Media Twitter Bashes Fox News Over Tapper’s ‘Allahu Akbar’ Comment: ‘Apologize…For This Bullsh*t’

Fox News is under fire for a segment on The Five, and a subsequent post to their website and Tweet in which they seemed to grossly misrepresent the words of CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“The Arabic chant, Allahu Akbar––God is great––sometimes said under the most beautiful of circumstances, and too often we hear it being said in moments like this,” Tapper said Tuesday on The Lead following the attack in Manhattan.

The (now-deleted) Tweet from Fox News summarizing Tapper’s remark?

“@CNN ‘s Jake Tapper Says ‘Allahu Akbar’ Is ‘Beautiful’ Right After NYC Terror Attack”

Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz — whose comments on The Five Wednesday were the basis of the Fox News website post and Tweet — apologized for not giving Tapper a “fair shake.” And Fox News deleted its Tweet.

Nonetheless, journalists on Twitter were furious. Here’s a sampling of the reaction.

This is an insane Fox News hit piece on @jaketapper that plays at people’s ignorance pic.twitter.com/qVqcCNsNe2

— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) November 1, 2017

Fox News should unequivocally apologize to @jaketapper for this bullshit https://t.co/yIWzYSCvPK

— Sam Stein (@samstein) November 2, 2017

This is an unacceptable & baseless mischaracterization of my colleague @jaketapper’s factual comment. #FactsFirst https://t.co/6fyNdxa3FP

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 1, 2017

It’s looks like Fox is being disgusting, twisting someone’s words to create a lie. Fox is not a legitimate news organization. https://t.co/XX2zDm1Wnf

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 1, 2017

Straighten up, @FoxNews. https://t.co/6xAy7LVDLL

— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) November 2, 2017

As low as it gets: scraping the bottom of all the barrels https://t.co/ZyivCPQx1x

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 2, 2017

I stand with Jake. He is exactly right. In my random sample of people in TX: 98% trust Jake, 1% trust Fox News, 1% said go astros!

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) November 2, 2017

Fox’s shot at @jaketapper is malevolent, stupid and easily refuted. https://t.co/XpNJgZ9YqX

— Matthew Cooper (@mattizcoop) November 2, 2017

When you can’t tell the difference between Fox News and Infowars pic.twitter.com/aZ3xXuIfQs

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 1, 2017

Fox News has now deleted their deceptive tweet that @JakeTapper said ‘Allahu Akbar’ is ‘beautiful’ after the NYC attack. Absolute clownshow. pic.twitter.com/1U7fEe4hAF

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) November 2, 2017

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