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BBS's avatar

Don't sacrifice yourself to Tapper's book on my account. Hearing him on Megyn was enough for me. There are so many reasons to despise these Democrats I don't know how to separate them.

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Fra Raymond's avatar

Same feelings here. And much less give him your money. I think we all can agree that he's a liar, a shill for the dems, and he's full of himself. He used the word "humility" instead of saying that yes, he was covering up for that elderly and abused senile man.

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BBS's avatar

I want to vomit thinking Tapper is going to make money off yet another Democrat/media manipulation.

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R H's avatar

Exactly, don't give the asshat one dime. Let's move on and look to the future. What? Hell no! HOLD these liars and swamp people accountable, and if you can't convict them, indict them and destroy their lives like they did to so many conservatives. There's a new sheriff in town, and it's time to reap what you've sown (my hope anyway).

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sibyl gardner's avatar

I also noticed his use of "humility" instead of an admission of guilt.

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Juju's avatar

He would only go so far as to admit he didn’t push hard enough. But what he failed to do and REFUSES to do is reflect on WHY. The “why” is simply TDS. He can’t go there. He won’t admit it - but then he won’t offer any other excuses as to why either. He was clearly lying and rewriting history to his liking, justifying everything he did and didn’t do. I know she hit him heavily in the beginning of the interview, but it wasn’t enough. She didn’t keep it up when they discussed the actual contents of the book. I think Jake and Alex desperately want to believe their own spin and are brainwashing themselves with it.

Also, his explanation of the title misses the truth of it. Having Biden run again was NOT the original sin. The original sin is what it has always been, and in this case the media was the snake in the garden offering the public a bite of the forbidden apple as if it would open their eyes to truth when really all it did was poison their minds with lies. That’s the original sin surrounding both Biden and the media, AND that’s what this book is - just another bite of the poisonous apple.

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BBS's avatar
May 21Edited

Just like the announcement of FJB's cancer was designed to make us look here, not there, Tapper's book is supposed to make us forget about his aggressive and criminal cover-up of all things Biden. He needs to crawl off into the sunset and pray his lawyer can handle the lawsuits.

Hey, Tapper--"Me thinks thou doth protest too much."

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Juju's avatar

Yeah they are trying hard to put full blame on the inner circle of his administration as well as Jill. The media is just as much liable as they are, and the deep state puppeteers.

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sibyl gardner's avatar

Well said! It's a stupid title that has nothing to do with the cover-up.

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sibyl gardner's avatar

I found that making a list of all the reasons I left the Dem party (years ago) was helpful in clarifying why could no longer be associated with that rat pack.

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Ryan Adams's avatar

Folks'll buy this shit?! Can't you just ask a free AI to summarize the key points if interest is high? Lettuce not forget, Trump tariffs will start to take a bite outta your pocket, sorta like what has already occurred courtesy of 401k lowering. A double dose of trump terrific ness!

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Cindy Lee's avatar

Buy used copies of any of these disgraced leftists' books. Amazon, eBay, even no charge at your local library. Same as bypassing paywalls for communist news sources like WaPo, NYT, etc...

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Jane in Michigan's avatar

The one well known media star holding the mainstream media accountable outside of the right is Mark Halpern. He is relentless, has two podcasts and has appeared on Megyn Kelly and Commentary podcasts. But he is really the only one. He simply will not stop calling them out.

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Andrew Collins's avatar

I'd add former dems Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. There are a few others. However, there is a new ilk of dem journos testing the waters that I'm not sure about such as Chris Cuomo, Bari Weiss, and the Young Turks crew.

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JBell's avatar

Scratch Bari Weiss from your list. She has reverted to censorious behavior and hiring all of the left-wing toadies to write for her.... looking for the big bucks and payoffs!

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Andrew Collins's avatar

I'm getting that vibe from her. The tip-off was when she was on Joe Rogan and going off on Tulsi Gabbard. She may as well have been channeling Hillary Clinton.

