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Jake Tapper and Chip Reid in…Dueling Standups

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by Tommy Christopher | 1:18 pm, February 15th, 2011

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One bit of TV lingo that every White House reporter knows is the “standup,” those man-of-action interviews that use some White House setting as a backdrop. Sure, it looks easy, but as ABC News’ Jake Tapper and CBS News’ Chip Reid demonstrated before Tuesday’s Presidential press conference on the budget, there’s more there than meets the eye.

Normally, “standups” are done individually, but often, before press conferences, there will be a cacophony of reporters doing standups, and while they do have the aid of an earpiece, it’s hard to imagine this doesn’t get a little bit distracting:

barack obama, budget briefing, Chip Reid, Jake Tapper, President Obama, White House

Jerps

Thought there’d be more, like Tapper walking over and shoving Reid and saying, “What you got?” and Reid dancing with “Oh you do NOT want to open this can!”
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Jerps said:
Thought there’d be more, like Tapper walking over and shoving Reid and saying, “What you got?” and Reid dancing with “Oh you do NOT want to open this can!”

hahah I was just going to ask if they threw down afterwards!

that would be difficult to do.

love the music at the beginning of the video!
Paleoconservatarian

I guess none of them have a coin they can flip?
Mr B

Chip Reid provokes a lying liar on Glenn Beck’s show?

http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/16/scattered-showers-of-journalism-the-budget/#