Seth Barron: ‘For Progressives, the Universe of Victims is Infinite’
Posted: February 3, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Bill de Blasio, City Journal, CNN, Donald Trump, Executive order, Jake Tapper, Manhattan Institute, Muslim world, New York City, No Borders, President of the United States, Radical Left, United States Leave a commentTrump v. the Border-less Left
Seth Barron writes: From illegal aliens who have committed crimes, to all immigrants, to “people of color” generally: the circle of Trump’s victims widens by orders of magnitude in de Blasio’s fantasy of total persecution. Even to ask a question about whether illegal aliens should be regarded in the same way as legal immigrants betrays an “ideological bent”; on the other hand, it is perfectly straightforward to read a legal challenge to sanctuary cities as all-out race war.
“The Left’s favorite cliché: ‘I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking to control her body.'”
The mayor’s expansive definition of victimhood was echoed this weekend by Governor Cuomo, who repeated the Left’s favorite cliché: “I am a Muslim. I am a Jew. I am Black. I am gay. I am a woman seeking to control her body.” This quasi-heroic affirmation of identity with the oppressed fringes of society, powered by anaphora, collapses into intersectional absurdity, and ultimately becomes the lowest form of political pandering, underscored by the repetition of the word “I.”
“This quasi-heroic affirmation of identity with the oppressed fringes of society, powered by anaphora, collapses into intersectional absurdity, and ultimately becomes the lowest form of political pandering, underscored by the repetition of the word ‘I’.”
Last Friday, Trump announced that he would extend and expand the visa restrictions that Obama established in the 2015 Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, impose a 90-day moratorium on travel from seven countries with links to organized terror, and put a halt to the Syrian-refugee resettlement program.
[Read the full story here, at City Journal]
These policies fulfill campaign promises and have been clearly stated as temporary measures in order to make sure that migrants are being accurately screened. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Manchin Rebukes Lewis
Posted: January 14, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Civil Rights, CNN, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Jake Tapper, Joe Manchin, John Lewis, Left Wing, Legitimate, media, news, Smear Campaign, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Benenson Downplays Intense Exchange With Trump’s Staff at Harvard Forum
Posted: December 5, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Benenson, Comey Letter, Donald Trump, Harvard, Harvard School of Government, Hillary Clinton, Jake Tapper, media, MSNBC, NBC, news, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] Jake Tapper and Robby Mook on Clinton Study: ‘Deplorables’ Alienated Voters
Posted: December 5, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 2016 Presidential Campaign, 2016 Presidential Race, CNN, Donald Trump, Harvard, Jake Tapper, Kellyanne Conway, Kennedy School of Government, media, news, Robby Mook, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] David French on CNN Regarding Decision to Not Run for President
Posted: June 6, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Bill Kristol, Bronze Medal, CNN, Conservative, David French, GOP, Jake Tapper, media, Nancy French, National Review, news, NRO, POTUS, President of the United States, Presidential Election 2016, Third Party, video Leave a comment
Should a #GOP governor run as an independent? https://t.co/Pbuf1r6jLv – @DavidAFrench on #TheLead
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 6, 2016
[VIDEO] Jake Tapper Exposes State Department’s Video Deletion Deception
Posted: June 2, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Mediasphere, Politics, War Room, White House | Tags: China, CNN, Democratic Party (United States), Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal government of the United States, Jake Tapper, James Rosen, Jen Psaki, John Kirby, Marc Elias, Terry McAuliffe, United States Department of Justice 1 CommentDavid Rutz reports: CNN host Jake Tapper used the “buried lead” of his show Thursday to blast the State Department for its deception surrounding an intentional video deletion from a December 2013 briefing, saying it should “outrage every American.”
“It’s literally someone at the State Department trying to bury something, hiding it from you. In this case, it was an acknowledgment by the Obama administration of having lied to reporters, a scrubbing of the public record, and it should outrage every American.”
State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted Wednesday that a staffer deliberately edited out video from the briefing of an unflattering exchange regarding Obama administration talks with Iran.
