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Beat ya to the Accost'ya getting heckled story

http://patrick.net/post/1317826/2018-08-01-crowd-drowns-out-acosta-and-wolf-with-chant-cnn-sucks

Accost'ya getting humiliated is worth two threads!

Yesterday, the AP ran another great story headlined, “CNN's Jim Acosta, an irritant to Trump, says he's quitting rather than take a late-night time slot.” Acosta wasn’t just an ‘irritant to Trump.’ He was an equal-opportunity irritant. So, today we can celebrate another pandemic media villain biting the rhetorical dust.

CLIP: In 2021, CNN’s Jim Acosta calling people who don’t want the jab “herd stupidity” (0:23).

To be clear, CNN did not fire the storied anchor, who became a liberal hero in 2018 after refusing to give up the microphone at a White House briefing and excoriating President Trump in a totally unmemorable and unhinged diatribe. Rather, CNN graciously offered Acosta the overnight (midnight till 2am) slot, which each evening entertains half a dozen groggy airport travelers.

On hearing the news about the offer, Trump offered a few salty suggestions and wished Acosta good luck...

Fox reported that CNN staffers were “in shock” about how quickly Acosta had been purged from the network. Shock and awe. There’s a lot of that kind of shock going around this week, and all in the right places.

Acosta broke the news at the end of his one-hour morning show yesterday, when he puzzlingly advised viewers: “Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear.” It wasn’t clear what he was talking about. Maybe … lies like, the vaccine will save you from covid? Or fears like, you’ll die if you don’t take the shots? Stuff like that?