Boy didn't look white to me.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as “a white man.”
Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.”
His “white man” comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole’s face that originated from the suspect’s mother’s Instagram account.
Cole’s father is also black and once enlisted the services of Ben Crump, an attorney best known for his racial discrimination cases.
Viewers were stunned by Tapper’s misrepresentation of the alleged pipe bomber.
“You can’t make this stuff up,” conservative pundit Benny Johnson wrote on X.
“Jake is sharp as a tack. Nothing gets past him. Dude’s elite!” another deadpanned.
“Its impossible that he does not know what he is doing,” one user speculated.
Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing “anti-white rhetoric.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cnn-s-jake-tapper-skewered-for-calling-black-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-jr-a-white-man-on-air/ar-AA1RKsZs?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=6932ddfddd984d23a8d92bfedfc3f1e6&ei=64
