CNN’s Jim Acosta Embarrasses Himself Again With The Worst Analogy Of All Time

CNN’s Jim Acosta is on a roll. He’s humiliated himself quite a few times over the past week. I wonder if he’s going for some kind of personal record.

His latest flub is so bad, it’s good.

Last night, Acosta tried to provide a helpful analogy to explain the drama surrounding the Schumer shutdown, and this is what he came up with:

🚨 @Acosta on CNN just now: "This is turning into a Tide Pod kind of night. No one is willing to swallow a compromise"

— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) January 20, 2018

Oh Acosta. Was this you attempting to be hip and cool? Because FAIL.

I mean…wouldn’t this analogy be better if it involved something edible? YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SWALLOW TIDE PODS. So no duh no one wants to swallow. What kind of jacked up analogy is that, Jim? Do YOU eat Tide pods?

If @Acosta chews a tide pod on air, I’ll never bad mouth CNN again.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 20, 2018

I can’t go that far, but I can commit to not mocking them for a month or so. That’s my limit.

Me too, but for Hildy pic.twitter.com/OfkSpB5dop

— Mona Fishman 🎶🚂 (@MonaFishman) January 20, 2018

HAHAHA.

What is life

— Diana Hussein (@heyadiana) January 20, 2018

I'm pretty sure @Acosta and @jaketapper eat a couple every morning to start the day. It wipes their memory so they can have a clear conscience while reporting #FakeNews.

— Mexican by Marriage (@wsheeder) January 20, 2018

Solid theory.

I honestly can't tell if Acosta doesn't get the meme, or if he gets it better than all of us https://t.co/BH69whR8eE

— Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) January 20, 2018

What a time to be alive. Or not, I guess. https://t.co/rmVdO7AYaW

— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) January 20, 2018

Yeah…it could go either way.

pic.twitter.com/6WS1P4YjmL

— K (@khansen) January 20, 2018

That's the worst analogy I've ever heard.

— Jennifer Willard (@ArtWillard) January 20, 2018

You and me both.

And the groundswell for Acosta to star in Anchorman 3 gains momentum.

— Bob Dugan (@Dugan8498) January 20, 2018

Sad trombone https://t.co/hRTko3FzjK

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) January 20, 2018

That's … not a good analogy. https://t.co/pMw8Xn6BHi

— Gillian Brockell (@gbrockell) January 20, 2018

Maybe Acosta needs to take a break. He needs a spa day with Chuck Schumer. They can go get man manicures and stare longingly at jars of delicious looking Tide pods together. I’m sure that would do wonders.