CNN's Jake Tapper skewered for calling black DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a 'white man' on air

[usonian]

https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/cnns-jake-tapper-skewered-for-calling-black-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-jr-a-white-man-on-air/

Is Jake going a little senile?

Maybe he should write a book about how Jake Tapper is covering up Jake Tapper's mental decline.

Comments in italics are mine.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as “a white man.”

Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.” (the lead in his cranium? Inquiring minds (the unleaded kind) want to know.)

His “white man” comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole’s face that originated from the suspect’s mother’s Instagram account.

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Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing “anti-white rhetoric.”

"The suspect looks remarkably like Joe Biden."

[Walleye]

1. Poor little Nicky Sorter. Did the big bad CNN say something bad about white people?

We need to start telling them to “cry harder” every time

[MustLoveBeagles]

9. Huge blunder by Jake Tapper

But not a anti white conspiracy.

[Walleye]

10. Everybody makes mistakes, Jake makes a little more than his share sometimes

I assume Jake has come back on the air and corrected it. Something you don’t expect right wing outlets to do.

[MustLoveBeagles]

12. This is true

Don't like Tapper but this was unintentional. I've actually defended him twice this week which makes me feel weird.

[Walleye]

13. I'm sure it was unintentional, but it will be repeated by the maga folks time and time again

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. Of course

They're so predictable

[Walleye]

16. Yes, predictability is one of the things I'm growing to really hate about these guys, butthurt boys

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Wait, WHAAT?!?

The suspect is a black man?

But I read right here on DU that the bomber was none other than Majorie Taylor Greene, because she wears the same kind of sneakers as the bomber wore that night…

[usonian]

3. Perhaps maga will "forgive him" for being Black, because he told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories.

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220848629

Can a suspect be pardoned before trial?

Asking for a fiend.

[H2O Man]

11. Yes.

Ford pardoned Nixon, even before an arrest.

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. I've heard that's what cost him the election

[H2O Man]

18. It wasn't popular.

It was at a time when republicans had scandal fatigue, and only the hardcore were not upset by Nixon's crimes and Ford's pardon. So it was a fun time to be a Democrat, and to vote for Jimmy Carter.

[Coldwater]

4. I'm guessing it took the FBI so long to locate and arrest the bomber

because the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit profile of the suspect indicated he was a white male in his early 20s

[Faux pas]

5. Freudian slip maybe?

I doubt the person was black or even a man.

[Emile]

6. "The suspect looks remarkably like Joe Biden." LOL 😂

[usonian]

7. My quote, not Jake's.

I was just reading his mind.
Here's what I had to navigate:

a maze of twisty little passages, all different.
a twisty maze of little passages, all different.
a little twisty maze of passages, all different.
a twisty little maze of passages, all different.
a maze of little twisty passages, all different.
a little maze of twisty passages, all different.
a maze of twisting little passages, all different.
a twisting maze of little passages, all different.
a maze of little twisting passages, all different.
a little maze of twisting passages, all different.
a twisting little maze of passages, all different.

It was an adventure!

[Emile]

8. Your quote was hilarious.

[MustLoveBeagles]

14. I lulzed