Federal Judge Orders Acosta’s Badge Restored
A federal judge sided with CNN and with Jim Acosta with regards to restoring Acosta to White House press briefings. The argument is still ongoing in court though. Jim Acosta is having his access temporarily restored while this case is being argued.
From USA today:
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said the White House had violated Acosta’s Fifth Amendment right to due process by suspending his press badge without explanation or a chance for CNN to appeal the decision.
Kelly said White House officials couldn’t say who made the decision or how. The judge ordered the government to restore the credential while the rest of the case — which drew a slew of support from other media outlets, including USA TODAY — is argued.
Jim Acosta, as you know, appears hostile to President Trump, and to his policies. He advances a narrative about how his job is to cover the President. There’s a professional way to do that. Jim Acosta does it like a liberal activist.
Of course, there are those, among the media, trying to spin the White House’s actions as “arbitrary”. For example, just booting people who express a view that the administration doesn’t like, or booting people that the administration identifies as coming from fake news.
Never mind that Jim Acosta, after already getting more questioning time, refused to yield to other reporters and their questions. He was given sufficient time to allow the other reporters a chance to ask their questions. Then, when a young woman, an intern, reached for the microphone, he resisted her efforts.
Many in the mainstream media are happy about this ruling. The European Union internet version of this story shows a tidbit about how a lawyer… Who helped the Republicans during the 2000 recount fiasco… Is helping CNN in this case.
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Wasn’t there and didn’t see the whole thing, but did watch several versions on different news feeds. Looked to me like Jimbo got a little snippy about the whole deal when the Trumpster was moving on.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the previous occupant of 1600 Penn Ave have a reporter physically removed for a similar case?…Oh my bad, different rules for them, right?
The White House can move to rescind anyone’s press pass. It just has to follow the process for doing so. Getting justifiably pissed off at some CNN jerk and banning his sorry ass w/o any semblance of due process smacks of arbitrariness and capriciousness. Trump made his point and if the White House wants to keep the ban, it knows what to do.
Yeah roger that. I had missed a bunch of this previously and had mistakenly thought it was cause the reporter had “assaulted” the intern by tugging back & forth with the mike. I’m a firm believer in the freedom of the press. Also, I’m a firm believer in not being a jerk.
Thanks for splaining the “rest of the story” for me.
I agree with the judge. He followed the law. He did his job. That he was appointed by Trump is meaningless. I would like to see Acosta pilloried but, that too, is meaningless as it pertains to this cat fight. He’s a slug, but if the White House, which is as gov’t as gov’t gets, is going to host these claptrap sessions, then the White House has to follow the rules. This ain’t “The Apprentice” and Trump doesn’t get to say “You’re fired.”
What rules? Who gets to decide who has access to the White House?
I obviously disagree with the judge. Nobody has a constitutional right to enter the White House. A security clearance does not confer any rights.
And what good is a press pass if he cannot get his questions answered? It seems to me that the judge’s logic would also rule that the holder of a press pass has the right to have questions answered. Or to give a speech.
Suppose Trump decides not to have any more press conferences. Or any White House press briefings at all. Could the judge force him to?
Does this ruling also apply to Congress? Do reporters have the right to irrevocable access to Congressional offices?
Acosta is a narcissist. It doesn’t matter that he’s antagonistic, annoying, and unconstructive. It doesn’t matter that he will fail to do any semblance of what’s supposed to be his job because he will be ignored. It doesn’t matter that the rest of the reporters with White House passes hate his guts. It doesn’t matter that junior folks at CNN think he’s an insufferable asshole.
It’s all about Acosta getting attention by acting like an ill-behaved child. He’s sufficiently tight with his bosses to have their backing, despite the fact that doing so will be disastrous for them.
