The New York Press Club will be awarding CNN’s Jim Acosta a prestigious “Truth to Power” journalism award at their annual dinner in June.
A press release late last week indicates that the award is meant to honor “an individual whose body of work challenges the power establishment and/or defends journalists.”
How they came across Acosta’s name without the associated term ‘fake news’ during their research is anybody’s guess. The NYPB issued a full-throated swoon for the highly-biased reporter regardless.
“We are proud to honor a man such as Jim Acosta,” president of the NYPB Jane Tillman Irving said. Acosta “has proven himself throughout his storied, decades-long career to be a journalist of the utmost integrity.”
“For his unwavering commitment to fact and journalism, we are pleased to add to Jim’s many accolades with the Gabe Pressman ‘Truth to Power’ award,” Irving gushed.
Clown Acosta gets a press award. That should tell you everything you need to know about the modern media. https://t.co/0l0OE6YHIy
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 13, 2019
The only question now is, how will Acosta get out of the building with his new award when his head is no doubt going to be uber-inflated by this ridiculous flattery.
Challenges the Power Establishment
Rewarding someone who supposedly “challenges the power establishment” is a strange way to say you’re awarding somebody for throwing temper tantrums and making every press event about his own ego.
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The lone legitimate challenge Acosta embarked on this past year involved his press credentials, which were rightfully revoked by the White House after an altercation with a female intern, and subsequently restored following a lawsuit by CNN and supported by Fox News.
Beyond that, he needs to be scolded frequently like a petulant child for his antics.
Jim Acosta tries to ask a follow-up question four times.
Sarah Sanders: “Not today, Jim!” pic.twitter.com/VutIj8BXYq
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) June 4, 2018
And reminded by the White House Press Secretary that he’s not as intelligent as he believes.
WATCH: During a tense exchange over immigration policy, White House Press Sec. Sanders tells CNN correspondent Jim Acosta that it is “hard for you to understand even short sentences, I guess.” pic.twitter.com/qvGQe3WsIA
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 14, 2018
There are times he’s so bent on ‘fighting the establishment’ that he walks out of a press briefing practically teary-eyed.
Then there was the time Acosta had to be shushed by people infinitely more professional than he is.
“Mr. President, will you stop calling the press the enemy of the people,” CNN Journalist Jim Acosta shouted at the end of Trump’s speech pic.twitter.com/FqWT5afwUV
— POLITICO (@politico) June 29, 2018
Incidentally, a colleague of Acosta’s, Steve Krakauer, a former senior digital producer for CNN, blasted him for this incident, referring to him as “truly an embarrassment, on multiple levels.”
Krakauer added that Acosta “give(s) all good journalists a bad name.”
Fighting Trump
Let’s be realistic here – Acosta is only receiving this award based on his amateurish antics in dealing with the Trump White House.
He never ‘challenged the power establishment’ when Barack Obama was in office.
There is a famous clip of the CNN lackey introducing a question for Obama prefaced with flatteries like “some people are calling your best week ever last week.”
Best week ever.
Yea, he’s a real truth warrior, isn’t he NYPB?
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“…. commitment to fact….”
“…. journalist of the utmost integrity.”
OMG WE ARE LIVING IN THE “TWILIGHT ZONE”!!
Wait a minute. I have a correction on that award. It’s the LSOSA (Lying Sack of S%$tAward) he will be receiving. He is the first to stack sheet higher than CNN Headquarters building. The “Truth to Power” award will be given to my next door neighbor’s dog so he can wipe his @$$ with it, after he finishes doing his bowel movement.
I was thinking about it. They gave Obama a Nobel Peace Price shortly after he became President and before he had an impact on National or International politics. Just goes to show, the leftist elites are truly controlling world politics.
If you think exploiting the U.S. Justice Department to target political opponents isn’t troubling enough – and a salvo against our nation’s two-party system – the mainstream media, saturated with political activists masquerading as journalists, was in on the Russia hoax, gleefully disseminating fictitious lies and conspiracy theories in an attempt to take down a duly elected president. It is becoming increasingly obvious to millions of Americans that the Democratic Party, aided and guided by the so-called “mainstream” media, is out to destroy the presidency of a legitimately elected candidate – Donald J. Trump – and they are willing to take the entire country down if it means they can regain power.
Even a lot of ignorant people are starting to realize the media is truly disseminating “fake news” and that they have been duped for years. Hopefully enough of them will realize how absolutely corrupt the media (and democrats) is. Although the media will never tell you, and whether you like his personality, or not, President Trump has done more for the economy, jobs, taxes, minority employment, bringing business back to America, and is attempting to actually solve the border crises and push the democrat led House of Representatives to undo the laws they created that are so damaging to every citizen. Instead, they intend to hold more corrupt “investigations”, trying to find evidence of impeachment-able offenses to help their “resist and obstruct” campaign.
This is as ridiculous as Barry Obummer getting the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing.
Jim is the most obnoxious person on TV.
He reminds me of Horshack from Welcome back Kotter for those old enough to remember that show .It launched Travolta but not the actor who played Horshack .
Whats next..Smollett wins Citizen of the Year in Chicago.
Acostaserves jail time for ‘fake news’ instead of some low life award.
Only award Jim should get is best and biggest lie’s.
Just shows how far some of these networks have fallen since 911. CNN used to be one of the go to networks when you wanted real News. Now it’s just a joke and not even a funny one.
they reach in a box with all the losers names in it and pick one.
Why not? He deserves this “award” as much as Obozo deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who decides this stuff anyway?
hmmm, reporting nothing, on a curve, interesting.
Welp – everyone has to get a trophy.
Gives you an idea how meaningless these “participation awards” really are. Any award a loudmouthed punk like Acosta gets only swerves to cheapen the award or anything connected with it!
i rather play BB Gun hunt on jimmy and have bags of bb’s to last a month on jimmy ….Atleast.
Well what do we expect from Acosta and NYPC their example of a Journalist is unacceptable. The American Citizens must understand what is really going on with the press there is no true press any longer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I turn CNN on once in a while just for a laugh.
Does that include the airports? If so their viewership is more like 100,000.
The MSM is a joke that protects its own. Last week, CNN had an average of 700,000 viewers That’s how much of a joke they are along with this press club.
to stupid for a comment.