Jake Tapper Took to Twitter and Dunked on Tommy Tuberville
The never-ending coverage of the 2020 presidential election has given us several pretty incredible media moments. On Thursday night, CNN's Jake Tapper got in on the action.
Tapper saw a tweet from former college football coach Tommy Tuberville, who just won a senate seat in Alabama. He responded viciously and it was pretty great. He also tossed in some Auburn shade as well.
Tuberville took to Twitter and gave credence to the conspiracy theories being tossed around by Donald Trump's supporters:
The election results are out of control. It’s like the whistle has blown, the game is over, and the players have gone home, but the referees are suddenly adding touchdowns to the other team’s side of the scoreboard.
— Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) November 6, 2020
That tweet was out of bounds according to Twitter's guidelines and was slapped with a warning label. Tapper has spent the better part of the last two days combating that kind of misinformation. He's probably just a little fed up and he shot back at Tuberville:
This is inaccurate.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 6, 2020
What the president is doing would be like if Coach Tuberville discussed the 2008 Auburn football season by only talking up his 5 victories and pretended the 7 losses -- including that loss to Alabama, hooboy -- didn't happen. https://t.co/4OycGQe1bS
Someone get Tommy an icepack to cool off that burn.
Tapper continued:
Another way to look at it. Imagine if in the 2008 LSU game, Coach Tuberville tried to say the game was over at the half, when Tigers led 14-3.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 6, 2020
Game actually ended with LSU victory 26-21.
So that declaration would have been premature and false.
I can't imagine being a cable network personality this week. They're all overworked, likely overtired and have been rehashing and repeating themselves for three days now. They've got to be exhausted by all the misinformation they've been combating and dealing with.