<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">James Carville once coined the phrase &quot;It&#39;s the economy, stupid.&quot;</p>
<p>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></p>
<p>&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1533538505686761474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>&#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;</p>


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‘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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<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald lit up CNN anchor Jim Acosta over a tweet mocking Daily Mail columnist Meghan McCain.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
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<p>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. </p>
<p>Why doesn’t anyone trust you anymore?</p>
<p>&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1488055322916835328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>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;</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>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.</em></p>
<p><em>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.</em></p>
<p><em>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.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>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;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">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></p>
<p>&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1490071684736745472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>A number of critics fired back at Acosta:</p>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1490199960616382465">Ted Cruz</a>: &#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Aged pretty damn well. 100 million people still listen to <span style="font-size: 16px;">@joerogan. </span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">And nobody listens to you.&#8221;</span></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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<p>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.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">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></p>
<p>&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1490093628739436550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;<span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Everything in </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@MeghanMcCain</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">&#8216;s tweet is still completely true. Millions of people still watch and trust Joe Rogan, while Jim </span><span class="r-18u37iz">@Acosta </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">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.</span></p>


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Glenn Greenwald Blows Up Jim Acosta Over Tweet Attacking Meghan McCain

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<p>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.</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-virginia-is-a-soviet-style-police-state-under-gov-youngkin">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>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.”</em></p>
<p><em>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.”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>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;</p>
<p>&#8220;You want to talk about what &#8216;Soviet-style&#8217; looks like? It&#8217;s the opposite of freedom,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>&#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;</p>
<p>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;</p>
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<li><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youngkin-champions-liberty-opportunity-in-rousing-inaugural-speech-promises-new-and-better-day-for-virginia">Youngkin Champions ‘Liberty’, ‘Opportunity’ In Rousing Inaugural Speech, Promises ‘New And Better Day’ For Virginia</a></strong></li>
<li><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/governor-youngkin-signs-11-orders-on-day-one-in-office-includes-crt-ban-investigating-loudoun-county-officials">Governor Youngkin Signs 11 Orders On Day One In Office; Includes CRT Ban, Investigating Loudoun County Officials</a></strong></li>
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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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<p>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>.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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 <em>rewards</em>,” <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 <em>turning folks in</em> and making sure we are all safe.” (Emphases added.) Such measures were often imposed by gubernatorial or mayoral executive decrees, without any voter input.</p>
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<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">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></p>
<p>&mdash; Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/1486369590913343488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The freedom to make individual choices was a hallmark of the Soviet-style police state.</p>
<p>&mdash; Gina (@ginana13) <a href="https://twitter.com/ginana13/status/1486371899672338432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This coming form the Pravda network.</p>
<p>&mdash; Tom (@Freway01) <a href="https://twitter.com/Freway01/status/1486361891056152578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>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.”</p>
<p>“I mean, he&#8217;s really gone full Ron DeSantis, right away,” she stated.</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>
<p>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.”</p>


