Is Jake Tapper liberal or conservative?

[Archae]

And does he have a record for deception?

[lapfog_1]

1. let's flip it around

I will tell you what he is not... a journalist.

[Ocelot II]

2. Seems like he's more of an opportunist than a political partisan.

[Jack Valentino]

3. He's a capitalist.

[Archae]

5. So?

I want to know how much credibility he has.

[Jack Valentino]

6. VERY LITTLE with me, since he chooses to focus on possible faults of FORMER President Joe Biden,

who is water under the bridge, while we have a REAL CRIMINAL
and admirer of Adolph Hitler in office RIGHT NOW....


Which is the bigger story ??


Of course, Joe Biden can't send the justice department after him now,
while the man in office now COULD...

[boonecreek]

4. He's a Jake Tapperist. nt.

[belpejic]

7. He's an opportunist and a huckster

All sizzle, no steak. And it couldn't have happened at a worse time for him. Who cares about Biden these days? It's one big Trump shittsunami, 24/7.

I guess all of the centrist, NYT-reading intelligentsia can cluck their tongues and say "I told you so" to each other. They still need to find a way to justify their decision to abandon Biden over his exit from Afghanistan.

[Silent Type]

8. Wouldn't judge him totally on the Biden book. But most will. Now, if folks really want to get ticked,

he’ll be on Bill Maher tomorrow night, with a rerun on CNN Saturday. Just saying.

[Sympthsical]

10. Thank you for the early popcorn warning

I haven’t watched Maher in a month or two, but the internet shitshow is worth it.

[Paladin]

17. Having to watch Maher's show is way too high a price to pay.

Even for information on a decent person, much less a low-life prick like Tapper. Let us know if Maher ends up jacking off on-air over Tapper's non-stop Biden-bashing...

[Silent Type]

19. Got a good laugh at last line.

[JohnSJ]

32. You can bet it will be a full hour of anti-Biden bashing. I am so glad

I haven’t watched that crap for over a year.

A complete waste of time.

[nilram]

42. Thanks. My blood pressure has been too low lately.

That'll help.

[blm]

9. He's an opportunist.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. His character in "The Sound of Music" would be

Max Detweiler. Would sell out any Austrian if it made him a buck.

[Hugin]

13. Yep... n/t

[Quiet Em]

11. I don't care for him and I never have.

I'll say this. His job is to report the news, not be the news.

And it's not the Democratic Party's responsibility to reach, teach or influence his 15 year old son. It's not the Republican Party's responsibility either. That was his responsibility.

I think he's just the latest man looking for "street cred" from other men who worship the con artist.

But he didn't get that, did he. Nope, he didn't win over anyone in the MAGA crowd and he lost whatever audience or base he still had as well as his reputation and credibility.

He's just the latest in the long line of men who throw everything away for the con artist.

[tavernier]

14. Neanderthal.

[SocialDemocrat61]

15. He's been a right wing hack since his ABC days

attacking Obama, then Clinton and now Biden.

[Cosmocat]

23. He is Tim Russert

Same act - supposed tough on everyone guy who tosses some soft balls at Rs with a light scow, while eagerly tearing into Ds.

[SocialDemocrat61]

26. Exactly

Well said.

[maxrandb]

16. "Asspickle"

Slimy on both ends.

[Midwestern Democrat]

18. Well, no one on DU is answering your direct question, so I will - pretty sure he's a liberal.

Before becoming a journalist, he served as the press secretary to a Democratic congresswoman and worked for Handgun Control Inc., went to a progressive education school as a child, is married to a former Planned Parenthood official, etc. None of that sounds like the bio of a right winger.

[Silent Type]

20. I'm sure he is too. I don't need a pundit saying how bad trump is when they show clips of him being stupid, racist,

bigoted, greedy, unhinged, etc. It's plain as day to anyone who cares.

Thanks for some reality.

[SocialDemocrat61]

21. It's only plain to you

You have no idea what is plain or not plain to anyone else. If it were plain to everyone, he wouldn’t be President.

