At today’s White House briefing, CNN’s Jim Acosta left the room in a “totally saddened” mood after asked Sarah Sanders if she agrees that the media is the “enemy of the people” and ended up getting dressed down instead. All that caused Brian Stelter to come to the defense of his CNN colleague this way:
Today at @PressSec's briefing: Grievance politics 101.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 2, 2018
"I'm tired of this," @Acosta says. "It is not right" to call the press the "enemy of the people." Watch this clip. pic.twitter.com/rcqB5FiSCy
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 2, 2018
Dana Loesch gave Stelter something to think about, not that he will:
Perhaps the press needs to affirm whether or not the *people* are the enemy of the press. You know, the people who are tired of being maligned as racists because they didn’t vote for Hillary or called murderers on networks because they support self-defense. https://t.co/64pqzS5WHj
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 2, 2018
Maybe the press can pause and do that reflecting on why they’re perceived as activists instead of reporters when they’re joining Jim Acosta for a chant session outside the White House.
As for CNN’s theatric Resistance reporter:
If only America was as infatuated with Jim Acosta as Jim Acosta is with Jim Acosta. Maybe he should have his own presser where he can regale the country with questions about himself.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 2, 2018
Ouch!
True double standards for the media, they have no problem with Alinskyite tactics from the left but go into meltdown when the same things are used from the other side.
— Norman Funk (@Mo_Funky2) August 2, 2018
— Cicero (@marionebridge) August 2, 2018
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