Original Sin: A Review
I listened to all of it so you don't have to
I originally had no intention of reading, listening, or writing a review of Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. My reasons are multiple, but they’re mostly stem from moral disgust at Tapper’s continued material support for the genocidal kahanist terrorist state of Israel. Original Sin may not be on the official BDS target list but everything Tapper can ever output is on my personal BDS list. He regularly slanders people protesting a genocide. He helped launder the lie that college campuses are unsafe for Jewish people, leading directly to the Trumpist illegal deportations of several anti-genocide protesters including but not limited to Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia grad student whom Trump has thrown into a gulag. There are countless more examples of him either defending Israel or remaining totally silent about honest critiques. He is, in short, a liar, a kahanist supporter with blood on his hands. The only reason to ever have a copy of his book is to throw it into a fire pit and to watch it burn. But that would require purchasing it or stealing a physical copy, and both sound like a tiresome hassle.
The other, obvious reason, is that the book is just a confession, an (if) I Did It. For five years (and nearly a decade, if we’re counting other similar incidents), any discussion of Joe Biden being too old to be in office, citing either countless videos to that effect or even reporting from well-sourced individuals in the Biden White House was met with a single rejoinder: it’s Russian disinformation.
