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turned out tv

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I don't know why, but @jaketapper has never corrected his now demonstrably false reporting on 10/7 sexual violence. Instead, he's out here sharing a ludicrous post that calls Drop Site "terror propaganda" and a "fake news site denying that there were any rapes on 10/7."

First of all, we don't say there were definitively zero. We say there is no credible evidence of any. Not a single independent investigation has turned up a single instance. If one eventually does, we will of course report it.

Tapper himself led the charge on some of the worst reporting in a generation, reporting that was used to launch a genocide before falling apart under scrutiny. Tapper, for instance, gave prominent voice to a first responder who claimed to have seen evidence of two SAs in Kibbutz Be'eri. Those high-profile allegations, as we've reported, have since been conclusively shown to have been false and even the Israeli government and the NYT have retracted them, but Tapper has never corrected his piece or even addressed it. It's fundamental to journalism that if we make a mistake, we correct the record transparently. He refuses to do so. And once Bari Weiss is his boss, if the Gulf countries don't back out of the deal, he won't ever have to.

He also relied heavily in his influential 2023 report on Shari Mendes, a volunteer at a morgue who infamously fabricated a horrifying crime, saying, "A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded.” There is no dispute: that did not happen. She also made all manner of lurid claims to Tapper and others that were shown to be false later. He has never addressed this.

The case he's citing here below has no corroboration and on the face of it stretches credulity. Tapper is sharing a post from a witness who claims several militants pulled a woman out of a car and "the terrorists sounded like they were drinking a cocktail at the beach. When they finished, they fired an RPG at her car and burned her."

So according to Tapper here, the victim was put back in a car and after that, they fired an RPG at the car and burned it. Think about that. It's utterly preposterous. They fired an RPG at a woman in a car from point-blank range? Wouldn't that also blow them up too? And they did all this with IDF helicopters bearing down on them? It's an impossibly absurd scenario, but to Tapper it's conclusive proof. Tapper finds that not just credible, but credible enough to call another news outlet "fake news" and "terror propaganda."

It's one thing for Jake never to correct his now-debunked reporting. It's another entirely to call us "terror propaganda" merely for honestly reporting on these claims.

I assume he's just salty that The Free Press scooped him on the story of the century, Mamdani's wife's instagram likes. But not too late to host a segment on her!

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

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@jayweingarten lol cool, jay!

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Playground time

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12” diameter cast iton gas pipe put in service 1898. Print reads Mc NP & F Co 1897.

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Worst case you get as a Hollywood fixer is horniness.

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Name that city

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Kanye should get to wear Fonzie’s jacket to the ESPYs

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When you’re winning date night

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Great another generation to keep Anthropologie in business

[Elizabeth Marvel @E_E_Marvel]

The tiny parchment notes my 3rd grader is passing to friends at school, sealed with the wax from her baybel cheese.

[brerloom @brerloom]

Sorry but he was only getting in the way of this prediction coming true

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I think Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell is gonna have a good year.

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@MurphWaddlecock My favorite Thanksgiving carol

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I don’t get Winnie the Pooh’s whole thing—is he a fat moron or just the softest fucking pussy?

[brerloom @brerloom]

Every time my wife asks me if i need to have a 12th beer I do that “Obey ya mothaaa” thing from the Boston guys outside the bar video and she usually just looks confused and leaves me alone.

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I think Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell is gonna have a good year.

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You could not hit an NBA 3.

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Thinking a lot about my grandfather today. And how proud he was of that Indonesian baby that smoked two packs a day

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Putting up the Fathers Day decorations