Leftist finding hate from the left?

[Andy]

This is an amusing story about Jake Tapper from ABC. This guy is clearly a leftist, but oddly, not a hypocrite like most. He is putting his job as a reporter, above his ideology. A strange thing in the mass idiot media.

Jake has openly been blunt with the rest of the media, and with the Obama administration.

"Certain networks, newspapers and magazines leaned on the scales a little bit," he says over a vanilla latte at Starbucks. Obama's attractive qualities, he says, have prompted some editors and producers "to root for him."

No way! Ya really think so, sparky?

But Jake also is clearly a leftist, as he wanted to cover Obama more than anyone else... but he still is very direct with his questions.

During the Democratic primaries, Tapper asked Obama about what he called "an attempt by conservatives and Republicans to paint you as unpatriotic." He rattled off examples: "That you didn't put your hand over your heart during the national anthem, that you no longer wear an American flag on your lapel pin, that you met with some former members of the Weather Underground, and now they are questioning your wife's comments when she said she hasn't been proud of the U.S. until just recently."

OUCH! Good one there Tapper.

But for all his left leanings, Tapper is attacked for being a reporter first, and daring to ask questions.

Some liberals were not pleased. "I get a lot of heat from the left, which is bizarre," Tapper says, given that many conservatives regard him as a "left-wing stooge" for having previously worked for Salon. "I get a lot of heat from the right, too, but the vitriol is from the left."

Vitriol from the left? You mean the same arrogant hatred that Joe the Plumber faced? No way.

Tapper was obviously leftist enough to get hired on by Salon.com as a Washington correspondent. Unfortunately, he was far too dedicated to reporting, than too liberalism.

There were other kinds of clashes as well. "Sometimes he wasn't as liberal as his San Francisco editors wanted him to be," Walsh says. "He wasn't ideological. Other people wanted him to go more in the direction of hitting Republicans harder."

Unbelievable! Salon WANTS biased reporters? Say it ain't so!

At any rate, I always find it funny when a leftist member of the media, suddenly discovers that unless you are hypocritical and sell out completely to your ideology, you'll get attacked by your own party.