Annihilation: NRO’s Cooke Takes Massive Blowtorch to the Farcical CNN

December 20th, 2019 5:06 PM
Following up on his February 11 tour de force on the national embarrassment that is the dishonest liberal media, National Review editor Charles C.W. Cooke concluded 2019 with another masterpiece for the magazine’s December 31 issue that NewsBusters readers will enjoy in “CNN Is Not a News Network.” Cooke eviscerated CNN as having become “a peculiar and unlovely hybrid of progressive propaganda…
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No Quid Pro Quo: Acosta Dismisses Zelensky Popping Dem Narrative

December 2nd, 2019 10:58 PM
Just as the liberal broadcast networks did Monday evening, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta batted away an interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did with TIME magazine, in which he stated he did not approach his conversation with President Trump “from the position of a quid pro quo.” Despite that fact, Acosta treated the development as some kind of unimportant statement…
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Vainglorious Acosta Insists He’s Here to ‘Defend the Truth’ from Trump

November 4th, 2019 6:32 PM
As first noticed by our friend Ryan Saavedra at the Daily Wire, CNN chief White House correspondent and egotistical high-horseman Jim Acosta gave an interview last week to the Canadian outlet TVO and their show The Agenda to promote his narcissistic book The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. The half-hour interview crammed in as many displays of snobbish cliches…
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Blitzer and Acosta LIE About the ‘Favor’ Trump Asked of Ukraine Pres.

September 25th, 2019 6:30 PM
Moments after President Trump’s Wednesday press conference before a hostile press itching for his impeachment, CNN’s The Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer and chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta preyed on the fact that most people had not read the transcript of the phone call between Trump and the president of Ukraine and blatantly lied about the “favor” Trump asked for.

White House Press Secretary: Reporters ‘Getting Famous Off' Trump

September 24th, 2019 11:02 AM
While most of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ two-year tenure as President Trump’s press secretary led to many clashes with the media, her replacement -- Stephanie Grisham -- is continuing some of those traditions, including no daily briefings on a regular basis. Grisham made the announcement while a guest on the Fox & Friends morning program on Monday, when she accused reporters of turning the event…
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WEAK! Jim Acosta Says Trump ‘Is Like a Cat Chasing a Laser Pointer’

August 26th, 2019 12:45 PM
After shouting at President Donald Trump on Monday because he didn’t get to ask a question at his G-7 press conference, the ever-petulant CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta instead pontificated on At This Hour, knocking Trump’s intelligence by ruling he’s “like a cat chasing a laser pointer, you know, when it comes to trying to get the President to answer a direct question.”
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Disgusting: CNN Downplays, Refuses to Condemn Death Threats to Mitch

August 6th, 2019 9:15 PM
Less than a day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was subjected to death threats from protesters outside his home and threatening Twitter hashtags (#MassacreMoscowMitch and #MassacreMitch), two CNN shows downplayed the protesters and one also featured 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio expressing support for one of the hashtags.

Acosta Upset Trump Skipped Group Photo, Lost FNC's Roberts as Friend

June 15th, 2019 2:30 PM
Following up on Friday’s item showing the best (or worst, depending on your word choice) quotes from narcissistic Looney TuneJim Acosta’s book The Enemy of the People, NewsBusters decided it was worth sharing two specific anecdotes that could stand on their own with one pertaining to the press corps in 2016 and the other about Fox News Channel’s John Roberts.

BEHOLD the Worst Quotes from Jim Acosta’s Narcissistic Book of Hogwash

June 14th, 2019 2:16 PM
CNN chief White House correspondent and cartoonishly self-centered Jim Acosta released on Tuesday his 353-page work of narcissism, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. And, folks, it’s everything you thought it would be and then some. CNN chief White House correspondent and cartoonishly self-centered Jim Acosta released on Tuesday his 354-page work of narcissism…

Laughable Jim Acosta: 'I Have Never Witnessed' Any Media Bias

June 11th, 2019 1:14 PM
Publishers Weekly magazine has a new interview with CNN's Jim Acosta under the headline "Speaking Truth to Power: PW talks to Jim Acosta." Will Boisvert was a tougher interviewer than Acosta's colleague Brian Stelter, but that's not saying much. The last question and answer was a hoot. Asked about media bias, Acosta claimed "I have never witnessed a concerted effort by any news organization to…
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CNN’s Acosta Regrets the Media Are Not More Hostile to Trump

June 9th, 2019 3:35 PM
The liberal media are certainly not “the enemy of the people”, as President Trump often suggests, but they do operate as though they’re part of an opposition party in how viciously they cover him. Now, during a vomit inducing interview with his CNN colleague Brian Stelter to promote his new book The Enemy of the People, CNN chief White House correspondent and showboater Jim Acosta said he…
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CNN Can’t Help But Politicize D-Day: Bashes Fox, ‘Red Meat’ Trump

June 6th, 2019 9:41 AM
Far-left CNN journalist Jim Acosta couldn’t help but taking some shots at Donald Trump as he reported live from Normany on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. During live coverage of the President’s speech honoring those who fought on the beaches, Acosta detoured: “Now, one thing we should point out, one of the reasons why President Trump was delayed, one of the reasons why he was late getting here,…

Jim Acosta's Book Is Blunt: 'The President's Insane'

May 29th, 2019 8:25 AM
CNN White House shouter Jim Acosta has a new book coming out on June 11, and The Guardian took an early peek. The headline was blunt: "'The president's insane’: book by CNN's Jim Acosta charts Trump war on press." The book's title is also blunt: The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. The book summary tells us "Acosta is tenacious and unyielding in his public…

CNN Showboat Jim Acosta Mangles Trump's Words on Asylum Seekers

May 16th, 2019 10:34 PM
CNN claims to be "Facts First," but showboat White House correspondent Jim Acosta mangled President Trump's statement on asylum claims on Thursday. During the speech, Acosta tweeted: "Trump in Rose Garden speech paints asylum seekers with broad brush accusing them of misleading immigration authorities at border: 'These are frivolous claims.'" That's not accurate.