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Jake Tapper Demands White House Apologize To Fox News

ABC White House correspondent and alleged tool Jake Tapper is furious with the White House for saying Fox News is not a "legitimate news organization." He had an argument with Robert Gibbs about it!
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reacting during a Good Morning America report about whether Barack Obama is overexposed after Jake Tapper suggested the White House "would be happy to deny all of ABC News' interview requests for the president," via TVNewser.
The Dreyfuss-Scarborough Affair
Swearing and booze references dotted Joe Scarborough's feud with Richard Dreyfuss' son; a shock soured Tony Hawk's daughter on the internet and a glaring typo accompanied Nina Garcia's present. The Twitterati's silver lining had a touch of gray.
Your Sleepy Summer Outrages
It's August 20th: our RSS feeds have slowed to a crawl and everyone else is at the beach. But the political-media outrage machine carries on. ABC's Jake Tapper, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan, Touré and Malcom X all need a vacation.
You Know Who Else Was a Grammar Nazi?
Jake Tapper needled the White House over word usage; one blog company taunted another over font usage; and an editor got heckled over link usage. The Twitterati forgot their history.
Don't Trust Anyone Over 45
An ABC reporter went off on Joe Scarborough; Julia Allison asked if she could be mean if she felt like it and a Twitter-less vacation proved hard to start. The Twitterati just had to get in one last dig.
We Know Exactly What He's Thinking
Jake "The Octagon" Tapper has updated his Twitter avatar to this photo, which pretty much says it all. We'd be proud too if we could elicit a glower like that from the president, but we'd probably go about it differently.
Apple Keynote Reimagined by the Twitterati
Anil Dash, Glenn Feischman and Nick Douglas created a parallel, imaginary Apple conference and Xeni Jardin met a very strange CNN producer. Life was surreal for the Twitterati.
Jake 'The Octogon' Tapper Gives Obama Conspiracy Theorists What They Want
ABC News' Jake Tapper, seemingly bored silly on a flight to Riyadh, or maybe just experimenting to see how many links he could get from wingnut websites, published perhaps the most imbecilic article in the history of journalism on ABC.com.
Fox News Can Barely Contain Its Excitement Over Obama vs. Cheney Duel
Our favorite part of the way the cable news nets are hyping Barack Obama and Dick Cheney's "dueling" national security speeches? The super-sized all-caps crawl that Fox News broke out during Obama's speech: "AHEAD: VICE-PRESIDENT CHENEY REMARKS ON TERROR & SECURITY." What no exclamation marks?
ABC News' Sex Panther Pays Attention to Our Reasonable Arguments
A while back, we mocked Jake "The Octogon" Tapper's habit of reproducing his exchanges with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on his blog with his own tough, no-nonsense questions in bold. He didn't like that!
The Time and Place For Being a Dick
We've been hard on ABC News' Jake "The Octogon" Tapper, because we think he can seem rather dickish. But today he used his dickishness for good and not evil, and for that we thank him.
Jake Tapper Will Not Be Distracted from the Links
At 6 p.m. Eastern, following the declaration of a national health emergency, ABC News' Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper filed seven paragraphs on the president's golf game. Golf Digest was cited.
Viva La Octogon!
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro gave ABC News White House correspondent Jake "The Octogon" Tapper a shout-out in his unreadable column in some state-controlled newspaper.
A Jake Tapper Question Waits for No Man (or Woman)
ABC News' Jake ("The Octogon") Tapper just can't keep all his tough-as-nails, ballsy, hard-hitting questions inside, so he's started interrupting his fellow reporters and posting about it on his blog IN BOLD.
The Twitterati Attract Another Stalker
Looks like we have some competition for tracking the media elite's bleat-replete tweets! Our competitive edge: We bring you the very worst of the Twitterati. Today's targets: