Brave firefighter Jim Acosta vows to keep rushing into burning buildings in the name of Real News

The show must go on. The Acosta Show, we mean. If Jim Acosta’s not the center of attention, he’s lost.

Which is why he’s so fortunate to work for CNN, because they’ll not only defend him to their dying breath, they’ll build him an altar upon which he can repeatedly martyr himself in the name of Real News, Mr. President:

Acosta to Tapper on clash with Trump during presser: “When they go low we keep doing our jobs”

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) November 7, 2018

Acosta gonna Acosta.

So his job is to strong arm a female for a mic that doesn’t belong to him?

— Matthew Charles Hodson (@matthewchodson) November 7, 2018

Anything to hold onto that mic.

…and I get 50% more airtime after each grandstanding episode.

— Jon Nicosia ?? (@NewsPolitics) November 7, 2018

That’s all any of this was ever about.

When the media decides that they are the story…there is something wrong with journalism.

— Rocky Lockwood (@LockwoodRocky) November 7, 2018

Oh, there’s something wrong, all right.

Acosta is a gift that keeps on giving. https://t.co/4N2jlmxcsg

— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) November 7, 2018

He keeps us busy. So there’s that.

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