Animavore wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 11:02 am
Looks like Jim Acosta's White House credentials have been revoked. Trump's facist party further attack the first amendment proving the fight isn't near over and these scumbags need to be further beaten back to the fringes of society.
Jim Acosta's credentials should have been revoked. Did you see his behavior?
Jim Acosta doesn't own the seat there. CNN didn't lose its credentials. Jim Acosta did. And, when you go there to argue with the President, rudely, to consistently interrupt him mid-sentence in order to score political points under the guise of being there as a straight news reporter, and not a pundit, and then you are given your question opportunity, and the question is answered, and then you refuse to give up the microphone, demanding argumentative follow-up questions when the President has moved on to another member of the press, you're behaving as a petulant child - a partisan one. And when the white house staffer whose job it is to pass the microphone to the next reporter in the queue comes over to take the mic and pass it along, he pushed her arm away and repeatedly pulled the mic away from her so she could not do her job, it's not interference with the briefing.
He's a grandstander and an unethical reporter. Look at what he did at the Trump-Kim meeting, when he just shouted out questions at the President and Kim Jong Un -- like, "Will you give up your nuclear weapons, sir!" -- shouted at the DPRK leader in the middle of the public appearance, but not during any question time. What the fuck does he expect the guy to do? Answer the fucking question while they're walking away? "Oh, yes, yes! Jim, thanks for asking that! I'll be giving up my nuclear weapons now!" What idiot reporter does that?
Another example of this "reporter" pushing a partisan agenda in his straight news reporting --
CNN needs to put a muzzle on so-called reporter Jim Acosta, who decided yesterday his job called for him to act as a sanctimonious advocate for illegal immigrants, while yelling at the president in front of children.
The Easter egg hunt is supposed to be a lighthearted event for families of reporters, staff and invited guests who gather at the White House for a day of Easter activities.
But Acosta — part of the crowd that’s constantly incensed about Trump’s behavior — couldn’t bring himself to exercise a little decorum while President Trump was coloring with young children.
“What about the DACA kids?” he began shouting at Trump. “Should they worry about what’s going to happen to them?”
Trump tweeted this weekend that a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy isn’t going to happen.
“DACA is dead because the Democrats didn’t care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon,” Trump tweeted. “No longer works. Must build Wall and secure our borders with proper Border legislation. Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!”
Trump actually gave Acosta the time of day, responding, “The Democrats have clearly let them down.”
Then Trump returned to coloring with his son, Melania and other young kids.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... hite_house
But that response wasn’t good enough for the CNN talking head, who doubled down.
“Didn’t you kill DACA? Didn’t you kill DACA?”
Trump ignored him. Frankly, Trump should not have justified the first round of questions with a response.
Ultimately Acosta looked like the poster boy for biased reporting that Trump continues to hammer on Twitter — to the delight of his voters, who agree with him. Behaving unprofessionally just to have a news segment on Wolf Blitzer’s afternoon show is not solid journalism. It is clickbait reporting that only hurts your integrity.
Showing up to an event and asking a politician a question unrelated to the day’s activities is basic reporting 101. It is how most news stories are developed. But any journalist also knows you need to be aware of your surroundings.
Screaming accusations — let alone the word “kill” — at a children’s party where the president blows a whistle and children use wooden spoons to roll Easter eggs across the lawn? Secret Service should have rolled him off the property.
But Acosta would have loved that — as would his Trump-hating bosses, who won’t muzzle him because he is doing exactly what they want him to. Lately his stories are so self-indulgent that it’s hard to imagine even liberals can’t see through his fake news generating antics.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/column ... hite_house
Another -
Acosta is present at a White House event where President Trump delivered remarks about the five journalists murdered in Maryland on Thursday. As you will see, though, Acosta is clearly too far away to be seen or heard by the president.
Nevertheless, although there is no way he will be heard, Acosta drops all pretense of professionalism to still holler a question to the president: “Will you stop calling the press the enemy of the people, sir?”
Watch as Acosta turns around to look at his cameraman and appears to ask if they got the shot. Then the camera lights are shut off, which again reveals just how staged and artificial all of this is.
This is not journalism.
Acosta and CNN knew Trump was too far away to hear the question.
This is staging news, manufacturing news, a fictional piece of propaganda produced as a means to deliberately mislead the public and embarrass the president.
If these staged theatrics are not bad enough, Acosta and CNN then doubled down in their deliberate crusade to mislead. “I tried to ask the president if he would stop calling us the enemy of the people. He did not respond,” Acosta tweeted Friday:
https://bwi.forums.rivals.com/threads/c ... ws.211106/
Acosta is so far away from Trump, you can barely make out the president from where Acosta is standing, and yet, to fabricate fake news, Acosta films the propaganda of him shouting a futile question and then publicly accuses Trump of refusing to answer.
If the media do not want to be called the “enemy of the people,” maybe they should stop acting like it.
Jim Acosta said, "Isn't it a "fake news conference" to take a question from a reporter who is essentially an ally of the White House?" - I guess every conference during the Obama administration was fake, since CNN got to ask questions every time, and they had their tongues so far up the Obama administration's ass they were tickling his tonsils.
Acosta is a partisan hack, and big fucking joke. Give someone that seat who wants to go there and report the news, not advocate a political position.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
