CNN’s Jim Acosta was genuinely upset that he wasn’t called upon during President Trump’s Rose Garden press conference with Brazil president Jair Bolsaonaro Tuesday, and Sarah Sanders thinks it’s hilarious.
To recap, Acosta, who earlier in the week discussed the President’s mental stability on air, complained that a reporter from the Daily Caller was offered a chance to ask a question, while he was not.
Following the press conference, Acosta took to his network to complain that “a reporter with The Daily Caller right at the very end” had been called on, then criticized said reporter for asking what he considers to be a softball question. That’s right, a man from the network that gave Barack Obama eight years-worth of softball questions was not pleased.
“You know, it was the question was asked in a way that really teed it up like a game of tee ball here in the Rose Garden,” Acosta fumed. “The President was just sort of served up a softball there when he was asked, you know, whether or not the Democrats are advancing a lot of socialist ideas.”
The Daily Caller reporter, Saagar Enjeti, took note of Acosta’s criticism and promptly dispatched it.
“I tried something novel,” he said. “Rather than tell the President what was happening on a particular issue, I asked him to tell me.”
Acosta’s complaints didn’t end with the realization that a Daily Caller reporter is better at his job. He moved on to blasting Bolsaonaro for using the term ‘fake news’ and even insinuated conservatives have a greater media influence than do liberals.
“When you have the President of Brazil calling the press fake news, he is — he is trying to essentially, you know, in a sycophantic sort of way, suck up to the President of the United States,” Acosta railed.
“[H]e likes to talk about how there’s this media collusion game that is stacked against him when he has one of the most powerful social media voices throughout and so I think that just has to be said as well,” he continued, seemingly confusing the mainstream media with social media.
Acosta then claimed Trump’s attacks on the media are him “pulling a three card Monty.”
“Conservatives aren’t being discriminated and abused on social media,” he said, a statement in an of itself so verifiably false that it constitutes very fake news.
The White House press secretary had a little fun at Acosta’s expense, blasting him with a ‘dear diary’ reference.
Sanders has a rich history of obliterating Acosta’s ego, forcing him to walk out of the room when she refused to denounce the President’s statement that the media is the “enemy of the people,” accused him of finding it difficult “to understand even short sentences,” and even suggested that her whining kids have helped prepare her for dealing with the CNN reporter.
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Lookee here...the Fabulous FAKERS and the Deep State Mob Gang...are eating #!%^!!! All these months...lying to the people who are stupid to believe them..all kinds of fake stories...with a vengeance. Well...this is a win for THE CONSERVATIVES. The truth always comes out in the end. God is on our side and I thank him with all my heart.
Lookee here...the Fabulous FAKERS and the Deep State Mob Gang...are eating #!%^!!! All these months...lying to the people who are stupid to believe them..all kinds of fake stories...with a vengeance. Well...this is a win for THE CONSERVATIVES. The truth always comes out in the end. God is on our side and I thank him with all my heart.
Yes I fear ALL communists .
Yes I fear ALL communists .
Yes I fear ALL communists .
Acosta also reminds me of those little Sissy dogs on a pink leash that yips, and yips, and yips - and then when you turn at it, they go arh, arh, arh, arh back to Donnie or Mommie Lemon. LOL
Acosta has the brain, mouth, attitude, personality and worldview of MADURO - a Classic Fascist. He overheats like an old radiator about to burst, and has that hateful and power-hungry psychological characstic of a Stormtrooper personality. He would LOVE to exercise full-on Stasi Power as well, as well as a Stalin & Mao Power if he could exercise that evil power....... He is Psychotic. He is a Little Nobody. An Ignorant, rabid dog.
Acosta has the brain, mouth, attitude, personality and worldview of MADURO - a Classic Fascist. He overheats like an old radiator about to burst, and has that hateful and power-hungry psychological characstic of a Stormtrooper personality. He would LOVE to exercise full-on Stasi Power as well, as well as a Stalin & Mao Power if he could exercise that evil power....... He is Psychotic. He is a Little Nobody. An Ignorant, rabid dog.
Acosta has the brain, mouth, attitude, personality and worldview of MADURO - a Classic Fascist. He overheats like an old radiator about to burst, and has that hateful and power-hungry psychological characstic of a Stormtrooper personality. He would LOVE to exercise full-on Stasi Power as well, as well as a Stalin & Mao Power if he could exercise that evil power....... He is Psychotic. He is a Little Nobody. An Ignorant, rabid dog.
Acosta has the brain, mouth, attitude, personality and worldview of MADURO - a Classic Fascist. He overheats like an old radiator about to burst, and has that hateful and power-hungry psychological characstic of a Stormtrooper personality. He would LOVE to exercise full-on Stasi Power as well, as well as a Stalin & Mao Power if he could exercise that evil power....... He is Psychotic. He is a Little Nobody. An Ignorant, rabid dog.