Jake Tapper

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• In Their Own Words: 9/11 Commission Vice Chair Lee Hamilton

  
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  I just think what’s pervasive through the country, and has been now for a number of years, is a complacency, an inertia, a business-as-usual. You ask anyone, is this an important problem? They say yes of course it is, then they stack it up with 150 other priorities. You either have to give this top priority or not. ...
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• Congratulations to the Octagon for Grabbing the Most Network Facetime of 2009 [Chart]

  
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  According to network-news statistician Andrew Tyndall, Jake "the Octagon" Tappers inquiring face was on ABC News air for 370 minutes—or six long hours—last year, making him the most...
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• Video: Robert Gibbs dodges Obama C-SPAN transparency question

  
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• C-Span Drops the Gauntlet on Democrats and a Flashback to Harry Reid Whining About Transparency

  
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  In a surprising move, C-Span has sent a letter to House and Senate leaders requesting that they televise the health care negotiations. “As your respective chambers work to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate health care bills, C-SPAN requests that you open all your negotiations, including ...
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• As part of Iraqi reconciliation, US forces release head of Shiite group that killed Americans

  
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  ABC News , “ As Part of Iraqi Reconciliation, US Forces Release Head of Shiite Extremist Group ” by Jake Tapper A spokesman for Multi-National Force-Iraq tells ABC News that it has released into Iraqi custody the head of an Iran-backed Shiite group responsible for killing US soldiers, his freedom all but assured ...
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• Amanda Simpson Named Advisor to Dept of Commerce

  
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  As one of the first transgender appointees to the Obama administration, Amanda Simpson will become the Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce.
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• 12-Year-Old Girl Curses, Kills In Kick-Ass Film Trailer

  
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  The newest trailer for the upcoming comic book adaptation “ Kick-Ass ” is getting a lot of attention on Twitter today, thanks to tweets and re-tweets by the likes of Rob Corddry , Jake Tapper , and TV’s Andy Levy . The R-rated trailer features copious violence and profanity, but the clip’s heat is generated ...
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• 2009: Tommy Christopher’s Year In Review

  
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  I started out this year wondering if the white-hot intensity of the 2008 campaign could be even partially sustained, a daunting question for a $10-a-post blogger trying to hustle his way into a career in journalism. I’m ending it as a White House reporter and political correspondent for two national online ...
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• White House Mum on Obama’s Interpol Executive Order

  
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  President Obama quietly signed an executive order granting immunity to Interpol on December 17. Although blogs picked up on the story, the media ignored it. This morning the Washington Examiner reported that they have asked officials at the White House about this order, but haven’t yet received a response. ...
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• Echoes Of 9/11? Gov. Had Plenty Of Warning About Christmas Day Attack

  
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  It’s hard not to wonder if the story of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab may turn out to be the biggest story of the year if it keeps developing the way it does. This thing has got legs, as they say, long ones that appear to be reaching places that haven’t been explored since the aftermath of 9/11. Actually, it’s ...
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• Fox Commenter Wants Muslim Profiling; Real World Fliers Remain Calm

  
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  If there is one lesson to be gleaned thus far from Thursdays attempted terrorist attack on Northwestern Flight 253 it is this: when it comes to flying safely you may be on your own (notwithstanding the pilots and the ground staff!). According to ABC’s Jake Tapper the only thing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ...
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• Mitch McConnell Tries to Have It Both Ways

  
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  Friends, it is important for me to keep harping on this issue because we have really been betrayed in the Senate by the Republican leadership. It is abundantly obvious now that the Senate GOP played to beat the spread, not to beat the bill. Yesterday, I noted Jake Tapper asked Mitch McConnell a plainly worded ...
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• Another GTL™ Open Post Monday: TSA “Crotch Bomber” Failure Blame — Democrats Or Republicans? JFK — Bigger Playboy Than We Ever Thought? Will Tea Partiers Derail The G.O.P.? SOUND OFF HERE

  
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  THE Gun Toting Liberal Reaches Out To His Fellow Commentators -Slash- Co-Bloggers And Readers To Furnish Their Opinions On Any Of The Above, Below, Or Anything Else Political One Wishes To O-Pine On…It’s that time again, folks. Lots happening in today’s U.S. political scene and... This is only a comment ...
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• Janet Napolitano May Have Been Right…And Other Flight 253 Truths

  
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  Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano may have given conservatives a great new t-shirt idea yesterday by claiming that the system “worked like clockwork” once the flight 253 incident had occurred (a disclaimer that rendered the statement meaningless), but there may actually be some truth to the ...
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• Video: “This Week” panel on Parker Griffith, 2010

  
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  This Week December 27. Jake Tapper moderates for George Stephanopoulos.
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• Why Being On A Watch List May Not Matter

  
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  As everyone knows by now Umar Farouk Abdulmutalla b, the 23-year-old Nigeran businessman who attempted to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, was already on a U.S. government watch list, thanks in part to the fact his father reported him to the U.S. Government. What is less clear is how someone on a watch ...
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• Terror On Flight 253: Who’s Responsible, Bush Or Obama?

  
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  The next time the White House announces to the press that they expect a quiet holiday with no news it perhaps might be a good time to take cover. After a contentious summer and fall spent arguing over the health care bill, and for a short while Afghanistan, no doubt President Obama was looking forward to a nice quiet ...
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• Is He Or Isnt He

  
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  Jake Tapper, while hosting "This Week" on ABC, asked Mitch McConnell if the GOP were going to campaign in 2010 on repealing healthcare reform. And even though Tapper usually plays it soft with Republicans in order to curry favor with them from time to time, he didnt exactly let Mitch off on this one: More from ...
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• The Power of Plain Speaking

  
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  Politicians of all stripes go to Washington and lose the ability to relate to people. Part of that is an inability for politicians to speak plainly, even when talking to the base. I have criticized Mitch McConnell repeated for wanting to beat the spread instead of actually beating health care. Being in the good old ...
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• Freeze warnings in hell

  
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  David Brooks prefers single-payer to status quo Conservative columnist David Brooks expressed support Sunday for a system of health care otherwise demonized in the press by the right wing. "I wouldnt mind a single-payer. Frankly I prefer a single-payer to what we have now," Brooks told ABCs Jake Tapper. ...
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