That Didn't Take Long... First DC Journo Falls Victim to the Classic April Fools Prank
The latest victim of the inevitable collision between the instantaneous internet and the April Fool’s joke is ABC’s Jake Tapper.
Our sources tell us Tapper’s known for his “gerbil-on-a-wheel” work habits and always wanting to be “first” with every story, from the White House to Capitol Hill and everywhere in between.
So, Tapper jumped on ABC’s internal news distribution system early this morning to alert the network that former Justice Department lawyer John C. Yoo– the author of controversial Bush Administration policy memos after 9/11– had been arrested in Italy for “war crimes.”
It was just a few minutes later after Tapper and colleagues checked the story out that he admitted in another internal email “Oh christ, (sic) I think someone sent this to me as an april fools joke.”
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