Former CNN host Jim Acosta drafted a carefully thought out plan to stop President Donald Trump from shutting out legacy media outlets like The Associated Press when it did not abide by rules set by the White House — but a closer look shows an obvious comparison in the Disney musical &#8220;Newsies.&#8221;
Acosta, who made a name for himself during Trump&#8217;s first term as a foil for then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left CNN when the network made it clear he was being banished to the graveyard shift. He&#8217;s since launched an independent show.
His current beef with the new Trump administration is actually a proxy war on behalf of The Associated Press, barred from access to Air Force One and the Oval Office over a refusal to update its style guide to reflect the newly-renamed Gulf of America. Acosta can relate on a personal level, having once had his own press credentials revoked after he attempted to wrest a microphone from the hands of a White House intern.
<a href="https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/trump-white-house-harassment-of-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The plan</a>, he says, is simple: the press should boycott the White House altogether, denying President Trump the mass media coverage he currently enjoys:
<blockquote>Reporters and their bosses, however, need to do more. For starters, the AP should consider challenging the White House harassment of its reporters in court. News outlets then must rally to the cause, by offering supportive statements to the court hearing the case, writing op-Ed’s backing the AP, and, if necessary, refusing to cover presidential movements in solidarity, until Trump backs down.
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News organizations in Washington should be banding together to send the message that members of the press will determine how they cover the news. Not the White House. Not the man behind the Resolute Desk, no matter how he redraws the world’s maps. The presidential Sharpie is not mightier than the pen.</blockquote>
So Acosta&#8217;s idea is to have legacy media rally around The AP, &#8220;refusing to cover&#8221; Trump&#8217;s movements until he capitulates.
If that sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because it could have been ripped straight from the Disney musical &#8220;<a href="https://www.valdosta.edu/colleges/arts/communication-arts/psst/documents/newsies-scene-e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsies</a>.&#8221;
The &#8220;newsies,&#8221; who hawked newspapers on the streets of turn-of-the-century New York City, were attempting to unionize — a move opposed by newspaper giants Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
The newsies planned a rally, and Pulitzer issued a simple warning: &#8220;Rally till the cows come home. Not a paper in town will publish a word. And if it’s not in the papers, it never happened.&#8221;
And while Pulitzer made good on his threat and the major papers did not cover the rally, the newsies eventually published their own paper — and ultimately beat him at his own game.
With the Trump administration already moving to allow space in the White House briefing room to more conservative outlets and unconventional media, the framework is already laid for legacy media to boycott briefings as Acosta suggested — and it&#8217;s possible that coverage could still carry on without a hiccup.

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Jim Acosta’s Totally Foolproof Plan To Stop Trump…Ripped From A Disney Musical?

Jim Acosta's Totally Foolproof Plan To Stop Trump ... Ripped From A Disney Musical?

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> absolutely torched former CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-acosta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Acosta</a> as a “major sleazebag” following news that Acosta was out at the network.
In a post from Trump on his <a href="https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1884273887413952867">Truth Social account</a>, the president reacted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-to-leave-cnn-after-being-booted-from-his-show-report">reports</a> that the former CNN Chief White House correspondent had been offered the chance to anchor a graveyard shift show from midnight until 2 am ET or leave after almost 18 years at the network. Trump’s comments came hours before Acosta signed off, telling the audience, “After weighing an alternative time slot CNN offered me, I’ve decided to move on.”
“Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, ‘Death Valley,’ because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!),” the president wrote on his social media account.
“Word is that he wants to QUIT, and that would be even better. Jim is a major loser who will fail no matter where he ends up,” he added. “Good luck Jim!”
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Wow, really good news! Jim Acosta, one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history, a major sleazebag, has been relegated by CNN Fake News to the Midnight hour, “Death Valley,” because of extraordinarily BAD RATINGS (and no talent!). Word is that he wants to…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1884273887413952867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Acosta said he learned during his career that “it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant” and that, as a member of the media, it’s the job of the press to “hold power to account,” without ever specifically naming Trump.
“I’ve always tried to do that here at CNN,” he added. “And I plan on going doing all of that in the future.”
Acosta then went on a bizarre rant, telling people to “not give in to the lies, don’t give in to the fear, hold on to the truth and to hope” before saying his plans would be revealed at a later time.
On Tuesday, the former CNN anchor then gave an <a href="https://x.com/Acosta/status/1884345771111096572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">update</a> to his followers about his plans and revealed that he was going independent with &#8220;The Jim Acosta Show&#8221; on Substack Live to where he invited others to join him on the platform &#8220;talk about the days news, talk about politics&#8230;&#8221;
During his career at the network, Acosta served as a correspondent between 2007 and February 2012, when he was promoted to national political correspondent. He was promoted to senior White House correspondent in August 2013, then promoted to chief White House correspondent on January 9, 2018. Concurrent with the beginning of the Biden administration, Acosta was named chief domestic correspondent and weekend anchor.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-to-leave-cnn-after-being-booted-from-his-show-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Acosta To Leave CNN After Being Booted From His Show: Repor</a>t

