Vacationing Jake Tapper blasts CNN on Twitter for running anti-Semitic chyron on his show

[still_one]

Taking a well-deserved vacation after a too-long election season, CNN anchor Jake Tapper was appalled to tune into his show on Monday, only to see a chyron quoting an anti-Semitic white nationalist who spoke in Washington D.C. over the weekend.

While fill-in host Jim Sciutto addressed remarks made by white supremacist Richard Spencer to a group of fledgling neo-Nazis at a rally on Sunday, the chyron beneath the panel read: “Alt-right founder questions whether Jews are people.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/vacationing-jake-tapper-blasts-cnn-on-twitter-for-running-anti-semitic-chyron-on-his-show/

[TeamPooka]

1. Forget it Jake, it's Trumptown. nt

[Behind the Aegis]

2. More to come...

And we will see more and more people defend it or ask "Where are the so-and-so Jews and what do they have to say about this" or "Hey look! I found this Jew who says "it ain't so bad" so it must be nothing more than a 'smear'".

[Solly Mack]

5. Yep. The not-so-slow trickle of acceptance.

[malaise]

6. Rachel carried a clip from Spencer

I could not believe it

[Solly Mack]

8. Oh, believe it. Sadly.

[msongs]

3. lol CNN was groveling before Trump today and getting its marching orders nt

[world wide wally]

4. Even if Tapper were to say something about it to his bosses, they would just ask him if he likes his

5 figure monthly pay check.
If so, then STFU and do your job

[LisaM]

7. How can he say they were not given a platform?

They gave Trump a platform for over a year and now they give these people a platform, yet it's Hillary who was playing identity politics? I am so furious.

[enough]

9. I thought the chyron was very informative and important.

I didn't know the white supremacists were actually asking such questions openly. It's important that the extent of their insanity becomes widely known.

[lunasun]

10. But when there is little outrage by the media presenting it,then it can also become widely accepted

as valid questions to ask

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Isn't that as damning of the alt-right as you can get?

If they'd said "neo-Nazi", people would have said "yeah, Nazis have been saying that for a century". If they'd said "Richard Spencer", more people who be saying "who?" By saying "alt-right founder", they're tying the movement that's in the news to an obvious idea of race hatred.

Are people saying they shouldn't have said anything at all?