While PBS can’t even breathe the names “Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson” on the News Hour, NPR gave their book extensive time. First, there was 11 minutes in two segments with the two authors on Monday’s All Things Considered. Then Tapper was interviewed for the hour on Tuesday on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
The two parties came up in the questions. Gross said “Republicans, I think, are very happy with your book,” and “Many Democrats are unhappy about your book.”
Gross began with Biden’s cancer news: “I’m really sorry, as I’m sure are you, to hear the news about Biden’s prostate cancer. Does it make it awkward for you to criticize him now at this moment?” Tapper said “I want to be extra careful with how I talk about it because I don’t want anyone to feel like I’m reveling in any of this. But the book was written, as you know, as a tragedy,” and the…
