Principled CNN Journalist Jake Tapper Tells NY Post to Bow to Twitter's Demands, Gets Wrecked in Response

As of this writing, the New York Post still cannot access their Twitter account. The iconic paper’s Twitter page has been “dark” since the last tweets were posted there on October 14th, which is the day Twitter decided to pull the rug out from underneath their ability to tweet links to their news articles.

Twitter blocked the Post’s access to their account due to their explosive reports on Hunter Biden’s laptop and the emails that were found on it.

The Post has reportedly been told that the only way they can get access restored to their account is if they delete the “offending” tweets about Hunter Biden. If they were to do so, Twitter claims they would be allowed to tweet them out again. Understandably, the editors have refused to comply.

Principled CNN anchor and self-proclaimed freedom of the press advocate Jake Tapper, fresh off of interviewing noted medical expert Dave Matthews on President Trump’s campaign rallies, took to the Twitter machine this morning to provide some advice to the Post, telling them that all they had to do was do as the Big Tech company demanded and this would all be over:

Since twitter has locked out the NYPost for violating rules that no longer stand as rules (but twitter won't revisit past enforcement decisions) the NY Post COULD end this standoff by deleting the tweets that broke the rules (thus unlocking its account) then tweet them out again

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 30, 2020

2/ I asked a twitter exec if this was possible, he said yes and it would end the whole thing. Probably take 15 seconds.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 30, 2020

3/ And yes twitter could end this immediately as well given that these rules are no longer rules. I’m just suggesting a possible way to end this. ✌️ pic.twitter.com/1ZfV8E45dS

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 30, 2020

Yeah … no. That’s not how this works, buddy. Not at all. Because once the capitulation starts, you will be forced to continue to do so.

The Post’s op/ed editor Sohrab Ahmari responded to Tapper accordingly:

Jake: We have more honor and principle than others, I suppose.

Our reporting was never based on hacked material to begin with. https://t.co/QKzTOxITK3

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 30, 2020

And as a longtime reporter, Tapper should know the Post is in the right here, right?

Under oath, Twitter’s CEO, @jack, mumbled through his Rasputin/hobo beard that his firm had — and still has — zero evidence we used hacked material.@jaketapper, as a reporter, why don’t you show an iota of solidarity with America’s oldest daily?

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 30, 2020

Ahmari was far from the only one who let Tapper have it:

Tapper in a North Korean prison camp: “If you just tell them where your parents are hiding out they’ll give you an extra serving of porridge” https://t.co/JZvTHIeBWS

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 30, 2020

“Shut Up & Kiss The Twitter Ring” is Jake Tapper’s solution to press censorship. Wow. https://t.co/PF29KTP9cB

— BDW (@BryanDeanWright) October 30, 2020

Whatever you do for the rest of your career, Jake, we will always remember when you shrugged and said to a fellow journalist, 'All you have to do is delete your work and they'll give you your account back.' https://t.co/eZMaLP5K5p

— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) October 30, 2020

And in the future, stop wearing such a short skirt, NY Post. — Sincerely, Jake Tapper https://t.co/RZqDitChXy

— Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) October 30, 2020

Tapper later suggested that “bad faith actors” were taking him out of context:

5/ I also don't think twitter should have blocked them to begin with. But this would be a way for NYPost to have cake and eat it too — and get its twitter feed back. Just an idea. Don't like it? That's fine too.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 30, 2020

Let’s try to imagine for a few minutes here that the tables were turned, and Twitter was run by Trump supporters and had shut down CNN’s ability to tweet. Do you think Tapper would take the same position he did with the New York Post’s situation?

He sure as hell would not, and Brian Stelter, Oliver Darcy, and the rest of the drama queens at CNN would be in full agreement – as would most other news outlets in the mainstream media, who would rush to defend CNN for weeks on end, unlike how they’ve turned their backs on the NY Post in retaliation for reporting on something that might hurt Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

The Post is right not to back down on this. It’s a matter of journalistic principle, something even Jake Tapper used to be able to understand before Donald Trump absolutely broke him.