THE OTHER DAY JIM ACOSTA SHOUTED A QUESTION AT DONALD
TRUMP DURING THE EASTER EGG ROLL EVENT HE WAS DOING WITH THE
KIDS.
NOW, TRUMP MADE THAT EVENT DEEPLY POLITICAL, SO ACOSTA WAS
WITHIN HIS RIGHTS TO ASK HIM WHAT I THINK WAS A PERFECTLY
NORMAL QUESTION THAT WAS IN THE NEWS THAT DAY.
>>
>>THE DEMOCRATS HAVE REALLY LET THEM DOWN, THEY'VE REALLY LET
THEM DOWN, THEY HAD THIS GREAT OPPORTUNITY, THE DEMOCRATS
HAVE REALLY LET THEM DOWN, IT'S A SHAME, AND NOW PEOPLE ARE
TAKING IN VANTAGE OF DACA, THAT'S A SHAME.
>>IT'S HARD TO HEAR HIM, THE PRESIDENT HAS A MIC, IN THAT
CASE ACOSTA DOESN'T HAVE A MIC YOU CAN HEAR, AND HE DID SHOUT
IT FROM BEHIND, AND THE PRESIDENT WAS ABLE TO HEAR IT.
SO I'M GIVING YOU ALL OF THE CONTEXT HERE, BUT DID IT SEEM
LIKE HE WAS SCREAMING OR DOING ANYTHING OUTRAGEOUS?
NO, IT
CERTAINLY DIDN'T SEEM THAT WAY, IT SEEMED LIKE HE WAS ASKING THE
PRESIDENT A QUESTION WHICH IS THE JOB OF A REPORTER.
BUT
HOWARD KURTZ, WHO IS THE SO-CALLED MEDIA ANALYST AT FOX
NEWS AFTER BEING FIRED BY CNN WHO IS THE CURRENT EMPLOYER OF
JIM ACOSTA, DECIDED TO TAKE ON CNN AND SAY THIS WAS HORRIBLY
RUDE.
BUT BEFORE WE GO TO KURTZ, UNDERSTAND WHERE HE GETS HIS
MARCHING ORDERS.
MEDIAITE REPORTS --
>>HOW DARE YOU ASK THE PRESIDENT A PERFECTLY NORMAL
QUESTION ABOUT DACA, WHICH HE BY THE WAY ANSWERED?
WE SHOULD GET
RID OF YOUR PRESS CREDENTIALS.
SO IF THE PRESIDENT'S TEAM IS
SAYING THAT, WELL, HERE COMES FOX NEWS AND HOWARD KURTZ.
>>I'M ALL FOR SHOUTED QUESTIONS BUT JIM ACOSTA CLEARLY CROSSED
THE LINE BY DOING IT IN THIS SETTING WITH A BUNCH OF
CHILDREN SURROUNDING THE PRESIDENT, HE DID GET AN
ANSWER WHICH IS WHY REPORTERS DO IT.
>>YOU AREN'T FOR SHOUTED QUESTIONS, YOU SAID OVER AND
OVER AGAIN, AND TO BE FAIR TO HOWARD KURTZ, HE SAID IT LATER
IN THAT SEGMENT, HE SAID HE WAS AGAINST SHOUTED QUESTIONS FOR
OBAMA TOO.
NO, YOU ARE FOR COMPLIANCE, HOWARD.
YOU COMPLIED
WITH WHOEVER WAS IN CHARGE AT CNN AT THE TIME, AND YOU
GENERALLY SUPPORTED THE ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA.
THEN
CONVENIENTLY WHEN YOU GO TO FOX NEWS ALL OF A SUDDEN ALL THE
CONSERVATIVES ARE RIGHT, AND THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IS RIGHT, YOU
CAN NEVER CRITICIZE OF COURSE FOX NEWS ITSELF, AND ALL OF A
SUDDEN YOU ARE ATTACKING CNN AND OTHER PLACES.
JUST BE HONEST
ABOUT IT.
TO SAY THAT YOU ARE ALL FOR SHOUTED QUESTIONS BUT IT
WASN'T THE RIGHT CONTEXT, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU ARE TALKING CONTEXT?
LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID EARLIER TO THE KIDS
WHO CAME FOR THE EASTER EGG ROLL.
OUT OF NOWHERE HE STARTED GIVING THIS POLITICAL SPEECH.
>>THIS IS A SPECIAL YEAR, OUR COUNTRY IS DOING GREAT, YOU LOOK
AT THE ECONOMY, YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING, NOTHING IS
EVER EASY BUT WE HAVE NEVER HAD AN ECONOMY LIKE WE HAVE RIGHT
NOW AND WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT BIGGER AND BETTER AND STRONGER,
OUR MILITARY IS NOW ON A LEVEL OR WILL SOON BE AT A LEVEL THAT
IT'S NEVER BEEN BEFORE, IT'S -- YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING YOU SEE
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH FUNDING, THE FUNDING OF OUR MILITARY WAS
SO IMPORTANT, AND SO MANY MILITARY PEOPLE ARE WITH US
TODAY, SO JUST THINK OF $700 BILLION BECAUSE THAT'S ALL GOING
INTO OUR MILITARY THIS YEAR.
