Jake Tapper Calls Out White House: Condemn Birthers, But Honor Truther?

[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday called out Barack Obama for featuring a 9/11 truther celebrity at a White House event this week. The rapper, who has repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories blaming George W. Bush for the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, appeared at an an Obama panel discussion on drug abuse in America. On The Lead, Tapper wondered, “Is it acceptable... for the White House which has a war against birthers, and rightly so, to have a truther come to the White House?” Daily Beast journalist Jackie Kucinich responded, “It's hard to make the argument that the birtherism is this horrible thing and everybody should be against it when you have someone like that.”