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According to news reports, CNN’s Jim Acosta will leave the network after working there for almost 18 years.
During his career at the network, Acosta served as a correspondent between 2007 and February 2012, when he was promoted to be national political correspondent. He was promoted to senior White House correspondent in August 2013, then promoted to be chief White House correspondent on January 9, 2018. Concurrent with the beginning of the Biden administration, Acosta was named chief domestic correspondent and weekend anchor.
But Acosta, whose rancorous relationship with President Trump lasted the entire four years of Trump’s first term, was kicked out from his morning show this month by CNN and told he would henceforth anchor a show from midnight until 2 a.m. ET.
<a href="https://www.status.news/p/jim-acosta-leaving-cnn?_bhlid=50af1afa3a8d45aa95f83beab4c8da9133d8ccc2&amp;utm_campaign=acosta-la-vista&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=www.status.news">According</a> to former CNN anchor Oliver Darcy, Acosta “signaled to associates in private conversations over the weekend that he intends to depart the network after it booted him from the morning programming lineup.”
On Wednesday, Acosta <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/beastmode-cnns-ratings-are-lower-than-spongebob-reruns-rep-tim-burchett-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), “I was at the White House covering the first Trump administration when they had rioting outside of the White House. I mean, that was covered on CNN. This is not Fox. Congressman, you can‘t just spin a tale and pull the wool over people‘s eyes. This is CNN. This is the news. We are asking you to come on and tell the truth.”
“And that’s why more people are watching the Cartoon Network, SpongeBob reruns right now, Jim,” Burchett fired back, continuing, “Look, I left the White House during a riot. My life was threatened. My life has been threatened within the last few weeks, yet there‘s no coverage of that. And you all continue this, this narrative of attacking Trump. You just can‘t stand the fact that he won and that America spoke.”
In November 2018, President Trump got so fed up at Acosta for badgering him and refusing to relinquish the microphone at a press conference that he snapped, “That’s enough. Put down the mic. I tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn’t be working for CNN.”
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FULL EXCHANGE: Trump vs. <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a>
&quot;Put down the mic&#8230;&quot; &quot;You are a rude, terrible person&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hdnNGd2xLc">pic.twitter.com/hdnNGd2xLc</a>
&mdash; Yahoo News (@YahooNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/1060223096961945600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In his book “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America,” Acosta declared, “Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn&#8217;t serve us in the age of Trump.”
In November 2020, just days after the 2020 election, Acosta fancied himself a prognosticator, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “He’s been tweeting, talking about how he won this state and that state. We have to pay attention to those tweets because he’s the president. After January 20th, he just goes back to another crack pot on the Internet.”
Former CNN producer Steve Krakauer said in April 2020, “Jim Acosta wants to be famous. I&#8217;ve written before, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/884142637749612545">three years ago</a>, that Acosta clearly aspires to use this opportunity to spar with President Trump, #Resistance Signal on Twitter and generally build his brand to move on to bigger things — a prime time show maybe, or at least a few late-night TV appearances. &#8230; Jim Acosta loves nothing more than Jim Acosta.”

