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[Business Insider] The life of Jake Tapper: How a high school prankster became a journalistic icon, author, and champion of truth
businessinsider ^ | Sep 10, 2019 | James Pasley

Posted on 10/07/2021 11:04:42 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

CNN's Jake Tapper is one of the most well-known television journalists in the US.

Tapper values truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness, according to interviews. He's naturally skeptical and, to remain neutral, he doesn't vote.

Politico says he could be the best current television interviewer in the US.

He grew up in a Philadelphia "hippy" household, but one focused on what was right and wrong.

After three years he left Washington City Paper to become the Washington Correspondent for Salon. His editor at the time Joan Walsh said it was clear that he wasn't ideologically driven.

Tapper's wife says her husband isn't too hard to explain. He's honest and truthful and gets mad when other people aren't.

The day after the 2008 presidential election, Tapper was named ABC's senior White House correspondent.

From 2015 on, he's become one of CNN's go-to election debate hosts. In 2016, he asked then-presidential candidate Donald Trump 23 times whether comments he made about a federal judge were racist.

According to Vogue, this was when "it began" for Tapper. It wasn't until Trump entered the ring that Tapper began to come into his own and become a "viral sensation."

In February 2017, he had his now-infamous interview with Kellyanne Conway. What was scheduled to be a 10 minute interview ran for 25 minutes without breaks. He took on Conway about CNN's coverage of terrorism, false reports on murder rates in the US, and an entirely made-up massacre. He listed inaccurate statements made by Trump and said "false" after every one of them.

In 2019, he moderated the second Democratic presidential debate and was criticized for his relentless observing of time restrictions.

Since Trump became president, Tapper's said he's been reminded a journalist's job is to take a stand over facts, truth, and human decency.

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To: Az Joe

Are you his brother-in-law or something?


21 posted on 10/07/2021 11:41:25 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: MarvinStinson

How did he do it? Jewish relatives and friends hired him!


22 posted on 10/07/2021 11:41:57 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Nice puff piece.


23 posted on 10/07/2021 11:43:52 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt
Nice puff piece.

Speaking of which, didn't he have a casual date with that woman, Miss Lawinsky?

24 posted on 10/07/2021 11:51:02 AM PDT by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: MarvinStinson

/major eyeroll


25 posted on 10/07/2021 11:56:52 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: MarvinStinson
"Jake Tapper, an icon of truth."

26 posted on 10/07/2021 12:01:02 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: MarvinStinson; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Flake Fapper is a Whut ?


27 posted on 10/07/2021 12:14:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: MarvinStinson

I don’t watch cnn and only hear about them here or other places, but from what I hear there aren’t any of them anywhere close to a “champion of truth”.


28 posted on 10/07/2021 12:14:21 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He’s still a prankster


29 posted on 10/07/2021 12:15:41 PM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Super hurl alert if this isn’t a parody.


30 posted on 10/07/2021 12:16:09 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: MarvinStinson

Did Jake write this tripe?


31 posted on 10/07/2021 12:27:10 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Fake Crapper? Is that who you mean?


32 posted on 10/07/2021 12:35:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Hard times: hard men. Hard men: soft times. Soft times: soft men. Soft men: hard times)
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To: MarvinStinson

Narrator:

In fact, Jake Tapper was a PRETEND journalist.


33 posted on 10/07/2021 1:03:15 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: MarvinStinson

This thread needs a Barf Alert!


34 posted on 10/07/2021 1:13:56 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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To: MarvinStinson

Business Leftsider.


35 posted on 10/07/2021 1:29:30 PM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: MarvinStinson

Tapper values truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness, according to interviews. He’s naturally skeptical and, to remain neutral, he doesn’t vote.

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didn’t need to read any further...that whopper told me all I need to know.

Tapper wouldn’t know he truth if it walked up and slapped him...with a 3 day dead catfish...


36 posted on 10/07/2021 2:04:52 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!)
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To: NohSpinZone

“He’s better than most of the CNN clowns but a “champion of truth”?”

OK, but Tapper is still a certified A$$hole! A slightly better A$$hole than the other CNN A$$holes.


37 posted on 10/07/2021 2:43:28 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: MarvinStinson

Not sure about the first two but I have serious issues with truth thing.


38 posted on 10/07/2021 2:52:55 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: MarvinStinson

Jake is a goofy assclown.


39 posted on 10/07/2021 5:20:18 PM PDT by KEVLAR ( )
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To: Paleo Pete

truth, transparency, honesty, and kindness

That’s Jake


40 posted on 10/07/2021 5:39:24 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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