Jim Acosta: Virginia Is ‘A Soviet-Style Police State’ Under Gov. Youngkin

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<p>Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a former member of President Biden&#8217;s COVID-19 task force, said Sunday that remote schooling for U.S. children has been “a failure across the country.”</p>
<p>CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta asked Emanuel during an appearance on the network what his advice to the Biden administration would be on whether schools should remain open or shut again due to the pandemic.</p>
<p>“I agree with Mayor Lightfoot that kids have to be in school, and we know that virtual learning did not work. It was a failure across the country and we kept kids out way too long,” Emanuel told Acosta on CNN.</p>
<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot&#8217;s recently remarked that, &#8220;Our kids need to be back in school. Schools are safe.&#8221; The Chicago Teachers Union voted to return to remote learning, but the Chicago Public Schools system canceled classes, saying the district wants to continue in-person learning.</p>
<p>&#8220;What do we have to do? Teachers have to be fully vaccinated and get boosted. Children who can be vaccinated have to be vaccinated,&#8221; said Emanuel, who is the Vice Provost of Global Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Emanuel suggested that schools can adopt safety measures like air purifiers in classrooms and using high-quality masks to mitigate the spread and stay open.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are billions of dollars available for the federal government to improve and upgrade schools,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know virtual learning for kids in first grade and above is not very effective for them, and we lose many kids,&#8221; Emanuel emphasized. &#8220;So I think we have to prioritize in-person learning and put the safety measures we know work to reduce transmission to work there.&#8221;</p>
<p>The former Biden advisor added that prioritizing football games over keeping schools open seems &#8220;upside-down&#8221; to him.</p>
<p>&#8220;I do think that we have our priorities upside-down when we think dining in restaurants, going to football games, going to basketball games are more important than having schools open. That just seems upside-down in this country,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Alright, hopefully we&#8217;ll get right-side up at some point,&#8221; Acosta responded.</p>
<p>Teachers unions and union members in several cities including Chicago, New York City, and San Francisco are pressuring their school districts to return to remote learning.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, some schools across the country either delayed returning to in-person classes after winter break or returned to remote learning for now due to COVID-19 concerns, including Washington DC, Seattle, and Milwaukee.</p>
<p>Chicago Teachers Union CTU President Jesse Sharkey called Lightfoot &#8220;relentlessly stupid&#8221; for trying to force teachers to continue teaching in person.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are asking for some basic common sense safety measures. We want a metric when the majority of the classes are on quarantine. We don&#8217;t have the reassurance we need to restart school,&#8221; Sharkey <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-boss-calls-lightfoot-relentlessly-stupid-for-trying-to-reopen-schools">said</a>.</p>
<p>In San Francisco, the teacher’s union is demanding 10 paid sick days for all COVID-19 related reasons and that the school district provide two N95 or KN95 masks for every student and employee every day.</p>


New York City School Children Return To In-Person Classes

Former Biden Covid Task Force Member Calls Remote School A ‘Failure’: ‘We Kept Kids Out Way Too Long’

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<p>CNN reporter and left-wing activist Jim Acosta was mocked online Saturday after he posted a photo of his CNN &#8220;team,&#8221; who were maskless and seemingly lacked the &#8220;diversity&#8221; of skin color the Left consistently pushes for.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Teamwork makes the dream work. Got to finally hang out IN-person with my Atlanta-based CNN team that gets the show on the air every weekend. I couldn’t do it without them! Thanks guys!! <a href="https://t.co/7E699fiszv">pic.twitter.com/7E699fiszv</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1472356087030595585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p aria-label="Image" data-testid="tweetPhoto">&#8220;Hmm&#8230; no masking, no social distancing, and no vax cards,&#8221; politico Jacob Airey commented. &#8220;Your network really doesn&#8217;t believe the crap it is selling.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hmm&#8230; no masking, no social distancing, and no vax cards. Your network really doesn&#39;t believe the crap it is selling.</p>
