biden did to haul this country back on track after the dismal first Tr*mp term. More than just right the ship, he opened up new pathways of opportunity for working folks AND corporations, with a strong commitment to improving our environment to boot. I feel he did a more than respectable job, and I wish people gave him more credit for what he accomplished.
I didn't really care whether Biden was slipping. He hired competent people who did their jobs well. The contrast to what went before and especially to what's going on now is scream-worthy. No, I wasn't happy about his decision to try for a second term, but if I'd been sitting in the Oval Office, fully compos mentis, and seen how pathetic the prospects of the GOP, I might have done the same. I also might have doubted the capacity of the higher-ups in the Democratic Party to meet the moment without their usual ego-driven scramble for prominence.
You mean political smut don’t you? I liked him until he started doing these political scandals on CNN. He is making money on a President Biden. Who is batting, bone cancer. I figured out how he got his information ℹ️. One of President Biden’s top aides before he resigned, gave all the information to another person. He broke his NDA. I believe he told the man who is co author of the 📕, he wrote. No one should ever break their word to anyone. Especially when it concerns a NDA. Mr. Tapper , you should be ashamed sir, of listening to someone who writing a book on President Biden. You have really hurt the family of the President. Report somewhere else , or apologize to , President Biden’s Family.
Terrific analysis of Jake Tapper. Your article adds to my never taking Tapper seriously.
I had the occasion to meet Garrick Utley in the early 2000s, and asked him if the media would ever have the likes of a Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley or Peter Jennings.
His answer was no, and that viewers and listeners must be overly cautious and selective in their search for the truth. Mr. Utley was well-aware even then of folks who were pushing their personalities as a sign of authority on the news.
I am shocked at the number of people who think that Fox News is a truth telling media. CNN at one time could be trusted, but really no more.
It's been 4 years since I've watched CNN. Never liked Wolf Blitzer and ignored Tapper, Chris Cuomo was the worst, and Don Lemon would rant about stuff of which I had no interest. Andsrson Cooper is "watchable"...but mostly as a 60 Minutes reporter. I now use the non-legacy, independent news folks.
I'd also like to remind everyone that after Biden won the 2020 election, the presumptuous Tapper lectured on Twitter that Democrats should call up any MAGAs they knew and commiserate with their loss, telling those Trump supporters that we knew how they felt, as if it were nothing more a Superbowl rivalry. He's a preposterous ass and completely conditioned by the mainstream political media bias that suggests Democrats are not only responsible for their feelings but also responsible for the feelings of their political opponents. Anyway, hardly a day goes by that I don't retweet a video of Trump sounding like a blithering idiot suffering from cognitive decline to Tapper and ask him when he's going to be writing a book about that.
There's a weirdness in his account of writing this book about Biden.
Tapper originally claimed they started writing the book after the election.
Okay.
So he and his partner start interviewing 200+ sources (according to him.) Usually that means you interviewed a lot more people than 200, some of whom didn't pan out. Then you vet their claims. Then you write the book and revise it, submit it to a publisher. The publisher's legal department goes through it with a fine toothed comb. The publisher vets the sources.The contracts are signed and the marketing and publicity schedules are laid out.
First announcement is March with a release date and signings. So the publisher had a finished book by then.
1. When did the two of them get all this done? Start draft in November, finished book in March? 200-300 interviews? Due diligence?
Neither one took a sabbatical to write it. They both kept doing their day jobs.
Does Jake Tapper have a robo clone?
2. Neither one of them decided this story should be reported in their day jobs? If I were CNN, isn't this the kind of story I'm paying Tapper big bucks to cover?
3. Okay, we assume Tapper is lying about the timing and they were writing this book before the election. Neither one of those geniuses thought this was something the American people had a right to know BEFORE AN ELECTION?
4. He interviewed over 200 people over a matter of weeks and there's no gossip in December? In DC?
No matter what I want to believe, it's the mechanics of it which I find -- unlikely.
I still think Tapper was just riding along with actual author Thompson, perhaps as a step to a full-time right-wing media gig. I'm watching for Tapper to team with Scott Jennings and David Urban, as the Trumpy Trio on Newsmax.
