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."
Let’s be honest - Jim Acosta deserves to be hurt in a bad, bad way. The man is literally attempting to put every American at risk of nuclear war to advance his own career - and the same can be said for many of his fellow travelers.
What a putz. CNN’s paranoia bashing of Trump and supporters is egging the masked Antofagasta thugs to attack Trump supporters.
Mr. Acosta. You are trying to use your position in news media to eradicate the will of the voters of the last presidential election. That is a serious affront to democracy.
My first thought is WGAF. Who gives a f—-&.
The only hurt will be egos at CNN.
How ‘bout how YOUR lies, propaganda and attacks got Steve Scalise nearly murdered, Acosta ?
Does he mean like CNN’s rhetoric got Steve Scales hurt?
Tell it to aunt teefa and mad max waters
The press is not the enemy.
The hell you aren't
Yet, CNN and the rest of the enemedia never seem to have a problem painting the American gun owner with the trusty hate brush -putting us in harms way.
Hey Acosta; you might want to mention that to Scalise and all the leftist trash who have attacked Trump supporters 500 times so far.
You (Acosta) should slither back into that hole you hatched in and stay there.
Concern Troll extraordinaire.
YEA HIM
Anyone can look back at all the violence at Trump rallies and see it was the Democrat leftist who were doing all the violence or were at least provoking it. Time after time. It could not be any clearer. And here this stooge is concerned about something that might happen? He's a bit late to the party.
And the glorification of BLM, Antifa, SPLC, and Maxine Waters doesn’t?
Unbelievable projection that only the libtard derangement syndrome can produce.
Foreshadowing coming leftist violence.
Go to his twitter page and see him standing on a platform above the crowd (looking down on Trump supporters of course).
What will he say if Trump is assassinated or some member of his family? The MSM drumbeat of “Trump is Hitler,” “Trump is a Putin Puppet,” and “Trump should be deposed,” is working up the crazy left to try anything to stop him and put Hillary or another Soros puppet in the White House. I know if I was a brain Dead Lefty—and I really believed that slaying Trump would save the nation from another Hitler, I would see killing him as a sort of duty. This is what the Left Media has done.
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