[Read the full story here, at freebeacon.com]
“It’s literally someone at the State Department trying to bury something, hiding it from you,” Tapper said. “In this case, it was an acknowledgment by the Obama administration of having lied to reporters, a scrubbing of the public record, and it should outrage every American.”
“We learned that there was a deliberate request, that this wasn’t a technical glitch. This was a deliberate request to excise video.”
— State Department spokesman John Kirby
In step-by-step fashion, Tapper laid out to viewers three different lies told by members of the agency. It started when former spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told Fox News reporter James Rosen in February 2013 that there had been no direct talks between Iran and the United States, when they in fact had been going on for months.
In December of 2013, Rosen pointed out to new spokeswoman Jen Psaki that the U.S. had engaged in bilateral talks with Iran earlier in the administration, as acknowledged by Psaki herself.
“The State Department had lied to him and to you,” Tapper said. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] ‘At Some Point Aren’t You Just Ashamed?’ Jake Tapper Grills Trump Puppet Sarah Huckabee Sanders Over False Smears
Posted: March 29, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Amanda Carpenter, CNN, Director of communications, Donald Trump, Jake Tapper, media, Mike Huckabee, National Enquirer, news, Political action committee, Republican Party (United States), Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ted Cruz, video Leave a commentAt one point, Jake Tapper says, “Sarah, I’ve known you and I’ve known your family for a long time, and I can’t believe that either one of you would condone what Dan Scavino did yesterday!”
What he’s referring to is Trump’s scumbag media guy pushing out an idiotic video as “evidence” that Amanda Carpenter had an affair with Ted Cruz….(read more)
Source: therightscoop.com
RNC Shakes Up Staff to Calm GOP Campaigns’ Growing Frustrations Over Debates
Posted: November 1, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Debate, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Drudge Report, GOP, Jake Tapper, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee, Republican Party (United States), Ted Cruz Leave a comment“Last week was a debacle and we’re adding Sean, an experienced federal election attorney, to this team because of what happened. He has significant political relationships and will be a huge asset as we seek the best possible format for the candidates. He is going to take the leading role for the debates moving forward.”
— Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist and spokesman
Priebus has elevated Sean Cairncross, the chief operating officer of the RNC and its former chief counsel, to be the GOP’s new lead debate negotiator and organizer.
[Read the full text here, at The Washington Post]
The move effectively gives the debate responsibilities currently held by Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist and spokesman, to Cairncross. Spicer, a confidant of Priebus, will remain in his role but will work in a supplementary position when it comes to arranging the debates.
Priebus’s decision, which was detailed in an e-mail that the RNC sent to campaigns Sunday before a private summit of aides to 2016 candidates, was shared by a Republican presidential campaign aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal the document. That gathering was held at a hotel in the Washington suburbs and attended by advisers to several campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »
Byron York: At CNN, a Double Standard for Dem, GOP Debates
Posted: October 14, 2015 Filed under: Censorship, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Anderson Cooper, Bernie Sanders, Brian Stelter, Byron York, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, CNN, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Donald Wuerl, Fox News Sunday, Hillary Clinton, Jake Tapper, Rand Paul, Republican Party (United States), Thomas Rosica Leave a commentByron York writes: Before the Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library Sept. 16, CNN promised to stage what it called “actual debating.”
“Is one of the goals for you … to spur more actual debating?” CNN’s Brian Stelter asked debate moderator Jake Tapper a few days before the event. Stelter pointed to a moment in the August Fox News debate in which two candidates, Chris Christie and Rand Paul, had an extended and heated — and illuminating — exchange with each other.*
“That was my favorite moment from the debate,” Tapper said. “Let’s have as many of those as possible. So, yes, what the team and I have been doing is trying to craft questions that, in most cases, pit candidates against the other, specific candidates on the stage, on issues where they disagree, whether it’s policy or politics or leadership. Let’s actually have them discuss and debate.”