White House access is controlled by the Secret Service. The press enjoy no greater protection than you or I do. That’s an important point that I wish everyone knew. Being a member of the press conjures no greater rights under the Constitution than being an employee of Burger King does. However, once the gov’t determines that it will hold an event, it gets to decide who may be present. A press conference, even a daily briefing, is an event that is held for the press. All press? Potentially, yes, so long as they are credentialed. There is a process and there are procedures for that when it comes to White House press conferences. Once the credentials are issued and access is granted, then the 1st A comes into play. Viewpoints and question content cannot be censored by the gov’t. And when credentials are issued, the gov’t is not free to bar those with whom it disagrees or to pull their passes for that reason. Accordingly, when a pass is pulled, the ind’al has a DP right and he may contend, at a hearing, that his pass was pulled b/c he disagrees with the administration, or whatever. Now, if the gov’t wants to cease the press conferences, it may do so. It may also set procedural rules, the violation of which can trigger an ejection. These are the rules that the White House says it is now visiting, lest the White House begin to resemble the circus that is Congress.
Well you do have a point, the Obama administration never prevented access of a reporter. They only had the FBI wiretap them, arrest them, etc….
I disagree. Acosta is still free to write or orate as he wishes without any infringement on his 1st Amendment rights.t We now have the absurd situation where the White House can arbitrarily bar all press, but it can’t bar an individual member of the press.
And where are these procedures, established by who?
Trump should have ended the presser when Acosta started running off at the mouth. Hell, I don’t know why he bothers to deal with him or them in the first place other than for his own amusement.
It is amusing because he has them dangling by a hook and throws them a trigger once in a while and they talk about him for the next 14 days straight for that one thing.
The press spends entirely too much time talking about Trump and they still have no clue to the fact that they are playing his game and he’s laughing about it every waking minute.
It’s worth pointing out that the White House basically exaggerated the claims in order to bolster their case, and used a video that experts say is doctored to support this. Even the judge, a Trump appointee, agreed that the claim Acosta was ‘likely untrue’ and based off ‘questionable evidence’.
If you’ve got a legitimate claim, you go with the facts. If you don’t have a legitimate case, you try to make stuff up.
It’s also worth noting that even Fox News has joined the argument on CNN’s side.
While you’re pointing out things worth noting, it’s worth noting that Acosta is an asshole. Also, like denizens of The Swamp, the newsies tend to stick together, whatever their political bent. I’m still chuckling over the Fox news item that the son of a former correspondent of theirs was a victim of the recent shooting spree in CA.
Someone can be the biggest asshole in the world, it still doesn’t magically make fake claims about them true.
What fake clains, dude.
Do you think I cannot see what you are trying to do here? Turning the trademark fake label on the Prez.
The video is not “faked”. The faked or edited video claim is always the give away from the left and their shills that they are well and truly caught.
As for due process, he was given due process. Due process is not some glorified, drawn out thing designed to enrich lawyers, it means only that what was stated to happen did happen within the rule set laid down beforehand.
WH reporters receive the unacceptable behavior briefing when they get a badge.
The judge is wrong, the left is wrong, and you are just an NPC.
Believe it or not, you watch the two videos -the original, and the one the White House released, which originally was found on Info Wars- superimposed on one another, and shockingly, they won’t match up. You can do it even on your own computer – no need to trust the ‘liberal media’.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/8/expert-acosta-video-distributed-by-white-house-was/
https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-acosta-video-white-house-appears-from-infowars-2018-11
I didn’t say due process, which I believe is a legal term, I just said, echoing the judge’s words, that the White House didn’t have a process. And they can’t act arbitrarily. To quote the NYT:
“The administration’s process for barring the correspondent “is still so shrouded in mystery that the government could not tell me” who made the decision, Judge Kelly said from the bench. Taking away the pass that gave Mr. Acosta access to the White House amounted to a violation of his right to a fair and transparent process, the judge ruled.”
Ah, got it. Everyone is wrong but you, evidence be damned. And I tell ya, being called an NPC .. oof, I may never recover. You’re really firing on all cylinders now!
There is a perceived change due to differing video formats, nothing more.
BuzzFeed Link
Interesting. Thanks for the link. I stand corrected on the issue of ‘doctored’ video.
I still fail to see how the video shows Acosta ‘putting his hands’ on the reporter in a way that could be construed as inappropriate, though. I think that’s the main issue.
“I think that’s the main issue.” No, that’s not even at issue as far as the judge’s decision goes. It’s your issue. My issue is that Acosta is an asshole. The judge didn’t rule on that either.
You’re right, the main issue is that the decision to revoke Acosta’s access was so lacking in clarity and process, that the White House’s lawyers couldn’t even say who made the call to do it. However, the judge also did say that the White House had initially been making the argument that Acosta had laid his hands on the intern. They then backed away from that approach since it was a losing strategy, and went to the notion that Acosta was ‘disruptive’.
[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/16/judge-orders-white-house-to-return-press-credentials-to-cnns-acosta-995512
Imagine that – this White House and a constantly changing story.
Let me know the ID of the experts to which you refer.
@HMC Ret
I linked to an article above that mentioned an expert saying the video was doctored. As AW1Ed’s link shows, this was incorrect – it was a reasonable conclusion, since the video differed from the original, but that is also explained by the change in encoding, which can effect frame-rate timing.
Not the first and won’t be the last. You must be very young.
Let us go with a very simple and not too complicated explanation then LC. NO ONE has a vested right to access to the white house press pool. Thus there is no need for any well established and methodical procedure. Acosta was disrupting the press briefing, and showing his ass, then he assaulted a government official in the performance of her duty. The judge was wrong, and while the judge made their ruling, they have absolutely no ability to enforce it. Kind like when Homey the clown routinely ignored court rulings in his day, remember?
f” his right to a fair and transparent process, the judge ruled.”
Ever hear of “employment at will”? Unless the right to such a process is spelled out by some law or contract, you ain’t got it. This isn’t the first time a judge has invented a right or legal doctrine.
I don’t care about your opinion. You lost your credibility long ago.
” experts say is doctored”
Experts? Show me. “Journalists” and opinion writers are not “experts”.
As I said above, there were experts who, in the immediate aftermath of the release, concluded the video was doctored – because it didn’t match the original. That’s a pretty reasonable conclusion, albeit one that was too hasty, as AW1Ed’s link shows that such differences can happen when formats are changed. Which is what happened.
I also said above that I stand corrected on this.
The format of this site obscures the timing of comment. At least to me. Plus I tend to read the comments from top to bottom, commenting on each one as I read it. This sometimes leads to embarrassingly inappropriate comments.
On the bright side, scrolling down to the next comment after I have made a devastatingly clever reply and finding that my reply was actually dumb and inappropriate keeps me humble.
Perhaps not humble enough in some people’s opinion.
Actually, LC, experts are saying the video isn’t doctored. Hell, even Vice, which ain’t exactly MAGA to say the least, has been admitting that their tech nerds say it wasn’t doctored. It shows compression from being converted from a GIF file to a video file and from zooming in on the relevant action (which is exactly what Watson said he did with it all along), nothing more. The CSPAN video shows the same thing, minus the zooming-in. The “doctored video” narrative isn’t holding up at all.
Yes, I already mentioned that I stand corrected, per AW1Ed’s post. That’s on me for not being up on the latest news.
Fair enough. Wouldn’t you say it has an effect on the landscape?
It certainly should dial down the rhetoric, but I don’t think it changes the fact that saying Acosta ‘laid hands’ on the woman is like saying someone assaulted you because they sneezed in your general direction.
As I said elsewhere, I don’t have a (major) problem with the White House refusing to give someone a press pass… but I do have a problem with using a false pretext for such decisions.
Acosta poses a credible threat. They have him on tape committing assault when he whacked that gal who tried to take the mike back from him. Further, the judge is wrong. Acosta is a reporter. His access to the white house or the president can be prevented at any time they wish, with no advance warning or appeals or any of that other horse shit.
Now here is how they should play it. When he next appears, he is arrested for assaulting a federal employee in the lawful performance of their duties. Then he can go to jail. If they don’t have the stones for that, they simply refuse to allow him in the press room. While the judge made his monstrously flawed ruling, he has no ability whatsoever to enforce it, and the order was to give dickhead back his credentials. There was no order to allow him to actually participate in the press briefings.
Acosta is an arrogant, rude, obnoxious bully with a paid agenda. He’s also on a power trip. He butted heads with dTrump and was sent out to the hallway, so he went and whined.
