I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that Mike Pence are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore. Jake Tapper More Quotes by Jake Tapper More Quotes From Jake Tapper I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.' Jake Tapper library opinion mother school If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner. Jake Tapper welcome dinner media white It matters to people that the president tell them the truth. Jake Tapper matters tell truth people A lot of the stuff I blog is either stuff I'm reporting anyway for ABC News internally and figure I might as well put it up on the blog. Or it's stuff I'm just interested in, or I read about it, or I hear about it, and I'm just curious. Jake Tapper well just curious news You write a story, you do a TV show, and if people don't like it, well, you're going to do it again tomorrow. Jake Tapper story you tomorrow people What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter? Jake Tapper twitter would had done Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before. Jake Tapper me long-time time long I listen to a lot of criticism. From the Left and the Right and from everywhere. I mean, everybody's a media critic. And sometimes I think it's on point, and other times, I think about it and consider it and then might ultimately disagree with it. But I do listen to it; I really do. Jake Tapper think media criticism sometimes