Jim Acosta To Leave CNN After Being Booted From His Show: Report

The media are having a very tough time with President Trump taking over. A prime example is CNN, which is slashing jobs like there is no tomorrow.
According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cnn-cuts-jobs-prepares-new-streaming-rollout-2d7245cd">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>CNN is laying off roughly 200 employees, or about 6% of its workforce, part of a plan Chief Executive Mark Thompson says will shift the cable TV brand’s emphasis toward digital growth and prepare it to launch a streaming service.</blockquote>
Who&#8217;s going to subscribe to that? As the guy who is a co-founder of a massive streaming service, DailyWire+, I&#8217;m just wondering who is going to be a paid subscriber for CNN&#8217;s streaming offering? Who wants to do that?
The Journal continues:
<blockquote>The changes at CNN are part of the organization’s continuing response “to profound and irreversible shifts in the way audiences in America and around the world consume news,” Thompson wrote in a memo to staff Thursday.</blockquote>
Viewership is down dramatically for pretty much all of the major cable networks. MSNBC&#8217;s viewership was down 62% from its peak in the fourth quarter of 2020. Fox News is down by 27%, but CNN was down 74% from its peak in quarter four of 2020.
CNN is trying to shift their various hosts around. 
It’s like changing seats on the Titanic.
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According to the Journal:
<blockquote>&#8220;The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer&#8221; is moving to a new time slot, shifting from evenings to replace Jim Acosta’s 10 a.m. program. Audie Cornish will now host “CNN This Morning” at 6 a.m. Evening programming will kick off with two hours from Jake Tapper, followed by the existing lineup from Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, Kaitlan Collins and Abby Phillip.</blockquote>
Why are they having such trouble getting ratings with that stellar, unbelievable line-up? They have so many absolutely charismatic, trustworthy hosts in a row. How is it that they only have seven viewers? Why, it&#8217;s absolutely bewildering.
On Wednesday, CNN anchor and inveterate Trump opponent Jim Acosta <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/beastmode-cnns-ratings-are-lower-than-spongebob-reruns-rep-tim-burchett-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), “I was at the White House covering the first Trump administration when they had rioting outside of the White House. I mean, that was covered on CNN. This is not Fox. Congressman, you can‘t just spin a tale and pull the wool over people‘s eyes. This is CNN. This is the news. We are asking you to come on and tell the truth.”
“And that’s why more people are watching the Cartoon Network, SpongeBob reruns right now, Jim,” Burchett fired back, continuing, “Look, I left the White House during a riot. My life was threatened. My life has been threatened within the last few weeks, yet there‘s no coverage of that. And you all continue this, this narrative of attacking Trump. You just can‘t stand the fact that he won and that America spoke.”
Jim Acosta told CNN that they couldn’t ship him to the middle of the night; he might quit. CNN answered: Would you, though? What can we do to make you quit? Anything?
According to <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/media/jim-acosta-may-exit-cnn-rather-than-accept-move-to-graveyard-shift/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>:
<blockquote>Jim Acosta is threatening to quit CNN rather than accept a reassigned time slot that would see him move from late mornings to the graveyard shift, according to a report.
Acosta’s days at CNN may be numbered as the former White House correspondent known for his combative coverage of President Trump could be heading for the exits rather than accept a move that would see him broadcast a nightly show starting at midnight, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Another CNN staffer told Fox News Digital that Acosta was “getting hosed.”</blockquote>
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case. He doesn&#8217;t have massive ratings. His daily program, CNN Newsroom, is going to be scrapped. They are basically airing him when public-access cable is available.
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The Post continued:
<blockquote>If Acosta were to accept his reassignment, he could be broadcasting his show from Los Angeles, which would necessitate him and his family moving from their current home in Washington, DC, according to a network source. The source added that the East Coast is just “one slice of CNN’s global audience” and that the media outlet is “not an Acela corridor network.”</blockquote>
Oh, but it is. It actually is. CNN is only available on the Acela. CNN is available in airports and the Acela. Those are the only places.
No one has ever seen CNN anywhere else.
It&#8217;s a figment of our collective imaginations.

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Big shake-ups could be in the works for CNN as the long-running cable news network adjusts to the new media landscape and a second Donald Trump presidency — and in addition to the possibility of imminent layoffs, the network could be gearing up to shuffle around some of its longtime anchors.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/cnn-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-employees-post-inauguration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Wednesday that CNN intended to announce layoffs impacting some 210 employees, or approximately six percent of its total staff. The news came alongside reports of layoffs at NBC as well, although the number of employees impacted by those is expected to be much lower. The layoffs at both networks, according to the report, are part of a shift in focus toward more digital content as fewer and fewer people turn to broadcast and cable news for information.
Along with the layoffs, anchors at CNN could also see some changes in their schedules and assignments, Fox News Digital <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-jim-acosta-getting-hosed-network-mulls-moving-anti-trump-anchor-midnights-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Thursday — and they may not be thrilled at the prospect.
Veteran CNN broadcaster Jim Acosta, who made a name for himself during Trump&#8217;s first term in office by becoming a regular foil both for Trump and for then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, could balk at a possible move to late nights.
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The move, reportedly pitched by CNN CEO Mark Thompson, would see Acosta moved from his current one-hour time slot at 10 a.m. ET weekdays to a two-hour slot beginning at midnight — which was described in the report as a move to &#8220;effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news.&#8221;
Acosta, according to an unnamed CNN staffer, appears to be &#8220;getting hosed&#8221; by the network — and may not be given another option outside the proposed midnight slot. &#8220;Acosta is a talented broadcaster who could handle any slot on the network. The midnight thing is shocking [but] it is what it is.&#8221;
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The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-01-22/will-cnn-move-anchor-jim-acosta-to-the-graveyard-shift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Acosta, rather than take the late-night spot, could be considering a timely exit from the network.
Acosta is not the only longtime broadcaster who could see a dramatic change. Thompson has <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/media/jim-acosta-may-exit-cnn-rather-than-accept-move-to-graveyard-shift/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already confirmed</a> that Wolf Blitzer&#8217;s long-running program &#8220;The Situation Room&#8221; will move from early evenings to Acosta&#8217;s current slot at 10 a.m. ET, and he will share anchor duties with Pamela Brown.