Yes, he did set himself up for failure. And, yes, all dTrump had to do was end the presser and ask the female reporter and one male reporter (one of each, now) to join him briefly. That’s what I would do, but maybe he’ll do it next time.
So which butthead won this one? I’d say it’s a draw, but an intentional draw. Ascosta will thumb his nose at dTrump and dTrump will stare him down and talk to another reporter.
Jim Acosta is a snotty little bitch boy in need of a trip to the wood shed. You have to give him the pass back, nothing says you have to call on him; without the opportunity to speak it’s pretty hard for him to do much. When he gets disruptive you can warn him about it, document the crap out of it and then you can pull his pass and he can piss and moan all he wants. Freeze the jagoff out, it will piss him and Communist News Network off to no end.
That was my thought exactly. Don’t call on him, when he invariably breaks the basics of decorum, and then punt him when he throws another hissy fit.
What Acosta needs is to be bitchslapped by some female reporter who was on the mike when he decides to interrupt her.
And by bitchslapped, I mean knocked to the floor and told to sit down and shut up.
He’s got no manners, no civility, no nothing. Just a jerk with an expense account.
Acosta will continue shouting over his coworkers and making a disruptive ass of himself whenever he doesn’t get enough attention. This pattern of behavior is well-established.
If it was me, I’d tell CNN, “Send his replacement, ‘cause he ain’t coming back. If the replacement acts like him, send another replacement. We can do this all year, and you’ll get nothing out of it.”
It is my understanding that media access to the White House is a privilege, not a right.
Well, it’s one of those things like a company that gives away free turkeys every year and then, one year, it doesn’t. The company created a virtual right to the turkey. In this press matter, the White House built a press room and issues passes. It has been doing this for I don’t know how long. Can the White House fold the tent, close the doors to all press? Yes, but it hasn’t and it won’t. Thus, it has created a right of access which cannot be denied w/o according the press-pass holder due process. That due process requires written notice to the person to be banned and an opportunity for him to challenge the basis for the ban. So ruled the DC Ct of Appeals in 1977.
ex-OS2: A letter arrives for you from the DMV/MVA. It says that you’re driving privilege has been revoked. That’s it. Done. Of course, you would not be okay with that. You would want to know why. You would like some sort of hearing, wouldn’t you? You would like to challenge the ruling. I sure as hell would.
That’s the second time I used “you’re” when I meant your. I can blame I Robot once but not twice. Guilty, your holiness.
Sister Mary Grace is out at Dunebug’s Bar & Grille, pounding down a cold one. She says you should take a sledgehammer to the autocorrect option, and then join her in toasting all AirCavs.
And there are statutes and regulations covering all that. Where are those for White House access? Evidently there are none, which is why the judge had to make some absurd fifth amendment argument about having a Secret Service clearance conferring property rights.
That is a significantly different matter, not at all similar to this one. You test and pay for a driver’s license which conveys specific allowances to you. You earn that, and in so doing enter into a contract with the issuing authority. This isn’t at all the same thing. Further, in your example, in the state of Missouri, you could indeed get a lawyer and challenge that in court, so you do indeed have the ability to get a hearing.
” The company created a virtual right to the turkey.”
Maybe in the court of public opinion, but not in an actual court of law. Tradition is not law.
Actually, it’s based on case law, not public opinion or my opinion.
Now for the rest of the story…
http://workingtogether.pullcomblog.com/archives/christmas-turkey-tales/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/650/501/429827/
Sorry, but your argument is a turkey.
The problem in this case is that their argument boiled down to claiming he did something that the judge said is unlikely to be true.
So his credentials got restored (for now) because the argument they made for taking them is garbage. The court may indeed say they can take the credentials for any reason, though, in which case I wouldn’t be surprised to see them revoked again. And, honestly, I don’t have a major problem with that.
Access to the White House should be a privilege, but it’s also one that needs to be handled fairly, not somewhat arbitrarily, and certainly not by using faked evidence to support your cause.
Sounds like the judge only ruled on the issue of due process, not on the claim that Acosta “put his hands” on the intern, which implies assault and/or battery.