<p>&mdash; Jacob Airey (@realJacobAirey) <a href="https://twitter.com/realJacobAirey/status/1472392613546414086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Hey Jim, where is you and your teams mask?&#8221; replied @Brandonsblog. &#8220;Funny how y’all can’t even follow the Covid protocols you’re stupid network pushes so hard.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hey Jim, where is you and your teams mask? Funny how y’all can’t even follow the Covid protocols you’re stupid network pushes so hard.</p>
<p>&mdash; B (@brandonsblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/brandonsblog/status/1472357278216978435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Yikes &#8211; does CNN refuse to hire black staffers?&#8221; posed Mike Cernovich.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yikes &#8211; does CNN refuse to hire black staffers?</p>
<p>&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1472393057588809731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;The lack of diversity here is astounding,&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. quote-tweeted the post. &#8220;There seems to be more pedophiles working for prominent CNN anchors than people of color.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The lack of diversity here is astounding. There seems to be more pedophiles working for prominent CNN anchors than people of color. <a href="https://t.co/bo14mFHsXa">https://t.co/bo14mFHsXa</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1472642293379309569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>It was revealed last week that CNN senior producer John Griffin, 44, was arrested on December 10 &#8220;after a federal grand jury charged him with multiple counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/horrifying-details-emerge-from-charges-against-top-cnn-producer-accused-of-child-sex-crimes">The Daily Wire</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;According to court documents, Griffin told a woman he was chatting with that he had &#8216;sexually trained girls as young as 7 years old,&#8217; and he thought the woman’s daughter &#8216;would be a good candidate for such training alongside her mother,'&#8221; a report from Heavy <a href="https://heavy.com/news/john-griffin-cnn-producer/">detailed</a>. &#8220;He told her they would start with a video chat in which Griffin would instruct the 14-year-old girl and her mother to remove their clothing and touch each other, prosecutors said in the indictment. He also said the &#8216;sexual training would eventually include in-person meetings featuring ‘spanking’ and ‘c*** worship,’ prosecutors said.&#8221;</p>
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<p>It was also noted that the post from Acosta shows the reporter holding a photo of what appears to be the Christmas tree outside Fox News HQ that was burned in an arson attack. There are then four headshots of Fox News hosts surrounding the tree, including Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Brian Kilmeade, and Laura Ingraham.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why is he holding a picture of the Fox News Christmas tree with Fox anchors around it?&#8221; asked Eddie Zipperer.</p>
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<p>&mdash; Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1472396204487196673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Earlier this month, 49-year-old Craig Tamanaha was arrested and then freed on no bail for allegedly setting fire to the Christmas tree outside Fox. The suspect maintains his innocence. Fox <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greg-gutfeld-levels-stephen-colbert-for-mocking-fox-news-after-christmas-tree-arson">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Tamanaha, a vagrant with a long criminal record, would have to be accused of a more serious charge of third-degree felony arson in order to be forced to pay bail for his release, criminal defense lawyer Mark Bederow told [the New York Post]. He said the more serious arson offense occurs only when there is perceived intent to harm a person or an allegation of a hate crime.</em></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/greg-gutfeld-levels-stephen-colbert-for-mocking-fox-news-after-christmas-tree-arson">Greg Gutfeld Levels Stephen Colbert For Mocking Fox News After Christmas Tree Arson</a></strong></p>


