Jake Tapper destroys Ted Crockett
- Dec 12, 2017
- 2 min read
Roy Moore, an extremely controversial figure as Senate Republican candidate for the state of Alabama, clearly has some publicity troubles when it comes to interviews and live TV appearances - specifically on major news outlets available for hundreds of thousands to past millions of viewers at almost any given time.
Not only has Moore himself had trouble recently, within the final week of his campaign for Alabama's Senate race and his disappearance from the public spotlight raising questions. It was either Roy was over-expecting the results in his favor, or in favor of his Democratic opponent Doug Jones. He hadn't made a campaign for nearly a full week during his campaign's crucial final days before tonight's election.
A Moore campaign spokesperson made his way to live CNN to appear and answer a string of questions from the CNN star anchor Jake Tapper, where he was confronted with pretty logical questions that he simply couldn't find an answer too.
When Jake asked him if he knows whether or not Moore still thinks homosexuality should be a felony in America or at least the state of Alabama, per Moore's statement back in 2005 in an interview of which he clarified that he - at the time - did believe that gay marriage and being gay in general should be illegal. Jake's question was left more or less unanswered for a while, until the spokesperson replied 'probably'.
The real heat that's attracted news companies to pick up this story was when Tapper caught Moore's spokesperson off guard with questions related to Moore's previous statements that Muslims shouldn't fill the positions of highly elected officials.
Moore's spokesperson, Ted Crockett, said that it isn't normal and should not be allowed for Muslims to run for highly elective sectors of the workplace due to their swearing upon the Bible, saying it's unethical and a serious problem if they do so. Anybody with even a small ounce of knowledge knows that elected officials do not need to swear on the Christian bible but can choose their own preference to swear under oath on.
Tapper confronted Crockett in attempt to notify him that it's not necessary to swear on the Bible but it is legal to swear on a different book. Crockett got confused, clearly, and said that he swore 3 times in his past on the Bible and was pretty sure that it was how it works. Tapper once again re-iterated the fact that Muslims can choose to swear on the Qu'ran if they would ethically prefer.
"You do know that, right?" Tapper said, which was responded to with large moments of silence up until Crockett said "I know Donald Trump swore on the Bible ...". Tapper responded saying that Trump swore on the Bible because he's Christian and he chose to, then ending the interview completely.
The blow shows, once again, that CNN anchors were able to achieve embarrassing wins on first-hand debates with Roy Moore campaign officials for the third time within the past week. One other majorly embarrassing failure for their campaign came during another interview between a spokeswoman and Anderson Cooper.
Comments