Jake Tapper, like some of his other MSM counterparts (e.g., David Gregory) came to his Sunday show- ABC's "This Week" armed with GOP-based talking points ready to help Mitt Romney in his quest to reverse the nasty trend of his flailing poll numbers in the recent weeks. Tapper had on US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, and initially tried to bully her with his one-sided line of questioning about the recent events concerning Libya, Egypt & rest of the Middle East.

Tapper kept trying to insist that the Middle East hates the US now more than they ever did under GW Bush. Here is an excerpt from the transcript:



TAPPER: Look at this map, if you would. There have been protests around the world over the last several days. And President Obama pledged to repair America's relationships with the Muslim world. Why does the U.S. seem so impotent? And why is the U.S. even less popular today in some of these Muslim and Arab countries than it was four years ago?

Note the rapid sequence of Republican-sided framing talking points, especially the last 2 questions, neither of which are based in fact or empirical data.

And Here is Rice's response, which is quickly interrupted by Tapper:



RICE: Jake, we're not impotent. We're not even less popular, to challenge that assessment. I don't know on what basis you make that judgment. But let me -- let me point...

TAPPER: It just seems that the U.S. government is powerless as this -- as this maelstrom erupts.

RICE: It's actually the opposite. First of all, let's be clear about what transpired here. What happened this week in Cairo, in Benghazi, in many other parts of the region... TAPPER: Tunisia, Khartoum... RICE: ... was a result -- a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated, that the U.S. government had nothing to do with, which we have made clear is reprehensible and disgusting. We have also been very clear in saying that there is no excuse for violence, there is -- that we have condemned it in the strongest possible terms. But let's look at what's happened. It's quite the opposite of being impotent. We have worked with the governments in Egypt. President Obama picked up the phone and talked to President Morsi in Egypt. And as soon as he did that, the security provided to our personnel in our embassies dramatically increased. President Morsi...

Tapper interrupts and continues to push his desired narrative:And Rice again responds (briefly interrupted by Tapper again):