CNN’s Jake Tapper traveled over to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday to look back at his career and proclaim that “the Bill Clinton era” was “somewhat more reality-based” than the current one.
Kimmel asked “how long have you been covering politics in Washington?” and after Tapper replied “like a quarter century,” Kimmel further wondered, “And it started– it was a different job back then?”
Tapper affirmed that it was, or at least he pretended like it was, “It was a different job. I mean, it started during the Bill Clinton era. But yeah, it was — it was somewhat more reality-based than it is — than it is today, yeah.
Clinton was impeached for being a perjurer and fought over the definition of “is.” If anything, the Clinton era set the stage for what Tapper and Kimmel lament, but Kimmel followed up as if…
