At this point, Jim Acosta is CNN’s leading whiner. He whines about absolutely everything, and he’s particularly sick of being the butt of all the #FakeNews jokes. I’d just like to take this moment to remind everyone that the liberal media created the term #FakeNews. They started it, which makes this entire thing even sweeter.
As we told you earlier, President Trump is overseas and received a warm welcome in Poland. While there, Trump held a joint press conference with Poland’s President Duda, but Jim Acosta noticed something OMG HORRIFYING. Trump took a question from a “friendly” reporter and attacked CNN again! So naturally, Acosta ran to Twitter to inform the public of this incredibly troubling development.
Trump finally held a news conference overseas. But he took a question from a friendly reporter and then attacked CNN as “fake news.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
Isn’t it a “fake news conference” to take a question from a reporter who is essentially an ally of the White House? https://t.co/vD7DgAZXIv
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
Just in case you’re wondering, Acosta is referring to the Daily Mail’s David Martosko.
One of the questions came from a reporter who acknowledged he had just talked to WH about a job last month https://t.co/45jABeralt https://t.co/kiquwvWIWe
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
HAHAHAHA. Does he REALLY want to go there? Where has he been the last 8 years, huh? I mean, is this guy for real? He can’t be. Obama was the KING of getting cozy with “friendly” reporters. And don’t even get me started on Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the press during the election.
Cue former WH press secretary Ari Fleischer and Donald Trump Jr.:
Jim – care to guess how many questions I took from reporters who went on to join the Obama WH?? https://t.co/q57Pea4L7S
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) July 6, 2017
Did you ever attack a news organization in this fashion during your years at the WH? And then call on friendly media for a question?
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
No on the attack. I criticized POTUS on this. Friendly media? I worked in a GOP Administration. There weren’t many “friendlies” to call on.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) July 6, 2017
The point obviously is not about people crossing from media to government. But I guess you’re cool with all of this.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2017
What’s worse? Calling on a “friendly” reporter or hiring a couple dozen of them??
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) July 6, 2017
I’d also like to point out that Trump called on an “unfriendly” reporter too– MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson. Of course, Acosta didn’t care to mention that.
.@HallieJackson: “You THINK it was Russia, your intelligence agencies say it WAS Russia, why won’t you say it was?” https://t.co/uUyeTu9chV
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 6, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. addressed Acosta’s concerns as well:
So by that logic, was every news conference for the last 8 years #fakenews Jim? https://t.co/dui9XgmXgx
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 6, 2017
GO HOME JIM.
h/t Twitchy