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Tam

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Jake Tapper Tells Ingraham ‘Media Helped Tip The Scales’ In 2008
by Noah Rothman | 4:00 pm, August 21st, 2012

In an interview on Tuesday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, ABC News’ White House correspondent Jake Tapper addressed many of the concerns that Republicans have with the media. Tapper said that he was concerned that key issues, like the economy, were being ignored in favor of political issues like Mitt Romney’s tax returns. Tapper said that he hopes the media does not unfairly cover this election and favor one candidate over another, as he says the institution did in 2008.


Ingraham asked Tapper if he was happy with the substance of political media coverage thus far. Tapper replied that he was not, saying that the state of the nation’s economy and the high unemployment rate are voters’ paramount concerns and that he would like to see “more action taken and more emphasis given to this issue.”

Ingraham also asked Tapper to elaborate on a question he asked President Barack Obama on Monday in about the security satiation in Afghanistan. Tapper said that he was concerned by the rise of attacks on U.S. troops by Afghan security forces and said, given hat he is currently writing a book on the Afghan conflict, that he found the standards lower for incoming Afghan troops.

Tapper told Ingraham that he wondered if the U.S., “in an effort to beef up the troop levels and hasten the exit of the United States has lowered the standard for these Afghan troops,” and is now accepting and funding soldiers who are openly hostile to the U.S.

Ingraham then played a clip of reporter and author Mark Halperin saying that he believes the political press is often guilty of talking about what the Obama campaign wants them to talk about, specifically in regard to Mitt Romney’s tax returns, as opposed to other, more pressing issues. Tapper said that he could “understand where he is coming from,” though he said that the Romney/Ryan camp was guilty of spinning reporters as well and he thinks Romney’s tax returns are not entirely irrelevant.

“I have said before… [that I] thought the media helped tip the scales. I didn’t think the coverage in 2008 was especially fair to either Hilary Clinton or John McCain,” said Tapper. “Sometimes I saw with story selection, magazine covers, photos picked, [the] campaign narrative, that it wasn’t always the fairest coverage.”

Gee the media tipped the scales in the 2008 election. :shock: They didn't tip it, they put there big size 13 boot on the Obama side of the scale and shoved the puppy into the dirt. :roll: But alot of good it does to finally admit they screwed the US out of a fair election after their guy has spent the last four years TRANSFORMING THE US into a BANKRUPT COUNTRY. :mad:
 

Larrry

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Makes you wonder how the left feels. That they were so easily duped and were taught to play sheeple which they did so eloquently. They probably wish they could think for themselves. Even a response to their own actions only points that they are still being played like a violin.
 

Tam

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It has been said the Media died during the 2008 election and Tapper just admitted it, as he admits they were not DOING THEIR JOBS. They were being lead around by the nose and only reporting fluff to cover up all the ugly truth about Obama. I hope these liberal left wingnuts now look at themselves in the mirror and PUKE at the thought of what THEY DID TO THE US. :mad:
 

Steve

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the media rescued the McCain campaign when it was on its' death bed in the primaries as well... realizing Romney or Huckabee would give Obama a tougher run..

tip the scales, or set the stage..

anyone who watched the debates could see the obvious bias..
 
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