Chaos At CNN: 200+ Layoffs Coming, Longtime Anchor ‘Getting Hosed’

Chaos At CNN: 200+ Layoffs Coming, Longtime Anchor 'Getting Hosed'

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CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-acosta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Acosta</a> tried to ignore damning illegal alien crime statistics during an interview with Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski this week by interrupting him and taking issue with how he pronounced the name of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The exchange took place on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Newsroom&#8221; on Wednesday as Lewandowski highlighted recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-data-show-hundreds-of-thousands-of-illegal-aliens-in-u-s-are-serious-criminals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statistics</a> released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that showed hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes roaming America&#8217;s streets.
&#8220;Corey, can you say that Haitian migrants are not eating pets in Springfield?&#8221; Acosta asked.
Lewandowski responded: &#8220;You know what I can say, Jim? I can say that 13,099 murderers were let into this country, 16,000 rapists, 425,000 people in the last four years have been let into this country by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden’s own Customs and Border Protection that are running around this country.”
Acosta said, “The other thing, too, it’s Kamala Harris. I don’t know. Is there &#8212; why do you guys say &#8216;Kamala&#8217;? That is, it’s Kamala Harris. I just–”
Lewandowski said, “Jim, we know that they’re committing crimes against Americans. Why can’t these individuals talk about the individuals who’ve been killed by illegal immigrants? 13,099 murderers were let into this country by this administration’s own accounting, and you guys don’t want to talk about it.”
Acosta continued to deflect from Lewandowski&#8217;s points by pestering him with questions about how he pronounced Harris&#8217; name.
“Jim, can you say 13,000 murderers are coming into the country?” Lewandowski asked.
“Yeah, well, Corey, you know, I appreciate you coming on,” Acosta said before ending the segment.
WATCH:
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Trump Senior Adviser <a href="https://twitter.com/CLewandowski_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CLewandowski_</a>: &#8220;You know what I can say, Jim, I can say that 13,099 murderers were let into this country, 16,000 rapists&#8230; that are running around this country, Jim.&#8221;
Jim Acosta: Why are you mispronouncing Kamala&#8217;s name? <a href="https://t.co/6CkVtsNZz0">pic.twitter.com/6CkVtsNZz0</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1841488461770957264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2024</a></blockquote>

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CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-acosta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Acosta</a> cornered Michael Tyler, communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; campaign, asking what possible reason they could have for not doing a press conference.
Noting that Harris has been the Democratic Party&#8217;s de facto nominee for over three weeks — rising to the top of the 2024 ticket after a horrible debate performance resulted in President Joe Biden being effectively forced out of the race — Acosta asked why the vice president has continued to avoid interviews and even direct questions from the media.
WATCH:
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CNN: &#8220;Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?&#8221;
HARRIS SPOX: Kamala holds rallies so she can read from her teleprompter!
CNN: &#8220;A campaign rally is not a press conference.&#8221;
HARRIS SPOX: &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna be having a sit-down interview here before the end of the month.&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/TaVI6qLGci">pic.twitter.com/TaVI6qLGci</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1823734338770600140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Would it kill you guys to have a press conference?&#8221; Acosta asked. &#8220;Why haven&#8217;t you had a press conference?&#8221;
Tyler laughed, and then replied, &#8220;Listen, the vice president and Governor Walz have been busy criss-crossing this country since the launch of this campaign and adding Governor Walz to the ticket, you saw the ways in which they went to — across the battleground states last week generating rallies of thousands, ten thousand here, 15 thousand there —&#8221;
&#8220;But you know, a campaign rally is not a press conference,&#8221; Acosta pointed out. &#8220;Do you mind if I cut in? A campaign rally is not a press conference. Why hasn&#8217;t she had a press conference? She&#8217;s the vice president, she can handle the questions. Why not do it?&#8221;
&#8220;We absolutely are going to do it,&#8221; Tyler replied, claiming, &#8220;You hear her take questions as she&#8217;s out on the stump, and she said last week, we&#8217;re going to be having a sit-down interview before the end of the month. What she is going to be focused on and what this campaign is going to be focused on is communicating directly with the voters that are actually going to decide the pathway to 270 electoral votes.&#8221;
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Acosta did not appear to be convinced, pushing back: &#8220;Can you commit to a press conference this week?&#8221;
Tyler ignored the question, instead talking about a planned bus tour to Pennsylvania and repeating Harris&#8217; claim that she would sit down for an interview by the end of August.
&#8220;One interview by the end of the month,&#8221; Acosta repeated. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to belabor this, but one interview by the end of the month, I mean, that&#8217;s not a lot. I mean, can you commit to a press conference before the end of the month?&#8221;
Tyler dodged again, promising only to &#8220;directly engage with the voters who are going to decide this election.&#8221;
In the weeks since the Democratic Party punted Harris to the top of the ticket, she has actively avoided direct questions and interviews and instead has relied on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-really-wants-to-break-up-with-biden-the-media-is-ready-to-help-her-do-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mostly-friendly media landscape</a> to help her reinvent herself with no real scrutiny.

