Media For McCain: Jake Tapper Thinks Only The Elderly Can Be “Confused”

3:48 pm EST June 11th, 2008 | Media | 8 Comments

Jake Tapper follows the media line and jumps into a defensive crouch for John McCain, not being man enough to make a forthright accusation but still saying the Obama camp called McCain “confused” because of his age. While more than a few of the nutty things McCain says and believes are likely products of his advanced age, at the same time he’s just amazingly wrong on a lot of things. That’s why he comes across as confused. The Obama camp said nothing of age, but ABC’s Jake Tapper felt he had to rush to McCain’s defense.

Odd how that happens.

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8 Responses to “Media For McCain: Jake Tapper Thinks Only The Elderly Can Be “Confused””

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    June 11, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    Tapper, writing in his own voice:

    “Hoping to bridge that chasm, the Obama campaign and Democrats harped on comments McCain made on the Today show this morning, repeatedly calling the 71-year-old presumptive GOP presidential nominee “confused,” seeming to feed into concerns voters might have about the Arizonan’s age.”

    Doesn’t get any slipperier than that! Tapper wants us to know what an Obama spokesperson’s words “seemed” to mean. Of course, later in the very same article (but way, way down there), he gets around to actually asking the person who said those words what they meant. And–what do you know?–it turns out those words weren’t what Tapper says they “seemed.”

    But wait! There’s more! The words “seemed” to feed into concerns voters “might” have! Do voters have these concerns? I don’t know and neither does Tapper! He even admits he doesn’t know by allowing that those concerns are only a possibility. On the other hand, voters might not have these concerns!

    In short, Tapper has a story to tell. The facts must be trimmed nicely to fit.

  2. Duros62 says:
    June 11, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    On the other hand, voters might not have these concerns!

    Well, they do now. Thanks, Jake.

  3. PTCruiser says:
    June 11, 2008 at 4:50 pm

    A lot of these guys treat John McCain as if he were their daddy.

  4. Preyanka says:
    June 11, 2008 at 6:24 pm

    Did you see the comments on his website? They were there for a long time before anyone caught on; here they are, saved for posterity: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/11/2165/55268/106/533829

  5. Mold says:
    June 11, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    St Reagan was more loved as the doddering grampa than as the man who stole scholarships from academically gifted poor children, the man who said ketchup was a vegetable..for the poor, the man who gave weapons to murdering scum in Nicaragua, the man who eliminated taxes for wealthy contributors, the man who invited criminals to the public treasury….

  6. Tyro says:
    June 11, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    You know, I think that Obama was taking shots at McCain’s age by saying how he was “confused.” There were also echoes of this when he said that McCain had “lost his bearings,” in the hopes that people would make the implied mental association with McCain having “lost his marbles.”

    However, Tapper responds to this needling of McCain with all the sensitivity of someone whose just heard his father’s manhood questioned.

  7. z_adura says:
    June 11, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    It is not by accident that Obama is using these words. He’s a smart guy and it’s smart posturing. I don’t see why we should feel affronted by this. We’re also going to hear Obama referred to as “urbane” and “uppity” and “elitist” as though we don’t know what the opposition is saying.

    It happens to be the case that McCain is old and confused and losing his bearings, so in addition to using clever and manipulative wording, Obama is also speaking to a fundamental truth.

  8. badgervan says:
    June 12, 2008 at 10:28 am

    I’m surprised that more media types aren’t mentioning the fact that McSame came in like number 880 out of 890 Annapolis grads. The man is just not smart. I see no desire to learn, no curiousity, no itch to dig out the facts from McSame.
    What I do see is more of the past eight years.