CNN’s Jim Acosta loves to make his reports about Jim Acosta and the supposed plight of anti-Trump journalists.
Today was no different when he ignored the booming economy, Korean War soldiers returning home and any other real news, and instead, pitched a fit when Press Secretary Sarah Sanders refused to utter the words Acosta demanded.
Moments later, he took to the network to rant about his supposed shabby treatment and threatened to protest on Pennsylvania Avenue on behalf of all poorly journalists everywhere.
CNN's @Acosta on contentious WH press conference: "Honestly Brooke, I'm tired of this …. It is not right, it is not fair, it is not just, it is un-American to come out here and call the press the enemy of the people"https://t.co/1oGZa7f57j pic.twitter.com/sqEkOE89SM
— CNN News Central (@NewsCentralCNN) August 2, 2018
“Maybe we should make some bumper stickers, make some buttons. Maybe we should go on Pennsylvania Avenue like these people who chant ‘CNN sucks’ and’fake news,’ maybe we should go out, all journalists should go out on Pennsylvania Avenue and chant, ‘We’re not the enemy of the people.’
“Honestly Brooke, I’m tired of this,” he continued, “It is not right, it is not fair, it is not just, it is un-American to come out here and call the press the enemy of the people,” Acosta sniffed.
Sanders did not call the media “the enemy of the people,” as Acosta claims. She simply refused to change the President’s statement.
Nevertheless, his rant continued.
“It would be nice if we all lowered the temperature a little bit. But at the very least, I think we should all be able to agree on one thing, and that is the press is not the enemy of the people.
“Fellow Americans are not the enemy of fellow Americans,” he lectured, his arms waving around.
He asked for forgiveness for “going on a rant.”
Earlier in the day, he stormed out of the press briefing because Sanders wouldn’t say the media isn’t “the enemy of the people.”
I walked out of the end of that briefing because I am totally saddened by what just happened. Sarah Sanders was repeatedly given a chance to say the press is not the enemy and she wouldn't do it. Shameful.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 2, 2018
He said he was “totally saddened” by the experience.
He never did talk about the economic news, just his pet priorities.
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