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Acosta Decrees in Meltdown: We Must ‘Stand Up’ to Trump or He’ll ‘Silence’ the News Media
MRC NewsBusters ^ | 07/03/2017 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 07/03/2017 11:12:35 AM PDT by ForYourChildren

CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta phoned into Sunday afternoon’s 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 President’s 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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakeamericans; fakenews
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To: Zeppo

Want this to go away? Tell the truth.

It really is that simple.


41 posted on 07/03/2017 12:07:39 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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To: Conserv

42 posted on 07/03/2017 12:31:54 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: ForYourChildren

43 posted on 07/03/2017 12:45:11 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: ForYourChildren

Stand up? They haven’t stopped criticizing since the early morning hours of November 9th. Slandering, degrading, mocking, trying to delegitimize...everyone from Trump, his team, his family...and all that voted for him. The jig is up and has been for a while now. Hopefully CNN, MSNBC and all the liberal rags go down in flames before long


44 posted on 07/03/2017 12:49:18 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: seawolf101

45 posted on 07/03/2017 1:00:55 PM PDT by Bobalu ( Healthcare - someone must pay. Who should it be, and how did they get that obligation?)
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To: ForYourChildren
Once again, just to reiterate the obvious double standard at play here:

After claiming there's no incitement in a play which portrays the assassination of the President—via brutal stabbing with multiple assailants—and after Kathy Griffin posts a photo depicting a simulated ISIS beheading with President Trump's bloody severed head—the Media is supposed to feel threatened by a cheesy and humorous WWE clip in which the CNN logo is used in place of the person's head?

Are they series? The Media—and CNN in particular—is becoming a laughingstock...

46 posted on 07/03/2017 1:13:24 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: ForYourChildren

I thought that was already what you were doing Acostahole.

You ain’t man enough to stand up to Trump on your own.

You want little helpers with the dirty work.


47 posted on 07/03/2017 1:18:11 PM PDT by dforest
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To: ForYourChildren

Getting bored of headlines with this nobody’s name in them. I don’t even know who they’re talking about!


48 posted on 07/03/2017 1:21:44 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: ForYourChildren

It’s time for a PIZZA PARTY Jim!

Invite all your friends from the DNC. Get extra cheese for all and plot your next moves.

Bastard.


49 posted on 07/03/2017 1:21:58 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: ForYourChildren
“we have to try the other approach,

You already are and Eason Jordan busted you for it......But it didn't change a thing did it?

50 posted on 07/03/2017 1:22:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: ForYourChildren

I wonder if Acosta is on record with any comments about the play depicting the assassination of President Trump or any comments about CNN sponsoring that play?


51 posted on 07/03/2017 1:28:56 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: ForYourChildren

No he won’t shut down the news media, but he will shut down (as is doing it) the FAKE NEWs Media.


52 posted on 07/03/2017 1:37:58 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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To: ForYourChildren

CORRECTION:He’ll silence the Propaganda Machine.


53 posted on 07/03/2017 2:19:11 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: ForYourChildren

re: “The early reactions in the last 90 minutes. he he


54 posted on 07/03/2017 2:29:21 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (---->VMFA 235- '69 -'72 KMCAS <--- F4 PHANTOM FLYING BRICK)
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To: ForYourChildren

Acosta must be vying with Obama in the ego department.


55 posted on 07/03/2017 2:48:56 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: Bernard; All
Acosta is afraid a media person is going to get hurt? His media people support assignation plays and this:

 photo kathy-griffin-trump-beheading-640x480_zpscvzct6t1.jpg

56 posted on 07/03/2017 2:54:08 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Well, Brain damage is to be expected after someone wakes up from an eight year long self induced Coma.


57 posted on 07/03/2017 2:56:42 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Who cares what this idiot thinks? They already call for impeachment and assassination! Reporter are one of the lowest form of life on this planet.

Don’t give them clicks or ratings. Starve the beast!


58 posted on 07/03/2017 2:57:39 PM PDT by 1scrappymom (No, I am not a Republican. I am a CONSERVATIVE. PROUD ARMY MOM)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Go for it Nacho Newsman!

Sorry, I thought you pinged me.

59 posted on 07/03/2017 3:02:29 PM PDT by Nachoman (Following victory, its best to reload.)
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To: ForYourChildren

Ha, ha! Jim, every day you show up for work, you contribute to the downfall of the fake news media. Suck on that.


60 posted on 07/03/2017 3:04:13 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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