Former ABC, now CNN talking "head"
Jake "Tippy" Tapper saw ratings for his new show, "The Lead," on CNN
plummet from the predecessor show "The Situation Room" (with Wolf "
The Situation" Blitzer ?
hee-hee). Tippy is best known here for his
inability to perceive "sister organization" Fox "News" as a propaganda arm of the Rethuglican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party.
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Perhaps we were mispronouncing the name of Tippy's show; rather than "lead" as in "the main point of the story", it's supposed to be "lead" as in "sinking like a lead balloon."
* Here's Jen Sorensen's take at the time, with names changed to protect the
innocent idiots (
click to enlarge):