Posted on 07/03/2017 11:12:35 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta phoned into Sunday afternoons CNN Newsroom to offer his latest meltdown/rallying cry for his liberal media cohorts, demanding that they and the rest of the country stand up to President Trump following his slams against the media or journalists will both be hurt and silenced.
After telling host Fredricka Whitfield about the calls to ignore or brush aside the Presidents tweets, Acosta forcefully proclaimed that we have to try the other approach, we have to stand up to this by confront[ing] this and say that it's wrong.
[M]y concern is, and I know it's shared by others, is that this kind of rhetoric, this kind of behavior is going to lead to a journalist being hurt and that's the thing I worry about. I hate that I'm worried about that on 4th of July weekend when we're all supposed to celebrating our freedoms, including the First Amendment, the right to free speech and a free press. That's what I'm concerned about, Acosta added in the same tone Brian Stelter used all day.
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“Gee after showing relentless pro Hillary bias during the campaign..”
Yes, like CNN giving the debate questions to Hillary?
Yea, no bias there.
CNN #FAKEAMERICANS
If they had anything newsworthy to say does anyone think that the nation would stop paying attention?
Nope, "Trump = Hitler", and "Something Something Russians", 24/7, isn't worth watching, so America is tuning out. IMO, that's good. Means that everyone will be inoculated from the lies come 2018 and 2020. Meanwhile, "Hey, this Trump guy might have done something worthwhile" *WILL* be newsworthy and *WILL* get ratings by that time. Since the MSM worships at the altar of the almighty dollar, they'll follow that story, instead.
You heard it here, first.
Isn't it time for Jim Acosta to take a time out and reflect on his role in the fake news scandal?
Jim and his liberal media cohorts need to return to responsible journalism and back away from propaganda and outright lies and hate. Look in the mirror, Jim!
Little Jimmy Acosta, what a sissy, what a p**sy, go change your tampon and take some Midol.
But the real story here is that this sissy little POS is trying to jump start his mediocre career as a CNN fake news reporter. He’s thinking, the more melodrama and hystrionics, the more likely he is to get a raise.
What a sissy, what a buffoon, what an @ss.
Fun to watch.
5.56mm
Pussy...
Acosta, ‘Your worst nightmare is happening, a successful Donald Trump presidency for the rest of this term and the next 4 years. While CNN is losing audiences rapidly.
For the month of May, CNN averaged 821,000 viewers per hour throughout the entire day and 1.12 million total viewers during the prime time hours.
Comparably, FOX News averaged 1.42 million viewers per hour throughout the entire day and 2.24 million viewers during prime time, or twice as many viewers during primetime hours as CNN.
By the end of June, due to CNN being caught in a number of fake news stories, its numbers dropped significantly.
On Wednesday June 28th CNNs numbers dropped to only 666,000 TV viewers throughout the day and only 882,000 viewers during primetime.
These pathetic numbers were roughly 80% of Mays monthly average for total day TV viewers and prime time viewers or 20% down.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3566224/posts
Gee, he didn’t seem to mind that the fake news media inflamed Hodgkinson to shoot at GOP lawmakers. But gosh, that might be because it wasn’t him in the cross hairs.
I’m not going to go out and hurt a journalist, or an LGBT, or anyone, they are the ones who preach hate and violence.
I’d like to be in his vicinity and pop a balloon and see him soil his pants.
I think he meant that we must stand up WITH Trump, don’t you?
Where was he when Obama was spying on James Rosen?
BOO!!!
Now go change yer drawers.
Didn't Fareed Zakaria say the Central Park production of Julius Caesar which was just a vehicle for dramatizing the stabbing of Trump as Caesar was a "work of art?" And the President can't react? He can't re-tweet someone making fun of CNN after they have to retract their breathless coverage of the golden showers dossier, or the 17 unified intelligence agencies that purportedly agreed with it?
He's supposed to ignore what, for a non-official, would be libel, without a sarcastic comment? He can't poke fun at them for being such obvious fakers?
That sounds like an unbalanced, illogical, and childish position. But, most lefties are like that--can dish it out, but can't take it.
How many facts/stories has the media not published because of fear of Trump?
How many “embarrassing” (illegal?) facts/stories about Obama and Hillary did the media not publish when the public would have been interested?
Honest answers to those may tell us if we have a free/honest press or a press that has been silenced.
I can see how Trump’s tweets make the media afraid to publish a single anonymous source saying “Trump committed a crime ....”. If that’s what Acosta is referring to he should find a different profession (e.g. fiction writer). But there does not seem to be any fear to publish anything damaging/embarrassing to Trump as long as they CAN BACK IT UP (and often not). They attack on TV. On radio. On the web. On blogs. On twitter. They don’t seem to be at all shy about what they post either as a “news organization” or “private individual (who happens to work as a journalist)”. They may not like having to defend their news/opinion/comment, but they certainly seem to feel free to give it.
I’d like to hear what “silencing” Acosta is thinking of if it’s anything more than fear of being held to long-standing journalistic standards (which they ignored for 8 years).
This snowflake metrosexual is gonna win a fight with Trump? Riiiiiight . . .
Acosta is inciting trouble. His name is too perfect, and so fits his caustic style as he accosts the White House briefers.
Why do you have to call to ignore the "madman's" tweets? Just ignore them. Oh, you can't. Well, try tweeting yourself - oh, your tweets are brushed aside through ridicule. Funny how that's working out for you.
Thanks for the cross link.
CNN is losing audience rapidly!
Good to see the numbers.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3566224/posts
Note to Jim Acosta:
You and your “news” network could try honestly reporting the truth for a change.
Yes, I know that it would be a hard thing to do.
But once you and your fellow ‘journalists’ try it for a while, you might just find that you like it.
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