Tapper needs to wander his sorry, putrid, attention-hog ass over to Fox ASAP. I'm so sick of his insane obsession with a man who obviously did the best he could under the circumstances. Both he and Scott Jennings are revolting purveyors of MAGAt bullshit. CNN is dead to me until they're gone.
Thanks, Mark. I once respected Joke Tapper, but no longer. He has become part of the berr and circuses act of the trump show. I picture him setting up a book signing table next to the TACO vendor, the maga merch booth, the trump twitcoin dealer and the kristi noem botox booth at the press pool area of Alligator Alcatraz I would rather read Mark Jacob than listen to Joke Tapper on any day. Thanks for lal your efforts!
I don’t watch broadcast OR cable TV, so Tapper has never been anybody I’ve had strong feelings about. But his relentless hammering of Biden is unconscionable. As to Trump, he goes along to get along, as they say.
Thank you, Mark. I've tweeted and skeeted the windsock's Date with Monica story for a long time. I'm glad someone with longer reach than mine is calling Tapper out again.
My meemaw taught me 'Once a skeeve, always a skeeve."
Unfortunately we have a society filled with people on the phony spectrum, who helped Trumpism take over. We need citizens not opportunists.
I do like that phrase "the phony spectrum." I intend to use it going forward. Do people move left or right on the phony spectrum, or is it up and down? It's probably both.
Definitely only left since those on the right are sincere morons. No phonies there. Only morons. Those on the left are on the phony spectrum to the degree they need to win more than they need to do the right thing. Things are so pathetic we must sarcastically analyze rather than cry.
My point is that the spectrum itself is phony. The left-right dichotomy is phony. I learned long ago (I had a great high school history teacher) that left-right looks more like a horseshoe, with the far right and far left bending toward each other but not touching. In those days, "far left" was generally used to describe those who called themselves Communists, esp. in the Soviet Union and Mao's China.
More important in more recent decades, the left-right spectrum, or continuum, was devised mostly by white men of European descent so not surprisingly it reflects their history and their experience. It's not so good at reflecting the histories and experiences of, for instance, people of color, women of all colors, and people in regions colonized by Europeans.
Not to mention -- in the two-party U.S. system, Democrats are commonly described as "left" or "left-leaning," but by European standards most of them are nowhere close. Look at the freakout over Zohran Mamdani's calling himself a Democratic Socialist. This goes back to at least the late 19th century, when big business et al. made "socialist" a dirty word and used it to discredit labor organizers and anyone who sought to regulate run-amok capitalism. Since the Russian Revolution and right up to the present day it's been used to smear anyone working for civil rights or economic justice.
I agree. The Mamdani issue is a perfect example. Lots of pretense on left in addition to fear.
I disliked him before but didn’t despise him. Always took him to be trying too hard to appease but this took me to the far side. Thanks for sharing this. I’m done with him.
I'd take Joe any day, even old, stiff, and stuttering. None of that mattered when he was doing the job he was hired to do. Everyone seems to feel the need to take a swipe at Biden or blame him for everything when saying he did nothing. He's already a hero for having all that shit thrown at him and walking upright and decent in the face of the shit storm we are all in. Tapper, and all the butt kissing media, celebrity, and politicians are empty vessels of past ideals. Not one to look up to as someone with character, leadership and honesty.
I remain impressed by the yeoman's work Biden did to haul this country back on track after the dismal first Tr*mp term. More than just right the ship, he opened up new pathways of opportunity for working folks AND corporations, with a strong commitment to improving our environment to boot. I feel he did a more than respectable job, and I wish people gave him more credit for what he accomplished.
I didn't really care whether Biden was slipping. He hired competent people who did their jobs well. The contrast to what went before and especially to what's going on now is scream-worthy. No, I wasn't happy about his decision to try for a second term, but if I'd been sitting in the Oval Office, fully compos mentis, and seen how pathetic the prospects of the GOP, I might have done the same. I also might have doubted the capacity of the higher-ups in the Democratic Party to meet the moment without their usual ego-driven scramble for prominence.
I turned off Tapper a year ago for the reasons Mark explains. In fact, I don't think I've been back to CNN news since then.
Windsock. One of the truest descriptions of Tapper ever written.
