Joe Concha: CNN’s Jim Acosta Is the Face of the Anti-Trump Movement

RUSH EXCERPT:

CARLSON: "The president won a world record for injecting politics? According to Jim Acosta, reporter, that is “Exactly what happened.” Can we get some documentation? A certificate from the guinness spoke, maybe? Did they accidentally slip into third-grade pond injury? It looks that way. And it probably wasn’t by accident, actually paid as a veteran Acosta Boettcher, we have noticed a theme here. Here is a greatest hits real."

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ACOSTA: "I think we saw the president's true colors today, and I’m not sure they were red, white, and blue. He is ushering in a Cold War, a return to the Cold War between Washington and Havana. Not just seeing a press conference go off the rares or jumped the tracks. You are watching a presidency go off the rails and jumped the tracks. At times, this White House has an unfit gnomic unhealthy fixation on what I call the 3ms, the Mexicans, the muslims, and the media."

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CARLSON: "Keep in mind that as of this morning, Jim Acosta was still listed at CNN senior White House correspondent. That is a different job from being a talking head on one of those panel shows of 19 guests. At least, it’s supposed to be a different job. As Jeff Zucker watching any of this? Our guests tonight, I am not attacking Jim Acosta for bad pond injury — although that is bad pump and treat — I’m kind of wondering what the boundaries are. If you are a White House correspondent supposedly committing journalism, gathering facts, bringing them to your audience, how can that person coexist with the person we just saw?"

CONCHA: "It cannot, Tucker. As far as reporters are concerned, you can say Jim Acosta is the face of the anti-Trump movement. That is fine if he is an activist or even an opinion host like yourself. The problem is, as you’ve noted, he is a senior White House correspondent from one of the largest news organizations in the world, and what that does to CNN, by extension, fairly or not, because there are plenty of good report is over there, it’s labeled us on an objective news outlets that reports of the facts but as the opposition party. If you talk to folks within the administration, and I have, and you ask them, are Jim Acosta’s day-to-day antics in terms of making himself the story, is that good or bad for you? And they enthusiastically say, yes, because he is making our argument for us that, not only is the media as a whole — because now they can use it broadbrush — negative toward us, but they treat us with hostility, and there actually, during these press briefings, taking a side on the position and openly debating us on it. That is not what White House senior correspondence to."

CARLSON: "It’s not. For all of the grief that fox takes, and I’m jumping around and getting might face in your opinion, I get it, that’s fine. Our guys at the White House don’t behave like that. They’re not eating editorials about things. They never have been like that. Does no one else noticed this is happening. I should say, you’re right. There are some good people at CNN, and there still are, but Jim Acosta seems to discredit them."

CONCHA: "Are your saying, is anyone noticing? Of course they are. He is one of the most visible on the network. A lot of people watch the press briefings. That is a true fact. Let me read you — there was a profile on Acosta in Politico. This is how it reads. “Acosta takes a sip of the beer. Content that he was on the right side of history.” “People are going to look back at this moment and ask each and every one of us, what did you do when trump was doing this to America? What role did you play?” Now, that is taking a side in saying that my ideas are better than your ideas and my worldview is more righteous than yours."