Jake Tapper, deep thinker:
If wives are off limits in the politics theater — as Sen. Barack Obama suggested on this morning’s GMA should be the case– then are Democrats not guilty of the same sin by attacking Cindy McCain for not releasing her tax returns?
Does someone really need to explain this to Jake? I mean, really?




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he’s the quintessential stupid journalist
If wives are off limits in the politics theater … then are Democrats not guilty of the same sin by attacking Cindy McCain for not releasing her tax returns?
Last time I checked, there was a difference between money and political spouses–although I see where it might be easy to conflate the two in Cindy McCain’s case. Put another way, if Wingnuts attacking Teresa Heinze Kerry for not releasing records of the Heinze family trusts is kosher, then Cindy McCain should expect the same treatment.
Does someone really need to explain this to Jake? I mean, really?
Yes. Really.
Does Pinnochio have a wooden dick?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
SATSQ
“Power, pop, and probings…” claims the banner at Jack’s den of dubious drivel over at ABC News (”Why Investigate When We Can Insinuate?”™).
I don’t know, I think “Lame shit and sloppy seconds” would be a better caption for his approach to “oh, look a tasty pseudo-scandal I can conjure up and play with for a few days while avoiding the real issue…”-journalism.
Does Pinnochio have a wooden dick?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Was The Pope a Nazi?
A nation of over 300,000,000 people and Jake Tapper is the best that ABC can do? Shame.
Yes. Preferably in puppet form.
Is the pope catholic?
Does Howdy-Doody have wooden balls?
More like his “Otto” face. As in, to paraphrase:
Jake Tapper: Apes don’t write about politics!
Wanda: Yes, they do, Jake, they just don’t understand it.
I actually think that Obama was sending the McCains a little warning, as in: Cindy’s WAY more vulnerable to personal attack than Michele. You really want to go there?
Drudgico’s Mike Allen was on Fox News last night and made the same, almost exact, word-for-word statement. Almost as if they were reading off the same GOP spin memo…
Okay, Jake, here is how it is.
Yes, Cindy McCain will be and has been subject to critism from the Democrats. It is not nice, but John McSame has the same privilege that Obama had. John can defend his wife and tell the Democats to ”lay off his wife, but he hasn’t. She was slimed big time in the 2000 race by his own party, the republicans.
He didn’t complain then and most likely, he won’t this time. Obama is a gentleman and it used to be gentlemanly to at least protest when your wife had lies told about her.
Jake’s got a purty mouth tho
Well you know, those rethug prescription narcotics abusers will probably stick together, which means covering for Cindy for as long as they possibly can. Tapper must have a jones of some kind; his expression in that photo certainly looks constipated enough to suggest something in the opiod family.
If Michelle Obama had a history of diverting narcotics from a charity for personal use until she had to do in-patient rehab, exactly how often would that story be brought up each day from now until the election?
Yes, are those lips real or are they botox?