(The Fix)Meet the three people moderating Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate
On The Fix, we have profiled each of the the three moderators of Wednesday night's GOP debate on CNN. Below, we are combining all three for your linking and reading pleasure. Because we're all about service!
Jake Tapper: A tough-but-fair reputation
This undated image from video provided by CNN shows Jake Tapper on the set of his show "The Lead with Jake Tapper." (CNN via AP)
Last year, Jake Tapper, 46 and a married father of two, told Bon Appetit magazine that Warren G's "Regulate" is his personal theme song. Expect Tapper to bring the essence of that deceptively melodious song — about, well, being in control of various things — to tonight's CNN debate.
Tapper is one of those Washington, D.C.-based journalists with a title that can't be contained to a business card. Perhaps best known as the host of CNN's Sunday morning public affairs talk show "State of the Union," and his weeknight show, "The Lead with Jake Tapper," Tapper also serves as CNN's chief Washington correspondent.
That's a combination Tapper manages with enough skill that in an otherwise-blistering 2013 New York Times read on television news, Tapper was described as a man who "has proved that it’s possible to create an afternoon news show that is intelligent, non-ideological and not horribly boring." And this year, the conservative news and commentary site Breitbart described Tapper as part of a "half-dozen mainstream media reporters whom conservatives and liberals alike trust."
That reputation is perhaps more than a little unlikely, given where Tapper comes from.
Tapper was born in New York and raised in the Philadelphia area by what he has told reporters were a pair of hippy parents. That last part might be debatable; Tapper's mom was a psychiatric nurse, his father a pediatrician and professor. But this much is not: In the early 1990s, before Tapper graduated from his father's Ivy League alma mater, Dartmouth College, Tapper grew his hair long enough to regularly employ a ponytail.
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