Trump's Bullying of CNN's Jim Acosta Condemned

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Trump's confrontation with CNN is being criticised for a very important reason

uh-oh

#metoo movement time

He got physical with a woman when refusing to relinquish his microphone.

-Toxic Masculinity
-Male privilege
-White privilege
-No manners
-No respect
-#JERK

Trump did the right thing. Not sure who the hacks are respected by but they aren't real journalists.

Seems to be a lot of talk that Sanders put out an edited video of this incident on social media with an intention of making the actions of the man involved look worse

what an odd move

When I looked at the title of this thread it almost appeared to me that the title was missing a few extra words.

Trump's Bullying Of CNN's Jim Acosta Condemned [by CNN]

From my perspective it looked like Acosta was really bullying the President. In the civilized world of the forgotten past, the purpose of news men and women were to report the news. But today they feel it is their mission in life to make and shape the news.

Absolute horses**t. CNN isn't Pravda (or Fox News). Acosta is a journalist not a White House stenographer; he was absolutely correct to call Trump on his BS propaganda (Trump lies 30 times a day). This is why a free press is so absolutely essential to a functioning democracy it's referred to as the Fourth Estate.
The whole White House press corps should walk out in protest.
The only "enemies of the people" in that room were standing behind the goddamned podium.

CNN was silent as Obama bombed 7 countries and tripled the war in Afghanistan. Drone bombed a US civilian and drone bombed weddings and funerals in Yemen etc. Don't make me laugh with this "free press" garbage. The CNN journalist should act like an adult and a real journalist.

The man was unprofessional and refused to give up the mic. All the woman was doing was trying to get the mic back from the man who was hogging it.

You can't have productive press conference if one person continues to hold the mic to the detriment of everyone else.

White House defends doctored Trump-Acosta clip used to justify reporter's ban - Press secretary stood by decision to revoke CNN reporter’s access and sharing video edited to make his actions more aggressive
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... press-pass

Trump has made several similar theatrical performances of bullying like this latest one in press conferences before this. His behaviour is calculated, not spontaneous, and his bullying is on display to the whole world. It is shameful behaviour but never a surprising one from the bully and dog-whistler-in-chief. He would have been infuriated by the Democratic success in Congress and planned his rage attack on Acosta to grab headlines and distract (as usual) as well as playing theatre to his base.

His behaviour, however low and vile (as it usually is) has to be seen in context, not as a set of unrelated individual incidents. Power has utterly corrupted what small store of moral impulse he might have once possessed. So worse is no doubt to come, and as long as the USA lets him get away with it, these attacks will become yet more aggressive, unseemly and offensive against any conventional standard of civil behaviour.

With sociopaths, you always have to look at the overall pattern, rather than how they behave on any one day or time.

As a form of protest of Spanky's war on the First Amendment, I'd like to see all major news networks fact-check every word he says, and overdub his lies with audience laugh tracks from 70's sitcoms.