Posted on 03/12/2020 7:15:37 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta argued on Wednesday night that President Trump's Oval Office address to the nation "smacked of xenophobia" after the president referred to coronavirus as a "foreign virus."
"I think we should point out, at one point during this address the president referred to the coronavirus as a quote 'foreign virus,' Acosta said on "Chris Cuomo Primetime" following the president's primetime address.
"Now, why the president would go as far as to describe it as a foreign virus? That is something we’ll also be asking questions about," Acosta said.
He suggested that White House adviser Stephen Miller might have had a hand in the language.
"But it should be pointed out that Stephen Miller, who is an immigration hard-liner, who advises the president, is one of his top domestic policy advisers and speechwriters, was a driving force in writing this speech," Acosta continued. "And I think it is going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia to use that kind of term in this speech."
Trump announced a 30-day travel ban from most of Europe during the address, though the United Kingdom and Ireland are excluded from the restrictions.
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CNN = Coronaviruses Not News
Blah blah blah
He did that on purpose to trigger idiots like you, Jimbo.
Acosta beclowns himself (again)
Tucker showed video of Acosta calling it the Chinese Virus back in January.
For Acosta, Xenophobe = Anyone opposed to HispanoSupremacism
Lemme know when Sr. Xenophiliac screams for a Chinese wave to roll over Cooba.
So many things in this world make me root FOR coronoa.
Jim Acosta is one of those things.
Perhaps, in Progressive ideology, all viruses, whether foreign or domestic, must be treated alike, with full equality, and without making any distinction as to origin. Acosta is an idiot.
So these idiots report there’s a crisis while making light of it to push their agenda? These people really are pathetic!
Wuhan coronavirus is foreign.
... what was CNN’s role?
Jim Acosta just can’t help proving to the world that he.’she the village idiot.
It didn’t evolve here that’s for sure.
Acosta would have had an aneurism if Mr. niteowl77 had been at the podium and referred to coronavirus as the "bioweapon from Wuhan, China."
Acoata: "Mr. President, why do you refer to the Coronavirus as "a foreign virus?"
Trump: Because it's from China, Jim."
Must-see TV. /s
CNNophobia is a great condition for Americans, especially the President, to have.
As a dyed in the wool deplorable, I confess to CNNophobia
So the president was too correct and precise with his language - got it.
‘smacked of xenophobia’
i.e. more leftist projection.
Did Trump really call it a foreign virus?
I see no conceivable persuasion value (persuasion goal =
instill confidence ) to using that phrase.
I think he’s lost the narrative.
Not the war, not the battle. Not denigrating his leadership toward taking effective steps.
Just . . . the narrative is out of control.
It’s one thing to tweet pin pricks at the buffoonish impeachment actors.
This thing is, wrongly or rightly, *perceived* as Life and Death by many, including a fair portion of his would-be voters.
To regain the narrative will take effort and will require not handing out made-to-order own-goal attack points in speeches like “foreign virus,” if that’s what he said.
flame on.
All Trump has to do is point out how the Democrats have fought him at every turn on trying to do things that would have prevented this, like building the wall and imposing penalties on China for their unfair trade practices.
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