>>OKAY, I HAVE TO CONFESS, WE ADDED THE ZOOM INTO EASTER
BUNNY.
SO THE KIDS ARE TRYING TO FIND THE EASTER EGGS AND HE'S
LIKE, THE ECONOMY IS BOOMING, THE ECONOMY IS FANTASTIC, AND
THE MILITARY IS GREAT.
WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE MILITARY
TO THE KIDS?
IN THAT CONTEXT IS IT OKAY FOR ACOSTA TO ASK A
POLITICAL QUESTION?
OF COURSE!
FIRST OF ALL I THINK IT'S OKAY
IN MOST ANY CONTEXT TO ASK THE PRESIDENT A QUESTION IF YOU ARE
A REAL REPORTER, LET ALONE IN A CONTEXT WHERE HE MADE IT DEEPLY
POLITICAL.
ALSO I'D LIKE TO NOTE FOR THE RECORD, FREE MELANIA.
NOW, WE GO ON TO MORE OF HOWARD KURTZ'S SO-CALLED MEDIA
"ANALYSIS."
WATCH.
>>BUT IT'S NO ACCIDENT THAT ACOSTA DID THIS ON DACA, AN
ISSUE WHERE HE'S CLEARLY AN ADVOCATE.
QUICK EXAMPLE, LAST
YEAR, A WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING WITH STEPHEN MILLER, WHAT THE
PRESIDENT IS PROPOSING DOES NOT SEEM LIKE IT'S IN KEEPING WITH
AMERICAN TRADITION ON IMMIGRATION.
YOU ARE BRINGING A
PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY TO IMMIGRATION THAT HAS NEVER
BEEN WHAT THE U.S. IS ABOUT.
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE A
JOURNALIST'S QUESTION OR AN ACTIVIST ENGAGING IN DEBATE?
>>IT SOUNDS LIKE A QUESTION.
MOST PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH
WHAT'S ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, I DON'T THINK THAT TRUMP IS, SO
SEEING ARE YOU IN FAVOR OR AGAINST THAT KIND OF THING, THAT
SHOULD BE A SUPER EASY QUESTION.
IN THE CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, NOT
SO EASY BECAUSE HE'S NOT IN FAVOR OF THAT.
BUT, MAN, THE
CONSERVATIVES LOVE TO CRY AND CRY ABOUT REALLY SIMPLE
QUESTIONS.
REMEMBER WHEN SARAH PALIN, WHEN KATIE COURIC ASKED
HER WHAT PAPERS YOU READ, SHE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOTCHA
QUESTION.
SO HERE'S HOWARD KURTZ AGAIN, HOW DARE YOU ASK A
QUESTION?
IF YOU ASK A QUESTION THAT KURTZ INTERPRETS IT AS
BEING OPPOSED TO TRUMP.
BY THE WAY, WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO
DO?
ASK THE PRESIDENT QUESTIONS ONLY WHERE YOU AGREE WITH HIM?
WHAT KIND OF SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?
WE HAVE BEEN ENORMOUSLY
CONSISTENT ABOUT THIS, WE HELD OBAMA ACCOUNTABLE OVER AND OVER
AND WE THOUGHT HE SHOULD'VE BEEN ASKED A LOT MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT
THE LACK OF WAGE GROWTH IN THE COUNTRY, WE HAD GREAT ON
EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS, BUT WE DID NOT HAVE VERY GOOD WAGE GROWTH.
THE DRONE STRIKES, ON AND ON.
BUT IF I HAD OBAMA IN A ROOM I
NOT JUST WHAT TO ASK HIM QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT I AGREE
WITH HIM ON, I WILL ASK HIM WHAT I DISAGREE WITH HIM ON.
THAT'S
WHAT A REPORTER IS SUPPOSED TO DO.
BUT NOT IN HOWARD KURTZ'S
VIEW.
AND HOWARD KURTZ'S VIEW YOU APPEASE POWER.
NOW DONALD
TRUMP IS IN POWER AND FOX NEWS IS PAYING HOWARD KURTZ.
SO OH MY
GOD, ASKING QUESTIONS WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE CHALLENGING
THE PRESIDENT -- WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO, NOT CHALLENGE
HIM?
THAT'S NOT JOURNALISM, BUT KURTZ HAS NEVER KNOWN THAT AND
IT'S HILARIOUS THAT HE'S THE GUY WHO SUPPOSED TO BE HOLDING
JOURNALISTS ACCOUNTABLE.
FINALLY A VEILED THREAT TO CNN.
>>CNN I HAD TO ASSUME MUST BE HAPPY WITH THE JOB ACOSTA IS
DOING BECAUSE THIS SORT OF THING HAS COME UP AGAIN AND AGAIN AND
HE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE REINED IN BY THE NETWORK AT ALL.
>>IN OTHER WORDS, WHY ARE YOU FIRING HIM?
CONSERVATIVES ARE
MAD, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS MAD.
CNN, YOU MUST BE AWARE THAT
YOU HAVE A REPORTER ACTUALLY DOING HIS JOB, WHY IS HE STILL
ON THE AIR?
HOWARD KURTZ IS JUST HERE TO ASK QUESTIONS.
THIS IS THE GUY HOLDING THE MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE?
HILARIOUS.