As Twitchy reported earlier, the brave firefighters in the media rushed in to rescue Rep. Ilhan Omar after a reporter asked President Trump about her background and rumors that she’d committed immigration fraud.
Among them was CNN’s Jim Acosta, who tweeted:
Congresswoman Omar has denied this and other claims about her as "disgusting lies." But Trump was willing to dive right in.https://t.co/XcTftAN0fR https://t.co/rJqpMpvtam
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 17, 2019
Oh, she denies the allegations, so that’s the end of that. #Journalism https://t.co/o04UD4zAhp
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) July 18, 2019
If only there were a group of people whose job it was to investigate and report their findings to the people via various media. Oh well.
— Beard and Circus (@Shooter_ptpx01) July 17, 2019
She denied it. Investigation complete!
— Mo Mo (@molratty) July 17, 2019
Oh I see you didn’t cover this issue until Trump said something. ?
You’re a laughing stock. This has been in news for months.
— Kambree Kawahine Koa (@KamVTV) July 17, 2019
Oh, she denied it? Well, dang. Guess it ain’t true then.
Fiddlesticks.
*kicks a rock*
— Wesley Mullins (@wesleyamullins) July 17, 2019
Oh well if the anti-semite Omar said, it certainly must be true
— Frank Hart (@FrankHartII) July 17, 2019
I'm sure it's easily provable that he's lying.
— LKing (@LKing0228) July 17, 2019
Weird, you handled Trump denying allegations against him totally differently… pic.twitter.com/Sv2228Q82F
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 17, 2019
That is weird.
"she denied this so there's no need to investigate this" is quite the approach to reporting, Jim.
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 17, 2019
Embarrassing.
— neontaster (@neontaster) July 17, 2019
It's like they have some kind of agenda or something
— Ron Guey ⚠️ (@RonSwandive) July 17, 2019
Wait. I'm starting to think Acosta may not play it straight.
— Chris (@CML_Texas) July 17, 2019
Seriously, would you expect anything different?
— Patrick Cavanagh (@PTC2242) July 17, 2019
This would be embarrassing if it wasn’t so tragic to see where journalism has landed.
— FA in HFX (@AkulFred) July 18, 2019
Well, if she denies it, then it must be true. No one would lie to keep their job hating America, would they?
— Canoeman (@Canoesmith1) July 18, 2019
You are quite the journalist @Acosta
— FreeThinker (@FreeThinkerInNC) July 18, 2019
So, as a journalist, shouldn’t you be able to investigate the “he said/she said” facts and bring them into public view, no matter where the truth takes you?
— Politically Agnostic (@joeleyare) July 18, 2019
Well the fact that she denies it is proof, what more do people want
— Woke Auditor (@marctheflom) July 17, 2019
Wow, so much different than the press diving into the Russian dossier which had no corroboration.
— Kirk (@rougblog) July 17, 2019
So CNN’s Acosta is calling the Star-Tribune “fake news?” We thought journalists had a compact or something to stick together against the common enemy: Trump.
Related:
‘You suck at journalism’: NowThis News rushes to defend Ilhan Omar, says Trump brought it up https://t.co/YwnbkD3lCT
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 17, 2019
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