As we’ve previously documented here at RedState, CNN’s Jake Tapper has firmly established himself over the last several years as the type of media figure who almost always has an angle to push. Not surprisingly, most of those angles involve the promotion and/or perpetuation of tiresome Democratic bogeyman narratives about the evil nature of Republicans.
Had that not been clear prior to Election Day, Tapper’s post-election actions –including launching into juvenile rants against White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany as well as endorsing the concept of an Enemies List-style shaming of former Trump administration officials – should put any doubts about Tapper’s supposed “objectivity” as a journalist to rest.
Along with being a pom pom-waving cheerleader for Team Biden comes certain responsibilities, and one of them includes rampant virtue signaling on Twitter, something at which Tapper excels on a daily basis.
Case in point, a tweet Tapper posted earlier today in response to one from Columbia Journalism School professor Bill Grueskin on how “GOP lawmakers who once supported [Georgia Secretary of State Brad] Raffensperger” allegedly “won’t comment” on reports that Raffensperger and his wife have received vile death threats, including some of an allegedly “sexual nature” in the aftermath of how he handled Georgia’s presidential election.
Tapper’s reply was to accuse Republicans of “such moral cowardice”:
Such moral cowardice. https://t.co/AszVjDaw6X
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 28, 2020
It did not sit well with people who have more than a passing knowledge of Tapper’s history on the “moral cowardice” front, including our own managing editor Streiff:
I mean you sat silent on a stage while a corrupt and recalled parkland sheriff blamed a mass shooting on a senator and spokesperson who had nothing to do with it. https://t.co/A8VNbCVziK
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 29, 2020
“Moral cowardice” pic.twitter.com/quhfhIPrfF
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 29, 2020
funny seeing the guy who set Dana Loesch up to be a target of the same kinds of threats opining about moral cowardice…but, then again, he is a subject matter expert
— streiff (@streiffredstate) November 29, 2020
Moral cowardice is attacking a high school kid in a MAGA hat on a cable news channel @jaketapper https://t.co/0C9dzBvlzd
— Texas Darlin’ 🎀 (@TexitDarling) November 29, 2020
Is there a tweet from Jake condemning the threats the Trump election lawyers received in PA? https://t.co/zpd7SiyX9y
— Miz Donna⭐⭐⭐ (@mizdonna) November 29, 2020
I didn’t see one, nor did I see a tweet from Tapper condemning the violent threats directed towards General Services Administration (GSA) chief Emily Murphy, which ramped up after Tapper’s tough guy colleague Chris Cuomo made Murphy the target of some vicious rants on his “Prime Time” program, including flashing her picture onscreen and accusing her of “smiling” while people were dying from the coronavirus.
What I have seen Tapper tweet, however, is for other media outlets like the New York Post to bend the knee to the Powers That Be at Twitter instead of standing firm on journalistic principles against their selective censorship tactics.
I’ve also seen Tapper lecture Fox News reporters about what real journalism supposedly is and isn’t, which is rather comical when you consider his network’s four-year “Russia collusion” disinformation campaign, not to mention all the other “bombshells” CNN reported on that turned out to be anything but. Not to mention all the stories CNN has ignored, which is another topic altogether for another day.
So no, not a single person in the Republican party needs a lecture on alleged “moral cowardice” from someone who to this day who throws competing media outlets under the bus when it’s convenient to his narratives, and who won’t utter one word of criticism against his own network despite how often they do the very things he accuses Republicans and his competitors at rival networks of doing.
Don’t go away mad, Jake Tapper. Just go away.