There was no faked evidence. There’s video of it from multiple sources and multiple angles. To say that he assaulted the intern is disingenuous to say the least. He did fight her for the microphone, which is clearly unprofessional and unbecoming of a news agency (which is what CNN pretends to be). After his repeated attempts to strongarm the press pool it was just the last straw.
“The problem in this case is that their argument boiled down to claiming he did something that the judge said is unlikely to be true.” No. That was dicta and was not a necessary element of his ruling. You are focusing on that but it was neither here nor there to the ruling.
So, the judge in the case apparently decides Acosta’s behavior is acceptable enough that the 5th Amendment should still allow him to keep his press pass.
Such a decision can make you wonder at what point Acosta could have justifiably had his press pass yanked. If, for example, he had punched out the White House intern, would that still be okay? Or how about if Acosta had unzipped his pants and decided to pee on President Trump’s leg? Would it have been considered arbitrary for him to be thrown out on his ass because every single kind of unacceptable behavior needs to be spelled out in a rule book?
Something else to consider is that this isn’t Acosta’s first ride at the rodeo. He apparently has had a press conference pattern of being rude, arrogant, and disruptive to the point where it’s now part of his media persona.
Actually, Perry, he would be expelled by the Secret Serive, arrested, AND he would be entitled to that DP hearing if he were fool enough to seek it. The White House has indicated that it will be visiting the rules to be enforced at the press conferences. We’ll see. It ain’t over.
2/17 having seen the numb nuts actions and arrogance it would be interesting. Allow 1 or 2 questions and ask him to be seated (yeah right) if he persists, again ask him to be seated or he will be removed for disturbance, (again, yeah right), if he still persists ask secret service to remove him from the building. Charge 1 would be at least disturbing the peace. Peacefully leave, I doubt it as will probably due to his arrogance further resist, charge 2 resisting arrest (secret service are law enforcement), and considering CNN’s attitude as well as his own as to being above the law, things would only escalate from there. Lots of charges would be available, assaulting an officer, inciting a riot, he would also probably be stupid enough to threaten the President. Might even be able to find charges that would hold CNN accountable for his actions.
As others have pointed out, he may have a right to be there, but he has no right to be called upon or, if he is and asks a question, to have it answered. It’s another instance of the newsies becoming the news story. What’s more, assholes such as Acosta don’t just ask a question. They first make statements and then try to engage in argument. “A follow-up. I have a follow-up!” Just once I’d like Trump to say, “Me too. Shut the fuck up and sit down, asshole. Next.”
Exactly so
No one calls on him. If he gets belligerent or shouty, two -very- large “interns” ask him nicely to sit down, and basically block his view while he tantrums. (No contact unless he does it) Otherwise, all WH folks ignore him utterly.
Probably worse in his mind than being banned.
The larger point y’all missed is there is no legal standing to have these press briefings in the first place. They are a courtesy, began in Woodrow Wilson’s administration in 1913. The briefings could just as easily be held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (the renamed Old Executive Office Building) or not at all.
The reporters love their access to the White House- those are coveted seats, and how the press would scream if access to all was removed.
I like it.
I didn’t miss it, admiral. I wrote, “Can the White House fold the tent, close the doors to all press? Yes, but it hasn’t and it won’t.”
Missed that, sorry. It’s a great argument, ain’t it?
*grin*
Yes it is. Also remember the White House is the president’s home. I’d like to think that we still believe a man can remove someone from his home.
Listening to Fox news out of NYC had them saying that the POTUS would just walk away if someone caused a problem by not obeying the rules. This came after the judges ruling on acoster the accoster.
The intern needs a restraining order on Jim and his kung-fu gripe, 500 feet should work. That will keep him away from the boss.
Very Punny.
Not a problem. Just don’t call on his sorry ass. Let him sit there and stew in insignificance.
I believe disturbing the peace or creating a private nuisance should satisfy any necessary legal needs for denying access. Evidently the judge doesn’t think simple trespass is enough; the press has more rights in the White House than the President.
