As you all know, Jake Tapper is ABC News' ace political reporter. If there is a secret to be investigated, an international crisis to be dealt with, or a scandal at hand, Jake Tapper will be there. All he's missing is his pork pie hat and his 'Press' card sticking out of the lapel. Whenever I want to hear about serious policy discussion or true differences between campaigns, I go straight to Jake "Political Reporter of the Year" Tapper. Diane Sawyer told me so.
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Jake Tapper plays hardball. You won't get anything over him- hoo boy! Obama quit smoking when he started his presidential campaign. Maureen Dowd has spoken of Obama’s love for Nicorette ©, a known chewing gum reportedly made my islamofascists.
Dowd thought she had the scoop... little did she know that Jake "Good Night and Good Luck" Tapper was on the case!
As any close friend or family member can attest, I have an unusually keen sense of smell and immediately I smelled cigarette smoke on Obama. Frankly, he reeked of cigarettes.
I love it when Tapper is frank.
Obama said he had quit smoking. He is obviously a liar! Perhaps he had ducked sniper fire while he quit smoking. Maybe he was very sleepy when he had proclaimed he had quit smoking. Let’s get back to the very important policy matters. Obama ‘ran off,’ and somehow the winded smoker outran Tapper, who apparently is as flat footed as Dick Cheney. Jake decided to go straight to the campaign, who declared that Obama had indeed quit smoking.
Tapper, the relentless bloodhound reporter that he is, would not let this lye. But he was riddled with self-doubt.
Maybe I imagined the cigarette smoke. My olfactory nerve somehow misfired.
Tapper was pained so much about the possibility that his on olfactory senses had deluded him, he decided to leave a hyperlink for those of us stupid enough to not know what ‘olfactory’ means.
But here’s the money quote to prove that Obama is a liar.
Except....last night on MSNBC's Hardball, Obama admitted that his attempt to wean himself from the vile tobacco weed had not been entirely successful.
"I fell off the wagon a couple times during the course of it, and then was able to get back on," he said. "But it is a struggle like everything else."
Holy CRAP. a guy who tried to quit smoking, sneaks some smokes, and admits he sneaked smokes- smokes which involve the ‘vile tobacco weed’. And when his campaign was asked about it, they said he said he had quit smoking.
Jake "The Most Awesomest Reporter in the Whole Wide World" has given the Clinton campaign all the fodder they need to run to the superdelegates and proclaim Obama unelectable.
THANK GOD for this wonderful reporting- reporting that the traditional media is afraid to do!