New York Times: Jim Acosta has First Amendment Right to Touch Women

Front Page ^ | November 9, 2018 | Daniel Greenfield

[detective]

After Hollywood, the mainstream media had the worst #MeToo record. Here's another reminder of that as the media circles the wagons in defense of Jim Acosta's ugly scene. It's not news that CNN was bound to back Acosta. But the rest of the media decided that Acosta's latest narcissistic tantrum was the hill to die on. For the First Amendment.

As Times White House reporter Julie Davis tweeted on Thursday, “@Acosta's behavior here, like it or not, does not disqualify him from the First Amendment-protected freedom to ask questions. Otherwise, how are we different from a place that has no freedom of the press at all?”

Yes, how we are different than North Korea?

If Jim Acosta loses his hard pass, we might as well be Turkey and lock up hundreds of journalists. It's exactly the same thing.

[Ohioan]

The media, to whom you refer, obviously disrespect all traditionally minded Americans--of that there can be little doubt.

What Drives The Trump Haters

[RedMonqey]

Trump said “women let him grab them by their pu$$y.”

For the record

[editor-surveyor]

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America’s “Outhouse of Record” has spoken!
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[jazusamo]

Julie Davis is an idiot but I won’t go into that.

I’ll just say the press or CNN has not been banned from the White House, only an obnoxious disrespectful argumentative journalist (I say journalist loosely) by the name of Jimmy Acosta has been banned for good reason.

Good riddance.

[bgill]

So, if Trump used a right hook on Asscosta that would be ok?

[cuban leaf]

Nobody’s sending him to prison here. In fact, nobody is changing his rights at all except his conduct resulted in him losing his hard pass - which is a privilege at the will of the President.

He can take your pass if he doesn’t like the way you part your hair.

These people are deep into TDS.

[1Old Pro]

If Jim Acosta loses his hard pass, we might as well be Turkey and lock up hundreds of journalists. It's exactly the same thing.

Uh, it's NOT the same thing, no wonder we get crap from these idiots pretending to be news, they're maroons :)

[windsorknot]

So, if Trump used a right hook on Asscosta that would be ok?

It’d be ok by me. ;)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Thanks.
Buch metter.

[Billthedrill]

It has long been canon at the NYT that journalists are Special People - are they not mentioned in the First Amendment? - and Special Privileges For Special People is what they're demanding. (Note - this conviction does not extend to the ones mentioned in any of the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, especially not the Second Amendment). And so, yes, in their view their role is so vital to the workings of a free government that practically any behavior on the part of journalists, however illegal or immoral, is justified.

The irony is that this system of Special Privileges For Special People really is the policy of elites in North Korea and Communist China, and the NYT journalists are the ones demanding them.

[DocJ69]

I tried that once and I found out that it doesn’t work she said so that made it so !!!!

[Intolerant in NJ]

“@Acosta's behavior here, like it or not, does not disqualify him from the First Amendment-protected freedom to ask questions..after awhile you really do have to have some concern for the mental health of people such as whoever wrote this dribble - they don't seem able to keep two thoughts separate in their minds at the same time without one contaminating the other - the idea that Acosta has a right to ask questions as a reporter somehow gets mixed up with the idea that he acted rudely and churlishly with the president and went well beyond what even his fellow journalists find appropriate, and voila you have people trying to deny Acosta his right to ask questions - we used to see that sort of thing a lot with the patients in the hospital where I used to work, but then it was a psychiatric hospital......

[MissEdie]

Let him touch me or my daughter and I’ll introduce that piece of crap to My 2nd Amendment Right- and my Ruger.

[thoughtomator]

“Don’t tase me, bro!”

(spoiler alert: he got tased)

how did the media play that...?

[etcb]

Neither Jim Acosta nor any other individual who is paid to express a viewpoint is granted any greater protection under the first amendment than me or anyone else who expresses our viewpoint in a written post on this forum. No special privilege, including access to otherwise restricted areas is guaranteed to anyone based on their employment by a business engaged in any form of media. Freedom from interference with the right to the press is an inherent right of all individuals, not any particular special interest, business, or their employees.

[ridesthemiles]

How about I give Acosta MY address & he tries that unwanted touching on ME?

He won’t like the reflex result he will get.

After the reflex result, he will be even sorrier. I promise.

[thoughtomator]

Make the next person with that microphone job a Marine and let’s see how feisty they get.

[seawolf101]

The guy rubbed up against her breasts and nobody has a problem with this. He needs to get punched and the person that punches him can claim that the video was tampered with.

Acosta is one major piece of shit.

[HamiltonJay]

Being denied press credentials is NOT remotely the same as being put into a Gulag... The Left Wing Media is out of its mind.

[madison10]

They need glasses apparently.