{"id":1656420,"date":"2022-09-24T13:17:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656420"},"modified":"2022-09-24T13:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:19:04","slug":"jake-tapper-moves-to-primetime-proving-cnns-reputation-is-unsalvageable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-tapper-moves-to-primetime-proving-cnns-reputation-is-unsalvageable\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Tapper Moves To Primetime Proving CNN\u2019s Reputation Is Unsalvageable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjake-tapper-moves-to-primetime-proving-cnns-reputation-is-unsalvageable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s supposed to impress Republicans in Washington that new CNN boss Chris Licht has fired a few people at the channel and demoted some others. It\u2019s probably working, but nothing proves how truly meaningless the changes are than that it was announced Thursday that the highly sensitive and monotonous Jake Tapper will be getting a primetime show.<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/02\/26\/cnn-chris-licht-liberal-partisanship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ran<\/a> no fewer than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/07\/21\/cnn-boss-licht-capitol-hill-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three stories<\/a> promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/07\/cnn-evaluating-partisan-talent-chris-licht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Licht\u2019s efforts<\/a> to assure Republicans in Congress that they should give CNN a chance under his stewardship, come back on air and expect an experience far more fair than anything seen at the network for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>To demonstrate his sincerity, Licht made sacrificial pigs out of toothy Brian Stelter, who ran a Sunday show, and John Harwood, who offered the most unoriginal political analysis, but while standing on the White House lawn so he at least looked important.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some other marginal changes as well, like moving the always hysterical Don Lemon from primetime to mornings (an equally important time slot) and stripping daytime anchors John Berman and Brianna Keilar of their posts.<\/p>\n<p>That these are supposed to be strong indications of anything at all, let alone make up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/25\/cnn-outdoes-itself-with-cringe-propagandist-segment-on-suburban-women-who-dont-mind-school-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">freak show<\/a> that CNN fashioned itself during the Trump years, is laughable. If anything, that Tapper is getting a primetime show, up from his sleepy 4 p.m. slot, amounts to one giant troll of anyone who took Licht seriously.<\/p>\n<p>If CNN executives were genuinely concerned about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/14\/cnn-just-spent-a-full-year-running-interference-for-hunter-biden-and-his-familys-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the channel\u2019s reputation<\/a>, Jake Tapper would have been the first shoved out the door without so much as a handshake. That emotional jerk has assaulted the ideas of composure and fairness daily on live national television for at least four years.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that in January last year, Tapper reacted to a news alert about some Republicans in the Capitol declining to wear masks by helpfully referring to them <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/07\/cnns-most-special-flower-jake-tapper-calls-republicans-selfish-dipshits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as \u201cselfish dipshits.\u201d<\/a> <em>This<\/em> is CNN!<\/p>\n<p>Recall that after then-President Trump recovered from Covid, he innocuously tweeted, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid of Covid. Don\u2019t let it dominate your life.\u201d Tapper summoned his bravery. He couldn\u2019t let such a remark go unchallenged. \u201cIt\u2019s OK to be afraid of COVID, and it\u2019s OK that it\u2019s dominating your life,\u201d he said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2020\/10\/05\/trump-tweet-dont-be-afraid-covid-19-tapper-gupta-sot-lead-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on his show<\/a>. He also called Trump\u2019s tweet \u201cso disrespectful.\u201d (Shockingly, the segment\u2019s producer did not cut to commercial so he could smack Tapper across the mouth for being so dumb, but instead, CNN clipped it and proudly posted it online.)<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Tapper and his colleagues were the first to launch the Russia delirium with an ominous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/10\/politics\/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> in late 2017 that U.S. intelligence had \u201cpresented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.\u201d After it was finally, demonstrably proven two years later that the Trump-Russia collusion story was a giant fraud, perpetuated in no small part by Tapper, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/cnns-jake-tapper-doesnt-think-the-media-got-anything-wrong-by-covering-russia-investigation-2019-04-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t know anybody who got anything wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One part dishonest, two parts moron. He\u2019s like a child found alone in the kitchen next to broken glass, swearing it couldn\u2019t possibly have been he who screwed up.<\/p>\n<p>And when Tapper is not on TV lisping his way through angry, made-up narratives about Republicans intentionally spreading disease or winding his way through another hoax, he\u2019s harassing his critics with private Twitter messages.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he\u2019s that petty. Ask any journalist in Washington with a blue check on Twitter whether they\u2019ve ever received a worked-up message from Tapper over some minor perceived slight. The answer will invariably be yes.<\/p>\n<p>Tapper is a dork with not an ounce of credibility left to his name. That he is still employed by CNN shows how unsalvageable the whole operation is.<\/p>\n<p>And someone should tell him his oily reverence for veterans reeks of cheap and shallow.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s supposed to impress Republicans in Washington that new CNN boss Chris Licht has fired a few people at the channel and demoted some others. 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