Jim Acosta (!) Corners Kamala Spox On Media-Avoidance: ‘Would It Kill You Guys To Have A Press Conference?’

Jim Acosta (!) Corners Kamala Spox On Media-Avoidance: 'Would It Kill You Guys To Have A Press Conference?'

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CNN host Jim Acosta cut off pro-life activist Kristan Hawkins during a Thursday morning interview, marking at least the second time in less than a week that a CNN host has cut away from a guest who did not stick to the preferred narrative.
Acosta was speaking with Hawkins, the president of Students For Life of America, about the Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leak-confirmed-supreme-court-rules-against-red-state-in-pro-life-case-day-after-decision-inadvertently-posted-online">latest ruling</a> that upheld a lower court decision that &#8220;will prevent Idaho from enforcing its abortion ban when the termination of a pregnancy is needed to prevent serious harms to a woman’s health.&#8221;
Hawkins, who opposed the decision, also mentioned the court&#8217;s latest ruling making the abortion drug mifepristone more accessible — and when she challenged Acosta&#8217;s claims regarding the drug&#8217;s safety, he quickly cut the interview short.
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After a T-ball interview with the NAACP, CNN appears to get in some mic cutting practice as Jim Acosta ends an interview with Kristan Hawkins &#8220;I’m sorry, mifepristone has been proven to be safe. It&#8217;s been that way for years&#8221; Hawkins: &#8220;It actually hasn’t. We know [microphone cut]&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bcJwhGVRoc">pic.twitter.com/bcJwhGVRoc</a>
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&#8220;What’s your reaction to this decision?&#8221; Acosta asked.
&#8220;The GOP needs to take note. The Biden administration continues to make the case to weaponize federal agencies to make abortion a federal issue. But we also see a silver lining in this decision today. If Idaho, while this is tragic, saying Idaho must allow for abortions to prevent infertility, future infertility, the FDA must now change its policy too to do the same,&#8221; Hawkins replied.
&#8220;Given their no-test online distribution scheme of chemical abortion pills, which we know harm women’s future fertility, as 15 percent of women of our population are RH negative, and there is no testing now because of the Biden administration and their FDA on these dangerous chemical abortion pills that she’s having these pill abortions. She’s not being tested for RH negative status —&#8221;
&#8220;Haven’t the experts said that mifepristone is safe for women to use?&#8221; Acosta interrupted.
&#8220;Ask any woman who’s RH negative,&#8221; Hawkins shot back.
&#8220;But haven’t the experts said —&#8221; Acosta tried again.
&#8220;Ask any woman who’s RH negative. Ask any woman. Excuse me? Ask someone who’s been pregnant, sir! When you’re pregnant, one of the first things they do is they test for RH negative status. Because if you have a miscarriage, if you give birth —&#8221; Hawkins tried to explain.
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&#8220;No, Miss Hawkins —&#8221; Acosta protested.
&#8220;If you get in an accident —&#8221; Hawkins took another tack. &#8220;If you have an abortion, you have to be treated immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m sorry, mifepristone has been proven to be safe. It’s been that way for years. But thank you for coming on. We appreciate it,&#8221; Acosta said.
&#8220;No, it actually hasn’t —&#8221; Hawkins tried one more time before Acosta cut her off and went to a commercial break.
The FDA has approved mifepristone for use through ten weeks of pregnancy, and the World Health Organization (WHO) says it is safe to use through 12 weeks, but even abortion provider Planned Parenthood <a href="https://www.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/a3/ba/a3ba7c84-e107-4683-b08d-d4dbeb030123/icf_rh_testing_and_abortion_english.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommends Rh-factor testing</a> for women who have abortions later than eight weeks to avoid complications — and Hawkins was correct in pointing out that the increased availability of the drug makes it more likely that women will use it without testing when they should.