Jim Acosta Posts Maskless ‘Team’ Pic; Don Jr: CNN Hires ‘More Pedophiles’ Than ‘People Of Color’

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<p>CNN weekend anchor Jim Acosta claimed Saturday that Democrats should go ahead and get rid of the filibuster in order to pass their agenda down party lines, arguing that if Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had the opportunity, he would do the same.</p>
<p>&#8220;Democrats could think about it this way: If Mitch McConnell were in their shoes, what would he do? Given what we know, would we see him letting the filibuster stand? Is the filibuster more important than election rights, women’s rights…&#8221; Acosta asked, apparently referencing HR-1 — the Democrats&#8217; attempt to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/ga-secretary-of-state-says-democrats-are-criticizing-voting-law-in-order-to-take-over-federal-elections/">overhaul federal elections</a> and wrest them from the state control outlined in the Constitution.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Acosta: Democrats could think about it this way: If Mitch McConnell were in their shoes, what would he do? Given what we know, would we see him letting the filibuster stand? Is the filibuster more important than election rights, women’s rights… <a href="https://t.co/90ZwDIoAdT">pic.twitter.com/90ZwDIoAdT</a></p>
<p>— Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1467264465078919168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>What Acosta appeared to forget was that <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-warns-democrats-what-republicans-will-do-if-democrats-end-filibuster-would-be-childs-play/">McConnell</a> actually did have the opportunity to get rid of the filibuster as recently as last year — he was the Senate Majority Leader from <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Majority_Minority_Leaders.htm">2015-2021</a>, and Republicans held the Senate with a larger majority than the 50/50 plus a vice presidential tie-breaker that Democrats currently hold.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">As <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> plays Dem strategist here — trying to invent an absurd pretext to destroy the Senate — remember that CNN bills this as straight news, not opinion.</p>
<p>You’d expect a top political reporter to remember that McConnell was in D’s shoes a YEAR ago, didn’t nuke the filibuster. <a href="https://t.co/EJJbncr1lo">https://t.co/EJJbncr1lo</a></p>
<p>— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1467281308363669511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Despite having the power to end the filibuster — and rumors that then-<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-trump-678817">President Donald Trump</a> would have liked him to do so on several occasions — McConnell refrained from doing so. Trump reportedly used the same argument on McConnell that Acosta used Saturday, telling him that if he did not end the filibuster, then Senate Minority Leader (and now the Majority Leader) Chuck Schumer (D-NY) certainly would.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Or you could ask yourself this: What *did* Mitch do? Despite tremendous pressure from Trump, McConnell refused to dismantle the legislative filibuster.</p>
<p>Which, by the way, is a complete non-sequitur to Supreme Court appointments, as Acosta knows, or *should* know. <a href="https://t.co/V4G0zoe9vk">https://t.co/V4G0zoe9vk</a></p>
<p>— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdMorrissey/status/1467513559902994432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I don’t think the legislative filibuster, which has been around for a long time, is a problem. And it does, I think, generate on many occasions kind of a bipartisan solution, and I don’t think that’s always bad for the country. We do have some pretty big differences about a number of things, but there are a lot of things we do together,&#8221; McConnell <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-trump-678817">told Politico in 2018</a>. &#8220;I think both sides, having been up and down a number of times, understand the advantages when you’re not in the majority. What I remind the president of occasionally when we have this discussion is but for that we would have socialized medicine [and] right-to-work would have been eliminated across the country.&#8221;</p>
<p>While McConnell was not ready to make unilateral rule changes in the Senate himself, he was willing to use the unilateral changes made by his predecessor, former Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) — changes that he had warned years earlier would come back to bite Democrats if they pushed them through.</p>
<p>Reid instituted the so-called Nuclear Option — which allowed for federal judges to be confirmed by a simple majority rather than the typical 60-vote requirement, thus avoiding the filibuster — in 2013 over McConnell&#8217;s objection: &#8220;You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Just three years later, with Republicans at the helm, the use of the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nuclear-mcconnell-prepares-new-procedural-tactic-josh-hammer/">nuclear option</a> allowed Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Senate to confirm and seat an unprecedented number of federal judges — and three Supreme Court Justices: Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.</p>


