Much fun has been had with the announcement that CNN’s pet prima donna Jim Acosta has written a book. Little surprise that the man who adores his reflection wrote a book about his work as a journalist. Not to say Acosta is full of himself, but whenever he has an affair it simply means he has agreed to see other mirrors.
CNN of course went full on promoting his book, absent anything approaching a critical voice.
—@Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media https://t.co/HBxh54Xjl6
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 24, 2019
CNN's Jim Acosta is writing a book about Trump's war with the media https://t.co/gGie8XRU8c pic.twitter.com/4frFvpR7b4
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) January 24, 2019
Very proud of my correspondent @Acosta – can’t wait to see the final product. https://t.co/207tOi7ZDd
— Matt Hoye (@mattyhoyeCNN) January 24, 2019
Exciting news. Our colleague @Acosta is writing a book on his time covering President Trump. "This sobering, bewildering, and sometimes frightening experience has made it absolutely clear that this is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America." https://t.co/ns15lGRo8o
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) January 24, 2019
CNN ran a full news article on the…uh, news. It has a few interesting side notes contained therein. According to the piece, “Acosta will share never-before-revealed stories of this White House’s rejection of truth.” So then, Acosta has unreported news items he has been sitting on for the sake of his book?
In his usual hyper-dramatic style Acosta states “This is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America“. Curious to know, who in the press has been harmed in any manner from telling the truth? And the next question of course is, just how dangerous could it possibly be if Jim is able to get published telling said truth? We suppose that will be in the book…?
Then there is this curiosity: “The book deal was first reported by the Associated Press.” Sooooo, a book deal for a CNN reporter was NOT first broken by CNN, according to the CNN story about the book deal??? How did they lose that scoop?!
One revealing detail came from Acosta peer Brian Stelter.
CNN's @Acosta has been working on a book for months. It's coming out June 11. Title: "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America." Here's my story… https://t.co/qsYFAdNeDT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 24, 2019
For months, you say Brian? Does that not then explain all of Acosta’s posturing and preening during that time was strictly for book fodder?
If he’s been writing it for months, one might assume he’s been playing his back and forths up for book content.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 24, 2019
So this explains his behavior for the past 2 years?
— SRS (@SelinaRS84) January 24, 2019
A book to report on what he's supposed to be reporting while he supposedly continues to report on it for TV Wonder how much he'll have the balls to charge for that. That's CNN in a nutshell, right there.
— David Nusspickel (@davenuss) January 25, 2019
If only someone like a media reporter could look into the possibility of Acosta manufacturing outrage for book content, or questioning him about what news he has not reported in order to keep it for his personal gain. Maybe Brian knows a guy.
CNN's Stelter risked his life to get the scoop that CNN's Acosta was pushing a book. Everyone downplaying the importance of a free press should think about what we would lose if we did away with such essential journalism. https://t.co/iSriyAYub6
— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) January 24, 2019
Such a brave firefighter, that Tater!
Jim Acosta walking out of the briefing room after his book comes out pic.twitter.com/qg75tSmyay
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 24, 2019
Perfect. Acosta becoming the embodiment of Verbal Kint is spot-on.
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