Treat Jake Tapper like the star he is or he won’t play with the little people any more
May 26, 2009 by William K. Wolfrum
Just had an interesting time with Jake Tapper on Twitter. Tapper – who wouldn’t call out Rush Limbaugh for being a homophobic, sexist racist if he was waterboarded – took offense at a comment I made toward him.
Some context: At today’s White House Presser, Tapper basically took the GOP’s talking points against SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and turned it into a question. It was the type of pointless media nonsense that generally gets under my skin. So, I sent these Tweets his way, putting my own spin on them:
Dear God @jaketapper – “People are saying Sotomayor is a radical lesbian communist heroin-abuser. Your thoughts?”
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Great @jaketapper Questions from history “Adolf, some say Jews are baby-eaters, others say they are Christ-killers. Thoughts?”
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Great @jaketapper Questions from history “Ari, some say Iraq will nuke us tomorrow, others say next week. Thoughts?
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Great @jaketapper Questions from history “Pontius, some say Christ is a heretic, others say he’s an enemy of the state? Thoughts?
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Great @jaketapper Questions from history: “Barack, I kiss your ass daily and you were nice to me at #nerdprom, so why are you mean to me?”
Anyway, Tapper found the satirical “question” to Adolf to be in poor taste, and sent these Tweets in return:
i would really appreciate it @wolfrum if u didnt send me jokes about “Jews” as “baby-eaters” or “Christ-killers.” Not funny.
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and i would appreciate if @chloebeetle didnt RT jokes that use the Holocaust for humor as well. thanks
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Twitter has become a huge resource for ppl who – i can only assume -as children only got negative attention and learned the wrong lesson.
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Thankfully most tweeps arent like that. But at some pt they will really start chasing ppl away. Who has time or space in their lives?
First off, I don’t mind the purposeful misinterpretation of the Jewish bit. The guy works for Disney after all.
What I find much more interesting is how he reacted after that. Basically, in a span of maybe 20 minutes, he managed to show all that is wrong with the mainstream news business. He:
1) Set up a strawman question that was pure GOP talking point.
2) He ignored the point I made, focusing only on how I made my point.
3) He mocked me, and my parents, in full “attack the messenger” shrillness.
4) He pointed out that stars like him won’t stay on Twitter if they have to deal with such behavior.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present Jake Tapper, the official hairdo of an overpampered, overly self-important, and so often purposely impotent U.S. news media.
–WKW
“Twitter has become a huge resource for ppl who – i can only assume -as children only got negative attention and learned the wrong lesson.”
Note to Jake, you are using Twitter. You are using it as a “resource.”
You, as a child, apparently received only “negative attention and learned the wrong lesson.”
Youre an anti-Semitic piece of shit.
and you dont have the guts to publish this, you fat fuck.
On behalf of fat people around the world let me say… we have plenty of guts — we’re fat, duh.
Also, lol your fat.
I am always amazed by the number of people who do not understand satire. When I taught college, it was covered in English 101.
Youre a demagogue. He didn’t say anything about chasing “stars.” He took offense to a crude Holocaust joke. It’s not that people don’t understand that it’s satire. It’s not funny. Seriously, dude, you’re a fucking loser.
Take note, Wolfrum — *this* is how one raises the discourse on an important issues such as satire, media access and accountability, and proper references to historical genocides.
If you ever hope to move beyond those two doofusses (doofi?) who regularly comment on what passes for the pre-pubescent humor on this site & attract yerself some real enlightened, highbrow readers, you’re going to have to take the dick outta yer ear long enough to get over your preposterous propensity for petty personal attacks, you homo-lovin’, Samba-dancin’, speedo-wearin’, Stillers-lovin’, blasphemous commie terrorist douchebag.
No offense, of course.
It was funny Eli. And it wasn’t a holocaust joke.
Spend five minutes on an internet discussion board and you will see that the attitude Wolfrum was in fact severely ridiculing is prevalent. IMO, Wolfram was simultaneously mocking our foolish, cowardly media, and taking a stab at the Anti-Semitic idiots that roam the blogosphere and political forums.
You obviously don’t know the meaning of the word.
it’s the internet, one-sided spew needs to be tolerated, ask jake or eli
Personally, I’d have to say, “Well done!”
But I heard if from my anonymous sources that you crap your pants at least twice a day. However, others inform me that you are less regular and it’s actually once every two days that you crap your pants. So which is it? And why do you not wear a diaper if this is the case?
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