The rules can be whatever, if they are reasonable and don’t cross the 1st A. The judge was correct. You don’t like the result but his decision, based on a prior court decision in DC, is that Acosta is due written notice of why his pass was pulled and he is due a hearing to challenge the gov’t’s basis for pulling his pass. He didn’t get these things so the judge ordered that his pass be reinstated. The judge’s hands were tied. He couldn’t ignore the prior decision that set out the DP rights for press-pass pulling. After all, he’s not a liberal.
Access to the White House is not necessary for the exercise of anyone’s 1st Amendment rights.
What prior decision?
Look, man, you have Google don’t you? Read the various reports out there on this. You will find a 1977 case cited. I’m not going to spoon feed you. As for your first sentence, re-read my comment at 3:53 p.m. the day before your comment to which I am now responding. Or don’t. I don’t give a shit.
Trump should ignore him, and I believe he will. What may happen, though, is that those called upon will ‘give’ their time to the whiney boy in a roundabout way of breaking it off in Trump’s ass. Trump should just call on Fox. They may do the same, though, in the interest of ‘fairness’ or some such shit. I’ve never seen such hatred of a President.
Oh I doubt that, a lot. It’s a competition to ask the President questions in the limited time afforded. I doubt even his fellow four or five CNN corespondents would surrender the mic to him. Dog-eat-dog.
Why don’t these women reporters stand up to Acosta’s sorry ass and tell him “MOVE NOW!” instead of yielding the space?
I really don’t care if the reasons for expelling him are arbitrary, capricious, or simply unreasonable. No one has a right to occupy space in the White House.
Having a modicum of due process to make it happen?Sure, I’m fine with that, but in the meanwhile the offending party should not have access.
Much like will and pleasure employees, the guys elected to run things should be able to hire and fire whoever they want/need to get the job done. Similar here. Ultimately, the prez is responsible for everyone who occupies the space. Seems like he should be able to control who gets into his home and office.
“Seems like he should be able to control who gets into his home and office.”
Sorry, that flies in the face of a free and unbiased press, and is how dictators and the like do business. The press is supposed to be critical of government.
The fact the press today is neither free nor unbiased is an issue to work through, but not by cherry picking favored lapdogs.
Something to consider is that, if memory serves, Acosta refused to yield the microphone because he insisted on a follow-up question about Trump calling the current migrant caravans an “invasion.” Apparently Acosta considers the term racist and wanted to start an argument about it.
What’s also remarkable is that almost no one seems to have picked up on the fact that journalists usually try to establish a rapport with those they are covering. And it doesn’t have to involve the fawning that went on during the prior administration. If you start out treating somebody like an enemy, you’re unlikely to get accurate answers to your questions. Which means you’re not doing your job.
It would also be hard to justify an accusation something would be wrong if the White House decided to ban Acosta or no longer call on him for questions. CNN has said its network has around 50 other correspondents with “hard” press passes, which would seem to make the “cherry picking” censorship argument a bit weak.
Acosta, of course, would likely want to play the victim card if that happened and whine about his rights under the 1st Amendment, but it would amount to little more that political theater.
Sorry, I was writing in general terms and should have made that clear. Acosta stopped being a journalist the minute he began debating President Trump. His job is to ask questions, not to stand there and disagree with the answers.
Free and unbiased has absolutely nothing whatever to do with allowing them access to anything or anybody at any time. Nor does it require that the rest of us pay for places for them to do their jobs.
Why do we pay for them traveling around the world? Or do their employers pay for their trips on Air Force One and their transportation to and from various venues around the world including in motorcades? All that is in addition to the assorted press offices they occupy around DC and elsewhere at our expense.
No. I am sick of listening to the ungrateful jerks AND subsidizing their antics.
“Sorry, that flies in the face of a free and unbiased press”
So your contention is that access to the White House is essential to the functioning of a free press?
I must hear more!
Cthulhu, if you are reading this post and associated comments, this is the way to get your points across. LC is a bit left of center (at least in contrast to most here), but he states his case and defends his points, and accepts it when proven in the wrong. He also doesn’t let an insult get under his skin. I admire that. Seems Jonn did, too; LC has Editor privileges here at TAH.
How many of you out there knew that, hmmmmm?
