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CNN’s Jake Tapper Admits He Allowed Ocasio-Cortez to Lie About Trump
Breitbart ^ | 23 Mar 2020 | JOHN NOLTE

Posted on 03/23/2020 10:40:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk

CNN’s Jake Tapper is admitting he knew Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a lie about President Trump on his Sunday show and he chose to not challenge or correct her.

Here’s what happened…

Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Tapper’s State of the Union Sunday and repeated the long-debunked lie that Trump described the coronavirus as a “hoax.”

After Tapper was criticized online for not challenging or correcting her, he smugly took to Twitter and admitted he chose to allow her to lie to his audience, and then bizarrely blamed Trump for his own moral lapse.

“I thought about it, because the president did not call the virus a hoax,” Tapper tweeted Sunday to someone who said he should have fact checked Ocasio-Cortez.

“But I didn’t because he *did* call a hoax the concerns of those saying that the response from the president was insufficient and that he was downplaying the gravity of the crisis. And that too was a lie,” he added.

Then came this jaw-dropping admission [emphasis added]:

I guess that’s the problem with a politician who lies so often; while I agree that Democrats are mischaracterizing what he said, what he did say was also false so it’s tough to justify taking the time for a fact check when it’s not taking a stand defining the truth.

It comes down to this…

Jake Tapper remained silent in the face of lies and disinformation because he hates Trump, and then after getting caught, he responds and rationalizes by attacking Trump.

All I can say is this…

Never once in the 30 years I’ve been monitoring the media, have I ever seen a so-called journalist justify and practically brag about allowing what he knows are lies and disinformation to take place on his own news program.

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To: ConservativeInPA

And for the ChiComs.


21 posted on 03/23/2020 11:22:39 AM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: Hojczyk

Sounds like Tapper needs to go back to kindergarten, because he hasn’t learned “two wrongs don’t make a right”.


22 posted on 03/23/2020 11:24:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Hojczyk

As I have said many times: “never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.” Here is a classic example. Fake Jake is a pathetic fool who calls himself a journalist. Big money rots the mind, right Fake Jake?


23 posted on 03/23/2020 11:40:34 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: BenLurkin
It’s not his job to correct her lies.

Yeah, he's not George Stephanopolous.
24 posted on 03/23/2020 11:44:08 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Abortion mills are kept open as a necessity, but the churches have been closed.)
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To: Old Yeller

My mistake. Stephanopolous “corrected” OBeelzebub’s truths.


25 posted on 03/23/2020 11:45:00 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Abortion mills are kept open as a necessity, but the churches have been closed.)
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To: Old Yeller

Correct. And if anyone ever doubts you show them this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw


26 posted on 03/23/2020 11:56:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Savage Beast

“If Tapper can be honest about anything, there’s hope for him.”

He is probably lying here/there or omitting something.


27 posted on 03/23/2020 12:06:49 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Common Sense Licensing and Regulations on “Professional Speech” for compensation or gain would solve our Fake News Media problem


28 posted on 03/23/2020 12:37:59 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Grampa Dave

Why is an honest man working for the Propaganda Machine?


29 posted on 03/23/2020 2:25:36 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Curse of intelligence: Having to watch the morons try everything you know won't work!)
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To: econjack

No, he’s not; an ass is a four legged animal that eats grass.

Jake Tapper is a two legged animal that takes it up the ass.


30 posted on 03/23/2020 3:40:33 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Hojczyk

Time for the Lincoln Gambit.


31 posted on 03/23/2020 4:16:21 PM PDT by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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To: 5th MEB

Perhaps both?


32 posted on 03/23/2020 6:58:19 PM PDT by econjack
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To: ConservativeInPA
Tapper is no journalist. He’s a mouth piece for the DNC.
Journalism is about bad news, which means that journalists are always on the lookout for bad news - which means that journalists are systematically negative.

The wire services are continual virtual meetings of all major journalists. They inherently create a journalism cartel - per Adam Smith, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” It’s an open-and-shut case.

The journalism cartel proclaims that “journalists are objective” - but we know that journalists are systematically negative. And we know that “negativity is objectivity” is the mantra of the cynic.

Journalism is cynical about society. But it would be incoherent to be cynical about anything and simultaneously cynical about its opposite. Accordingly journalism is naive about the opposite of society - namely, government.

The upshot is that the journalism cartel is inherently socialist-minded. Which makes it the enemy of any small-government politician or voter.

The reason the journalism cartel blithely libel small-government politicians is the unanimous 1964 SCOTUS New York Times Co. v. Sullivan decision, which asserted

". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”
the novel doctrine that the First Amendment modified libel law. No court had ever suggested that before, and Antonin Scalia rejected it on the originalist ground that the First Amendment - indeed, the whole Bill of Rights - was created to assure that no rights were changed by the Constitution (“the” freedom of the press meant freedom of the press as it already existed and was understood. That is, freedom within understood limits of libel and pornography law).

Sullivan must be challenged by a prominent Republican. The Roberts Court, not the Warren Court, now sits. And might be even more favorable to liberty if Ginzberg isn’t on the court when the test arrives there.

The test case must also challenge the legality of the wire services, on grounds that their obvious cartel-forming tendency is no longer justifiable at all, since conservation of telegraphy bandwidth - their once-indispensable virtue - is a trivial benefit in the Internet Age.


33 posted on 03/24/2020 7:54:40 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ((Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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