Acosta plays the victim.
Via The Federalist:
The liberal media still don’t seem to understand that their over the top hostile coverage of President Trump is working to his benefit. Instead of reflecting how they can restore public trust, which remains at record lows, they double down on their condescension for Middle America and continue to reveal a systemic bias against the president.
Jim Acosta’s behavior and reporting as a White House correspondent for CNN is a perfect example.
Take his response to being heckled at a Trump rally in Tampa on Tuesday. Rather than ignore the Trump supporters chanting “CNN sucks!” and hurling insults his way — wrong as they may be to do so — Acosta clutched his pearls. Instead of reporting on the rally, he made the story about himself, tweeting dramatically about the “sad scene” he had faced.
“I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt,” Acosta tweeted. “We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy.”
If he thinks his treatment at the Trump rally was wrong, he should try being a conservative speaker visiting a college campus. There has literally been riots simply because a conservative was invited to speak, a danger far more serious than the “whipped up” crowd Acosta was worried about at the Tampa rally.
Secondly, his warning that the “hostility” towards the press will “result in somebody hurt” rings hollow when Trump officials are the ones being confronted by angry people in restaurants, book stores, movie theaters, and on street corners. And especially when it was Republican lawmakers who were targeted in an assassination attempt last year, not the press or Democrats. Yet Acosta doesn’t seem concerned that someone on the left could get carried away and hurt someone on the right.
Here’s another gem from Acosta that night.
“One of the surprising things I heard tonight in Tampa is Trump supporters saying I should be on their team,” Acosta said. “Anybody remember when we were all on the same team? I do.”
Gve me a break Jim.
Sure, we should all be on the “same team” as Americans, but partisanship has prevented that from happening. The right offered no praise or credit for Obama when it was warranted, and now the same is happening to Trump. And that extends to the press.
Journalists should be on the same team as the truth. Instead, many cherry-pick facts to push their own narratives and personal interest, particularly on television and on social media. The biggest problem with Acosta is that he thinks he can be a reporter by day and a pundit by night, all while claiming to be objective. This attitude is a systemic problem in the press, and especially at CNN.