Yesterday CNN’s Jake Tapper retweeted garbage tweets from George Conway calling Trump ‘100% insane’ and called it ‘noteworthy’:
Noteworthy comment on folks in the administration from a Trump critic who knows a lot of them: https://t.co/ZvmMxmENuW
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2020
How in the hell is Conway’s tweet “He’s 100% insane, and nobody in the administration has the balls to tell him that” noteworthy? In what universe it that noteworthy? Just because he knows people in the administration? C’mon. Not only does Conway hate Trump with unbridled passion, but is claiming as an insult that nobody has the balls to tell Trump he’s insane. That’s not noteworthy, that’s the typical TDS drivel that he loves to tweet.
Tapper's retweeting that "Trump is 100% insane" only further undermines the media by reaffirming for many that the media is campaigning against Trump rather than covering him. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 7, 2020
Jonathan Turley called out Tapper’s shenanigans this morning, saying “Tapper’s retweeting that “Trump is 100% insane” only further undermines the media by reaffirming for many that the media is campaigning against Trump rather than covering him. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
Tapper's retweeting that "Trump is 100% insane" only further undermines the media by reaffirming for many that the media is campaigning against Trump rather than covering him. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) April 7, 2020
He’s exactly right. There was simply no journalistic reason to retweet that garbage tweet from Conway.
But Tapper was intent on defending himself and tweeted this in response saying, “I RTed Conway, a conservative attorney and Trump critic, because he wrote that no one in the administration has the courage to stand up to the president which seems newsworthy given how many people in the administration he knows.”
I RTed Conway, a conservative attorney and Trump critic, because he wrote that no one in the administration has the courage to stand up to the president which seems newsworthy given how many people in the administration he knows.
RTs do not nec. = agreement. https://t.co/A4i1478urj
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 7, 2020
Again, there is nothing about this tweet insulting the president that is newsworthy, and it has nothing to do with Conway even knowing people in the administration. Conway is just being an ass on Twitter, like usual. That’s all. Tapper is simply trying to make excuses to defend a tweet he enjoyed and wanted everyone to see. What a joke of a news man Tapper has become.