Poor fake Jake Tapper. No one likes him except himself. Now Donna Brazile is throwing fakey Jake under the bush, claiming that Jake Tapper betrayed her after she leaked debate questions to Hillary Clinton during last year’s Democrat primary.
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One of the next bits coming to light is her memories of feeling very upset and betrayed by CNN’s Jake Tapper. This is one of the most curious claims out of a pack of stories which already warp the imagination. It all has to do with the moment which eventually proved her downfall. That came when leaked emails revealed that she had been sending debate questions to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in advance to give her a leg up on Bernie Sanders. But somehow, at least in the version of the story she’s telling herself, Jake Tapper was the one who was acting inappropriately.
Over at Hotair.com, the one time conservative site still has a boner for Jake Tapper, so as you would except, they are spinning widely to try and shield Tapper from any criticism by Brazile.
All I can say is that she’s really giving Jake Tapper the short end of the stick here. He repeatedly told people that he had always had nothing but respect for Donna Brazile and that was probably why he found the whole sordid mess so shocking. But until clarification was offered, her actions could still reflect badly on CNN. But the fact is that Roland Martin (or someone at TV One) gave her the questions and it was only Roland who asked the questions revealed in the email. The questions Tapper asked during the debate never showed up in the emails.
In that sense, if anyone was owed an apology, Brazile could have used her highly publicized book to apologize to Jake and his network, not carp about not receiving an apology from them. As to the language he used in that interview which seems to have upset her so much, well… that’s fairly mild. Her grounds for objecting are also curious. She’s bothered that she was called “unethical” but saying that she was a “commentator, not a journalist” does not in any way lessen the ethical shortcomings of rigging a presidential primary debate. Tapper was clearly “horrified” at the implications of someone speaking on CNN’s stage acting in such a fashion, and for good reason.
I never could understand how those who called themselves conservatives could ever defend this CNN hack Jake Tapper. Now I’m getting it. It’s the anti-Trump “Republicans” who like to claim they are conservatives when they are anything but. I guess that’s why Rick Perry famously called the site “Hot Gas” once.