Jim Acosta: Hasan Piker Isn’t a Personal Assistant to the President Like Harp or Loomer, Who Gets National Security Officials Fired

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ACOSTA: “The Hasan Piker thing, I think, is — you know, listen he’s out there. He has a powerful platform. He reaches a lot of people. I don’t know if he’s the Joe Rogan of the left and I don’t agree with him on every issue, but listen, I mean, he’s brought up, I think, a legitimate issue in terms of what has happened to the Palestinians in Gaza. I think that needs to be a part of the conversation. But at the same time, I think the Democratic Party would be wise and I think, you know, one of the things that I would always say is, is that we should never drift into the world of anti-Semitism. I think that that is absolutely beyond the pale and out of, you know, out of bounds. But at the same time, I mean, we have to have a little perspective here. Like, who is the more powerful, you know, person that you should be holding up through guilt by association? Is it Hasan Piker? Is it Laura Loomer? Is it Natalie Harp? I mean, Hasan Piker has a very popular Twitch. He is not the personal assistant to the President of the United States. He’s not Laura Loomer, who gets national security officials fired whenever she snaps her fingers or puts out a tweet. So, you know, one of the things that I’ve been a little frustrated with in watching the media coverage is that there seems to be a lack of perspective and a lack of calling things equally on both sides. You know, I saw this when I was in corporate media myself. You know, there’s a real tendency to get worked as the refs. You know, the Republicans, MAGA, Donald Trump, his White House, they’re very good at working the refs, and they can somehow work the refs to a point, media to a point where there’s an imbalance in the coverage. And I think we saw that clearly with the Hasan Piker case. No question about it."