![Congratulations are in order for one Mr. Jake Tapper, former senior White House Correspondent for ABC News, who was just hired as the newest anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN. There’s no mention of the show that Tapper will presumably helm, but CNN did say the network “[looks] forward to developing a program that takes advantage of all of his strengths, his passion and his knowledge of national issues and events.” (Photo via ABC News) source](http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec18aff423ee44304d67e64cc0e89099/tumblr_mfcnubRKuV1qas8z9o1_500.jpg)
Congratulations are in order for one Mr. Jake Tapper, former senior White House Correspondent for ABC News, who was just hired as the newest anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN. There’s no mention of the show that Tapper will presumably helm, but CNN did say the network “[looks] forward to developing a program that takes advantage of all of his strengths, his passion and his knowledge of national issues and events.” (Photo via ABC News) source
Note how the headline on Jake Tapper’s Obama dog story changed from this morning. Seems Jake was getting too much credit/blame for the story. It also didn’t help that Google News posted Tapper’s story with this unfortunate headline. “I wasn’t saying that was MY argument, it was the Romney campaign argument. I had to spell it out,” Tapper emphasized on Twitter. (thanks The Daily What)
Not long before word of Christopher Hitchens’ death broke, Jake Tapper tweeted that legendary B-movie director Roger Corman died. His info was bad, however, and he’s spent a lot of time apologizing in the last 20 minutes.
Hey, ABC, you spelled “Jake Tapper” wrong. While Jake Tapper gets screwed yet again by his employer, George Stephanopoulos pulls double-duty and Christiane Amanpour moves back to CNN full-time, while hanging out around the ABC wheelhouse.
Jake Tapper in the spin room: Make him a moderator next time, ABC!
Say it ain’t so, Jake! He could’ve left well enough alone but instead associated the comments, made by someone who isn’t Obama, with Obama. Plus, on top of that, plenty of worse things have been said by the Tea Party about Democrats and Obama. So this is pure fluffery that distracts from real issues.
Jake Tapper is officially awesome. So, that’s it. We stumbled upon Jake Tapper’s Wikipedia page and are officially fanboys. This guy drew a cartoon for Roll Call called “Capitol Hell.” He dated Monica Lewinsky before she was infamous. He wrote a book about Jesse Ventura. Officially considering starting up a fuckyeahjaketapper page. A question to our politically-minded Tumblrs out there: Have you ever seen any of this man’s cartoons? We can’t find them online, and we’re super-curious. (above photo from Tapper’s 2007 interview with Fred Thompson, via Flickr)
OMG the place is such a mess! We need to clean up in here immediately! (Thanks, BTW, to Kevin Cobb for the original tip.)
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