You mean political smut don’t you? I liked him until he started doing these political scandals on CNN. He is making money on a President Biden. Who is batting, bone cancer. I figured out how he got his information ℹ️. One of President Biden’s top aides before he resigned, gave all the information to another person. He broke his NDA. I believe he told the man who is co author of the 📕, he wrote. No one should ever break their word to anyone. Especially when it concerns a NDA. Mr. Tapper , you should be ashamed sir, of listening to someone who writing a book on President Biden. You have really hurt the family of the President. Report somewhere else , or apologize to , President Biden’s Family.
Terrific analysis of Jake Tapper. Your article adds to my never taking Tapper seriously.
I had the occasion to meet Garrick Utley in the early 2000s, and asked him if the media would ever have the likes of a Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley or Peter Jennings.
His answer was no, and that viewers and listeners must be overly cautious and selective in their search for the truth. Mr. Utley was well-aware even then of folks who were pushing their personalities as a sign of authority on the news.
I am shocked at the number of people who think that Fox News is a truth telling media. CNN at one time could be trusted, but really no more.
It's been 4 years since I've watched CNN. Never liked Wolf Blitzer and ignored Tapper, Chris Cuomo was the worst, and Don Lemon would rant about stuff of which I had no interest. Andsrson Cooper is "watchable"...but mostly as a 60 Minutes reporter. I now use the non-legacy, independent news folks.
I'd also like to remind everyone that after Biden won the 2020 election, the presumptuous Tapper lectured on Twitter that Democrats should call up any MAGAs they knew and commiserate with their loss, telling those Trump supporters that we knew how they felt, as if it were nothing more a Superbowl rivalry. He's a preposterous ass and completely conditioned by the mainstream political media bias that suggests Democrats are not only responsible for their feelings but also responsible for the feelings of their political opponents. Anyway, hardly a day goes by that I don't retweet a video of Trump sounding like a blithering idiot suffering from cognitive decline to Tapper and ask him when he's going to be writing a book about that.
There's a weirdness in his account of writing this book about Biden.
Tapper originally claimed they started writing the book after the election.
Okay.
So he and his partner start interviewing 200+ sources (according to him.) Usually that means you interviewed a lot more people than 200, some of whom didn't pan out. Then you vet their claims. Then you write the book and revise it, submit it to a publisher. The publisher's legal department goes through it with a fine toothed comb. The publisher vets the sources.The contracts are signed and the marketing and publicity schedules are laid out.
First announcement is March with a release date and signings. So the publisher had a finished book by then.
1. When did the two of them get all this done? Start draft in November, finished book in March? 200-300 interviews? Due diligence?
Neither one took a sabbatical to write it. They both kept doing their day jobs.
Does Jake Tapper have a robo clone?
2. Neither one of them decided this story should be reported in their day jobs? If I were CNN, isn't this the kind of story I'm paying Tapper big bucks to cover?
3. Okay, we assume Tapper is lying about the timing and they were writing this book before the election. Neither one of those geniuses thought this was something the American people had a right to know BEFORE AN ELECTION?
4. He interviewed over 200 people over a matter of weeks and there's no gossip in December? In DC?
No matter what I want to believe, it's the mechanics of it which I find -- unlikely.
I still think Tapper was just riding along with actual author Thompson, perhaps as a step to a full-time right-wing media gig. I'm watching for Tapper to team with Scott Jennings and David Urban, as the Trumpy Trio on Newsmax.
Tapper needs to wander his sorry, putrid, attention-hog ass over to Fox ASAP. I'm so sick of his insane obsession with a man who obviously did the best he could under the circumstances. Both he and Scott Jennings are revolting purveyors of MAGAt bullshit. CNN is dead to me until they're gone.
I’m at least as discouraged by the people that want to pretend tapper was ever anything but a two faced too, as I am by tapper himself.
Thanks, Mark. I once respected Joke Tapper, but no longer. He has become part of the berr and circuses act of the trump show. I picture him setting up a book signing table next to the TACO vendor, the maga merch booth, the trump twitcoin dealer and the kristi noem botox booth at the press pool area of Alligator Alcatraz I would rather read Mark Jacob than listen to Joke Tapper on any day. Thanks for lal your efforts!
I don’t watch broadcast OR cable TV, so Tapper has never been anybody I’ve had strong feelings about. But his relentless hammering of Biden is unconscionable. As to Trump, he goes along to get along, as they say.
His craving for fame and relevance is demeaning.