In the clip from her podcast above, Megyn Kelly, who has not always been the exemplar of ethical journalism, deftly eviscerated Ethics Villain Jack Tapper for his role in covering up Joe Biden’s galloping dementia and then turning around after the election (and the failure of his fellow propagandists to defeat Donald Trump) to profit from a book exposing the scandal that he was part of.
Kelly’s coup-de-gras comes when Tapper, cornered, whines, “There is a difference between the clips of Joe Biden falling on a stage… forgetting a Republican congressman had died… Those are embarrassing… but there is a difference between that and the investigative journalism that Alex and I were able to do—and only able to do after the election.”
Kelly goes for the jugular, and get it. “I don’t diminish the importance of the book,” she says. “But there is no way we can have that conversation with an audience that is as skeptical of your ability to tell the story as mine is without addressing your role in this, right?…you’ve watched the coverage since it came out that you wrote this book…. there’s a legion of articles comparing you in some instances to like, O.J. Instead of ‘If I Did It,’ this is ‘If I Hid It.’”
Perfect.
As a side note, should I give Tapper a teeny bit of credit for agreeing to do Megyn’s podcast? Surely he knew what was coming…or did he? I think he is mired in such a bubble and has been so corrupted by his stay at CNN that he really has convinced himself that working for the Axis of Unethical Conduct makes him one of the good guys. Either that, or he’s a moron.
Whatever the case, he’s lucky I wasn’t the interviewer. My questions to Jake would have made Megyn seem like Mr. Rogers….
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As a side note, should I give Tapper a teeny bit of credit for agreeing to do Megyn’s podcast? Surely he knew what was coming…or did he?
Megyn stated in the podcast prior that she and Tapper are friendly socially, and that while they may get along as “friends” (quotation marks mine) she was not going to hold back in her interview. My guess is that Tapper did not hear/see that particular podcast. There were times that he looked taken aback at how forceful and pointed she was in her questioning. Good.
I second: Good.
I was reminded of when Dick Morris got some tough questions on Fox News and protested that he shouldn’t be treated like that on a conservative network.
That interview was brutal (I listened to it on my way to the teeming, gleaming city of the hill, Mesquite, Texas, to address 70 or municipal code violations). Kelley was direct, tough, and rejected Tapper’s “but I tried to be fair” schtick. He held his feet to the fire and blew him out of the water. However, the rest of the interview was disturbing, to say the least. Jill Biden and their team come off as true villians, hiding Biden’s health issues but more importantly, who was running the administration. Jill Biden’s senior advisor, Anthony Bernal, seems to be the main culprit.
jvb
Erm . . . Megyn Kelly, not Kelley.
jvb
I’d call that a de minimus typo/
Jake is trying to apologize his way out of this. You can’t apologize for betraying the trust of the public for four years!
He is. The Megyn Kelly inferviewed Batya Ungar-Sargon after the Tapper/Thompson spot. Ungar-Sargon was brutal about Tapper’s role in all of this, flaming his feet to the proverbial fire. Ungar-Sargon eviscerated the liberal bubble Tapper, et al, live in, where they all said, “see no health issues, say no health issuess, say no health issues.” If you get a chance to watch/listen to that interview, do so. It is only 15 minutes or so but it is excellent. Ungar-Sargon is excellent.
jvb
Agreed. Ungar-Sargon is excellent.
Rather, if you’re going to apologize for lying to the public for 4 years, it better be a level 1 on the apology scale, and be accompanied by some public penance. Running the apology tour while promoting a book with the potential for huge earnings might not quite cut it. Trying to portray himself as a victim of all the gaslighting is not particularly convincing, not when we have concrete evidence he was active agent of the coverup. I recommend a full confession, all proceeds of his book going to charity, and renunciation of the journalism profession.
Tapper’s responses to Kelly were, “well, we really didn’t know. I mean, how could we have known? I know you guys on Fox were reporting on this but you’re Fox, not the Exhalted Legacy Media like us, so while you may have been right, you so seldemly are that we just ignored you. Our bad. But, now that I know you were right, well, kinda my bad but I really didn’t know. And, this book is sort of my public penance.”
jvb