I listened to a piece of the interview that Jake Tapper did with Maga Megan Kelly.
First of all, he realized the maga crowd is the only way he’s going to make money on the book
In listening to the interview, he totally put President Biden under the bus Saying
“ Joe Biden has always said stupid things”
Just disparaging him
Then Megan Kelly asked him a very interesting question:
“ Are you going to call Lara Trump and apologize to her?”
And Jake Tapper responded
“ I already did” Indicating that he called her to apologize and had a conversation with her!
Part of all the Trump deals after he bullies and threatens lawsuits has been to “ Apologize” or to give great flattery to him like his cabinet does every time they open their mouths.
This book by Jake Tapper was totally sponsored by CNN and promoted by all of the anchors
This book was quickly put together with much unsubstantiated gossip as Naomi his granddaughter has indicated.
It is a Maga talking point book.
It appears CNN and Jake Tapper have capitulated exactly as ABC CBS and all the big law firms.
Yes, ideally we could move on from Biden except to offer sympathy for his condition. But for a few unfortunate reasons we would be moving on—hastily and clumsily—at our own peril.
He’s sick but we must tell the truth. He was selfish and foolish to attempt to run again and many around him attempted to cover up his failing condition. He makes Trump look younger than he is. He has provided a near-eternal “what about Biden and the cover-up?” narrative for Trump etc. And most importantly, it helped to absolutely destroy the Democrat brand. If Dems don’t own it and figure out how to fix it (instead of denying it and defending it) they will keep losing and this country is done. Done.
I'm disappointed in you, Charlie. We are up against a bill that blatantly destroys our country and Democracy. Even though I was devastated by Biden's poor performance at the debate, and knew that it meant tRumPutin would most likely win(I actually got drunk that night for the first time in over a decade and texted my daughter that I was contemplating suicide), I have gotten past that and am now focusing on the survival of tRump's insanity. I am disgusted with those who want to keep bashing poor Joe Biden.
First the killing of the Israeli employees was not an act of antisemitism. It was an attack on the government of Israel. No one needs to travel from Chicago to DC to kill Jews. Obviously the killing of these two was a horrendous crime regardless of motive but the difference between these assassinations and the ordinary and more routine murder of Jews in America is clear.
To see them as primarily an act of Jew-hatred is to miss the reason they were assassinated both as to why they were targeted and to what their murders mean.
Second Biden is no longer relevant to our current situation and therefore a waste of time.
I am going to address the absolute horrific killing of the Jewish couple. It was heartbreaking to see those young lives taken. I can empathize with their families as we as a married couple experienced a similar senseless tragedy on my wife's side of the family.
I am also enraged by the events in Gaza and with the Palestinian people related to HOW they are pictured by some of our own media and portrayed by both Republican and Democratic politicians. I think you can read the statements regarding the couple's killing and contrast those with any statements regarding the thousands of men, women, and (my God) children killed by Israel - children who have not even had a chance to live!
Being part Irish and Scot heritage I am pround of my homelands in their speaking up for the Palestinians, as well as other European nations that have done the same with tangible actions.
I probably am going to turn some off you off with "what I would do" there. I would diplomatically let all parties understand what was going to happen, so they could either accept it or hopefully prepare to deal with it peacefully. I would deploy a significant Marine Corp expeditionary force and "Nations of the Willing" to take control of Gaza and at the same time repatriate all of the stolen property of the West Bank from illegal settlements and finally along with partners establish a long past due "two state solution". A mandated peace not a please peace.
Charlie, I deeply appreciate you - and I am aggravated that you’re giving Jake Tapper another platform to sell his book after he shamelessly promotes it from his CNN anchor chair. Biden’s decline wasn’t a secret. Yes, the Biden team and Dem strategists were stubborn, but the seal was broken at the debate and everyone learned a lot. No one now is saying Biden should have stayed in. Dems are talking about age guardrails for future candidates. Can this conversation be over now? And even if it’s not over, must you line Jake Tapper’s pockets?
Also, I have labored through two pods with Chris C. He’s an intellectual lightweight. You have to carry him through every conversation. I can’t listen to any more pods with him.
At the “parade.” the media should avoid showing the commander in chief at all and focus on the supposed focus of celebrating the 250th birthday of the US Army. This is the media’s greatest failure: they give DJT the attention his shriveled soul desires.
This is an insightful and necessary discussion of the Biden fiasco, but I hope in time we can take a more global view about the problem inherent in having elected officials who are clearly, cognitively declining. I am not trying to argue from a what-aboutism standpoint, but we have, as a society in general, ignored this problem for a very long time. I will never forget hearing Reagan wander off into discussing the Pacific Coast Highway in his debate with Walter Mondale. Roosevelt made some disastrous decisions at Yalta. Diane Feinstein had no business being a senator in her last years. This is a systemic, historical American problem. I don’t know what the solution is, but it is essential that the ultimate discussion that results from this most recent failure of leadership must be about how we solve this problem going forward. This isn’t just an isolated problem that Democrats need to come to terms with, it’s an American political problem that has to be resolved.
See the Guardian article from Margaret Sullivan (link below). When is the reckoning coming for the media’s failures to cover Trump effectively? Biden coverage was flawed, but its reporting on trump was far worse!
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I listened to a piece of the interview that Jake Tapper did with Maga Megan Kelly.
First of all, he realized the maga crowd is the only way he’s going to make money on the book
In listening to the interview, he totally put President Biden under the bus Saying
“ Joe Biden has always said stupid things”
Just disparaging him
Then Megan Kelly asked him a very interesting question:
“ Are you going to call Lara Trump and apologize to her?”
