The Lead with Jake Tapper

Today Jake Tapper made subtle remarks that "Biden should drop out of the race". It's not his place to decide that. He should be fired. It's not the first time that he has pontificated on the news. He is obviously biased. Why will CNN keep such people on the air? Is it because controversy builds ratings? There are other reporters that could replace him that would be fairer and less biased. CNN needs to make it clear to their commentators that this kind of bias is not to be tolerated. I'm so angry that I am switching to MSNBC for my news. Who's running the show at CNN? The news directors or the talking heads?

This show does not cover the biggest stories. This show only covers stories that agree with the hosts biased views. Zero integrity. Stop pushing your own narrative and let viewers decide.

Jake Tapper isn't bad. But he's not particularly remarkable, either. It doesn't help that Jim Sciutto is his weird stunt double, kind of like Trump to Boris Johnson. If you tune in in the morning and then not back until the afternoon, you'd think the same potato-faced guy had been on all day.

Look, I know gone are the days of the Walter Cronkites, the David Brinkleys, the Hugh Downs, and the Ted Koppels. I get it. Gen-X and late Boomers are in charge, so we get what we get, but even their mistaking the mundane for the profound has occasional glimpses of brilliance.

Tapper has the air of somebody's nephew who decided not to go into the family's, I don't know, window business and instead hit up some powerful aunt or uncle in the biz.

Ugh, and then the correspondents. From Manu Raju's rushed, wordy, inflectionless speech and head bobbing to Dana Bash's leaden staccato to John King's near-ventriloquist act mumbling to Jamie Gangel's glacial self importance -- it's a real slog.

It may sound like I'm being harsh to Tapper. It's not him. It's his effect, which to some degree he has control over. Right now, he's as dull as Wolf Blitzer, just without the Papa Smurf demeanor. I know when CNN lost Cuomo they had to shuffle the deck, but there were problems before, like when they lost Brooke Baldwin who was smart and amiable.

He's absolutely horrible. He's biased and doesn't report the truth. He's after his own and CNN's agenda. You know Jake, sometimes the person getting arrested deserves a thump on the skull every now and then. Especially when they're high on drugs, and just robbed a liquor store.