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CNN Bends the Knee — Again
“Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear.”
CNN claimed it was “shuffling” its programming. The move pushed Acosta from his 10:00 a.m. slot to make room for the white German immigrant, Wolf Blitzer. Brown man was relegated to the midnight slot… white man in, DEI brown man out. Oh, and Blitzer’s new 10:00 a.m. slot will be followed by a pretty, blonde white woman, Pamela Brown, at 11:00 a.m.
Readers, I truly am not seeking to cast doubt upon the journalistic bonafides of Blitzer and Brown. And, Jim Acosta made no such specific intimations about the reasoning for the shuffle. This op-ed is merely sharing what the result clearly looks like to this writer.
Jim Acosta is a veteran journalist who’s been with CNN for 18 years. CNN’s former chief domestic correspondent has been a stalwart of old school journalistic integrity. Many of his highest profile journalistic moments came while he was the White House Correspondent during Trump’s previous tenure in the Oval Office. Acosta became a household name tenaciously pissing off Trump and MAGA™.
Acosta is the embodiment of the much vaunted “American Dream.” He’s the son of a Cuban refugee. Jim achieved the “land of opportunity” kind of success that the dream tells all Americans is possible. One of his proudest moments as a CNN correspondent was questioning the Cuban dictator, Raul Castro, about the island country’s political prisoners. From that interview, he said, “I took home the lesson (that) it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant”
I cannot help but postulate that Jim Acosta’s broadcast interview with GOP Representative Tim Burchett prompted — or at least, accelerated — CNN’s recreant bended-knee “shuffling.” Network executives likely decided Acosta’s thought-provoking, unflinching interview style is off-putting for right-leaning viewers. He’s also been an eight-year thorn in Trump’s side.
Trump himself has been wildly immoderate in his rhetorical assaults on Jim Acosta — even going so far in 2018 as to revoke Acosta’s White House press pass. Indeed, few things, in general, will more readily trigger Trump’s extravagant rhetorical attacks than news organizations daring to report factual news that sheds an…