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PKsweets's avatar

Well, when you worked at the New York Times for so many years, it’s gotta be tough to not be in that world any longer. I was reading the article regarding Trump‘s oval office sit down with the South African president

They’ve closed the comments

It was unbelievable to read these comments. I had not a clue the bubble that these people live in for the last three years minimum I’ve seen and read the articles about the land takeovers and the killing of the white Boer farmers and their families

The language that they use to dismiss murders is appalling

And you read the author biography, and they talk about ethics and empathy. What a crock.

I stopped subscribing to the FP and my NYT subscription will not be renewed as well

It is unbelievable. They look at the world through a lens that man are women and that’s all you need to know/ It’s total gaslighting.

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Robird's avatar

Yes, The Free Press fairly quickly reverted to the pattern that Bari fled from at NYT. She and Nellie never really wanted to give up their status amongst the coastal elites.

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Steve's avatar

Well then BYE!

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sibyl gardner's avatar

Glenn Greenwald just may be the best journalist of our times. Batya Sargon (who was on Megyn's recent podcast) is also making a name for herself by calling out the duplicity and elitism of the Dems.

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Andrew Collins's avatar

I really like Batya. Smart as hell. She seems nice and sweet but man, she can really dish the stink-eye.

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Sally Sue's avatar

Young Turks are socialist Leftists.

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Andrew Collins's avatar

Yes, but they seem to be moderating their views and are appearing on conservative podcasts as reasonable leftists. They know which way the wind is blowing and are trying to remain relevant. How much of this is a self-serving charade or gas-lighting? We shall see.

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sibyl gardner's avatar

"reasonable leftists" - isn't that an oxymoron?

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Scott's avatar

Definitely.

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Sally Sue's avatar

Are you referring to Ana Kasparian specifically? I know that more recently, she has distanced herself from progressives, she is critical of identity politics and trans, and become more conservative. I've heard Ana on conservative podcasts & appreciate her movement towards conservative views. Is it the other Young Turks hosts too? Or just Ana

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Andrew Collins's avatar

I'd say Cenk is a bit. Not so much in endorsing conservative ides but in criticizing some leftist views. Ana is definitely moving right but like I said I'm not sure if it's real or calculated.

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Andrew Collins's avatar

And not to forget, apparently there are boatloads of money to be made in podcasting. A lot of these people are trying to figure out how to keep their bread buttered.

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Mark Adams's avatar

Glenn Greenwald, Michael Shellenberger, and Matt Taibbi aren’t on the right. But perhaps you don’t regard them as media stars?

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Jane in Michigan's avatar

You are correct, of course.

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Mary Williams's avatar

I watch Mark Halperin on both shows every day and his new one on the Megyn Kelly channel. He is the best! I have always liked him, he is so above the scum he worked with at MSNBC, but he is too kind to say that himself. They have a lot of new shows on 2 Way and I hope the channel succeeds. Things are really changing with the lying corporate media dying and the indie media rising. A golden age.

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Jane in Michigan's avatar

I watch both as well! He is just great.

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lamont cranston's avatar

Agreed on Halperin. His interview with Tucker was abruptly honest about the Democrat Party's future.

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Joseph B's avatar

Story 1. Biden was a vegetable even in 2020. It was visible and obvious to everyone around him. So we lied and covered it up.

Story 2. Lying and secretive Biden didn’t tell us he had prostate cancer…how were we to know?

In story 1 they are evil co-stars in a monstrous lie. In Story 2 they are unwitting victims like everyone else….

OF COURSE THEY WANT TO FOCUS ON STORY 2.

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Mick's avatar

This is a good theory.

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JW Writes's avatar

Hegseth has ordered an investigation into the Afghanistan debacle “in light of” recent info. It won’t be pretty - and it’s long overdue. Safe travels!

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Ken Macko's avatar

I wish you wouldn’t read that book. It doesn’t deserve the time of day. Just the fact of it being written, what it is, is a disgrace.