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Jim Acosta Cuts Off Pro-Life Guest, Marking Second CNN Interview-Dump This Week

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Democratic strategist James Carville once coined the phrase &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid!&#8221; — but he told CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta that President Joe Biden could alleviate some of his own economic woes if he would just tax oil companies more.
Carville — who previously served as an adviser to former President Bill Clinton — made an appearance on Acosta&#8217;s weekend show on Saturday afternoon, and the two discussed both the state of the economy and Biden&#8217;s insistence on <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/not-all-of-it-jake-tapper-interrupts-biden-official-who-keeps-insisting-gas-prices-are-putins-fault/">continuing to claim</a> that Russian President Vladimir Putin caused the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/it-sounds-like-youre-blaming-putin-peter-doocy-spars-with-psaki-on-gas-prices-she-keeps-blaming-putin/">massive spike</a> in gas prices when he chose to send Russian forces to invade Ukraine.
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Now he&#39;s saying Biden&#39;s gas-price problem can be solved by taxing gas companies more. <a href="https://t.co/5osGO7Y9yv">pic.twitter.com/5osGO7Y9yv</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1533538505686761474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Acosta began with a clip of Biden referring to skyrocketing prices at the pump as &#8220;Putin&#8217;s price hike,&#8221; and asked Carville to weigh in on whether or not the president&#8217;s strategy was effective.
&#8220;Is that explanation good enough, and are Democrats losing on some of these kitchen table issues?&#8221; Acosta asked. &#8220;Do you want to give them some tough talk here?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I’m going to tell you who’s doing well: Exxon, Chevron, Shell — every oil company,&#8221; Carville replied. &#8220;If anybody doesn’t think that these oil companies are manipulating these prices to their advantage, I have no idea what to tell you because you’re strictly naive.&#8221;
Carville then argued that the solution was to tax the oil companies more, and then funnel that money back to consumers — particularly those who made less than $100,000 a year.
&#8220;There’s not a single person in the United States that doesn’t think that these prices are being manipulated by these oil companies,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;I’m sure Putin is somewhat to blame, but believe you me, they’re riding that and the Democrats have got to show they really understand what’s going on in this economy. A lot of this is being manipulated for the purpose of profit. That’s what’s really happening here.&#8221;
Acosta pushed back a bit, asking why the White House had not done more to address the problem if oil companies were engaged in manipulating the market.
&#8220;Why hasn’t the president been more aggressive on that in terms of going after the oil companies?&#8221; he asked, going on to suggest tax rebates and other relief programs that the White House could get behind in addition to going after the companies. &#8220;Why not do something like that to get people through these summer high gas prices?&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe we ought to push this thing a little bit harder,&#8221; Carville agreed. &#8220;I talked to people that do focus groups endlessly, and they all say the same thing that they’re being manipulated and the president needs to be strong and stand up to these oil companies, and I think that he will and I think this idea is a very good idea to tax these profits.&#8221;

Politicon 2019 – Day 1

‘This Is Being Manipulated’: James Carville Says Biden Needs To Stop Blaming Putin And Tax Oil Companies More

James Carville Says Biden Needs To Stop Blaming Putin And Tax Oil Companies More

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Inflation

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Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald lit up CNN anchor Jim Acosta over a tweet mocking Daily Mail columnist Meghan McCain.
It all began with a tweet from McCain about the controversy surrounding podcast host Joe Rogan and attempts — from liberals on Twitter, mainstream media, and even the White House — to have his host platform Spotify <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/psaki-urges-spotify-to-take-more-action-against-joe-rogan/">take more action</a> to limit his reach.
&#8220;I think a lot of people are really missing the point. Ask yourself why so many Americans have fled mainstream media and gone to Joe Rogan,&#8221; McCain tweeted last week. &#8220;He gets 100 million listeners a month and Jim Acosta can’t even break half a million in primetime. Why doesn’t anyone trust you anymore?&#8221;
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I think a lot of people are really missing the point.
Ask yourself why so many Americans have fled mainstream media and gone to Joe Rogan. He gets 100 million listeners a month and Jim Acosta can’t even break half a million in primetime. 
Why doesn’t anyone trust you anymore?
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1488055322916835328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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But in the days that followed, the woke mob continued to come for Rogan, and critics combed through his archives until they found other &#8220;problematic&#8221; comments including a number of instances in which he used the &#8220;n-word.&#8221;
Rogan apologized Saturday in an Instagram post, saying that his language — particularly around race — was the &#8220;most regretful and shameful thing&#8221; he had ever had to address.
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In addition, dozens of old episodes of Rogan&#8217;s podcast were <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/more-than-100-episodes-of-joe-rogans-show-vanish-from-spotify/">quietly removed</a> from the platform, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-100-episodes-of-joe-rogans-show-vanish-from-spotify">reported</a>:
<blockquote>More than 100 episodes of Joe Rogan’s “The Joe Rogan Experience” have vanished from Spotify as the company faces left-wing backlash for providing its services to Rogan.
JREMissing <a href="https://www.jremissing.com/">reported</a> Saturday that 113 episodes of the show have been taken down, most of them late this week. Rogan <a href="https://archive.is/okoGK">reportedly</a> made the decision to pull the episodes following conversations that he had with Spotify.
The news comes as Rogan apologized for using a racial slur in old episodes of the show that he says were taken out of context in an attempt to ruin him. Rogan says that he used the slur when quoting others instead of saying the “n-word.”</blockquote>
Acosta took that opportunity to turn the attack on McCain, quoting her tweet and saying, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take tweets that didn&#8217;t age well for 500 &#8230;&#8221;
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I&#39;ll take tweets that didn&#39;t age well for 500&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/GZGSwxddyI">https://t.co/GZGSwxddyI</a>
&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1490071684736745472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A number of critics fired back at Acosta:
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1490199960616382465">Ted Cruz</a>: &#8220;Aged pretty damn well. 100 million people still listen to @joerogan. And nobody listens to you.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1490085185936756736">Ben Domenech</a>: &#8220;Is that how many people watch your show?&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/1490371996982685699">Brandon Darby</a>: &#8220;Respectfully, I’m not sure that you’re in a good position to start playing the &#8216;Tweets that didn’t age well&#8217; game, Mister.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/matthewdmarsden/status/1490351042734788612">Matthew Marsden</a>: &#8220;Jealousy is a horrible thing.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1490075205091221510">Meghan McCain</a>: &#8220;Little sensitive about [how] hilariously shitty your ratings are?&#8221;</li>
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Greenwald summed it up in one tweet, saying that the mass campaign to cancel Rogan had actually done nothing to disprove McCain&#8217;s assessment.
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Everything in <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeghanMcCain</a>&#39;s tweet is still completely true. Millions of people still watch and trust Joe Rogan, while Jim <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> can&#39;t even attract an audience equal to a mid-sized YouTuber despite being on CNN prime-time with a giant corporation backing and promoting him. <a href="https://t.co/Du38J4OFHU">pic.twitter.com/Du38J4OFHU</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1490093628739436550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Everything in @MeghanMcCain&#8216;s tweet is still completely true. Millions of people still watch and trust Joe Rogan, while Jim @Acosta can&#8217;t even attract an audience equal to a mid-sized YouTuber despite being on CNN prime-time with a giant corporation backing and promoting him,&#8221; Greenwald said.

