Tag: "Jake Tapper"
Amanpour Begins Her Time as Hard-Hitting Host By Giving Pelosi a Hard-Hitting Tongue-Bath
The Christiane Amanpour era began at ABC this weekend as the long-time CNN international talking head took over the network’s This Week Sunday pundit show from Jake Tapper. Tapper had done a very good job running the show and has been popular inside the network. Save for his choice of panel guests (which always slanted [...]
The Unbearable Blindness of Bias (or, Why Jake Tapper Could Use a Few Conservative Coworkers)
I have oft opined that left-wing media bias is much less the “Oooooo! I hates me some conservatives” variety and much more the kind of bias where journalists live in a left-wing echo chamber where they can count the number of real conservative friends and associates they have on the fingers of half of one [...]
A Note to Jake Tapper and His Other Media Compatriots
Come on Jake, don’t dance around; you can write that sentence. If the President was named Bush and the issue was Social Security, you know you would have written it the very first time a couple Republicans so much as expressed doubts about any part of his plan. There’s no reason you can’t write it [...]
When You Lie Down with Weasels, You Wake a Loser
Lots of folks have written thousands of words about why John McCain didn’t win the election last October. To be sure, McCain ran an abysmal campaign. It had no compelling message, his debate performances were lackluster at best, and he refused to attack Barack Obama where he was the weakest. One of the few things [...]
Mr. Tapper Goes to Washington
Maybe the MSM isn’t completely dead after all. ABC named Jake Tapper to be their Chief White House Correspondent. He’s been doing excellent work covering the campaigns and has been one of the very few big-time journalists who has resisted the Obama Leg-Thrill. Tapper has been fair and as objective as you could ask of [...]
That’s What You Said