“I don’t think this is a debate where you’ll have candidates attack each other; we’ve not seen this on the campaign trail. Bernie Sanders has been very clear. He’s not going to go after Hillary Clinton by name. He’s not going to criticize her. And I see no reason that Hillary Clinton would do that with any of the candidates.”
— Anderson Cooper
That was then. Now, another CNN anchor, Anderson Cooper, will be moderating a debate, this time among Democrats, and he says there will be none of that raucous “actual debating” this time around.
[Read the full text here, at the Washington Examiner]
Leave the slugfest to the Republicans. The Democratic debate will be a serious discussion of the issues. Read the rest of this entry »
OH YES SHE DID: Carly Fiorina Tops Hillary Clinton in Head-to-Head Matchup: Poll
Posted: September 24, 2015 Filed under: Politics, White House | Tags: Carly Fiorina, CNN, Donald Trump, Florida, Hewlett-Packard, Hillary Clinton, Jake Tapper, Jeb Bush, Republican Party (United States), Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Leave a commentLatest Quinnipiac University Poll Not Good News for Hillary.
Carly Fiorina tops Hillary Rodham Clinton in a head-to-head general election matchup, according to the latest Quinnipiac University Poll released Thursday morning that also found the former Hewlett-Packard CEO easily outperformed GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump in last week’s debate.
Still, Mr. Trump continues to lead the Republican pack with 25 percent support, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 17 percent and Ms. Fiorina at 12 percent.
Two Floridians, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, are next with 10 percent and 9 percent support, respectively.
Mrs. Clinton, meanwhile, holds a commanding lead in the Democratic primary, with 43 percent support, well ahead of Sen. Bernard Sanders at 25 percent and Vice President Joseph R. Biden at 10 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
Marco Rubio’s Brouhaha-Filled Week: CNN’s Jake Tapper Goes Back to His Roots as a Political Cartoonist in ‘State of the Cartoonion’
Posted: June 14, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Animation, Boat, Cartoons, CNN, Jake Tapper, Marco Rubio, media, New York Times, news Leave a commentCNN’s Jake Tapper goes back to his roots as a political cartoonist in “State of the Cartoonion.”
The Jake Tapper Sketchbook: Bill Clinton
Posted: June 9, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Bill Clinton, Cartoons, CNN, Jake Tapper, media, Twitter Leave a comment
announcing our first guest on @CNNsotu this Sunday… tweet question ideas with #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/XqKLSWM5Tb
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 9, 2015
State Department Official Dan Rosen Arrested, Suspected of Soliciting Sex from Minor
Posted: February 24, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: al Qaeda, Daniel Rosen, Houthis, Jake Tapper, Jennifer Psaki, Oman, Sana'a, Sport utility vehicle, The Pentagon, United States, United States Department of State, Yemen Leave a commentChristine Mai-Duc reports: A senior State Department official who oversees counter-terrorism programs has been arrested on suspicion of of soliciting sex from a minor, authorities in Virginia said late Tuesday.
“We are aware that a State Department employee has been arrested and charges have been issued…His security clearance will be suspended, and he will be put on administrative leave while this proceeds to its end through any judicial process.”
— State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
Daniel Rosen was arrested at his home in Washington, D.C., just after noon and is being held in the city’s jail on suspicion of use of a communications device to solicit a juvenile, said Lucy Caldwell, spokeswoman for the Fairfax County Police Department.
Fairfax county VA police confirm arrest of senior State Department official Dan Rosen for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 25, 2015
According to Caldwell, Rosen’s arrest was the result of an online exchange between him and detectives in her agency’s Child Exploitation Unit.
He is expected to be extradited to the Fairfax County jail soon.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Rosen, 44, is the director of counter-terrorism programs and policy for the State Department. Police said they have notified the State Department of his arrest.
