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anybody catch Jake Tapper stepping on his dick?
Talking about the Kennedy abortion apostasty, Tapper said something like this: "Is justice Kennedy evolving to the left.....or devolving, as some might say."
so his first thought was evolve to the left, then, catching himself almost instantly, replace ''evolve'' with ''devolve''. very telling, yes?
wouldn't you love to see the little wheels spinning madly in his tiny brain?
broken cables:
http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schneiderlab/projects/hdft.asp
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looks too purty to be his. 
Jake Tapper: A Case Study in the Corrupting Effects of the Village
Any sentient political writer or observer knows this is complete nonsense -- that until 2011, the votes were symbolic by both parties, and there was never a prior threat to cripple the US and the world financially until that year. And yet here was "Senior WH Correspondent" Jake Tapper, asking a nonsense question that could have been supplied by McConnell or Boehner.
Back in the primeval, pre-blog days of 2000, there was little to read politically online except Salon and Slate. Slate was already showing signs of phony, harmful contrarianism ("even the liberal Slate . . ."
, with the likes of Mickey Kaus, Greg Easterbrook and Will Saletan. But Salon was reliably progressive, and one of the best writers there was Jake Tapper. Tapper was a good reporter, leaning liberal, but fair and objective. His coverage of the 2000 election theft was excellent, and led to a pretty good book about it: Down and Dirty, the Plot to Steal the Presidency. Although the book indicted both sides, the Bush forces were indicted for lying and cheating, and the Dems for weakness and incompetence. I can't argue with that.
Although Tapper didn't do much exposing of lies before the Iraq War, shortly after the war started, he did do some good pieces on the deception that led to the war. For example, on March 26, 2003, he wrote a column, Sticker Shock . . and Awe about the phony projections of cost and duration by the Bush administration. In June he wrote columns titled Weapons of Mass Deception and The Hyping of Saddam's WMD.
In 2003, Tapper joined ABC News, and in 2008 he was made WH Correspondent. Now, Tapper has become a fount of Village CW, sometimes sinking to Maureen Dowd-like depths such as speculation on whether Obama is still smoking In October 2009, Tapper joined the other networks in fainting at how cruel the Obama administration was being to its sister "news organization," Fox.
read on:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/11/1168916/-Jake-Tapper-A-Case-Study-in-the-Corrupting-Effects-of-the-Village
Any sentient political writer or observer knows this is complete nonsense -- that until 2011, the votes were symbolic by both parties, and there was never a prior threat to cripple the US and the world financially until that year. And yet here was "Senior WH Correspondent" Jake Tapper, asking a nonsense question that could have been supplied by McConnell or Boehner.
Back in the primeval, pre-blog days of 2000, there was little to read politically online except Salon and Slate. Slate was already showing signs of phony, harmful contrarianism ("even the liberal Slate . . ."
, with the likes of Mickey Kaus, Greg Easterbrook and Will Saletan. But Salon was reliably progressive, and one of the best writers there was Jake Tapper. Tapper was a good reporter, leaning liberal, but fair and objective. His coverage of the 2000 election theft was excellent, and led to a pretty good book about it: Down and Dirty, the Plot to Steal the Presidency. Although the book indicted both sides, the Bush forces were indicted for lying and cheating, and the Dems for weakness and incompetence. I can't argue with that.
Although Tapper didn't do much exposing of lies before the Iraq War, shortly after the war started, he did do some good pieces on the deception that led to the war. For example, on March 26, 2003, he wrote a column, Sticker Shock . . and Awe about the phony projections of cost and duration by the Bush administration. In June he wrote columns titled Weapons of Mass Deception and The Hyping of Saddam's WMD.
In 2003, Tapper joined ABC News, and in 2008 he was made WH Correspondent. Now, Tapper has become a fount of Village CW, sometimes sinking to Maureen Dowd-like depths such as speculation on whether Obama is still smoking In October 2009, Tapper joined the other networks in fainting at how cruel the Obama administration was being to its sister "news organization," Fox.
Tapper: It's escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations "not a news organization" and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it's appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –
read on:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/11/1168916/-Jake-Tapper-A-Case-Study-in-the-Corrupting-Effects-of-the-Village
