Posted on 08/09/2017 9:48:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
CNN reporter Jim Acosta pitched another fit in the White House briefing room on Aug. 2, asserting that President Trump's immigration policy was refuted by a poem engraved on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty. Trump aide Stephen Miller fought him tooth and nail, slamming him for a "cosmopolitan bias." There was no doubt that the liberal elites would sympathize with the acidic Acosta.
HBO's comedic anchorman John Oliver uncorked how the media really felt, denouncing Miller as "one of the most revolting humans" he has ever seen and a "vitamin D-deficient minion," whatever that means.
Everyone is used to Trump & Co. being on the wrong end of the liberal media's brigade of "independent fact-checkers." The Washington Post "Fact Checker" team arrived on what it accurately called the "debate" between Miller and Acosta. Michelle Ye Hee Lee insisted this was more about checking Miller. "The Fact Checker is not a media critic, and we generally do not fact-check members of the media -- certainly not the opinions of individual journalists," she said.
Isn't that extraordinary? It is below the media to analyze themselves. But here's what's surprising: She had to admit that Miller was correct on all three statements she evaluated.
First, Acosta lectured that Miller was trying to "change" immigration policy by requiring immigrants to speak English and cited the Emma Lazarus poem about the huddled masses "yearning to breathe free."
Lee ruled, "Miller is correct that English proficiency currently is a requirement for naturalization." She tried to soften the blow by declaring: "Neither got it quite right about the Statue of Liberty. The statue, indeed, was a gift from France as a symbol of liberty enlightening the world -- not about immigration." But then, she weirdly asserted that the biographer of Lazarus believed she "was the first American to make any sense of this statue."
Acosta kept badgering Miller about English proficiency, and "that's never been what the United States has been about," he says. Miller replied: "But your statement's shockingly ahistorical in another respect, too, which is if you look at the history of immigration, it's actually ebbed and flowed. We've had periods of very large waves, followed by periods of less immigration, and more immigration."
Lee ruled: "Miller is correct. Immigration levels ebbed and flowed throughout U.S. history, and the flow was controlled through restrictive legislation until 1965." Liberals can despair over it, but that's history.
Then Acosta really fell on his face. He said, "But this whole notion of, 'Well, they could learn -- you know, they have to learn English before they get to the United States,' are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?"
Miller went for the knockout and responded: "I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree. ... It's so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants who do speak English from all over the world."
The Post fact-checker ruled: "Miller has the edge here. English is an official language in dozens of countries other than Great Britain and Australia, and is spoken in roughly 100 countries. It is the most commonly studied foreign language in the world."
When Miller was done, Acosta complained, "You called me ignorant on national television." The Washington Post "fact-checker" squad must have agonized as it underlined Acosta as the ignorant half of this exchange. If it did, kudos to the Washington Post for breaking the mold.
why does he still have press credentials?
I haven’t heard from Brent Bozell since the days David French was supposed to become the Great RINO Hope who would finally topple The Donald.
So to change our immigration policy all we have to do is replace the plaque on the Statue of Liberty?
The ignorance shown by some liberals and some media members is stunning.
The issue at hand is immigration policy and proposals for new policies and laws. At this point, a liberal media idiot brings up the Emma Lazarus poem as if it is part of our laws. This guy, who thinks he is well educated, thinks a poem is an existing law.
Anyone else stunned by this???
Why are these so called reporters arguing their opinions during a press briefing. They are supposed to ask the question and get a reply, note it and report it.
And they interrupt in the middle of a sentence when they don’t like the answer, making it hard for the guy to even answer the questions.
I’d warn this guy to respect decorum and good manners and then if he did it again, I’d pull is ability to enter the room.
lol. The biggest loser of them ALL.
That’s right. It’s not the ‘I’m just a bill’ cartoon from ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ many of us remember from long ago. Nope, CNN reporters like Acosta know all. If a poems is engraved on a plaque and stuck to a national monument - well, there you go!
I can hear Acosta talking to himself....’I is not ignorant...I ain’t, I ain’t.’
To deal with the press corps, not only do you have to know current policy, current events, what information you can release versus what is discrete or classified, speak well, and have your wits about you, but you also have to be very well educated and just generally be a very smart cookie, both relevantly as well as trivia.... otherwise they will try to get you with a gotcha, and try to make the White House look bad whenever they do, no matter how wrong or off topic.
But if you are in the press corps, you are untouchable and your motives, your questions, and your assumptions are unimpeachable.
Don’t double standards just make you cringe?
The ignorance shown by some liberals and some media members is stunning.
Their MO is ARROGANT ignorance. And it only exposes and hurts them.
If it was me, I would have called him a "Fu**king Ignorant A**hole" on National Television.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee...
ye haw haw...
And I would have joined you
The plaque on the Statue of Liberty talking point holds no water except to liberal retards. They think they are worldly,knowledgeable and never wrong even if proven otherwise. It just boils down to the end game which is to destroy our country by any means possible via supersaturation of illegal,unassimilating, ready made socialist Democrats.
Does this mean the laws of 19th Century America weren’t
written by Henry David Thoreau?
I have a son who is a military pilot. He’s been based on 6 of 7 continents. He’s been in 65 countries, and he says he’s never been anywhere where English is not spoken!
As far as aviation is concerned, English is the STANDARD language for International usage. The emphasis here is that it is for INTERNATIONAL operations, so a local pilot speaking to a local controller in Spain can use Spanish but probably can also be understood in English.
The International Civil Aviation Organization has decreed that from 1 January 2008 all Air Traffic Controllers and Flight Crew Members engaged in or in contact with international flights must be proficient in the English language as a general spoken medium and not simply have a proficiency in standard ICAO Radio Telephony Phraseology.
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