TRUTH BE DAMNED: Tapper Leaves Door Open to Israel Bombing Hospital

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 18, 2023
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CNN’s Jake Tapper made a fool out of himself when he proclaimed in all seriousness that he and the world had “no reason to doubt” Hamas’s claims about Israel allegedly bombing a hospital in Gaza. But in the light of day, a leveled hospital quickly turned into a partially torched parking lot and shattered windows as irrefutable evidence proved it to have been a rocket fired from Gaza. But Tapper didn’t care about the truth on Wednesday’s CNN News Central when he continued to leave the door open to Hamas’s lies.

“Let's go to a major story developing right now in Gaza, what the Palestinian government is calling a war crime, the government in Gaza says the Israeli Defense Forces struck a hospital in the center of Gaza City,” Tapper initially announced on Tuesday. “[W]e have reports of hundreds killed and there's no reason to doubt that.” He refused to mention that the Hamas terrorist organization controlled the Health Ministry.

Dropping any mention of those supposed hundreds he was adamant were blown to bits by Israel less than 24 hours before, Tapper began his Wednesday coverage by timidly admitting that the Health Ministry was controlled by terrorists and that, “It is not unheard of for them to misfire and kill their own people accidentally and blame it on Israel.”

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