Tapper Mocks Spicer’s Media Complaint With Birther Quip
  • 7 years ago
After White House press secretary Sean Spicer complained that a recent New York Times story had gotten his birthplace wrong, CNN host Jake Tapper responded with a tweet referencing the birther movement President Trump supported.

CNN host Jake Tapper has mocked White House press secretary Sean Spicer with a sly reference pertaining to his boss. 
The controversy began when Spicer complained about a New York Times story on President Trump and the media. 
Spicer tweeted, “For the record [The New York Times] and [Michael M. Grynbaum] can't even get where I was born right and failed to ask.” 
Grynbaum and Glenn Thrush are credited with writing the story which had initially called him “New England born.” 
In response, Tapper tweeted, addressing Spicer, “I imagine it must be really annoying when someone puts out false info about where you were born. Must really bother you!!” 
He also cc’d Barack Obama. 
For years, Trump had questioned whether Obama was born in the United States before finally acknowledging in September last year, "President Barack Obama was born in the United States."
The Times has since issued a correction to its original story, stating, “Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to Sean Spicer’s upbringing. He was New England bred, having been raised in Rhode Island; he was not ‘New England born.’” 
It also added a parenthetical that  “Mr. Spicer would not go on the record and give the correct facts pertaining to his birthplace.”
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