<em>TWT</em>'s Curl Goes After ABC's Tapper

Don't look for TWT Columnist and Drudge's Joe Curl and ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper to kiss and make up anytime soon. Curl, a former White House correspondent, took a machete to the mainstream media in a Sunday column, taking large slices out of the media covering President Obama as a whole and ripping on TIME and MSNBC Contributor Mark Halperin. But he took special care and precision in going after "The Tap" as he writes, pointedly and personally mocking Tapper. Curl begins with the "dog" metaphor and stretches it out, saying that the MSM has been in the "downward-facing dog position" for the past four years. And then, employing the reporter's full name, the almost uncomfortable attack on "Jacob Paul 'Jake' Tapper" begins. Tapper worked for Handgun Control Inc. and the "ultra-liberal" Salon magazine, writes Curl, who then goes after his wife, whom he does not name, indicating she's the "former regional field manager for Planned Parenthood Federation." He moves on to Tapper's book, Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, calling it a "mega-non-best-seller" and citing the author speaking about media bias. Then Curl twists the knife by making fun of an appearance on ABC's "This Week." Tapper has been praised by conservatives for asking tough questions that some think make him decidedly anti-Obama: National Review Online writer Jonah Goldberg: "There's a reason why ABC's Jake Tapper is one of the few nonconservative reporters respected on the right: He's stayed as skeptical of Obama as he was of George W. Bush." National Review Editor Rich Lowry: "In May, a bi-partisan majority of the House, including 20 Democrats, voted to ban abortion for the purpose of sex selection. As the National Right to Life Committee noted, it didn’t occur to reporters to ask the White House about the president’s position on the legislation, with the honorable exception of Jake Tapper (who, for some reason, is always the honorable exception)." Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham: "Jake Tapper of ABC News, one of the few honest brokers out there in the non-Fox White House Press Corps." This won't sit well. Washington can feel like a small town where media is concerned, so this should make for some exquisitely awkward party moments. We just hope we're there to witness them. Tapper declined to comment on Curl's column. An excerpt: ...America's reporters are prepared to do what must be done so they can get back to their skewered shrimp in the faux gardens of upper Manhattan -- with Barack Obama back in the White House. All of this comes as a tremendous shock to Jacob Paul "Jake" Tapper. The Dartmouth grad who once worked for Handgun Control Inc. and the ultra-liberal Salon magazine (is his wife a former regional field manager for Planned Parenthood Federation? Yes, yes she is) did not really know there was this "liberal bias" when authoring the mega-non-best-seller "Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency" (surprisingly, it was not about how Al Gore tried to steal the presidency).

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TWT's Curl Goes After ABC's Tapper

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