CNN’s Jim Acosta Returns To The White House After Court Orders White House To Reinstate His Press Pass

Jim Acosta Seems To Claim Mitch McConnell Would Trash Filibuster If He Could; Forgets He Could Have – And Didn’t – In Six Years

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<p>The legacy media spent the weekend continually conflating criticism of the Biden administration with terrorist propaganda. In three days of nearly identically worded attacks, CNN and MSNBC likened FNC programming to ISIS recruiting films, accused 90-year-old Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch of being a “threat to democracy,” and mused about revoking the Australian native’s U.S. citizenship.</p>
<p>The personal assaults on the Murdoch family emanated from MSNBC’s Joy Reid, as well as CNN’s Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter.</p>
<p>Reid began the media pressure campaign by first targeting FNC, comparing Tucker Carlson’s Fox Nation programming to ISIS propaganda videos. “I used to watch, for my job, those ISIS little mini-films they would make to try to recruit young [involuntarily celibate males] to join ISIS. They would have the same sort of live action, try to incite, try to excite, like, young men kind of vibe that Tucker is creating in his trailer,” she said on Friday’s episode of “The ReidOut.”</p>
<p>“Arguably the greatest threat to our democracy continues in its quest to rot this country out from the outside,” she said. “No, no, not the Republican Party this time. I’m talking about Fox News.”</p>
<p>She then targeted the network’s owners, Rupert Murdoch and his son, Lachlan. “The Murdochs are undermining democracy here and around the world,” said Reid. “The Murdoch empire is just injecting anti-democratic propaganda straight into the veins of millions [of] people, night after night.”</p>
<p>“This is worse than <a href="https://therightswriter.com/2010/12/you-pay-1-5-million-for-public-radio-to-air-al-jazeera-news/">Al-Jazeera after 9/11</a>, what FOX News is,” agreed her guest, Dean Obeidallah. Al-Jazeera regularly aired videos produced by al Qaeda, including messages produced by the terrorist group&#8217;s founder, Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>Reid then classified the 90-year-old Australian Rupert Murdoch as an incipient terrorist threat, approvingly reading a <a href="https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1453739491059961857">tweet</a> from an advisor to the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project: “If Rupert Murdoch were applying for American citizenship today, there would be ample evidence to classify him as a domestic threat and deny citizenship. He’s a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti-democratic propagandist he is.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">If Rupert Murdoch were applying for American citizenship today, there would be ample evidence to classify him as a domestic threat and deny citizenship. He’s a dangerous man who should be treated as the anti-democratic propagandist he is. <a href="https://t.co/o7Lx529X7u">https://t.co/o7Lx529X7u</a></p>
<p>&mdash; stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) <a href="https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1453739491059961857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“We can’t take his citizenship away,” Obeidallah said mournfully. “I almost wish there was a way, but you can’t do it. I think you can only counter” his influence.</p>
<p>Reid and Obeidallah focused their ire on a new special which Carlson produced for Fox News’ streaming platform, Fox Nation, titled “Patriot Purge.” The documentary contends that the Left accuses its critics of terrorism so that it can impose legal sanctions against them.</p>
<p>Reid and her guests continued to attack Murdoch as spreading foreign propaganda. “What Murdoch has delivered, largely through FOX News in the United States, is exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted to achieve with his disinformation campaigns, turning one part of America against another,” said Reid, apparently unaware that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/opinion-the-american-media-has-spread-russian-propaganda-more-effectively-than-russia-itself">greatest Russian propaganda charge</a> during the Cold War portrayed the U.S. as a systemically racist nation, much as Reid does. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post struck a more scatological tone, saying, “If Murdoch takes this once great newspaper any further down the toilet, I think we`re going to call it the Wall Street Urinal.” Obeidallah added zingers by calling Texas “an apartheid state” and nicknaming Tucker Carlson “Tucker Klansman.”</p>
<p>CNN followed suit the rest of the weekend. “The Murdochs and Tucker Carlson, their primetime pyromaniac, appear to be Hell-bent on dragging this country into a civil war. Jefferson Davis would be proud,” said former White House correspondent Jim Acosta on “<a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnr/date/2021-10-30/segment/07">CNN Newsroom</a>” on Saturday afternoon.</p>
<p>CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter again hyperfocused on the Murdoch media dynasty on “Reliable Sources” on Sunday morning. “Are the Murdochs trying to be threats to American democracy? Is Rupert Murdoch a threat to American democracy?” Stelter asked guest Bill Carter, who replied Murdoch has “always been a destructive figure.”</p>
<p>The New York Times national political reporter, Astead Herndon, agreed with his fellow panelists that the threat of domestic terrorism from Fox News supporters appeared imminent.</p>
<p>“I think it’s a mistake for us to think of January 6 as an isolated event,” he said.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire</em>.</p>


