{"id":384113,"date":"2018-11-07T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-media-sides-with-acosta-after-physical-confrontation-with-female-white-house-staffer\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T19:00:01","slug":"prison-planet-com-media-sides-with-acosta-after-physical-confrontation-with-female-white-house-staffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-media-sides-with-acosta-after-physical-confrontation-with-female-white-house-staffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Media Sides With Acosta After Physical Confrontation With Female White House Staffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Imagine if the roles were reversed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>November 7, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/071118acosta1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The establishment media instantly sided with CNN activist in chief Jim Acosta after he became involved in a brief physical confrontation with a female White House staffer during today\u2019s Trump press conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acosta once again tried to make himself the center of attention with a series of rants directed at Trump that were dressed up as questions.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump attempted to move on, Acosta refused to give up the platform.<\/p>\n<p>A female White House aide whose job it is to hand the microphone to journalists then walked up to Acosta in a bid to retrieve it.<\/p>\n<p>The two then engaged in a brief physical confrontation, with Acosta wrestling back control of the mic.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News reported the incident as follows;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: White House aide grabs and tries to physically remove a microphone from CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta during a contentious exchange with President Trump at a news conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFm7wclFw2\">pic.twitter.com\/fFm7wclFw2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1060224231722627072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhite House aide grabs and tries to physically remove a microphone from CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta during a contentious exchange with President Trump at a news conference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t describe what happened properly at all. It was her job to move the mic to the next person and he wouldn\u2019t surrender it,\u201d responded John Podhoretz.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This doesn&#8217;t describe what happened properly at all. It was her job to move the mic to the next person and he wouldn&#8217;t surrender it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e5K5g6KNUy\">https:\/\/t.co\/e5K5g6KNUy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jpodhoretz\/status\/1060230045506174976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine this had happened under Obama with the journalist being a conservative. The media would have undoubtedly reported the man as the aggressor.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders whether or not Acosta would have tried to wrestle this woman if she\u2019d been more insistent in trying to retrieve the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>And how would the media&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/media-sides-with-acosta-after-physical-confrontation-with-female-white-house-staffer.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine if the roles were reversed Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comNovember 7, 2018 The establishment media instantly sided with CNN activist in chief Jim Acosta after he became involved in a brief physical confrontation with a female White House staffer during today\u2019s Trump press conference. Acosta once again tried to make himself the center of attention with [&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-384113","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\/384113","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=384113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}