CNN anchor Jake Tapper made a viral wave against the rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C. last week, for daring to challenge Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s narrative about the deadly riot at the Capitol on January 6.
Tapper’s tantrum against the Republican legislature began on Thursday with a tweet that seemed to allude to Mace’s suggestion that the “Squad” member was exaggerating his fears for his life. Mace pointed out that the rioters who invaded the Capitol last month never made it to the Cannon House Office Building, where both lawmakers have their offices.
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“That allied MAGA officials and media are now trying to pretend that the January 6 MAGA terrorist attack was not a big problem, that those who were afraid are not being sincere (or any other form of cover-up), no it was just predictable, it was predicted. Liars lie. That’s what they do, “Tapper tweeted.
“The person Jake is tweeting here as a mean girl is a rape survivor, Nancy Mace,” reacted conservative commentator Stephen Miller. “There is no better example than [CNN President] Jeff Zucker did for journalists supposedly serious than turning Jake Tapper into a Keith Olbermann journalist. And he agreed with that, $$$. “
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NewsBusters editor Curtis Houck scoffed at the “subtweet” in pointing out Tapper’s earlier praise for Mace, one of the few Republicans who spoke openly about the role of former President Trump in the events that led to the January 6 violence.
“You should just decide if she is someone you like and attract or a bricklayer for terrorists,” Houck told Tapper.
Tapper revisited the issue on Saturday after Mace sent a fundraising email using his public feud with Ocasio-Cortez.
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“@RepNancyMace raised funds with the false stain that @AOC misrepresented its experience during the insurrection. It did not,” wrote Tapper matter-of-factly. “Disappointing to see Mace do this. More about the spot, which was verified, here,” he additionally linked to a “fact check” by CNN.
“This is not journalism; it is crisis communications,” reacted Ricochet’s editor-in-chief, Jon Gabriel.
On Sunday, Tapper wrote a topic citing comments from Ocasio-Cortez herself.
“” In the past three weeks, I felt it was important to give a window of opportunity, right? Perhaps in some world, Senators Josh Hawley, or Senator Ted Cruz, or Representative Mo Brooks, would say, ‘You know what? I was wrong. I didn’t fully understand what the impact of my actions would be. And now, in retrospect, I see that you incited something that I never wanted to incite. And for that, I’m sorry. ‘ But not. They had almost a month. And they didn’t say that. They doubled ‘, ”Tapper wrote on behalf of the Squad member.
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“And they said, ‘I did the right thing. And if I could go back, I would do it all again. ‘ So it tells me that these people are still a present danger. Because what that tells me is that when they receive another window of political opportunity for themselves, even if they know it means they will put their colleagues at risk, they will do it again. “Tapper continued to quote the congresswoman.
Noam Blum, associate editor at Tablet Magazine, reacted to Tapper’s topic: “He really abandoned any pretensions at this point.”
This is not the first time that Tapper raised his eyebrows while risking his neck for Ocasio-Cortez. Last March, the CNN anchor admitted that he did not verify her facts during an interview when she claimed that then President Trump called the coronavirus a “scam” in the weeks leading up to the pandemic.
“I thought about it because the president didn’t call the virus a scam,” Tapper tweeted at the time. “But I didn’t do it because he * called * the concerns of those who say the president’s response was insufficient and that he was minimizing the severity of the crisis a joke. And that was also a lie.”
He continued, “I think that’s the problem with a politician who lies so often; although I agree that Democrats are misrepresenting what he said, what he said was also false, so it’s hard to justify taking the time to check the facts when not taking a stand defining the truth. “
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Tapper was also recently criticized for questioning the patriotism of Army veteran and double amputee, Deputy Brian Mast, R-Fla., For not supporting Trump’s impeachment.
“Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida – who lost his legs, incidentally, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know … about his commitment to this here in the United States,” said Tapper, referring to the explosion of FDI in 2010 in Afghanistan which cost Congressman two of its members.