Jake Tapper, ABC News

At the urging of fomentor and community agitator Karl Ushanka, I’m outing Jake Tapper of ABC News.

He’s a professional Twitter troll.

Harry Reid exaggerates seriousness of Bob Dole hospital visit cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5… via @cbsnews #tcot

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) November 27, 2012

@aaronworthing I don’t know. Also, @jaketapper just RTed the lie, too. @cbsnews

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) November 27, 2012

Seconds later, this showed up in my timeline:

@jaketapper Jake, the title of the story is inaccurate. It only takes a second to re-title a tweet. You chose not to do that.

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) November 27, 2012

At the time, I was distracted– listening to an emotional episode of the Tony Katz show.
Watch as Tapper tries, repeatedly, to change the subject.

@jaketapper Unless your other Twitter account is “twitter.com/SunlenMiller“, then technically you did. Not sure why you want to mock me.

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) November 28, 2012

At some point, he also asked me which article I meant.

@jaketapper Right, so you shared something that Sunlen Miller tweeted. It’s a MT, I guess.

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) November 28, 2012

@jaketapper You, too. Thanks.

— Becca Lower (@BeccaJLower) November 28, 2012

According to a friend, this isn’t unusual social media behavior from Tapper. And what surprised me wasn’t that he replied, it was that he’s so thin-skinned.

Or maybe I’ve got it all wrong. How often does a genuine member of the legacy media– like @JakeTapper– deign to speak to rabble like you and me?

You just don’t get this kind of contact from Anderson Cooper.

–Becca Lower

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