Jake Tapper Goes On Tweetstorm Calling Out Louis Farrakhan: ‘Elected Officials Meet With Him Openly’
CNN’s Jake Tapper was incensed when Reverend Louis Farrakhan gave a blatantly anti-Semitic speech for Saviours’ Day, a national convention organized by the Nation of Islam, and it was attended by thousands, including Womens’ March co-chair Tamika Mallory. (Tapper incorrectly identified her as a co-founder.)
Tapper unleashed a tweetstorm noting the time stamps of some of Farrakhan’s most heinous comments, including that “the Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.”
The CNN anchor condemned not only Farrakhan and Mallory, but also the political leaders who have given Farrakhan a platform despite his views and statements.
“This is who Farrakhan is. It’s why folks are legitimately so offended when they found out that then-Sen. Obama and members of the CBC met with him in 2005,” Tapper tweeted, including a picture of Barack Obama smiling with the reverend.
In response, ShareBlue Senior Writer Oliver Willis tweeted that “your regularly scheduled right-wing virtue signaling is noted,” noting that President Donald Trump said “Nazis are good people.”
“Right on cue, a left wing activist attacks a journalist for reporting on/condemning Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism,” Tapper tweeted back. “Either bigotry is ok or it isn’t.”
Read the whole thread below:
On Sunday, Rev. Farrakhan gave his Saviours’ Day 2018 Address, attended by thousands including one of the co-founders of the Women’s March.https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
Shortly after 1:10:50 in the video Farrakhan proclaims that “the powerful Jews are my enemy.” https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
At 2:57:00 he begins approvingly quoting some of the anti-Semitic comments made by Rev. Billy Graham and President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office.https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
At 2:59:00 Farrakhan approvingly cites Nixon and Graham attacking Jews’ “grip on the media” and Hollywood and “how the Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men.”
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
At 3:15, Farrakhan calls Jews ‘the mother and father of apartheid, the Jews.”https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
Assailing Keith Ellison, at 3:21 Farrakhan says, “let me tell you something, when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”
https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
at 3;49: “White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan …has pulled the cover off the eyes of that Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.” https://t.co/WE5ys7It8R
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
This is who Farrakhan is. It’s why folks are legitimately so offended when they found out that then-Sen. Obama and members of the CBC met with him in 2005. https://t.co/QdGpWuGdZ6
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
The @ADL_National has lots more on comments Farrakhan has made over the years. https://t.co/Z0QxInjwMB
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
The difference between Farrakhan and some members of the alt-reich whose heinous bigotry has received a lot of attention this past year: Farrakhan has a much larger following and elected officials meet with him openly.
-fin-— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
And right on cue, a left wing activist attacks a journalist for reporting on/condemning Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism.
Either bigotry is ok or it isn’t. https://t.co/FMqZufrkjr
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 28, 2018
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