[Silent Type]

22. Yeah, and neither do you. Voters knew what trump is, and they didn't care. I suspect anyone watching CNN, MSNBC, etc.,

doesn't need someone tell them trump is a racist, etc. It's obvious.

[SocialDemocrat61]

25. Never claimed that I did

And what think is obvious is only obvious to you. You have no idea what anyone else thinks.

[Silent Type]

33. And neither do you. I'm surprised it wasn't obvious to you.

[SocialDemocrat61]

35. That's why I've never claimed that I did

You're the only claiming to know what's obvious to other people. I don't have the magical power to know what others think.

[Silent Type]

36. Have a good weekend.

[SocialDemocrat61]

37. You too

[JohnSJ]

34. Did you see tapper's foaming at the mouth rant against Biden on the

attack against Americans by the Taliban during the US evacuation from Afghanistan?

It was the most unprofessional piece of slop I have seen from a so-called reporter. It had nothing to do with reporting the news, but was a complete anti-Biden editorial which had little to do either with the actual event, or the fact that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was based on a trump agreement with the Taliban.

Whether Tapper leans toward being a liberal or not is beside the point, he goes out of his way, as many of the current journalists do, as “unbiased”, by setting a much higher standard for progressive politicians than that conservative ones, even at the expense of biased misleading reporting.

This started after the Bernard Goldberg book “Bias”, and the “liberal media” around 2000.

Incidently, Goldberg would be considered progressive on the social issues, but after that book and his hawking it on Fox News was the beginning of the end of fair reporting in the .

Judy Miller was considered a “liberal” until the WMD lie.

What the media did to Gore, Kerry and his swift boat liars, Hillary and the complete distortion of the email, are only a few examples of so-called liberal journalists trying to present themselves as unbiased.

This isn't just about Tapper, it's the whole BUSINESS of so-called journalism today.

How many times do we hear the news media tell that Tariffs are another tax on consumers? That the uncertainty created from the Tariffs and trade wars are actually trump's magnificent obsession.

I think not very much.

[Silent Type]

38. Want to hear Tapper on tariffs, here's one.

Jake Tapper Confronts Trump Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins in Tense CNN Interview: Why Are You Putting Tariffs On Islands ‘Entirely Populated By Penguins?’

CNN’s Jake Tapper grilled Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins Sunday about the tariffs newly-announced by President Donald Trump.

In a tense confrontation on CNN’s State of the Union, Tapper called out public anxiousness about tariffs — and questioned whether the administration has sufficiently recognized the “pain and panic people are feeling” in the wake of the tariff announcement.Plen

“I have to say he didn’t, when he was campaigning, talk about the pain that he is now acknowledging,” Tapper said. And I have say we’re getting a very Pollyanna-ish view of what’s happening from the Trump administration.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/jake-tapper-confronts-trump-ag-secretary-brooke-rollins-on-the-pain-and-panic-people-are-feeling-about-tariffs-in-tense-cnn-interview/

Plenty more examples if folks care to look.

[fujiyamasan]

30. Also worked at Salon

Definitely not a conservative publication.

[Rebl2]

24. I don't

care, I just know I don’t like him and haven’t in years.

[Celerity]

27. in most countries, 'liberal' quite often means centre right, small government, free (NOT fair) trade, low(er) taxes,

less regulations, and (positive things now) freedom of assembly/speech to a large degree, right to private property and equality before the law

[sheshe2]

28. He is an asshole.

[Doodley]

29. Wherever more money and fame is.

[Polybius]

31. I don't know, but I doubt he voted for Trump

Probably a Romney Republican or Bill Clinton Democrat.

[Kingofalldems]

39. He's a snotty rich kid who believes in his superiority

to ordinary Americans. The media is filled with people like him.

[get the red out]

40. Opportunist

Lick finger - stick up in air - wind blows

[Ping Tung]

41. Liberal or conservative on what issues?

Politicalonservative/radical/etc are just brands and labels.

“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell