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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.
CNN Bombs in First Quarter, Fails to Crack Top 20 in Ratings
April 4th, 2020 11:05 AM
When the Cable News Network debuted in 1980, it soon earned a reputation as the top source for quick and accurate information 24 hours a day, all week long. That was 40 years ago, and the liberal channel has since fallen so far in the ratings that it was unable to generate even one program in the top 20 list during the first three months of 2020, which has been labeled “a dismal first quarter.”
Stop Pretending Pandemic Politics Are the New Norm
April 2nd, 2020 2:39 PM
"There are no libertarians in a global pandemic." So goes the smug punchline of large-government advocates who point to the necessity of collective action in the face of an unprecedented global crisis. Without government, they say, we'd all be dead. Few libertarians would disagree. The hardcore libertarians at Reason magazine aren't spending their days fulminating over the evils of government-…
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Media STILL Pretending We Can Believe China's Coronavirus Numbers
March 29th, 2020 6:02 PM
Whether motivated by ratings or by some political agenda, liberal TV news networks on Sunday acted as though the coronavirus numbers released by the Communist Party of China were trustworthy enough to report on American national television. Throughout Sunday morning and into the afternoon, journalists on both cable and broadcast networks proclaimed that the number of confirmed cases in the United…
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Tapper Trashes Trump for Downplaying Virus, But CNN Did It Too
March 26th, 2020 2:52 PM
On Wednesday afternoon’s The Lead on CNN, host Jake Tapper trashed President Trump for “downplaying” the coronavirus’s infection rate, one month ago, before it had spread rapidly in the country. Despite the media doing the very same thing, Tapper suggested that the president alone was responsible for projecting a “false sense of security” and causing people to not take the virus seriously.
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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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Tapper Blames Trump, Conservative Media for People Not Staying Inside
March 18th, 2020 10:13 AM
CNN host Jake Tapper lashed out in frustration on the network Tuesday evening, upon seeing footage of people in San Francisco out and about, not heeding the CDC’s recommendation to stay 6 feet away from strangers and limit time spent in the public. To CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Tapper knew just who to blame for people not following health warnings: President Trump and “…
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CNN Fears Dem Voters Are ‘Bunch of Rachel Maddows and Chris Hayeses'
March 11th, 2020 12:37 PM
As Joe Biden swept several more Democratic primaries Tuesday night, CNN anchor Jake Tapper warned of “getting real 2004 vibes,” referring to the failed presidential campaign of John Kerry. Tapper particularly lamented how Democratic voters were behaving like “a bunch of Rachel Maddows and Chris Hayess” by trying to decide on the most electable nominee.
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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 Fears Dems Can’t Reconcile Generational Divide in Their Base
March 3rd, 2020 11:07 PM
As CNN host Jake Tapper pointed out during their Super Tuesday coverage, there was an obvious generational divide between the Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wing of the Democratic Party and former Vice President Joe Biden’s (D). “Younger voters overwhelmingly are with Bernie Sanders … And older voters are overwhelmingly with Joe Biden.” Sharing their fears of that divide and resentment carrying over to…
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Avlon Cites Pence's Climate Skepticism Against Him on Coronavirus
February 28th, 2020 8:47 PM
On Friday's New Day show, CNN's John Avlon presented a "Reality Check" segment in which he listed a number of alleged reasons that Vice President Mike Pence's past suggests that he will not be suitable for coordinating the federal government's efforts against the coronavirus. Avlon not only hinted that Vice President Pence's history of praying is "superstition," but, amongst his list, he even…
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Tapper Lets Guest Wrongly Say Bloomberg Was GOP for 'Many, Many Years'
February 19th, 2020 5:26 PM
Remember the CNN motto "Facts First"? On Tuesday's The Lead with Jake Tapper, during a panel discussion of Bernie Sanders vs. Michael Bloomberg, no one corrected far-left guest Mehdi Hasan of al-Jazeera America when he bolstered Sanders by wrongly claiming Bloomberg was a Republican "for many, many years until 2018."
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CNN's Tapper Claims Limbaugh 'Bigotry' Against Minorities, Women
February 15th, 2020 6:24 AM
For much of Thursday, a number of CNN hosts fretted over conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh musing about the possibility that some Democrats are afraid that gay presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg would be a weak general election candidate against a more masculine President Donald Trump. Host Jake Tapper accused Limbaugh of having a long record of "bigotry" against minorities and women…
Washington Post Media Columnist Finds Bias… Against Bernie Sanders
February 14th, 2020 11:41 AM
Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan routinely decries complaints of anti-Trump media bias by calling liberal journalists the "reality-based press." Now she's suddenly feeling the pain of media bias....against a socialist from Vermont. In an article posted on Wednesday, Margaret Sullivan declared: "The media keep falling in love — with anybody but Bernie Sanders."