Posted on 03/30/2020 3:55:21 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
After being absent for much of the last two weeks, Jim Acosta reappeared at today’s Coronavirus Task Force press conference. As he always does, Acosta failed to ask anything relevant, instead attempting to engage the President of the United States in a debate.
He failed miserably. Here’s the clip – watch as Trump brutalizes the preening little peacock and the airport-based CNN:
Caleb Hull ✔ @CalebJHull Trump blasts CNN:
"Instead of asking a nasty, snarky question like that, you should ask a real question and other than that, I’m going to go to somebody else."
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Shortly later, the President chose to call on PBS’s Yamichi Alcindor, who, like Acosta, chose to waste everyone in America’s time yet again with another failed “gotcha” question about coronavirus testing. After lambasting her one more time for almost a full minute, the President ended the event.
Now, obviously, the President likes to spar with raging morons like these two because it invariably improves his standing among his loyal base of voters. I don’t blame him – these two dim bulbs are very easy targets and richly deserve everything he dishes out. But the reality is that it has become a tiresome exercise, one that wastes the entire country’s time, especially in the context of these daily updates during which so much actual important information is delivered to the public.
The President and his communications staff need to stop giving these two – or anyone else CNN sends to the updates – face time. The country has seen quite enough of both of them, and their inevitable grandstanding, while it provides the President great opportunities to slam them and their corrupt media operations, has become such a distraction that it takes away from the substance of the events.
Sunday was a great example: At that update, the President announced major news, the extension of the federal stay-at-home and social distancing guidelines all the way through the end of April. Yet, the main moment that the media obsessed on came when the President confronted the execrable Alcindor.
Mark R. Levin ✔ @marklevinshow Yamiche Alcindor and the extremist cabal in the presshttps://thefederalist.com/2020/03/30/media-reaction-to-yamiche-alcindor-dustup-with-trump-shows-why-their-approval-ratings-are-low/ …
Media Reaction To Alcindor-Trump Dustup Shows Why Ratings Are Low Her peers rushed to defend her, but Alcindor has a track record of partisan commentary and unnecessarily hostile and silly questions.
thefederalist.com
This needs to stop. It is counterproductive for the President, and it is counterproductive for the nation. If they cannot conform themselves to some semblance of journalistic integrity at these events, then the President should simply refuse to recognize them.
Enough.
That is all.
That is not a waste of time; it’s one of the most important things that President Trump does.
Not sure, she’s from Haiti via Miami. I think Lew was a NYC guy.
Don’t blame Trump
He takes all questions. When was the last time you saw that???
He takes their questions to show the public just what asses they are if he didn’t let them ask their question who would ever know what hateful idiots they are!!!
“The President and his communications staff need to stop giving these two — or anyone else CNN sends to the updates — face time.”
Respectfully but strongly disagree!
By effectively and indeed massively pointing out CNN/MSM undeniable bias and lies, President Trump is fighting a necessary battle against the Left/Dem treason in our midst.
Exactly
Keep in mind most are Journalism majors who couldn’t make it as Education majors.
What do they make you think?
I have enjoyed Kareems thoughts, surprised you think he is a bonehead as LA water drinkers he is not too bad.
Kareem posted re this issue “Coach Wooden said “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do”
That is sound advice from a great coach and his greatest player well applied to this situation IMHO
I thought Trump Dunked on Acosta, today. It was the highlight of the Daily briefing for me.
He’ll go whine about it to Brian Stelter and Mark Dice will make a video of it. #Winning
I’m with you. I read DB daily, but he’s wrong on this one. If it’s true that 18+ million are watching these reports and not the fake excerpts on the evening news, PDJT is killing it, and the children in the press are showing America their venal, petty sides.
PDJT needs to engage, put them down, and move on up (in the polls).
at a minimum, he should announce that he’s not taking questions from “reporters” who work for TV networks that are refusing to broadcast these press conferences live ...
Do you enjoy this one?
"Trump’s not going to change. He knows he is where he is because of his appeal to racism and xenophobia. The people that want to divide the country are in his camp. They want to go back to the 18th century."
--Lew Alcindor, to an interviewer in The Guardian
All tax monies should be removed from funding PBS. They are left wingers and biased to the max. The station in Washington state refused to air any more of Trumps news conferences because he was getting, “too much attention”.
As I recall, though, he looked taller on those older model TVs
Are you sure that was Acosta? Though the man was from CNN, I think it was someone else. CNN might show his question, but I doubt that they will broadcast Trump's answer. His answer really defused the ads that the Dems/leftist media is running using those very brief out-of-context sound bites.
"The statements I made are--I want to keep the country calm. I don't want panic in the country. I could cause panic much better than even you. I could do much--I would make you look like a minor league player but you know what I don't want to do that."
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