Breitbart skewers CNN's Jim Acosta for anti-'deplorables' bias, but silent about same of colleague Roger Stone
Stone makes a television appearance after being kicked off the Donald Trump campaign.
On Friday, April 27, Breitbart ran a piece critical of the insufferable Jim Acosta, White House correspondent for Fake News CNN.
Acosta, it seems, reckons his surest path to professional ascension and celebrity among the bomb-chucking Resistance lies in making a spectacle of himself as a Trump take down-commando.
He bellows personal attacks in questions' clothing, including at plainly inappropriate moments like the Easter Egg event for children the president hosted on the White House lawn.
The smoothly logical Breitbart analysis, neatly assembled by John Nolte, concerns Acosta's recent Variety interview. Nolte quoted a Washington Times relation of Acosta's words to Variety:
The problem is that people around the country don't know it's [Trump's presentation] an act. They're not in on the act, and they take what he says very seriously, and they take attacks from Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously. They don't have all their faculties in some cases -- their elevator might not hit all floors. My concern is that a journalist is going to be hurt one of these days.
(Though attacks on Trump supporters were documented during and after the historic, barnstorming campaign, Acosta seems unconcerned that high-volume press hatred of Trump might encourage that violence.)
After his words were published widely and had inspired condemnation, Acosta claimed they referenced only effects Trump's media broadsides might have on select listeners, and did not implicate all of his backers.
Perhaps. In fairness, he had cited a former and a current White House press secretary, lending possible plausibility to his defense.
But Nolte carefully dissected Acosta's interview remarks, and concluded "If Acosta wants to claim he misspoke at the end, fine. Even so, there is no getting around the fact that he opens this part of the interview clearly insulting 'people around the country' as rubes who can't see through Trump's act."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/04/26/fact-check-jim-acostas-phony-claim-he-did-not-insult-trump-voters/
But one need not travel far from Breitbart to find such derision for common Americans.
Breitbart has published numerous writings by veteran 'dirty trickster' campaign strategist and unpleasant gadly Roger Stone. (To this day, the mainstream media persists in characterizing Stone as a 'Trump associate,' though the campaign fired Stone years ago for using it to seek publicity for himself.)
Stone has a history of slurring the common man who makes up the Trump Revolution. Over the years, in postings on his Stone Zone site, he has derided Iowans as hicks and hayseeds.
As exposed in his Stone Zone words, his priorities and sensibilities are much closer to I'm With Her than Make America Great Again. He sounded more like one of the coastal elitists who assaulted the average folks Trump Revolution than someone who genuinely had its adherents' home interests at heart.
Iowa is too white, Stone lamented, also alleging with no evidence that the average Iowan is anti-Semitic. Its residents were stout (I am) and smoked. Too, its largely agricultural economy is not representative of a nation with a growing technological sector.
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=457
Majorities of Iowa voters had endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012, as had voters across the country. And its 2016 general election support of Trump by some 10 percentage points also showed a state very much in line with national thinking, Stone's erroneous estimation notwithstanding.
Though Stone's untrue and hateful rhetoric was philosophically harmonious with the bigotry of CNN'sAcosta, it never prompted Breitbart to take his contributions off the site, or cut its tie to him.
If Breitbart ever ran a piece critical of Stone's haughty prejudice, I never saw it -- and I'm a regular and otherwise appreciative reader of the site. (Disclosure: I not only like Breitbart, but have submitted writings to the site. None were picked up.)
Stone also enjoys uncritical spotlighting by Infowars and Gateway Pundit, sites ostensibly sympathetic to the Trump Revolution.
Fox News figures Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, whose programs are otherwise rewarding, feature Stone as a guest commentator. Alex Jones and Milo favor him. Their doing so calls into question their own regard for the common people who put Trump in the White House.
I get that someone's having a wrong opinion on one topic doesn't invalidate their every other position, doesn't alone discredit them as a person, and that they might have valuable insights to offer on other subjects.
But my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend. And I do question the integrity of sites and television hosts who give Stone a pass on his anti-common man bigotry.
DC Larson's essays championing the Trump campaign ran in numerous Iowa newspapers. He is an author, blogger, and freelance writer whose byline has appeared in Daily Caller, American Thinker, USA Today, and elsewhere. His latest book is Ideas Afoot (Bromley Street Press).