“We are aware that a State Department employee has been arrested and charges have been issued,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. Psaki declined to name the employee or the charges, citing privacy reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday Night Doodles: Jake Tapper’s Sketch of Senator Mitch McConnell Just After CNN Projects His Election Victory in Kentucky
Posted: November 4, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: CNN, Election 2014, Illustration, Jake Tapper, Kentucky, media, Mitch McConnell Leave a comment
@jaketapper sketches Sen. Mitch McConnell just after CNN projects his re-election in Kentucky #kysen #CNNElection
[VIDEO] ISIS Cells In the U.S.: ‘They’re Here, They Cheer, and They’re Capable of Striking’
Posted: September 3, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CNN, Iraq, ISIS, Jake Tapper, Mexico–United States border, Robert Baer, Syria, United States, Washington 2 CommentsFormer CIA Operative says ISIS Cells are in the U.S.
(CNN) – Jake Tapper reports: Militant group ISIS released another gruesome video, showing the beheading of a second American, journalist Steven Sotloff.
“The people who do this for a living are very alarmed.”
— Former CIA operative Bob Baer
The terrorist group has gained strongholds in eastern Syria and northeastern Iraq, and, according to a former CIA operative, ISIS cells have already infiltrated the U.S.
“The people who collect tactical intelligence on the ground, day-to-day.. say they’re here, ISIS is here, they’re capable of striking.”
“The people who collect tactical intelligence on the ground, day-to-day – and this isn’t Washington – but people collecting this stuff say they’re here, ISIS is here, they’re capable of striking,” said CNN national security analyst and former CIA operative Bob Baer. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] REWIND: White House Expected…’Euphoria’ Over Bergdahl Release?
Posted: June 3, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room, White House | Tags: Afghanistan, Andrea Mitchell, Bergdahl, Bowe Bergdahl, Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, Michael Hastings, Michael Tomasky, Taliban, White House Leave a commentHot Air’s ALLAHPUNDIT comments:
“…As for Todd’s point about the White House expecting “euphoria,” there are only two possibilities. One: Despite a Pentagon investigation in 2010 into Bergdahl’s disappearance, despite Michael Hastings’s article two years ago in Rolling Stone, despite the fact that Bergdahl apparently left a note confirming his desertion, somehow everyone in the administration who had input into this prisoner swap missed the longstanding accusations against him. They thought they were bringing home a guy who was captured heroically in combat and have now been caught completely by surprise. I don’t buy that, although I’ve had a few dozen conservative pals warn me on Twitter over the past 24 hours to never underestimate Hopenchange’s ignorance and incompetence. Point taken, and if this were purely a policy matter, I might go along. It isn’t. It’s a political landmine too and O’s usually careful to protect his own political capital. Someone surely looked into Bergdahl’s disappearance and signed off on this knowing the allegations against him.
Which brings us to the other possibility. Namely, Obama expected “euphoria” over Bergdahl’s release not because he didn’t know about the desertion claims but because he assumed that most of the public would never find out. I think he expected the media to go face-first into the tank in ignoring the desertion angle in the interest of (a) protecting the White House and (b) playing up the gauzy “POW reunited with parents” human-interest stuff. And you know what? That was a reasonable expectation. They probably thought that any desertion claims against Bergdahl would be confined to Fox and a few problematic segments on Jake Tapper’s show, all of which could be ignored and ghettoized as some new right-wing bugaboo (sorry, Jake) that no one else need take seriously. Michael Tomasky was way out in front of that yesterday morning. But then all sorts of big-media outlets dug in — the Times, WaPo, NBC, ABC, and on and on — and that made the “politicization” defense too difficult (although the left, God love ‘em, is still trying). I’m shocked by how eagerly the media went after it, frankly, although not as shocked as the White House. The X factor they didn’t anticipate, I’ll bet, is that soldiers like Cody Full would come forward and risk retaliation for putting his name to the “deserter” theory. It’s one thing to call a Republican a hack, it’s another to call a veteran who was there and who lost friends in the hunt for Bergdahl one. They’ve been left with no counter.
[VIDEO] Ted Cruz Responds to Jeb Bush on Immigration: ‘This Is Not a Humane System’
Posted: April 8, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: CNN, Illegal immigration, Immigration, Jake Tapper, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Texas, Washington 3 Comments(CNN) – Ted Cruz addressed Jeb Bush’s comments about illegal immigration being “an act of love” on CNN Monday, telling Jake Tapper that he believes “we need to be a nation that welcomes and celebrates legal immigrants,” but at the same time “rule of law matters” and “securing your border is critically important” for any nation.