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Glenn Greenwald Blows Up Jim Acosta Over Tweet Attacking Meghan McCain

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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares slammed CNN host Jim Acosta on Wednesday night for suggesting that the commonwealth is now a &#8220;soviet-style police state&#8221; under Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.
&#8220;I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia,&#8221; Acosta <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-critical-race-theory-masks-jason-miyares-jim-acosta-cuba-soviet-education">said</a> on Tuesday night. &#8220;He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-virginia-is-a-soviet-style-police-state-under-gov-youngkin">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Acosta accused Youngkin of “pitting citizen against citizen” immediately after playing a clip of the governor promising to remove “inherently divisive teaching practices out of the schools.” Acosta seemed outraged by removing the racially polarizing CRT curriculum from taxpayer-funded schools — the chief campaign promise made by Youngkin and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears — which Acosta said violates “the traditional conservative tenets of liberty, anti-censorship and freedom.”
Acosta also slammed Youngkin for setting up a process for parents to complain if public school teachers violate the law by teaching racially divisive concepts, such as claiming all members of one race inherently oppress all members of other races. Acosta likened the measure to the Texas Heartbeat law, a pro-life protection that allows citizens to sue abortionists who perform an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy. “How concerned should we be, about these laws that seem to be catching on of, citizens ratting each other out?” he asked Jong-Fast, adding they encourage “canceling your neighbor across the street or next door.”</blockquote>
Miyares responded to Acosta&#8217;s remarks during a Fox News interview with host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, saying, &#8220;I think what Jim Acosta said — listen, my family fled Communist Cuba.&#8221;
&#8220;You want to talk about what &#8216;Soviet-style&#8217; looks like? It&#8217;s the opposite of freedom,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;So clearly, Jim Acosta maybe needs to take some history classes of what Soviet-style communism actually looks like. And [Virginia is] the opposite.&#8221;
&#8220;What we have said is parents matter. Listen, if you&#8217;re a parent and you want to mask your child for six, seven, eight hours a day, you absolutely have that right. That&#8217;s your individual decision,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The great irony of all this, is in Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, ‘Your loyalty is to the state,’ and parents have less control. This is about parental empowerment.&#8221;
Fox News reported that Miyares&#8217; uncle had been arrested at night by communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro&#8217;s secret police and that their home was &#8220;nationalized: in the name of fairness and equity.&#8221;
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Virginia’s AG Slams CNN’s Acosta For Claiming Virginia Is ‘Soviet-Style Police State’: ‘My Family Fled Cuba’