On Friday, April 27, Breitbart ran a piece critical of the insufferable Jim Acosta, White House correspondent for Fake News CNN.
Acosta, it seems, reckons his surest path to professional ascension and celebrity among the bomb-chucking Resistance lies in making a spectacle of himself as a Trump take down-commando.
He bellows personal attacks in questions' clothing, including at plainly inappropriate moments like the Easter Egg event for children the president hosted on the White House lawn.
The smoothly logical Breitbart analysis, neatly assembled by John Nolte, concerns Acosta's recent Variety interview. Nolte quoted a Washington Times relation of Acosta's words to Variety:
The problem is that people around the country don't know it's [Trump's presentation] an act. They're not in on the act, and they take what he says very seriously, and they take attacks from Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously. They don't have all their faculties in some cases -- their elevator might not hit all floors. My concern is that a journalist is going to be hurt one of these days.
(Though attacks on Trump supporters were documented during and after the historic, barnstorming campaign, Acosta seems unconcerned that high-volume press hatred of Trump might encourage that violence.)
After his words were published widely and had inspired condemnation, Acosta claimed they referenced only effects Trump's media broadsides might have on select listeners, and did not implicate all of his backers.
Perhaps. In fairness, he had cited a former and a current White House press secretary, lending possible plausibility to his defense.
But Nolte carefully dissected Acosta's interview remarks, and concluded "If Acosta wants to claim he misspoke at the end, fine. Even so, there is no getting around the fact that he opens this part of the interview clearly insulting 'people around the country' as rubes who can't see through Trump's act."
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/04/26/fact-check-jim-acostas-phony-claim-he-did-not-insult-trump-voters/
But one need not travel far from Breitbart to find such derision for common Americans.
Breitbart has published numerous writings by veteran 'dirty trickster' campaign strategist and unpleasant gadly Roger Stone. (To this day, the mainstream media persists in characterizing Stone as a 'Trump associate,' though the campaign fired Stone years ago for using it to seek publicity for himself.)
Stone has a history of slurring the common man who makes up the Trump Revolution. Over the years, in postings on his Stone Zone site, he has derided Iowans as hicks and hayseeds.
As exposed in his Stone Zone words, his priorities and sensibilities are much closer to I'm With Her than Make America Great Again. He sounded more like one of the coastal elitists who assaulted the average folks Trump Revolution than someone who genuinely had its adherents' home interests at heart.
Iowa is too white, Stone lamented, also alleging with no evidence that the average Iowan is anti-Semitic. Its residents were stout (I am) and smoked. Too, its largely agricultural economy is not representative of a nation with a growing technological sector.
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=457
Majorities of Iowa voters had endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012, as had voters across the country. And its 2016 general election support of Trump by some 10 percentage points also showed a state very much in line with national thinking, Stone's erroneous estimation notwithstanding.
Though Stone's untrue and hateful rhetoric was philosophically harmonious with the bigotry of CNN'sAcosta, it never prompted Breitbart to take his contributions off the site, or cut its tie to him.
If Breitbart ever ran a piece critical of Stone's haughty prejudice, I never saw it -- and I'm a regular and otherwise appreciative reader of the site. (Disclosure: I not only like Breitbart, but have submitted writings to the site. None were picked up.)
Stone also enjoys uncritical spotlighting by Infowars and Gateway Pundit, sites ostensibly sympathetic to the Trump Revolution.
Fox News figures Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, whose programs are otherwise rewarding, feature Stone as a guest commentator. Alex Jones and Milo favor him. Their doing so calls into question their own regard for the common people who put Trump in the White House.
I get that someone's having a wrong opinion on one topic doesn't invalidate their every other position, doesn't alone discredit them as a person, and that they might have valuable insights to offer on other subjects.
But my enemy's enemy is not necessarily my friend. And I do question the integrity of sites and television hosts who give Stone a pass on his anti-common man bigotry.
DC Larson's essays championing the Trump campaign ran in numerous Iowa newspapers. He is an author, blogger, and freelance writer whose byline has appeared in Daily Caller, American Thinker, USA Today, and elsewhere. His latest book is Ideas Afoot (Bromley Street Press).
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April 27, 2018
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