CNN‘s Jake Tapper lashed out after a left-leaning podcast host made a crack about his 15-year-old son’s desire to become a cop – saying that’s why liberals are getting thumped at the voting booth.
Tapper, 56, spoke about his April 2 experience on the podcast while joining a separate podcast Thursday hosted by NYU Professor Scott Galloway to promote his new book about the Biden health cover-up.
Tapper had been telling Galloway about his son Jack’s job aspirations when he was reminded of his appearance on another podcast early last month.
Tapper did not name the podcast, How Long Gone, or his interviewers during the conversation Thursday, but he did recount the reaction he got from a co-host when Tapper discussed his son.
‘We were talking about my kids… and they asked me about my son,’ Tapper told Galloway.
‘And I said he was, you know, he’s, he’s a football player and he wants to be a policeman. And their joke was about my 15-year-old son, «Oh, how does he feel about minorities?»
‘Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he’s racist, my son,’ Tapper said.
Co-hosts Jason Stewart, who asked Tapper the question, and Chris Black were heard cackling as Tapper remained silent.
CNN’s Jake Tapper – seen here with his 15-year-old son Jack – spoke about a recent appearance on a left-leaning podcast Thursday, where a host made a crack about Jack’s desire to pursue police work when he grows up
How Long Gone podcast co-hosts Chris Black (left) and Jason Stewart
‘That was the big laugh,’ Tapper recalled to Galloway.
‘And then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff.
‘And I thought to myself, «This is why you f***ers are losing elections.»
‘My football playing son, who has no political views. He’s 15. He thinks about World War Two and gaming and playing linebacker – that’s his world.
‘You’re deciding he’s a racist because he wants to be a cop.
‘And why does he want to be [one]? Because he wants to help people. And he thinks that’s the best way.
‘And that’s how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men.’
Galloway agreed, during a conversation that centered on the CNN host’s belief that the current Democratic Party could never reach people like his son.
‘Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he’s racist,’ Tapper recounted Thursday of his April 2 appearance. ‘That was the big laugh… And I thought to myself, «This is why you f****rs are losing elections’
Tapper, the author of Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, said much of the same during his more-than-hour-long appearance on the How Long Gone podcast last month.
During the April 2 exchange, Tapper, Stewart and Black discussed members of Gen Z and their politics, with the podcast’s listeners being predominantly young men.
The discussion led to Tapper’s anecdote about his son.
‘So my son is 15, and I understand why Democrats are are struggling so much,’ he said.
‘Because they just don’t speak any language that my son speaks.’
‘Uh, he likes police,’ Tapper added, with both hosts expressing disbelief.
‘Like, I don’t understand – like, what about a cop?’ asked Black.
‘He likes the military. He likes police,’ Tapper replied. ‘I don’t know.’
How Long Gone podcast co-hosts Chris Black (left) and Jason Stewart at the the GQ Men of the Year Party in 2023
Jake Tapper with his son Jack
‘How does he feel about minorities?’ Stewart pressed.
‘He’s… he’s pro,’ Tapper answered.
Tapper continued with the conversation over the next 30 or so minutes.
The podcast, which has nearly 800 episodes, bills itself as being based in pop culture, fashion, and music.