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danbfas's avatar

I don't disagree, but you need to know your enemy well enough to be able to "compete". Knowing his spin first-hand will be nothing but helpful in the future.

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Unwoke in Idaho's avatar

Rock Springs? Gack. Used to be the most corrupt city in America. Or maybe violent.

Anyway, someone is looking into the afghanistan withdrawal. Can’t remember where I saw that. But I guess we’ll see what happens.

Now Van Hollen appears to be all in on this Kilmar guy - still. Inexplicable unless MS 13 has one of Van Hollen’s kids or was paying him a ton of money. But I guess that’s why their party is now known as the DeMS13 party, at least to me.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

When you come to terms with the Democrats embrace of crime as a legitimate career choice can you begin to understand just how depraved they have become. They want a country of lawlessness with no consequences for anyone, but those who would dissent from their fantasy ideologies. These dissenters are the people they would support for deportation, not killers of MS-13, better yet hey would prefer their eradication.

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Jen Todd's avatar

I'd like to know what Maryland police did in response to Kilmer's wife filing two police reports for domestic violence. Did they ignore her or did they investigate?

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JBell's avatar

She never followed through with the protective orders .... nothing the cops could do. The gang-bangers silenced her.

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Jen Todd's avatar

I guess it was better for her to take the bitch slapping than to face the worse consequence of having the police involved.

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Dena's avatar

I read that the go fund me money bought her silence. Can’t really blame her though.

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Joni Lang's avatar

Hesgeth

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sibyl gardner's avatar

Dems13... brilliant.

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CarolB's avatar

Please get Tapper’s book from the library so he won’t profit (any more than he already has!) from his misdeeds.

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AncientViking's avatar

Soon, it will be available at garage sales all over for a quarter.

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Christopher Gaskins's avatar

I was going to say that it would be overpriced at 25¢, but then I factored in Bidenflation and realized that that price is probably in the ballpark. It's reasonably probable though that it has a higher value as firewood.

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PKsweets's avatar

Oh, I can see it being in one of those little libraries that people put up in their front yards, or in front of the local little postal office so they’ll be plenty of opportunities to not pay a dime for it

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Christopher Gaskins's avatar

RE: "those little libraries that people put up in their front yards", I can definitely see that, but in my mind the library is on a post above one of those virtue signaling "Love is love" signs and there is a sign below the library box that says "Since no human being is illegal and to each according to his needs, we will understand if you 'forget' to return this book (wink wink). Do not worry. The local recycling facility is providing us with an endless supply of them!"

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Donn Charles's avatar

As a vet, I hope your wrong about no obe asking if Biden’s mental infirmity was in any way related to our 13 dead brothers and sisters. Remember the Generals wanted him to leave 2 to 5 thousand troops to support the reg Afgan army.

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KARYN TRUITT's avatar

That was written into Trumps plan for leaving Afghanistan, and Biden and Co said there was absolutely NO WAY they would in any way, shape or form do ANYTHING that Trump suggested. So it might have been his mental infirmity, it could have been his unnatural hatred for anything Trump/republican, or it could have been his handlers doing things their way.

Regardless, we left men (and women) behind. Not a good look for a "Commander in Chief".

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Trapped in IL's avatar

TDS is the Democrats’ guiding principle. It always has been! IDIOTS…

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Valerie's avatar

I was just listening to Mark Halperin interview Scarborough about Biden. Apparently they’re friends and have been discussing his declining health ‘for years’, and he would ‘have good days and bad days’ as far back as 2017. But apparently a president having good and bad days was fine? I mean, they’re both ‘journalists’, right? They could have brought up this issue to the public at ANY TIME outside of their text exchanges and chose not to.

I am NOT HAVING IT with these Democrat mouthpiece journalists on their apology tour, pretending like they were fooled or didn’t have enough information. You people completely suck as professionals and human beings because you put your party affiliation above your country. These people trying to nuance their way out of this is exactly why I hate the mainstream media so much.