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On Tuesday night, CNN’s Jim Acosta said that Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has turned his state into “a Soviet-style police state” by ending the teaching of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Critical Race Theory</a>.
Acosta told his guest, Molly Jong-Fast of The Atlantic, “I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning, in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.”
The state’s newly imposed Critical Race Theory (CRT) ban shows how “the culture wars are also contributing to the erosion of democracy,” said Acosta during the special “Democracy In Peril,” which aired at 7 p.m. “The new culture wars are impacting our laws. And some experts fear, they could be weakening our democracy, just as badly as the Big Lie,” the Nazi-era slogan that CNN applies to questioning the 2020 presidential election.
Acosta accused Youngkin of “pitting citizen against citizen” immediately after playing a clip of the governor promising to remove “inherently divisive teaching practices out of the schools.” Acosta seemed outraged by removing the racially polarizing CRT curriculum from taxpayer-funded schools — the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-virginia-governors-race-was-won">chief campaign promise</a> made by Youngkin and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/winsome-sears-calls-out-joy-reid-over-msnbc-analysts-rant">Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears</a> — which Acosta said violates “the traditional conservative tenets of liberty, anti-censorship and freedom.”
Acosta also slammed Youngkin for setting up a process for parents to complain if public school teachers violate the law by teaching racially divisive concepts, such as claiming all members of one race inherently oppress all members of other races. Acosta likened the measure to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-6-biggest-lies-youve-been-told-about-the-texas-abortion-law">Texas Heartbeat law</a>, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-bias-101-pro-life-restrictions-vs-pro-abortion-protections">pro-life protection</a> that allows citizens to sue abortionists who perform an abortion after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-suggests-babies-dont-have-a-heartbeat-at-6-weeks-heres-what-science-says">fetal heartbeat</a> can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy. “How concerned should we be, about these laws that seem to be catching on of, citizens ratting each other out?” he asked Jong-Fast, adding they encourage “canceling your neighbor across the street or next door.”
A search of CNN transcripts did not uncover a single instance in which Acosta condemned Democrats who encouraged citizens to report their neighbors for violating COVID-19 lockdown orders. “You know the old expression about snitches. Well, in this case, snitches get rewards,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Fyg4maLWg">said</a> Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) in March 2020. “We want to thank you for turning folks in and making sure we are all safe.” (Emphases added.) Such measures were often imposed by gubernatorial or mayoral executive decrees, without any voter input.
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Acosta’s comments about the Old Dominion brought swift backlash. “I’m a Virginia resident and am a daughter of folks who *actually* lived under a Soviet police state. I can assure you @GovernorVA isn’t Stalin or remotely Sovietesque,” <a href="https://twitter.com/gabby_hoffman/status/1486369590913343488">wrote</a> conservative author Gabriella Hoffman on Twitter. “Shame on you, @Acosta. Don’t invoke Soviet horrors that hurt many of our families.” She went on to call Jim Acosta’s comparison “evil.”
Another Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/ginana13/status/1486371899672338432">remarked</a> facetiously, “The freedom to make individual choices was a hallmark of the Soviet-style police state.” Others said the over-the-top hyperbole seemed in line with the legacy media’s standards. “This coming [from] the Pravda network,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Freway01/status/1486361891056152578">said</a> one response. “We just laugh at him, just like” The Washington Post “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin, <a href="https://twitter.com/lallen100279/status/1486360358193348613">wrote</a> another.
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I’m a Virginia resident and am a daughter of folks who *actually* lived under a Soviet police state. I can assure you <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovernorVA</a> isn’t Stalin or remotely Sovietesque. Actually, the opposite. Shame on you, <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a>. Don’t invoke Soviet horrors that hurt many of our families…Evil. <a href="https://t.co/J4ZYZBSX2y">https://t.co/J4ZYZBSX2y</a>
&mdash; Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/1486369590913343488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The freedom to make individual choices was a hallmark of the Soviet-style police state.
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This coming form the Pravda network.
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For her part, Jong-Fast agreed with Acosta’s sentiments that Youngkin “pretended to be this kind of non-Trumpy Trump. And then, as soon as he got in there, he started taking away masking in Virginia public schools. He started with these teacher hotlines, where you can rat out your teacher.”
“I mean, he&#8217;s really gone full Ron DeSantis, right away,” she stated.
She forecast that, in the future, “Blue states and Red states are going to be very, very different, because these Red states have no incentive to stop being Trumpy. They&#8217;re just going to race and become Trumpier and Trumpier.”
She also claimed the Supreme Court had declared the ends justify the means in allowing the Texas Heartbeat law to stand, asserting that the justices ruled, “If we agree with the principle of the law, we don&#8217;t care how crazy it is.”
Some believe the media seek to take out Youngkin and DeSantis, Republican governors of swing states, before their policies could reap electoral benefits. “Virginia, like Florida, is a threat to the narrative, especially when it comes to kids,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Jerry__Grey/status/1486360959228784651">said</a> one Twitter user. “History will not be kind to the COVIDians.”

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