Serving as CNN’s chief fake newsman, 48-year-old Jake Tapper blasted 71-year-old President Donald Trump for promoting lies about former President Barack Obama’s birthplace. Tapper insists that Trump promoted the false narrative that Obama was born in Kenya, when, in fact, his birth certificate shows he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii August 4, 1961. While there’s no evidence that Obama’s birth certificate was fake, many other conservative journalists pushed the “birther” issue. Tapper cites Trump’s claim that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated on Sept. 11, not to mention saying Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) father had something to do with the Kennedy Assassination. Tapper also pointed out that Trump said some 3 to 5 millions votes were obtained illegally by Hillary Rodham Clinton, accounting for her nearly 3 million popular vote margin on Election Day—yet more examples of Trump’s lies.
Tappper’s remarks conveniently omit CNN’s major story about Trump’s March 4 claim that President Barack Obama “tapped his wires” at Trump Tower. CNN spent weeks specifically refuting the president’s claims but, more importantly, discrediting Trump for offering no proof. Tapper can’t have it both ways: Blasting Trump for making false claims and, at the same time, denying egregious media bias against Trump. Tapper mentioned nothing May 17 when Harvard University’s Schorenstein Center published its definitive study on media bias, citing CNN for 93% negative coverage about Trump. Tapper’s attempt to blame Trump for making outrageous campaign statements has no equivalency to a credentialed news organization holding inexcusable anti-Trump bias. Tapper’s omission about Trump’s wiretapping claim speaks volumes about CNN’s dishonesty.
Tapper called out White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders for saying the media has deliberately misled the American Public. ABC’s Senior White House Reporter Brian Ross was suspended Dec. 2 for a fake news that Trump instructed former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn to contact the Russians before the inauguration. CNN jumped all over Ross’s account using it to prove Trump Russian collusion, something Special Counsel Robert Mueller hasn’t shown. Ross has a history of fake news reports, falsely reporting after Sept. 11, 2001 that Saddam Hussein was responsible for anthrax attacks in New York and D.C. When a lone gun massacre took place July 20. 2012 in an Aurora, Colorado movie theatre, Ross reported the gunman was a local Tea Party member. Whatever Trump said in the campaign, it doesn’t excuse CNN’s 93% anti-Trump media bias.
Broadcast and print reports happen daily citing anonymous sources attacking Trump making its way to primetime news broadcasts and front-page headlines. Stories about White House chaos, imminent firings on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other Cabinet members, secret arrangements with the Special Counsel about Trump’s imminent indictment, all constitute to pernicious propaganda replacing ethical journalism. CNN’s “breaking news,” as Tapper surely knows, often stems from questionable sources, feeding the cable news network incendiary anti-Trump rubbish. CNN’s become the leading anti-Trump cable network, more concerned about Nielsen ratings than getting the facts right. Tapper’s omission about the Trump wiretapping claim mirrors the kind of political bias leaving news consumers bamboozled.
New information about demoted Department of Justice official Bruce G. Ohr’s wife, Nellie Ohr, working for Fusion GPS, Hillary’s opposition research firm that created the so-called “dossier” on Trump, wasn’t reported on by Tapper or anyone at CNN. Tapper wants to talk about Trump’s ‘birther” controversy but won’t discuss anything that could discredit CNN’s Trump-Russian-collusion story. Huckabee said the mainstream media deliberately plants fake news stories, misleading the public. Tapper won’t bring up Trump’s tweet about getting his “wires tapped” because new FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted Dec. 7 that former FBI Director James Comey went to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] court to get warrants to wiretap Trump officials. CNN won’t report anything that suggests that the Obama administration was intimately involved in wiretapping the Trump campaign.
Tapper’s become CNN’s attack dog diverting attention from its egregious anti-Trump bias. Whatever Trump’s said needing correction, there’s no equivalency when a credentialed news organization takes its orders from a political party. “The White House, run by the president who came to prominence by promoting that the first African American president was born in Africa, is finding time to take issue with those who mislead people,” said Tapper, engaging in more hyperbole and diversion. Trump didn’t come to prominence from the “birther” issue, he’s been a national celebrity for over 40 years. Tapper has to keep CNN’s audience diverted on Trump to excuse its anti-Trump bias verified by Harvard’s Schorenstein Center. When you have White House reporters like Jim Acosta interrupting press briefings, it shows the extent of CNN’s concerted attempts to cover its anti-Trump bias.
