Jim Acosta

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(11-08-2018, 09:51 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Acosta was out of hand, especially after this incident. He was rude to his colleagues with his behavior. I really don't care much about the way he interacts with Trump or SHS, I expect an adversarial role, but the way he continued on while his colleagues were trying to do their jobs was wrong.

As for the physical contact thing, it's bullshit. She made contact first as she went to grab the mic away, he went to push her away, immediately stopped and said "excuse me, ma'am." This is what came from the head of the White House Correspondence Association who was sitting next to Acosta. This is nothing more than the White House trying to find any reason to get Acosta out of the briefing room.

A Pandora's box opened in 2016, when Corey Lewandowski got arrested for battery against Michelle Fields (which they later declined to prosecute him on) but not until after 2+ weeks of the media/internet lambasting him like he had murdered the woman.

I think both instances are absolutely absurd, but I recognize that if we're expected to make a big deal out of one, we should make a big deal out of the other. Republican manhandles a woman, lynching offense. Democrat manhandles a woman, and according to some (just in this thread alone, imagine the rest of the internet) she's a "skank".