Tag: Jake Tapper

Dear Congress: I’ll be out of town for a few days. Signed, Barack Obama. P.S. – I started a war yesterday.

The notification was part of the president’s “efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” but it had the effect of a rather discomforting “While You Were Out…” note.

Damn, we love Jake Tapper. Day in and day out, he’s the most honest reporter in Washington, DC. Far as we can tell, he was never swept up in the Cult of Obama and continues to nail the administration whenever necessary.

Tapper’s blog offers the ABC White House Correspondent’s take on the war in Libya:

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ABC's Jake Tapper asks President Obama, "How do you cross your legs like that?"

Amidst claims by members of Congress that they were insufficiently consulted, and ensuing White House pushback, President Obama Monday officially notified congressional leaders that at “approximately 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, on March 19, 2011, at my direction, U.S. military forces commenced operations to assist an international effort authorized by the United Nations (U.N.) Security Council and undertaken with the support of European allies and Arab partners, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and address the threat posed to international peace and security by the crisis in Libya.”

The notification was part of the president’s “efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution,” but given complaints from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress, and the fact that the war started two days ago, it had the effect of a rather discomforting “While You Were Out…” note.

Bad-a-bing, bad-a-boom, bad-a-holy crap, Jake. Nice work.

Source: ABC News

Chuck Schumer gives tap dancing lessons in the Senate

ABC’s Jake Tapper really does ask some tough questions. But he’s just no match for Chuck Schumer, widely acknowledged as the senate’s finest tap dancer. Watch how deftly Schumer tap dances around this question without actually answering it

ABC’s Jake Tapper really does ask some tough questions. But he’s just no match for Chuck Schumer, widely acknowledged as the senate’s finest tap dancer. Watch how deftly Schumer tap dances around this question without actually answering it:

Tapper: The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Achronoth quoted an anonymous confidante to Prime Minister Netanyahu calling President Obama “The greatest disaster for Israel, a strategic disaster.” I’m sure you have some constituents who share those views and perhaps those concerns. Do you think that the White House has behaved toward Israel and the prime minister of Israel as you would want them to?

Schumer: Well. let me say this. I think everybody here in the United States, virtually everybody, and the vast majority of Israelis, want peace. They’re willing to accept a two state solution. The best way to bring about that peace is let the two sides negotiate and bring them together. I think one of the problems we have faced in the Middle East is that too many of the Palestinians, they elected Hamas, sworn to Israel’s destruction, don’t really believe in peace. And I do believe that you have to let the two parties come together. If the United States imposes preconditions, particularly on the Palestinian and Arab side, they’ll say we won’t come and negotiate.

If we’re not mistaken, Schumer just did a beautiful job of executing the ol’ keep-talking-until-they-forget-what-the-queston-was maneuver.

Dance, Senator Schumer, dance.

Source: National Review

When is a death panel acceptable? When it saves us lots of money.

You can always count on getting a good laugh from the comedy stylings of the New York Times’ Paul Krugman. In this interview with Jake Tapper, he sets the record straight and calls death panels by their proper name, which is … uhhhh … death panels.

You can always count on getting a good laugh from the comedy stylings of the New York Times’ Paul Krugman.

In this interview with Jake Tapper, he sets the record straight and calls death panels by their proper name, which is … uhhhh … death panels.

But that’s ok, because like every other provision of ObamaCare, they’ll save us money. Big money. Lots of money. Piles of money.

Krugman: Think about people on the right. They’re simultaneously screaming, they’re going to send all of the old people to death panels and it’s not going to save any money. That’s a contradictory point of view.

Tapper: Death panels would save money, theoretically.

Krugman: The advisory path has the ability to make more or less binding judgments on saying this particular expensive treatment actually doesn’t do any good medically and so we’re not going to pay for it. That is actually going to save quite a lot of money. We don’t know how much yet. The CBO gives it very little credit. But most of the health care economists I talk to think it’s going to be a really major cost saving.

This just in. Sarah Palin would like to thank Mr. Krugman for his inadvertent support.

H/T: Radio Vice

ABC’s Jake Tapper tells Robert Gibbs the President isn’t manly enough

ABC-TV’s Jake Tapper got a few more demerits from Robert Gibbs yesterday when he suggested to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that Obama man up.

ABC-TV’s Jake Tapper got a few more demerits from Robert Gibbs yesterday when he asked the smarmy White House Press Secretary this question:

“But isn’t the whole point of being President and controlling the House and Senate to ‘man up’ and make these tough decisions whether or not it costs you at the ballot box in November?”

Your choice of punch lines:

A. Listen, Jake, if you want someone to man up in this administration speak to Janet Napolitano.

B. Listen, Jake, if you want someone to man up in this White House, you’re speaking to the wrong Obama.

C. Whatever you do, Jake, don’t use the phrase “man up” when you’re questioning Amanda Simpson.

President Obama: “No healthcare insurance? Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go.”

