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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN's Jake Tapper skewered for calling black DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a 'white man' on air
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.
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 Coles face that originated from the suspects mothers Instagram account.
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Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing anti-white rhetoric.

"The suspect looks remarkably like Joe Biden."
Walleye
(43,571 posts)We need to start telling them to cry harder every time
MustLoveBeagles
(14,295 posts)But not a anti white conspiracy.
Walleye
(43,571 posts)I assume Jake has come back on the air and corrected it. Something you dont expect right wing outlets to do.
MustLoveBeagles
(14,295 posts)Don't like Tapper but this was unintentional. I've actually defended him twice this week which makes me feel weird.
Walleye
(43,571 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,295 posts)They're so predictable
Walleye
(43,571 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(21,788 posts)The suspect is a black man?
But I read right here on DU that the bomber was none other than Majorie Taylor Greene, because she wears the same kind of sneakers as the bomber wore that night
usonian
(22,945 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220848629
Can a suspect be pardoned before trial?
Asking for a fiend.
Ford pardoned Nixon, even before an arrest.
MustLoveBeagles
(14,295 posts)H2O Man
(78,411 posts)It was at a time when republicans had scandal fatigue, and only the hardcore were not upset by Nixon's crimes and Ford's pardon. So it was a fun time to be a Democrat, and to vote for Jimmy Carter.
Coldwater
(748 posts)because the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit profile of the suspect indicated he was a white male in his early 20s
Faux pas
(16,016 posts)I doubt the person was black or even a man.
Emile
(39,921 posts)usonian
(22,945 posts)I was just reading his mind.
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