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kpete

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Sun Aug 14, 2016, 02:09 PM Aug 2016

Brewer: “I believe the American people want him to win”. Tapper: “Not according to polls...”

Jake Tapper Calls Out Paul Manafort: Statements Are Not True 'Just Because You Say Them'
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/08/jake-tapper-calls-out-paul-manafort

Tapper, to Manafort:

so when you….these things, just because you say them...they’re not true.

Tapper, to Brewer:

Brewer: “I believe the American people want him to win”.

Tapper: “Not according to polls...”

Tapper, in response to Brewer’s complaint that the media chooses to highlight Trump’s words:

“How DARE we cover the comments he makes.”







Here is where Jake Tapper loses his patience with Manafort:

Jake Tapper: “Ok, first of all, as a factual matter, on Monday my show covered Mr. Trump’s speech, OK? We DID. We covered Mr. Trump’s speech, covered the narrative, AND we covered those Hillary Clinton emails, so when you….these things, just because you say them...they’re not true. We HAVE been covering the substance, we HAVE been covering the things that are bad to Hillary Clinton.

Tapper called Manafort a liar, essentially, on live TV.



Jake Tapper: (talking to Jan Brewer)

“Don’t you as a Trump supporter, doesn’t this bother you when he goes out there and makes...his remark about the Second Amendment that definitely got him off message for a day or two, and then he starts talking about “Obama is the Founder of ISIS”, doesn’t that bother you? You want him to win.”

Jan Brewer: Absolutely I want him to win, and I believe the American people want him to win”.

Tapper interjects: “Not according to polls...”

Jan Brewer: “Well, we have polls that clearly are saying he’s closing that gap now, they are moving forward, I got them in front of me here, uhm… Trump...different kind of candidate….those are the issues people are concerned about, they’re concerned about jobs, the economy, security, and we want to hear more about that, rather than the press completely and continuously just beating down on certain little one word sentences.”

Tapper: “How DARE we cover the comments he makes.”

Tapper then pivots to Trump’s comment in that the only way he would lose Pennsylvania is if the election is rigged.

Tapper: “One of the things he said the other day was about how the election might be rigged, and the only way he would lose a state like Pennsylvania, which has not gone Republican in presidential contests since I was 19 years old, since 1988, he said the only way he would lose Pennsylvania is if the election were rigged. Take a listen [plays Trump clip].

Tapper: “He’s down 10 points in the latest Q poll in Pennsylvania, how on earth is that a responsible thing to say”?

Brewer then flails and gets into a nonsensical diatribe about the integrity of voting being very important, everybody wants to know their vote does count, pollwatchers, certification of the equipment, greeted by an icy and dismissive retort by Tapper.

Tapper: “Yeah, you are not really answering the question.



”MORE INFO & VIDEOS!:
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/14/1560051/-Jake-Tapper-seems-at-limit-with-Trump-and-surrogates-How-DARE-we-cover-comments-he-makes
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Brewer: “I believe the American people want him to win”. Tapper: “Not according to polls...” (Original Post) kpete Aug 2016 OP
Tapper: “Yeah, you are not really answering the question." yellowcanine Aug 2016 #1
What's with this outbreak of journalism all of a sudden? SunSeeker Aug 2016 #2
Don't question it, just sit back and enjoy it..... lastlib Aug 2016 #3
Yes, like a rainbow, a fleeting glimpse of beauty. nt SunSeeker Aug 2016 #4
What polls, Jan? Nmae them, if they are in front of you Maeve Aug 2016 #5

yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)
1. Tapper: “Yeah, you are not really answering the question."
Sun Aug 14, 2016, 03:43 PM
Aug 2016
This is the way the Trump surrogates should be treated. Okay you can come on shows and share your opinions. But you are not entitled to your own facts. And throwing mud against the wall is not a strategy.
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