And Jake Tapper responded
“ I already did” Indicating that he called her to apologize and had a conversation with her!
Part of all the Trump deals after he bullies and threatens lawsuits has been to “ Apologize” or to give great flattery to him like his cabinet does every time they open their mouths.
This book by Jake Tapper was totally sponsored by CNN and promoted by all of the anchors
This book was quickly put together with much unsubstantiated gossip as Naomi his granddaughter has indicated.
It is a Maga talking point book.
It appears CNN and Jake Tapper have capitulated exactly as ABC CBS and all the big law firms.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thegrumpydoc/p/why-cant-we-disagree-and-still-be?r=55exjm&utm_medium=ios
Yes, ideally we could move on from Biden except to offer sympathy for his condition. But for a few unfortunate reasons we would be moving on—hastily and clumsily—at our own peril.
He’s sick but we must tell the truth. He was selfish and foolish to attempt to run again and many around him attempted to cover up his failing condition. He makes Trump look younger than he is. He has provided a near-eternal “what about Biden and the cover-up?” narrative for Trump etc. And most importantly, it helped to absolutely destroy the Democrat brand. If Dems don’t own it and figure out how to fix it (instead of denying it and defending it) they will keep losing and this country is done. Done.
I'm disappointed in you, Charlie. We are up against a bill that blatantly destroys our country and Democracy. Even though I was devastated by Biden's poor performance at the debate, and knew that it meant tRumPutin would most likely win(I actually got drunk that night for the first time in over a decade and texted my daughter that I was contemplating suicide), I have gotten past that and am now focusing on the survival of tRump's insanity. I am disgusted with those who want to keep bashing poor Joe Biden.
First the killing of the Israeli employees was not an act of antisemitism. It was an attack on the government of Israel. No one needs to travel from Chicago to DC to kill Jews. Obviously the killing of these two was a horrendous crime regardless of motive but the difference between these assassinations and the ordinary and more routine murder of Jews in America is clear.
To see them as primarily an act of Jew-hatred is to miss the reason they were assassinated both as to why they were targeted and to what their murders mean.
Second Biden is no longer relevant to our current situation and therefore a waste of time.
I am going to address the absolute horrific killing of the Jewish couple. It was heartbreaking to see those young lives taken. I can empathize with their families as we as a married couple experienced a similar senseless tragedy on my wife's side of the family.
I am also enraged by the events in Gaza and with the Palestinian people related to HOW they are pictured by some of our own media and portrayed by both Republican and Democratic politicians. I think you can read the statements regarding the couple's killing and contrast those with any statements regarding the thousands of men, women, and (my God) children killed by Israel - children who have not even had a chance to live!
Being part Irish and Scot heritage I am pround of my homelands in their speaking up for the Palestinians, as well as other European nations that have done the same with tangible actions.
I probably am going to turn some off you off with "what I would do" there. I would diplomatically let all parties understand what was going to happen, so they could either accept it or hopefully prepare to deal with it peacefully. I would deploy a significant Marine Corp expeditionary force and "Nations of the Willing" to take control of Gaza and at the same time repatriate all of the stolen property of the West Bank from illegal settlements and finally along with partners establish a long past due "two state solution". A mandated peace not a please peace.
Charlie, I deeply appreciate you - and I am aggravated that you’re giving Jake Tapper another platform to sell his book after he shamelessly promotes it from his CNN anchor chair. Biden’s decline wasn’t a secret. Yes, the Biden team and Dem strategists were stubborn, but the seal was broken at the debate and everyone learned a lot. No one now is saying Biden should have stayed in. Dems are talking about age guardrails for future candidates. Can this conversation be over now? And even if it’s not over, must you line Jake Tapper’s pockets?
Also, I have labored through two pods with Chris C. He’s an intellectual lightweight. You have to carry him through every conversation. I can’t listen to any more pods with him.
Not too old, Charlie; too infirm. There's a difference.
I’m glad for the tapper/Thompson book and what it reveals. Non of it is a surprise.
I’ll add that if anyone thinks Jake tapper gives a rat fk, or has ever given a rat fk, about anyone or anything but his own image….
At the “parade.” the media should avoid showing the commander in chief at all and focus on the supposed focus of celebrating the 250th birthday of the US Army. This is the media’s greatest failure: they give DJT the attention his shriveled soul desires.
This is an insightful and necessary discussion of the Biden fiasco, but I hope in time we can take a more global view about the problem inherent in having elected officials who are clearly, cognitively declining. I am not trying to argue from a what-aboutism standpoint, but we have, as a society in general, ignored this problem for a very long time. I will never forget hearing Reagan wander off into discussing the Pacific Coast Highway in his debate with Walter Mondale. Roosevelt made some disastrous decisions at Yalta. Diane Feinstein had no business being a senator in her last years. This is a systemic, historical American problem. I don’t know what the solution is, but it is essential that the ultimate discussion that results from this most recent failure of leadership must be about how we solve this problem going forward. This isn’t just an isolated problem that Democrats need to come to terms with, it’s an American political problem that has to be resolved.
Charlie, you're right about the democrats and the cover up. But ALL democrats need a wake up call for a unified strategy session to take down MAGA
See the Guardian article from Margaret Sullivan (link below). When is the reckoning coming for the media’s failures to cover Trump effectively? Biden coverage was flawed, but its reporting on trump was far worse!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Bottom line for me on Tapper’s book is that now is not the time. Not only that I would much rather see a book written by a historian down the road.
Let's PLEASE move on from Joe Biden. We love him to pieces, whatever. Leave him alone!