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.
Trump had a great answer to the SNARKY question.
Natzi calls it the “WRAP-UP SMEAR”
DUmocrat politician coordinates the process with their favorite media drones.
1. Lie
2. Send it to media
3. Merchandise the lie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkzrwTFv6A
Courts over-ruled Trumps banning acosta from White House pressers.
Okay, let him come but don’t call on him. Also, during an Acosta’‘ snit fit,, point out the many other reporters in the and ask them if they want to give Acosta THEIR screen time for him.
Once Trump leaves the presser I go back to what I was doing.
What kind of POTUS would actually state that he COULD guarantee that curve? Would he claim to have a crystal ball? The word of the Weird Sisters bent over their caldron?
How unbiased. Does she perchance mean the 19th Century? Through most of the 18th Century, there were no United States of America.
I think he does it to jerk their chains......he’s a master in taking booger eater and the dame from NPR down a few knotches. Takes some of the stress away.......;)
I agree...If a media hack gets time from another hack, give 'em a few seconds until they get snarky; and then cut 'em off.
“do you enjoy this one?”
no not really but I do not let a statement by someone speaking out often to change my opinion, not sure if I agree with everything my father or mother said or most of my office bosses but that does not mean I do not like to hear what they have to say. I do not feel that I must agree with every phrase to continue to listen to what they have to say, that would be somewhat childish.
I don’t know or care what the hell Lew Alcindor’s thoughts were in the past. If you call President Trump a racist, you land in my doghouse.
Do you agree with 100% of what the President says and tweets? I am fine with Kareem in your dog house he is just not in mine.
Best way to stop it is to stop the daily briefings.
President Trump has never come close to tweeting anything as fatuous and asinine as Lew’s remark.
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