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<p>In an effort to shield the Biden-Harris administration from criticism over the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, CNN anchor Jim Acosta proposed something rarely advocated on CNN: prayer.</p>
<p>Before leveling any political brickbats at the president, Acosta exhorted his viewers, “Pray on it.”</p>
<p>It would be wrong to politicize a tragedy, he said.</p>
<p>Acosta began the homilette by remembering the bravery of the 13 U.S. servicemen killed as a suicide bomb tore through the U.S. airport in Kabul last Thursday.</p>
<p>“For weeks, the brave men and women of the U.S. military have been heroically evacuating their fellow Americans and Afghan allies by the tens of thousands,” he said. “Just for a moment, imagine the courage it takes to do that job.”</p>
<p>“If there were ever a moment for some sense of national unity, this was it,” Acosta said on “CNN Newsroom” on Saturday. “Yet in the hours that followed, the divisions in this country were all too apparent.”</p>
<p>Acosta then turned to the familiar, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-media-has-entered-the-republicans-pounce-stage-of-critical-race-theory">Republicans pounce</a>” line of reporting.</p>
<p>“Former President Donald Trump immediately pounced on the attack in Kabul,” Acosta complained, before citing additional Republican criticisms of President Biden’s withdrawal from Kabul, which ultimately left hundreds of American citizens behind.</p>
<p>“President Biden should expect some of this criticism. That is politics,” Acosta said, seemingly ascribing every critique of Biden’s withdrawal to pure partisanship. “But it&#8217;s the knee-jerk immediacy of this political attacks that stands out.”</p>
<p>“So many times, we hear politicians simply offer thoughts and prayers. Well, if there ever was a moment for just thoughts and prayers, this was it,” Acosta sermonized. “The tweets, the statements, this time should&#8217;ve been about putting the troops first with thoughts and prayers: thoughts and prayers for the Marines and other servicemembers who died Thursday; thoughts and prayers for their families; thoughts and prayers for the troops leaving Afghanistan, as we speak; thoughts and prayers for the Afghan people and for this country.”</p>
<p>“Just imagine, just this once, if we simply offered our thoughts and prayers,” he said. “Give it some thought. Pray on it.”</p>
<p>Jim Acosta had shown a less prayerful disposition when a tragedy involves Republican officials.</p>
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<li>Just four days after a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Acosta <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/964176444611055616">shouted</a> at President Trump to ask “whether he will do anything about guns.”</li>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Following the president&#39;s remarks, I tried to ask Trump why does this keep happening in America and whether he will do anything about guns. He did not respond except to say thank you.</p>
<p>&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/964176444611055616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
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<li>Earlier this month, as the Delta variant began sweeping through the United States, Acosta <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-acosta-blasted-for-saying-scientists-should-name-covid-19-variants-after-gop-governors">told</a> CNN’s viewers that new strains of COVID-19 after Republican governors who oppose mask mandates. “Why not call it the DeSantis variant instead of the Delta variant?” he <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1424120103331794944">said</a> on “CNN Newsroom.”</li>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Acosta: People should not have to die so some politicians can own the libs. They’re not owning anybody but they may end up owning the pandemic because they’re prolonging it. Perhaps it’s time to start naming these new variants that may be coming out after them… <a href="https://t.co/1xfTUGY1rt">pic.twitter.com/1xfTUGY1rt</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1424120103331794944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<li>Acosta asked President Trump, “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfzbZr5-6k">Who dropped the ball</a>” on preventing COVID-19 deaths last April 3. “Why is it we don’t have enough masks? Why is it we don’t have enough medical equipment in this country?” he asked. “The president got testy when I pressed both he and Secretary Azar on that,” Acosta later told his colleague, Wolf Blitzer. “The buck is supposed to ‘stop here,’ Wolf, as you know.”</li>
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<p>It is unclear whether Acosta prayed before any of those critiques.</p>
<p>Acosta, who has not distinguished himself publicly as an overly religious man, has accelerated <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/can-partisanship-and-profanity-save-cnn-from-its-ratings-collapse">CNN’s casual use of profanity</a>, on and off the air.  He has referred to Fox News as a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bull-factory-jim-acosta-slams-fox-news-ignores-own-history-of-pushing-misinformation">bulls**t factory</a>.” While he later claimed, “I hate to use the word bulls**t,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-acosta-i-hate-to-use-the-word-bullst-here-are-8-times-hes-used-it-since-may">used the swear word at least eight times</a> in May and June. Acosta also tweeted “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/acosta-gets-slammed-after-making-excuse-f-k-you-ryan-saavedra">F*** you</a>” to former Melania Trump named Justin Caporale in 2018.</p>
<p>The Bible does generally instruct people to pray before making any decision. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God,” according to <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%201%3A5&amp;version=ESV">James 1:5</a>.</p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire</em>.</p>