During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.

President Obama is playing Monopoly again. Except this time it’s with 1/6 of the American economy.

During an interview with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, the President ‘fessed up and said people who try to get a “free ride” the health care system deserve to be penalized. Of course, by “free ride” he meant those who don’t want to buy insurance.

monopoly go to jail card Sure, he stopped short of calling for jail time, but his hesitance to do so is undoubtedly borne out of an intense desire to avoid yet another conservative firestorm.

“What I think is appropriate,” Obama said, “is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it’s affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there’s a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are — are burdened by because of the fact that people don’t have health insurance, you know, there’s nothing wrong with a penalty.”

The only problem with Obama’s version of Monopoly (let’s call it “Obamanopoly”) is that he’s added one new rule:

If he runs out of money, he just takes a little from all the other players.

Source: MofoPolitics.com

Mika gets marching orders from the White House while she’s on the air

Since MSNBC is a real news organization – unlike Fox – it’s only natural that the White House should email Mika while she was on the air on Morning Joe.

Remind us again. Isn’t Mika the daughter of Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman’s enemy from another dimension? But we digress.

Since MSNBC is a real news organization – unlike Fox – it’s only natural that the White House should email Mika Brzezinski while she was on the air.

And voila! Mika rolled over and played dead and delivered the White House’s talking points exactly as they had requested.

“The White House did just e-mail saying that interaction with Jake Tapper was not heated…”

Anita Dunn then placed a biscuit on Mika’s nose, where she obediently let it sit until she was given permission to eat it.

Robert Gibbs defends his boss’s thin skin when it comes to Fox News

ABC’s Jake Tapper askes the White House’s Robert Gibbs about their calling Fox News “not a news organization.”

ABC’s Jake Tapper and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at this morning’s White House press conference:

Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –

(Crosstalk)

Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.
Tapper: But that’s a pretty sweeping declaration that they are “not a news organization.” How are they any different from, say –

Gibbs: ABC –

Tapper: ABC. MSNBC. Univision. I mean how are they any different?

Gibbs: You and I should watch sometime around 9 o’clock tonight. Or 5 o’clock this afternoon.

Tapper: I’m not talking about their opinion programming or issues you have with certain reports. I’m talking about saying thousands of individuals who work for a media organization, do not work for a “news organization” — why is that appropriate for the White House to say?

Gibbs: That’s our opinion.

If only Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly could be more like others on at those hours, like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews. Now those are news programs!

Source: Political Punch

Jake Tapper is about this far from losing his seat
on Air Force One

Yeah, but it might have been nice if someone talked about this stuff before the election.
Yeah, but it might have been nice if someone talked about this stuff before the election.

ABC News’ Jake Tapper actually confronted the unconfrontable truth of Barack Obama’s Muslim roots Tueday on his ABC blog.

His willingness to deviate from the media’s blind allegiance to Barack Obama is truly startling. If Tapper keeps this up he’s likely to become ABC’s new Siberian correspondent.

The Emergence of President Obama’s Muslim roots

The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or gen4ral election campaign.

During a conference call in preparation for President Obama’s trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said “the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to – or before he’s been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world – you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father – obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”

Tapper concluded:

In his April 6 address to the Turkish Parliament, President Obama reference how many “Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them.”

Well, that clears it all up. He’s one of them. Because he certainly hasn’t acted like he’s one of us.

Source: ABC News

Headline of the Day:
“First President in US History to Have Voted to Filibuster a Supreme Court Nominee Now Hopes for Clean Process”

Day in and day out, ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper seems to be the only guy asking the tough questions and pointing out the Obama administration’s incredible hypocrisy.

Source: ABC News

ABC’s Jake Tapper reveals press corps’ secret nickname for press secretary Robert Gibbs

Behold a few rare moments of candor from ABC’s Jake Tapper and the Examiner’s Julie Mason. They explain that Robert Gibbs is known as “The Gibnotist” for his ability to bore the hell out of people who are paid to listen to him speak.

“People have actually fallen asleep in his briefings,” Tapper says.

This may explain the increasingly contentious relationship between Gibbs and the press: They’re not fighting with him. They’re fighting to stay awake.

Source: Breitbart.tv

Robert Gibbs talks nonsense, reporters don’t like it

Press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to tap dance around a question yesterday, but in a major surprise, the press didn’t let him get away with it.

AP reporter Jennifer Loven and ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed Gibbs to explain why President Obama bragged about saving $100 million in his proposed budget when he had downplayed $8 billion in earmark spending several weeks ago.

It wasn’t pretty. Gibbs eventually adopted the strategy of talking and talking and talking until everyone forgot what the question was.

Source: ABC News via RealClearPolitics.com

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