Cruz argued that far from being “an act of love” there is very little humanity to be found in illegal immigration.
“If you come down to Texas and you see the conditions, where you see photographs that are heartbreaking, of bodies of women and children left abandoned in the desert because they entrust themselves to transnational global criminal cartels who smuggle them in, who assault them, who leave them to die, this is not a humane system.”
[VIDEO] North Korea Execution: Uncle Jang Song Thaek does the Perp Walk
Posted: December 13, 2013 Filed under: Asia, Breaking News, Global, Politics, War Room | Tags: Asia, Jake Tapper, Jang Sung-taek, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Kyong-hui, Korean Central News Agency, North Korea, Pyongyang Leave a commentExpert: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s once-powerful uncle has been purged before, but has never done a perp walk.
North Korea Ousts Uncle: CNN – Jake Tapper
[VIDEO] CNN: Cornel West Warns Against the ‘Santa Claus-ification’ of Nelson Mandela
Posted: December 8, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: CNN, Cornel West, Jake Tapper, Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Reihan Salam, Santa Claus, South Africa 2 CommentsBy Friday evening, nearly every cable news commentator on the planet had gotten a chance to weigh in on the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. But none of them had a take quite like that of Dr. Cornel West, who joined Jake Tapper on CNN to denounce what he sees as the “Santa Claus-ification” of the South African leader.
Asked if Mandela’s passing has caused the media to “cover up” how some people, especially those on the right in American politics, viewed him in the not-so-distant past, West answered affirmatively. “I think no doubt we are,” he said. Calling Mandela a “spiritual giant, moral titan and political revolutionary,” West described what we are now witnessing as a “Santa Claus-ification” of his legacy.
VIDEO: McDonald’s Employee Admits Being Paid to Protest WW2 Veterans
Posted: October 2, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Government shutdown, Honor Flight, Jake Tapper, McDonald, National Mall, National Park Service, National World War II Memorial, World War II 5 CommentsPatrick Poole writes: Yesterday I reported from the National World War Two Memorial on several members of Congress crashing the barricades set up by the National Park Service that were keeping out several hundred Honor Flight veterans — many of whom were WW2 veterans — from visiting their own memorial. The Park Service claimed that the memorial and the entire National Mall area had to be closed because of the government shutdown.
The same scene was reenacted again today as two Honor Flights from Missouri and Chicago arrived in prearranged visits. These Honor Flights were met by hundreds of ordinary citizens and about a dozen members of Congress, who once again crashed the barricades to let the veterans into the WW2 Memorial.
After about an hour, about 20 protesters arrived on the scene chanting “Boehner, get us back to work” and claiming they were federal employees furloughed because of the shutdown.
In the video below these protesters were marching towards the press gaggle and I was asking them to show their federal IDs to prove they were in fact federal workers. No one wore their federal ID and none would provide it to prove their claim.
Then, remarkably, a guy carrying a sign passed by wearing a McDonald’s employee shirt, which I noted. I then began asking them how much they had been paid to protest, at which point the guy wearing the McDonald’s shirt came back and admitted he had been paid $15. Read the rest of this entry »
Reviews coming in: Putin’s NYT Op-Ed Debut
Posted: September 12, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Bob Menendez, CNN, Geneva, Jake Tapper, John Kerry, KGB, New York Times, Vladimir Putin 1 CommentSen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said he almost vomited after reading Russian president Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in the New York Times, which was published late Wednesday evening.
“I got an e-mail with what president Putin had to say — and I have to be honest with you — at dinner and I almost wanted to vomit,” Menendez said, during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. “The reality is, I worry when someone who came up to the KGB tells us what is in our national interests an what is not.”
Menendez cautioned, however, that it was not time to end diplomatic discussions with the Russians, particularly since Secretary of State John Kerry was traveling to Geneva to meet with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.