Jake Tapper, The Enquirer and the MSM
One of the MSM’s political reporters that annoys on a regular basis is Jake Tapper of ABC News. On his Political Punch Blog Tapper tries to make a convincing argument that perhaps the McCain/Palin campaign is feeding the Palin media frenzy by attacking smears from third rate media outlets like the National Enquirer. Some may have given the Enquirer credit for the Edwards’ story of an extra-marital affair but it is simply another case proving the point of their, at best, third rate status. The Edwards’ story was right up their sleazy alley….. a story about celebs and sex.
So the self-righteous Tapper states he hadn’t read the National Enquirer. As if to say, other than he’s above all that, the McCain camp had nothing to worry about since the story appeared in the trashy Enquirer. Yet the trashy story about Edwards’ was not lost on the MSM. And in a subtle or not so subtle attempt to remove guilt from the MSM over Palin attacks, Tapper states, ‘…did far more to spread that unpleasantness to millions of voters than anything anyone in the mainstream media did.’
So, in the world according to Tapper, one email wipes out all the thousands of reports around the MSM dealing with the absurd treatment of Sarah Palin and her family. Tapper, you’re still annoying and not all that bright. What serves as political reporting genius at ABC is quite lame.
Stanford Matthews
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Is the McCain Camp Spreading Smears in the Name of Fighting Them?
Did you read the National Enquirer this week?
Because I just got an e-mail about it from the McCain-Palin campaign.