On Thursday CNN host Jake Tapper tweeted something uncharacteristic, a call for the Left to, in effect, straighten up.

It baffles me how anyone on the left combatting "fake news" can turn a blind eye to the click baiting within its own ranks. HEAL THYSELF

— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) December 23, 2016

Wow! Does Jake Tapper still have a job? Courageous of him publicly to make such a truthful comment!

— James P. Smith (@jps9876) December 23, 2016

What Tapper was referring to specifically was a “fake” story about a Jewish family supposedly being “forced” to leave town after complaining about a school production of the Christmastime classic “A Christmas Carol.”

The Huffington Post, that paragon of “real,” unbiased news, was all over it.

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/812110588989976576

So was Slate:

Jewish family flees after Breitbart falsely claims it complained about Christmas play: https://t.co/TqCN9uTmZU pic.twitter.com/5VsjSfncWD

— Slate (@Slate) December 23, 2016

Except, the family actually went away on vacation, not to flee a modern-day pogrom. Even the ADL says so now:

https://twitter.com/passantino/status/812109478363467776

Well, at least give them kudos for the correction, right? Not so fast! Jake Tapper is tired of nonsense like this and feels like more should have been done:

More misleading click bait. STOP. This is not what happened. https://t.co/skXp4EvUJn

— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) December 23, 2016

https://twitter.com/natecharlow/status/812133670546972672

once your updated reporting blows up your initial story, take it down and apologize

— Jake Tapper 🦅 (@jaketapper) December 23, 2016

Which, of course, led to Tapper’s Tweet posted at the beginning of this piece, a call for the media to “heal thyself.” Social media reaction was numerous and varied:

.@jps9876 No surprise — @jaketapper has a long track record of integrity. Except for that whole Die-Hard-is-a-Christmas-movie thing, y'know

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) December 23, 2016

I don't see anyone on the left "combatting" fake news. I see them producing it and using the term to slander conservatives. @jaketapper

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 23, 2016

https://twitter.com/ali/status/812134703553794053

Ohh Jakey, that was CUTE! You know better than to assume the left wouldn't ignore their own hypocrisy. They created fake news!

— Greg Cougar Melibertarian (@NonLiberalPAer) December 23, 2016

https://twitter.com/MrDuckstep/status/812137603965325313

https://twitter.com/ReformedintheQT/status/812144021158166528

H/T Twitchy

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