Posted on 07/31/2018 9:49:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta expressed concern on Tuesday with the way President Trump's supporters heckle members of the press, warning that the president's rhetoric could "result in somebody getting hurt."
Acosta posted a video from Trump's rally in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday showing supporters shouting down members of the press. At one point, one man in the crowd looks into the camera and yells, "stop lying."
"Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa," Acosta tweeted. "I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy."
Trump has made his ongoing feud with media outlets that cover his administration critically a centerpiece of his brand of politics, often referring to coverage he deems unfavorable to him as "fake news."
He has also repeatedly called reporters the "enemy of the people." That particular accusation was the subject of a meeting earlier this month between Trump and A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times.
Trump revealed the existence of the off-the-record meeting in a tweet on Sunday, writing that the two "spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, 'Enemy of the People.' "
That prompted a response from Sulzberger, who said in a statement that he had met with the president to urge him to tone town his attacks on the media at large.
"I told him that although the phrase 'fake news' is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists 'the enemy of the people,' " Sulzberger said.
"I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence."
Pot, meet kettle.
What an asswipe!
He didn’t by any chance get that from the responses from Maxines’ comments.
Nah, no Alinsky theory here!
Let me be the first to suggest a blanket party be thrown in Mr. Acots’s honor.
Has the jackass and CNN stopped supporting Antifa and its violence?
ATT will likely get this crap property. You’re not obliged to continue your ATT subscriptions.
“Don’t forget Mad Mad Maxipad’s call for violence against Conservatives...”
Surely you didn’t think Jim thought of this all on his own. :-)
Cheer up Acosta. If you get your way, . . . .
Trump has already had editorials written about him claiming he’s not Reagan. He’s Lincoln.
Let that one sink in Jim, as you and your’s foment civil war.
Habeus Corpus?
Jim - if you don’t like it GTFO. Cuba is nice in the summer.
The same party who advocates censorship, confrontation and criminalization of their political opposition while preaching diversity, free speech and civil rights in the same speech.
The same party who advocates termination of employment and denial of services based on political identity, while demanding employers and service providers give them preferable treatment because of their political affiliation.
The most glaring example of the damaged collective IQ of the Democratic Party, is their ability to rationalize an attack of their own President to confront a meddling foreign influence. God help their neighbours if an actual invasion ever occurred.
The same party who screams when required to pay their own taxes instead of (dodging) passing it off on the tax payers as a deduction (loophole) from their federal tax obligation.
Sorry for the rant
But obama saying that *if they bring a knife, we bring a gun*, ISN’T going to result in someone getting hurt?
Where were you all when he was promoting violence.
They are just afraid of the push back from all the violence they are advocating and are trying to get us to back off already.
I wonder what they have planned?
I dont like his calling the media the “enemy of the people”... because WHEN something happens to a member of the media, it will all come back on Trump. He can bash them otherways, however.
Y'know, like Steve Scalise. Oh, wait... Thanks yesthatjallen.
Sounds like Acosta is threatening violence against Trump supporters.
CNN, you mean like the countless people who have been hurt because of yours?
CNN and its employees are the enemy of a free people. They prove it every day as they hide behind the 1st amendment, pump out their political propaganda and execute information warfare against the people of the United States.
JoMa
Message to Acosta : Go F*ck yourself! ...
This SOB is the most arrogant narcissist moron on TV.
He is a LIAR.
He is a repulsive loud mouthed disrespectful A-hole.
And those are his best points.
Did I mention that he is a politically biased profession LIAR?
Well now Jimmy, seems people have already gotten hurt because of the rhetoric of the press. Lots of people.
He at the very least deserves a blanket party,
A very serious one indeed.
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