Disingenuous: Tapper Tries to Muddy Waters on Omar, Suggesting McCarthy, Trump Are Anti-Semites
By Curtis Houck | February 13, 2019 8:30 PM EST
In what was a poorly mangled attempt to be the liberal and unfunny Seth Meyers, CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper went on a rant Wednesday in which he pretended to throw fits at his control staff for not showing clips and tweets of anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN), but instead ones that painted the Trump administration and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as not only hypocrites but anti-Semites.
So, in other words, Tapper’s four-minute-and-eight-second monologue seemed to muddy the waters and engage in what probably would be condemned on CNN as “whataboutism†if such a stunt was pulled on Fox News.
Let’s start at the top. Everything seemed fine as Tapper first observed that “[t]here’s been a lot in the news about bigotry,†including the latest batch of anti-Semitic tweets by Omar that were met with bipartisan condemnation.
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