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CNN's Jake Tapper skewered for calling black DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a 'white man' on air [View all]
https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/cnns-jake-tapper-skewered-for-calling-black-dc-pipe-bomb-suspect-brian-cole-jr-a-white-man-on-air/Is Jake going a little senile?
Maybe he should write a book about how Jake Tapper is covering up Jake Tapper's mental decline.
Comments in italics are mine.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper was ripped by critics Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as “a white man.”
Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.” (the lead in his cranium? Inquiring minds (the unleaded kind) want to know.)
His “white man” comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole’s face that originated from the suspect’s mother’s Instagram account.
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Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing “anti-white rhetoric.”
Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.” (the lead in his cranium? Inquiring minds (the unleaded kind) want to know.)
His “white man” comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole’s face that originated from the suspect’s mother’s Instagram account.
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Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing “anti-white rhetoric.”
"The suspect looks remarkably like Joe Biden."
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