Tapper is getting a lot of criticism from a lot of people for posing as a "reporter" on Biden's Dementia.
He made a PR move yesterday, offering a non-apology on CNN. It's the standard non-apology, where you say something that sounds a little reflective and self-critical but in fact you're doubling down.
If you didn't see the wormy non-apology, it's here. He says, prompted by his CNN colleague who was certainly told to ask him this question, claiming that only "conservatives" are criticizing him, "some of it [the conservatives' criticism] is fair, to be honest... but knowing then what I know now, I look back at my coverage, and I did cover some of these issues but not enough, and I look back in humility."
He then insists that Biden only became demented around 2023-2024, continuing to insist there was no story before then. Though he also does acknowledge that the separation of Biden into the "functioning one and non-functioning one" began in 2019-2020. But he is firm that it wasn't that bad at that time, thus absolving himself and all his fellow Regime Conspiracists from having noticed it until June 2024.
We can now see that this non-apology was almost certainly offered only because the crisis manager he'd hired told him to offer a fake, non-specific statement about the indisputable and now-notorious fact that Tapper himself was one of the main architects of the very cover up he now wants to be paid to "expose."
And wait until you see the crisis manager's client list!
Breaker reported earlier this month that Tapper has hired Risa Heller, a crisis communication expert described as the "warrior of choice" for "cancellable elites" trying to survive a scandal. In 2022, Heller met with former CNN boss Jeff Zucker days before he was forced to resign for, among other things, concealing a romantic relationship with a subordinate executive. She helped Anthony Weiner navigate his (first) dick-pic scandal in 2011. Jeffrey Toobin, the disgraced CNN personality, sought Heller's counsel in 2020 after he was caught pleasuring himself on a Zoom call with colleagues. She worked with convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes on a sympathetic puff piece in the New York Times ahead of her sentencing. She represented an Estée Lauder executive who posted a Sesame Street meme using the n-word, and defended the voice of Elmo against allegations of sexual impropriety with minors. Now she's helping Tapper learn how to be "nicer" to fellow journalists.
Some context: Tapper is a notorious crank with a habit of sending indignant DMs to journalists and other commentators who criticize him on social media. Some have described his stubbornness, thirst for vengeance, and refusal to admit fault as "positively Bidenesque." There's at least some evidence that Heller's human decency training has rubbed off. The day after Breaker revealed the PR flack's involvement in the book rollout, Tapper praised his co-author, Alex Thompson of Axios, as a "great reporter and a kind person and a good friend," which was awfully sweet of him.
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Mark Halperin, among others, has a different view. "One thing that's not true is that the cover-up was so good that no one could see this, that we couldn't possibly have gotten to the bottom of this during the election," he said. "It is not true that it's only after the election that Jake Tapper could've gotten to the bottom of this, and the rest of the Washington press corps could've gotten to the bottom of this." The media were not simply "stymied from getting to the truth" by lying White House aides, Halperin argued. "No, they were part of the conspiracy and the cover-up. They allowed themselves to believe the ridiculous spin on TV and in public, and privately they allowed themselves to be browbeat," he said. "They were told, you will lose access ... Reporters who covered any story the Biden people didn't like were denied access."
Media reporter Dylan Byers noted Tapper's insane levels of "self-promotion and sanctimony" are even bothering to annoy his fellow leftwing hacktivists.
From February, when Tapper brazenly announced that he would be uncovering the cover-up that he so energetically participated in:
Stephen Green
@VodkaPundit
Watching @jaketapper cash in on his own professional malfeasance is probably the most Beltway thing ever.
Some memories of the media joining Tapper in the conspiracy:
Via Drew Holden: NBC "News" cited "brain experts" to reassure citizens not to worry about Biden's clearly-shot memory, that doesn't affect his ability make decisions at all!
It's like when people lose their sight and their other senses get very sharp to compensate. So Biden's brains are rotting garbage when it comes to memory. That just means that his wisdom and judgment functions must have gotten super-sharp.
Right? That's how it works, right, "brain experts"?
"No one could have known!"
And from the Federalist: nine times Tapper showed what a valuable soldier he is for the Democrat Party by insisting Biden was "mentally sharp."