Jake Tapper Calls Out RNC Chairman For Comparing Obama To Italian Ship Captain
Jake Tapper took RNC Chairman Reince Priebus to task on Twitter for comparing President Obama to Captain Francesco Schettino, the Italian captain of the Costa Concordia. “Help me out here,” Tapper tweeted. “It’s ok to make light of horrific ship crashes if the people who died weren’t Americans?” He added the hashtag, “#stayclassy”

RELATED: RNC Chairman: Obama Is ‘Abandoning The Ship’ Like Italian Cruise Ship Captain
Tapper quickly added, “And for the record, i questioned POTUS’s “drone” joke, too,”
He added that whether or not Priebus was joking or making a serious point, he felt the comparison was off-base:

Priebus originally made the remarks to Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation, “In a few months, this is all going to be ancient history, and we’re going to talk about our own little Captain Schettino, which is President Obama, who’s abandoning the ship here in the United States and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president.”
Watch Priebus’s original remarks below, courtesy of CBS:
(h/t Jake Tapper)
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