<p>CNN anchor Jake Tapper defended Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy during an appearance on &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; just hours after President Joe Biden called Doocy a &#8220;stupid son of a b****&#8221; on a hot mic.</p>
<p>In addition to defending <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-snaps-at-reporter-peter-doocy-for-asking-about-inflation-what-a-stupid-son-of-a-b/">Doocy</a>, however, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnns-tapper-might-bar-gop-leaders-who-dont-meet-his-criteria-for-standards-and-facts/">Tapper</a> claimed that Fox News would never come to his defense in a similar situation — apparently forgetting that Doocy&#8217;s network had done exactly that when his colleague Jim Acosta had found himself on the wrong side of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jimmy Kimmel: &#8220;Fox&#8230;says&#8230;you&#8217;re on Team Biden&#8230;yet, here you are, defending Peter Doocy, who&#8230;is indeed a dumb son of a bitch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jake Tapper: &#8220;So, I do not agree&#8230;I recognize that Peter&#8217;s channel probably would never come to my defense like that, but it is what it is.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/GAdURGzeaR">pic.twitter.com/GAdURGzeaR</a></p>
<p>— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1485978121014816769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;Is your life boring now that Donald Trump isn&#8217;t president?&#8221; Kimmel began, and the audience laughed.</p>
<p>&#8220;No. The current president just called a reporter a &#8216;dumb son of a b****,&#8217; that just happened today,&#8221; Tapper replied.</p>
<p>&#8220;He did,&#8221; Kimmel continued. &#8220;I know you don&#8217;t usually give out opinions, but that reporter, Peter Doocy — is he a dumb son of a b****?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think any president should be calling any journalist a &#8216;dumb son of a b****,'&#8221; Tapper said then, adding, &#8220;And to be fair to Peter Doocy, the question was fairly anodyne, it was just &#8216;will inflation —'&#8221;</p>
<p>Kimmel interrupted, arguing that maybe Biden hadn&#8217;t meant to call Doocy that name publicly but had only been caught on the microphone by accident.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was standing right in front of a microphone,&#8221; Tapper pushed back. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t like Robert Durst confessing to murder in the bathroom, forgetting he has a mic on, it was at a press conference!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But wait a minute, Fox News says, you know, that you&#8217;re on Team Biden and you are a mouthpiece for the Democrats and yet, here you are, defending Peter Doocy, who as far as I have been able to tell, is indeed a dumb son of a b****,&#8221; Kimmel continued, and the audience laughed again.</p>
<p>&#8220;So, I do not agree with that, and I will say, standards for decency don&#8217;t have to do with whether you like the people that are being treated poorly, it just has to do with the standard. And yes, I recognize that Peter&#8217;s channel probably would never come to my defense like that, but it is what it is,&#8221; Tapper replied, noting that Biden had <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/biden-called-doocy-after-calling-him-a-stupid-son-of-a-b-doocy-reveals-what-he-said/">called Doocy</a> to clear the air afterward.</p>
<p>While Tapper was not involved, &#8220;Peter&#8217;s channel&#8221; did come to the defense of his colleague — then CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta — filing an amicus brief with the court on his behalf when the Trump administration pulled his credentials and refused to allow him into the White House.</p>
<p>CNN even shared the statement on Twitter noting Fox News&#8217; support and including a statement from network president Jay Wallace.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Fox News will file an amicus brief in support of <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> and CNN. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>! Statement from Jay Wallace below: <a href="https://t.co/1EyRkho0TK">pic.twitter.com/1EyRkho0TK</a></p>
<p>— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPR/status/1062738395812818945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The statement read:</p>
<blockquote><p>Fox News supports CNN in its legal effort to retain its White House reporter&#8217;s press credential. We intend to file an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court. Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized. While we don&#8217;t condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the president and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Trump White House revoked Acosta&#8217;s credentials after an exchange during which he physically rebuffed an aide who was attempting to move the microphone to another reporter.</p>
<p>Then White House press secretary <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665497382/white-house-revokes-press-pass-of-cnns-jim-acosta">Sarah Sanders</a> issued a statement immediately following the incident, saying, &#8220;President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his Administration. We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern. This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter&#8217;s colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. &#8230; As a result of today&#8217;s incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice.&#8221;</p>

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