Jake Tapper Says Liberal Podcaster Made Racism Jab After He Revealed Son Wants To Be a Cop: ‘This Is Why You F**kers Are Losing Elections’

TAPPER: “So we talked about this last time we talked and I actually love talking to you about this because it’s a conversation that I’ve only had with you and Peter Hamby from — from — from Puck who covers a lot of this stuff. I — my son is now 15 years old and he’s a gamer. He’s a football fan, starting linebacker on his Varsity football team. The Democratic Party Has no way of communicating with him. They have no entree into his world. And in fact, it’s interesting. I went on a left-leaning podcast that shall remain nameless and we were talking about my kids, because I think they were both people without kids and they asked me about my son and I said he was — you know, he’s — he’s a football player and he wants to be a policeman. And — and their joke was about my 15 year old son, ‘Oh, how does he feel about minorities?’ Like the idea that he wants to be a policeman, therefore he’s — he’s racist, my son. And like, you know that was the big laugh and then I got dragged in the comments and all that stuff. And — and I thought to myself this is why you f***ers are losing elections.”
GALLOWAY: “Hundred percent.”
TAPPER: “Like my football playing son who has no political views. He’s 15. He thinks about World War II and gaming and playing linebacker. That’s — that’s his world. You’re deciding he’s a racist because he wants to be a cop. And why does he want to be a cop? He wants to be a cop because he wants to help people, you know, and and he thinks that’s the best way he can help people. And that’s how the Democratic Party talks to men, not just white men, but men. And — I mean I — I get the idea that they thought Tim Walz could — what’s the term he — he used code switch or something? He thought that he could — he could translate the Democratic Party values because he hunts and fishes and owns a gun and was in the army and drinks a beer. I Mean at least there was an attempt. But I find it just insane that you know the party — I mean look I’m — I’m 56 now so, you know, but I remember when — I mean I grew up in — in Queen Village, which is on the border of South Philadelphia, and like those were all Democrats these beer drinking union guys, and probably a lot of them still are just because Philadelphia is such a one-party town. But if you made — if there was a thriving Republican Party in Philadelphia, they’d lose a lot of elections. So, I don’t — I don’t get what they’re doing but I think it’s a lot of what you’re saying, like toxic masculinity and white privilege and — these are the things that my son hears when people are talking to him. He’s 15, you know? He doesn’t — of course he has privilege, he has privilege because he’s white, because he’s male, because he’s my son, all that but like that’s not how he sees the world.”