Jake Tapper Quotes

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Jake Tapper

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 12, 1969

A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious.

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You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow.

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What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?

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Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

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I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do.

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I think there is room for improvement for all of the media, and that certainly, and especially, includes me.

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I still think of myself as a Philadelphian. I still root for the Philadelphia teams. Other than my house, I still feel most at home in terms of cities when I'm in Philly.

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I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.

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It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.

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CNN wants me to tell the news in a way that seems genuine and authentic. They don't want me to be Ron Burgundy.

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Politicians lie.

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It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

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It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.

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Trump is most fun to draw - just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.

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It's tough for me to draw myself - usually way too self-critical.

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As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

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Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.

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Everybody should work in their nation's capitol and see how politics actually work because it was the most eye opening experience of my life.

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I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.

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