Jim Acosta holds his book “The Enemy of the People: A

Jim Acosta: Before You Criticize Joe Biden, ‘Pray On It’

<p>On Monday, Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, whose valiant efforts to expose New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis revealed her take-no-prisoners attitude, claimed another scalp as she eviscerated CNN’s Jim Acosta for attempting to tar California GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder.</p>
<p>Acosta, trying desperately to attack the leading candidate to replace California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, criticized Elder for his supposed negative comments about women. Dean fired back on Twitter:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Hi @Acosta just a reminder that you work at a place that allows @ChrisCuomo to keep his job after helping his brother with sexual harassment accusations and @JeffreyToobin who likes to do x-rated stuff on zoom calls, so maybe sit this one out?</em></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> just a reminder that you work at a place that allows <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCuomo</a> to keep his job after helping his brother with sexual harassment accusations and <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffreyToobin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffreyToobin</a> who likes to do x-rated stuff on zoom calls, so maybe sit this one out? <a href="https://t.co/pJ7A3UrsBh">https://t.co/pJ7A3UrsBh</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1429690945604313088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dean was prompted by an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/08/22/larry-elder-darrell-issa-california-governor-recall-election-acosta-vpx.cnn">interview</a> Acosta conducted with Californian GOP Congressman Darrell Issa. Acosta stated, “Right now the Republican front-runner is an outspoken talk-show host named Larry Elder. He’s made a number of disparaging remarks about women. I want you to listen to this; let me ask you about this on the other side.”</p>
<p>Acosta played an audio clip of Elder stating, “When you look at all these women who have marched, something like two million women, Donald Trump has probably gotten more obese women off the couch and in the streets working out than Michelle Obama did in eight years.”</p>
<p>Acosta asked Issa, “Do you think Larry Elder should be the next governor of California?&#8221;</p>
<p>Issa responded, “I think Larry Elder, with tens of thousands of hours on the air, entertaining and thought-provoking, if that’s the best you can find —”</p>
<p>Acosta responded pompously, “That’s not entertaining. That’s disgusting. What he has said is disgusting. I mean, that’s not entertaining.”</p>
<p>Issa fought back, “In tens of thousands of hours, if that’s the best you have, you don’t really have anything on Larry Elder.” He reiterated later, “if in tens of thousands of hours, you find a few lines, that’s not going to get people to forget that he is a thoughtful conservative who has a lot of great ideas.”</p>
<p>In mid-June, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/he-was-sexually-harassing-himself-cnns-navarro-defends-toobin-offers-unique-take-on-him-masturbating-during-zoom-call/">speaking</a> on ABC’s “The View,” CNN’s Ana Navarro attempted to defend legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who made his comeback on the network the week before when he was interviewed by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. Toobin had taken a leave of absence from CNN in the fall of 2020 after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call taking place with his colleagues from The New Yorker.</p>
<p>Toobin had told Camerota, “Well, obviously, I wasn’t thinking very well or very much. And it was something that was inexplicable to me. I think, one point, I wouldn’t exactly say in my defense, because nothing is really in my defense; I didn’t think I was on the call. I didn’t think other people could see me.”</p>
<p>Navarro offered a unique explanation and euphemism, declaring that Toobin had not been “sexually harassing somebody… he was sexually harassing himself.”</p>
<p>Vis-a-vis Chris Cuomo, The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chris-cuomo-advised-andrew-cuomo-on-sexual-harassment-allegations-cnn-wont-punish-him/">reported</a> in mid-June:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>CNN host Chris Cuomo advised his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), about how to respond to more than a half-dozen complaints of sexual harassment, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/chris-cuomo-andrew-cuomo/2021/05/20/99579382-b7f9-11eb-bb84-6b92dedcd8ed_story.html">according</a> to an expose published Thursday afternoon in The Washington Post.</em></p>
<p><em>The younger Cuomo, who hosts CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” participated in multiple conference calls alongside a select group of lawyers, communications specialists, and at least one of Cuomo’s aides, the paper reported.</em></p></blockquote>


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CNN’s Jim Acosta Attacks Larry Elder About Women. Janice Dean Flattens Acosta.

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">COVID-19 has ushered in a host of now-recognizable symptoms. Runny nose, sore throat, fever. But there’s a societal symptom of the virus that has been burning through American culture with no signs of slowing down: COVID classism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The notion of classism used to be more applicable elsewhere in the world, while American “societal status” remained reasonably fluid. Now, however, COVID-19 appears to have cemented modern classism into place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you need to know what “class” you fall into under this new system, the test is very simple.</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you expected to simultaneously set the rules while actively ignoring them? You are in the upper COVID class.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you expected to help promote the upper class’ rules while defending those in the upper class who ignore them? You are in the COVID middle class.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are you not included in the upper or middle class? You are in the COVID lower class.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, the idea of a societal “upper crust” who both set and ignore rules is hardly new. And the idea of a “lower crust” who are viewed as human fodder is far from new.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">is</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> new is both the embrace of overt classism in the United States </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the formation of a willing middle class whose sole existence is to facilitate this moral and intellectual travesty.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those in the upper class are the easiest to identify. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Gavin Newsom are obvious examples — requiring those “beneath” them to follow their arbitrary and definitionally unscientific “rules” while openly disregarding them with an almost impressive gall.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those in the middle class are the metaphorical flies circling the metaphorical trash can that is the COVID upper class. Their dream is to one day join their “elite betters,” an objective they hope to achieve by doing the upper class’ dirty work.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No better example exists than Jim Acosta and Barack Obama&#8217;s birthday party. Acosta, a delighted COVID middle-classer, didn’t even blink at the dismissal of accusations of hypocrisy based on the view that Obama’s maskless birthday party was a “sophisticated, vaccinated crowd.”</span></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd&quot; <a href="https://t.co/qzh3glcQTQ">pic.twitter.com/qzh3glcQTQ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1424159871319134215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Last, and least, there’s the rest of us. The COVID “lower class.” The collective scapegoat for the upper class and their middle-class minions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are known by a wide number of phrases, often crafted to suit the specific style of deflection required. “Unvaccinated,” “angry white conservatives,” or “basket of deplorables,” for example. While the names may change, the broader context does not. The COVID upper class believes they are better than us, and that their newfound COVID-related status alone allows an entirely different form of expected behavior.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Time for us to say: no.</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at</span></i><a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> @ighaworth</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</span></i></p>