Aside, LC, I’d like to shoot you an e-mail. If your not OK with that it’s cool.
I certainly didn’t know that. Though Jonn did once mention that he knew LC had a CIB, which was all that was needed from Jonn to quiet the group that was starting to attack him personally.
I enjoy LC’s take on things. Don’t always agree with him though. 🙂
Thanks, Mason, though I think Jonn went overboard with the April Fool’s day jokes – or, more likely, has me confused with someone else. I never have been in the military, and thus obviously don’t have a CIB.
Thanks for the disclosure. I seriously doubted you had served in the military, based upon the content of your comments.
Well, then. Off to the guillotine with you!!
Fire away if you like – though let me correct some misconceptions first. Jonn was always great to me, and I’ve greatly appreciated that, especially in the midst of some staunch criticism from plenty of the, er, ‘colorful’ personalities here. But I’m not military, never was, and do see myself as a guest here. If I have editor privileges, it’s news to me, and seems like an April Fool’s day joke that Jonn made in mistake and never corrected.
That said, I wouldn’t take advantage of them even if I did, for the very reason I stated above – I’m not military. I’ll occasionally post things in the WOT that I think are interesting to this community, but I’m here primarily to learn. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
Cuntholio ain’t worthy of being discussed in the same sentence as LC.
In looking at that photograph, it appears that what is really needed is a remote that can shut off the microphone at the reporter’s platform, so that when Acosta hogs the scene, he’s – well, shut off.
I see what you did there. Kind of like how some folk wish that they had a remote control to put certain people, mainly snotty kids, on “mute”.
Will you quit playing with the colors button? I was supposed to have the blue letters next. Mom!!!!
Boy, shore kicked up a fire ant bed with this one didn’t we? Wasn’t nobody talking about it early this am. Love it when a plan comes together. Only thing that coulda made this a little better woulda been maybe (?) if cthutapatooie hadda showed up. Maybe not, charles w. mighta had to head to the basement with his stapler. Y’all know he has a drinking problem, don’t you?
This is the germ of an idea, but here is what I would like to see.
When Acosta or another of his ilk plays the asshat card, the briefing or press conference should be terminated immediately. Then the White House would issue a statement like, “The President supports an independent press per the First Amendment. However, that right also carries responsibilities, which means that the members of the press need to be self-policing. There will be a three-day moratorium on briefings and press conferences while news organizations review their codes of conduct with the members of their news staffs.”
Let that happen two or three times and dipshits like Acosta will find themselves in a ditch outside DC with the microphone shoved up his ass, courtesy of his peers in the press.
If you try to idiot proof something, God will send a new and improved idiot. These news organizations would just try to find a way to blame President Trump instead of doing the review.
Oh, no, you don’t shut down and make that statement. You put it in a handout with the Rules and Regulations for White House Press Conferences, which each dweeb and dweebette styling themselves reporters is handed and told to read before the President shows up. And use vocabulary words that they have to look up to understand it.
Also, the President has the right to limit the amount of time devoted to a press conference. Kennedy sometimes cut his very short because he was in the middle of a (Cuban Missile) crisis or something.
He should also have a shrill whistle that he can use when some control freak on an agenda, like Acosta, gets out of hand.
Seriously, when reporter at a press conference cannot ask a question that has a reasonably direct answer, and just wants to pick a fight and dominate things, then it is not a press conference. It is a public quarrel.
Now that Acosta has made it clear that he thinks he is in charge, when he is not, it will be interesting to see just what happens next. I’m sure that he will try to dominate the scene again.
Oh look, another fucktarded shit-wit judge….
Badges?
https://youtu.be/VqomZQMZQCQ?t=1
I kept waiting and checking back to see not if, but when this was gonna show up. Thanks for coming thru for me 26Lb. I was taking even money bets with myself over who would do it.
Acosta is just an overgrown spoiled brat with inflated ideas of his importance. He needs a good set down yesterday. As long as he’s allowed to throw his tantrums, he’ll do so.
https://www.westernjournal.com/upper-cut-trump-handle-cnns-jim-acosta-now/
This isn’t over yet.