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sibyl gardner's avatar

I am no genius, but could tell from Biden's basement campaigning in '19 and'20 that he had a screw loose. Megyn Kelly's question to Tapper - why could all of us see Biden's decline and you couldn't? - was never answered by Tapper.

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William Porter's avatar

Scarborough is the one that puzzles me. No objective journalist could ever say the things he not only said but championed. I think they had him in the bag, either through a big payday or Blackmail.

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Dutchmn007's avatar

Van Hollen is a douche of superior degree not to be ever taken seriously. He preens in front of cameras to get his face on the newscasts but he’s always been & will always be irrelevant.

That said, rock music used to be all about rebellion & “standin’ up to The Man!” Somewhere along the way it transmorphed into compliance with “The Elite (& effete) Ruling Class”. The Boomers were all about rebellion until they became “‘da Man!” & demanded unfettered obedience & allegiance, or else! And “bad boys of rock” is now thoroughly obsolete; Elvis was tamed (by RCA & Col Tom Parker), 60’s was pretty mundane as groups took over. Have to look to the ‘80’s with people like Billy Idol or David Lee Roth to liven up that category again. Rock music anymore is a blue plate special @ your local Sunrise Retirement Community with aging rockers acting out in the “desperate to remain relevant” category. See Loose Bedsprings’ recent ramblings.

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Gail's avatar

Van Hollen was a virulent Jew hater before it became the Dem Party platform requisite qualifier.

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Tricia's avatar

One reason I listen to Five Fingered Death Punch (and yes, I’m technically old). Their back story is interesting and I really like their music.

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William Porter's avatar

I loved the insight

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patr's avatar

I guess its not hard to fathom that an American would do this today, but it is saddening to watch

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Ts Blue's avatar

Knowing and lying are not the same. Watch the Kelley interview with Tapper, such a fing lying sack of dung.

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Too Loose Low Trek's avatar

Sasha, read Jake Tapper's book (fwiw) - but don't you dare pay for it!

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Lis's avatar

I was about to type the same thing! Makes me so mad to think of all the money Alex and Jake will be hauling in over this book.

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Glenda's avatar

I’m all for a national move to Bud Light the thing. What’s the term for Beyond Disgusted?

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Robird's avatar

Poetic justice if you were to steal it, as Tapper and Thompson are absolutely fine with criminal behavior!

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Tricia's avatar

That’s what libraries are for.

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JoAnna Shaw's avatar

Or promotional copies 🤣

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NothingButNet's avatar

Seems like the Dems have reached the point of no return - Normies are leaving the party in droves because everything Democratic today is repulsive 🤮 (open borders, boys playing girls’ sports, DEI, etc). The more normies leave, the higher percentage of those remaining in the Dem Party are lunatic fringers, and the higher that percentage, the more normies leave and on and on until there are only crazies 👿 left in the party. Those crazies are likely experiencing the Thelma and Louise exhilaration as they drove off the cliff, oblivious of the canyon floor awaiting them below. Get your popcorn 🍿!

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Scott's avatar

Great description...they're on their way, hopefully, to becoming the Whig Party of the 2000's.

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Kick Nixon's avatar

The cancer diagnosis and the dementia are vigorous deflections from the central issue - who commandeered the presidency? Who opened the borders, put us trillions in debt, supported proxy wars, ignited destructive inflation, and locked down our country? Who caused the deaths of 13 young American soldiers? Who committed governmental malpractice and harmed our nation without authority? Oh look, there's George Clooney!

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Cat C.'s avatar

Yes, me and my depleted retirement nest egg would like to know......

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patr's avatar

King George don'tcha know its 1770

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Shooter 6's avatar

To paraphrase St. Matthew: "By their lies, so shall you know them."

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AncientViking's avatar

Though, in this case, they're trying to get people to 'buy' their lies....

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Robert D Shannon's avatar

By the way, sounds just like Hillary said about the death of the American ambassador to Libya. It never stops; they get away with it.

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Cat C.'s avatar

"What difference, at this point, does it make?" (paraphrased).

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