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Tom Homan Takes Tapper to School on ICE Operations

September 7th, 2025 7:52 PM

On CNN's State of the Union, host Jake Tapper might have thought he'd put Tom Homan, President Trump's border czar, on the defensive by opening the interview by citing a meme Trump posted, based on Apocalypse Now, in which Trump said, "Chicago is about to find out why it's called the Department of War." Tapper cast that as Trump "escalating his threats against the city of Chicago." It took…

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Jake Tapper Suggests Trump Will Turn Troops on America, Steal Election

September 5th, 2025 2:12 PM

CNN’s The Lead hosted some very dangerous and incendiary rhetoric from anchor Jake Tapper during Thursday’s episode as he promoted Democratic Party conspiracy theories that President Trump was going to turn the National Guard on Americas. According to two different segments Tapper presented to his audience, Trump was going to steal the midterm elections, and he found it suspicious…

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Wants You to Use Correct Pronouns of School Shooter

August 27th, 2025 6:34 PM

Yet another transgender extremist (biologically male) targeted a religious school and killed two children in a Catholic church during mass, on Wednesday. Despite the monstrous actions and the anti-Catholic messages written on the shooter’s equipment (like “Where is your God now?”), CNN’s Jake Tapper took to his show, The Lead, and wanted to make sure people were using the school…

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Tapper Scoffs at the Fact Media Gives Trump Over 90% Negative Coverage

August 26th, 2025 12:50 PM

During Monday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper took issue with a post President Trump made on Truth Social where he called out ABC and NBC for running “97% bad stories” about him. Tapper scoffed at the post and claimed he didn’t believe the number. But Trump’s claim wasn’t too far off. According to a Media Research Center study of Trump’s first 100 days, the broadcast…

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Jake Tapper: I'm Not Blaming Trump For Five Dead Ukrainians, But...

August 17th, 2025 5:47 PM

On Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, host Jake Tapper three times mentioned that Russian attacks killed five Ukrainians after President Trump's meeting with Putin ended without a ceasefire. In his final mention, Tapper said to Mike Pence: "I'm not blaming it on President Trump, it's obviously President Putin's fault. BUT, if the ceasefire had happened on Friday, those five…

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‘Let's Go to Union Station’: Republicans School CNN Libs on D.C. Crime

August 13th, 2025 3:16 PM

Republicans living in Washington, D.C. were relieved that the city’s out-of-control crime was elevated to a national conversation after President Trump decided to take federal action to quash it. In a segment on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s The Lead, Republican strategists Lauren Tomlinson and Doug Heye out classed former DNC communications director Karen Finney in proving that D.C. had…

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Jake Steps on a Rake: CNN’s Tapper SCHOOLED By Abbott on Texas Law

August 12th, 2025 1:12 PM

On Monday’s edition of The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper once again utterly embarrassed himself on the Texas redistricting issue. While he falsely claimed previously that Republicans were “the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering” and singled out Texas, this time he tried to go toe-to-toe with Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R). Tapper showed off a profound ignorance of the…

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Tapper Claims GOP 'Worst Offenders When it Comes to Gerrymandering'

August 6th, 2025 2:30 PM

Now that his book tour was over, CNN’s Jake Tapper was back to hauling water for the Democrats. During the Tuesday episode of The Lead, the former Democratic operative turned CNN “journalist” dismissed his party’s widespread gerrymandering in several states, suggesting infamous Illinois was an outlier, and falsely proclaimed “most of the worst offenders when it comes to gerrymandering…

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Bozell on Jesse Kelly: "For the Left, the Ends Justify the Means"

August 6th, 2025 11:56 AM

“Russia hacked the election!" That was the liberal media’s mantra that echoed endlessly during Trump’s first term. Tuesday night on The First TV’s I’m Right, an MRC montage kicked off host Jesse Kelly’s interview with MRC President David Bozell. The clip mocked the media’s frenzy, with pundits from CNN to MSNBC chanting, “Definitively, Russia hacked the election!” and leaning on the…

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Joins Russia Hoax Declassification Firefight

July 22nd, 2025 10:04 AM

Early coverage of the declassification of documents related to the Russia Hoax by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard proves the adage coined by internet sage David Burge: "Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.” Such is the case with CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s foray into the Russia Hoax firefight. 

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Tapper Hints Colbert Canceled Because Trump Can't Take Criticism

July 19th, 2025 2:00 PM

CNN’s Jake Tapper tried desperately on The Lead on Friday to connect the news that CBS has cancelled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with parent company Paramount’s legal drama with President Trump. Tapper admitted he had no evidence for this but still found the whole thing to be “interesting” and promoted anonymous sources to help him advance his conspiracy theory.

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Selective Reading? MSNBC, CNN Ignore Brazilian Censorship, Bash Trump

July 15th, 2025 3:18 PM

CNN and MSNBC anchors deliberately hid the ball from their viewers after President Donald Trump struck a blow against Brazil’s censorship regime, which has attacked American companies.

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'PUBLIC' Radio Watch: NPR's 'Fresh Air' Has ZERO Conservative Journos

July 10th, 2025 3:15 PM

Fresh Air is a daily National Public Radio chat show out of WHYY in Philadelphia (which airs nationwide). A NewsBusters review of Fresh Air programs from January 1 through June 30 reveals there have been 36 interviews with liberal and leftist journalists, and precisely zero with conservative journalists.

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Backtrack: CNN Returns to ‘Hate in America,’ But Calls Motives ‘Murky’

July 1st, 2025 4:05 PM

O, Donie, where art thou?! That was the question worth asking Monday night when CNN’s The Lead had a new report about “Hate in America” in light of the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Colorado and deadly shootings of Minnesota state Democrats and host Jake Tapper brought out correspondent Tom Foreman instead of CNN’s supposed extremism expert Donie O’Sullivan.