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Acosta seems to think that preceding his little tirades with “If I may …” gives him license to proceed without even waiting for assent.
I know four year olds that have that concept down, Jim. Why don’t you?
With you being a police officer, you bring a unique and very valuable insight to this situation. Thanks Doug!
He wasn’t asking questions. He was lecturing the President.
And I have gotten the sense that his fellow “reporters” in the White House pool are not particularly fond of his antics. The talking heads back at their “news” desks might gripe on his behalf, but others in the actual room with him? I thought they were tired of his grandstanding, too. Am I mistaken?
While the progressive Left (D)’s are free to “Resist” as they please, it is not the role of the fourth estate to “Resist”, but rather to report the news.
Reporting will inevitably contain some bias, but that is entirely different from the MSM actively fighting against the policy of any elected administration.
It would be nice if the MSM could at least go back to feigning impartiality.
Former police officer, who is now enjoying the sweetness of doing nothing, as the Italian’s say. My wife will verify that statement. My tolerance for nonsense, and those that defend nonsense is still pretty low.
I was giving you the same respect as a Marine. You too deserve that.
On his podcast Andrew Klavan always refers to him as Jim “look at me I’m Jim!” Acosta.
Thank you.
Good riddance to bad rubbish . . .
Acosta is not a pundit. He is media creature, someone who only detects a very few bandwidths of reality, misses all else but is convinced he has a grasp on it all. Acosta’s confidence is not just the result of an enormous ego. He really does not know how shallow his grasp really is.
Philosophers and scientists would make lousy CNN on-camera talent because they tend to admit uncertainty wherever is exists and are plagued by the habit of humility that accompanies honest pursuit of truth and knowledge. In contrast, a single-channel bandwidth moron (think Ted Baxter, Ron Burgundy…) can not only opine with confidence without any substantive foundation but expect that others should accept and affirm the pearls they dispense.
If Jim Acosta wants a talk show this badly, he should apply for Alec Baldwin’s slot over at ABC.
Do you suppose that he’d be able to out-draw reruns of “Forensic Files?”
Probably what would really get to a person like Acosta is not to call on him. Just silently shut him out until he gets the message he will be called on when he has a question to ask with at least a modicum of respect. And if he doesn’t get the message, his network can either send a reporter who does or do without White House coverage.
One thing about Trump’s tweets, he’s proved he has other means of getting a message out than traditional reporters. Shoot, all the networks could refuse to cover him and he’d still get millions of hits on a video the White House could produce as they want and put on YouTube…it’d be Yuge.
The next time Acosta is handed a mic it should be from the Secret Service. The agent should have a taser in the other hand. If Acosta doesn’t hand the mic back promptly I would hope tasers don’t short out a mic permanently.
Gosh, even Kanye would’ve prefaced his hectoring remarks with “I’m-a let you finish, but…”
And WOTP:
Poor lemmings. Disney taught a couple of generations of Americans that they run off of cliffs en masse, but they do not (though they do sometimes kill themselves inadvertently due to the mating imperative.) Bonus fact: frogs just hop out of the water when it gets too hot.
We’ve finally uncovered the one lemming sympathizer here on Ricochet! We discovered the mole!
Er, lemming.
Norwegian genocide! My own personal horrifying Nordic ancestry: From the link:
These days, isn’t the white wilderness Appalachia, basically?
OMG! Give me funny.
The media is nothing if not devoid of all self reflection. They will cheerfully chastise Trump and Sanders from one side of their mouths while sharing Acosta annoyance out the other. Hypocrisy is their chief virtue.
That’s a well-documented phenomenon: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
The most irritating thing about this occurrence to me is the number of fools claiming that it is a threat to freedom of the press for Acosta to lose his pass. As far as I know, Acosta can stand outside the White House and babble incoherently all day and no government official will interfere.
Who doesn’t?
Great point. It’s a wonder I’m still alive.
I imagine you are right, but wagons gotta circle.
A ‘permanent White House press pass’ shouldn’t exist.
Nor should these inbred lapdog/attack dog ‘reporters’. They are an embarrassment to their profession.
Bill Clinton taught us the meaning of “is,” what constituted sexual relations, and now Acosta follows his Democrat Party elder’s example and puts his hand on White House interns.
Unfortunately, this time it was non-consensual. When I did a previous employer’s mandatory sexual harassment training, it was made clear to us that permitting a non-employee doing business with the company to sexually harass a colleague or subordinate would in effect be creating a hostile work environment for the object of the harassment and was absolutely unacceptable.
It wasn’t covered, but I would think that witnessing assault and battery on a colleague, and especially on a subordinate, without taking appropriate steps would also be grounds for disciplinary consequences.
Ya but may I remind you of the Doctrine of Intersectionality which says that if one supports abortion and is a Dem President then he may rape women and underaged girls to his hearts content and still get oral sex on demand from the White House Press Corps. R U not keeping up with current and not so current events dude?
Billy-Bob Clinton is still a Prog icon, is he not?
If so your honor, I rest my case.
Harvey Weinstein must be wondering why Bill is still of use to the Left, then.
Location of buried bodies?
A favor to Her Herness?
It can’t be just Bill biting his lip and feeling our pain.
Here’s a case in point. 18 of them, in fact:
There are photos.