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OPINION: We Must Reject The COVID Classism Of The ‘Sophisticated’ Crowd

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<p>CNN reporter Jim Acosta says new variants of the SARS-Co-V-2 like the Delta strain now spreading in the U.S. should be named after Republican governors who don&#8217;t enforce COVID-19 safety rules, which drew immediate mockery from Republicans on wags on social media.</p>
<p>Acosta singled out Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has opposed a new federal move to mandate masks amid the new outbreak.</p>
<p>&#8220;As the nation battles the Delta variant, states remain divided between those fighting the virus and those fighting the science. States led by politicians who know better. Case in point: Florida,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;People should not have to die so some politicians can own the libs,&#8221; Acosta said. &#8220;They&#8217;re not owning anybody. They may end up owning the pandemic because they&#8217;re prolonging it. Perhaps it may be time to start naming these new variants after them. Why not call it the DeSantis variant instead of the Delta variant?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We could sell beer koozies that say ‘Don’t Florida My Fauci,’ and use the money to help pay for all of the funerals in the days to come,&#8221; Acosta said.</p>
<p>DeSantis spokesman Christina Pushaw <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-jim-acosta-ron-desantis-variant-delta-covid">told</a> Fox News that Acosta&#8217;s attacks clearly show Acosta is &#8220;afraid&#8221; of the Florida governor.</p>
<p>&#8220;It’s clear that CNN, which apparently functions as a PR firm for the Democratic Party, is afraid of Governor DeSantis,&#8221; Christina Pushaw said. &#8220;Why? Because he’s leading our state through the challenges of this pandemic while respecting parents’ rights to raise their kids, workers’ rights to earn a living, and everyone’s right to make their own informed decisions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;DeSantis,&#8221; Pushaw added, &#8220;always made data-driven decisions and worked tirelessly to prioritize seniors and other vulnerable Floridians for the vaccines, instead of relying on the ever-changing, poorly sourced ‘guidance’ of federal bureaucrats. &#8221;</p>
<p>His leadership, she concluded, is &#8220;inconvenient for CNN’s narrative of fear over facts, and that’s why CNN is attacking him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fox News contributor Joe Concha, a columnist with The Hill, also told Fox that Acosta is embarrassing the network.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why does Acosta spend infinitely more time talking about Trump and other Republicans than he does the current President and House Speaker in power?&#8221; Concha asked. &#8220;A look at transcripts of his ‘news’ program shows he’s truly State TV serving at the pleasure of the Democratic Party in attacking Republicans while barely touching the blue team. He’s an embarrassment and nothing more.&#8221;</p>
<p>Others piled on.</p>
<p>&#8220;Using CNN’s &#8216;logic&#8217; from last year, shouldn’t the new strain be called the Biden variant?&#8221; one person wrote on Twitter.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Using CNN’s “logic” from last year, shouldn’t the new strain be called the Biden variant?</p>
<p>&mdash; Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePowersThatBe/status/1424137957569699842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The establishment media is increasingly worried about DeSantis, who has become a frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination for president. President Biden has targeted DeSantis, saying he has abdicated his duty to Floridians by lifting mask mandates. DeSantis fired back, saying Biden has failed to secure the border, which is leading to the spread of COVID-19.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a guy who ran for office saying he’s going to shut down the virus,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And what has he done? He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border,&#8221; he said.</p>


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CNN’s Acosta Blasted For Saying Scientists Should Name COVID-19 Variants After GOP Governors

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