{"id":371967,"date":"2018-08-03T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cry-baby-acosta-whines-im-tired-of-being-called-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:35:10","slug":"prison-planet-com-cry-baby-acosta-whines-im-tired-of-being-called-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cry-baby-acosta-whines-im-tired-of-being-called-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Cry Baby Acosta Whines \u2018I\u2019m Tired Of Being Called Fake News\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"headlinenew\"><strong>\u201cIt is not right. It is not fair. It is not just. It is un-American.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>August 3, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Following yet another stunt for the cameras during which he attempted to coerce the White House Press Secretary into declaring that the media is not the \u2018enemy of the people,\u2019 CNN reporter Jim Acosta appeared on the network and complained that he is \u201ctired\u201d of being called fake news by the President and Trump supporters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acosta stormed out of a press briefing on Thursday because Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to play along with his games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u82s9zzdR9k\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sanders declined to pander to Acosta, and lectured him in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ironic, Jim, that not only you and the media attack the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lowered the level of conversation in this country. Repeatedly, repeatedly the media restarts personal attacks without any content other than to incite anger,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media continues to ratchet up the verbal assault against the president and everyone in this administration. And certainly we have a role to play, but the media has to role to play for the discourse in this country as well.\u201d Sanders added, before Acosta took his ball and went home.<\/p>\n<p>In a later tweet, Acosta doubled down, calling Sanders \u201cshameful\u201d and declaring that he was \u201csaddened\u201d by the exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I walked out of the end of that briefing because I am totally saddened by what just happened. Sarah Sanders was repeatedly given a chance to say the press is not the enemy and she wouldn&#8217;t do it. Shameful.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acosta\/status\/1025079304097603584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a further bizarre appearance on CNN, Acosta even suggested that the media should form a protest group and march on the White House:<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4A1QLFbWHIc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll say that the press is not the enemy of the people,\u201d Acosta said. \u201cAnd, you know, I think maybe we should make some bumper stickers, make some&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cry-baby-acosta-whines-im-tired-of-being-called-fake-news.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt is not right. It is not fair. It is not just. It is un-American.\u201d Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comAugust 3, 2018 Following yet another stunt for the cameras during which he attempted to coerce the White House Press Secretary into declaring that the media is not the \u2018enemy of the people,\u2019 CNN reporter Jim Acosta appeared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}