The Media Research Center has had a raging case of Acosta Derangement Syndrome for a while now, and it seems to be only getting worse.
The MRC’s chief Acosta-hater, Curtis Houck, spent an entire Jan. 24 post ranting at Acosta for writing a book, tossing his usual insults at Acosta like “pompous” and “carnival barker.” Apparently feeling that he hadn’t insulted Acosta enough, he included more Acosta-bashing comments from right-wing bloggers. At one point Houck sneers: “Okay, Jim! Time to call in The Avengers! And we’ll assume you’ll want to play Captain America, right?”
Randy Hall joined in with his own rant on Jan. 28 by finding the one thing in a new book criticizing the Trump White House that worked with the MRC’s agenda:
It’s certainly no surprise that CNN’s Jim Acosta would go to virtually any length to criticize President Trump and anyone in his administration.
The most recent example of this behavior comes in an excerpt from a new book written by former Trump administration official Cliff Sims, who wrote that Acosta and his channel “peddled slime” with “unsubstantiated misinformation from a disgruntled ex-Trump campaign aide.”
Entitled Team of Vipers: My Extraordinary 500 Days in the Trump White House and released on Monday, Breitbart published on Sunday produced an exclusive excerpt stating that a story based on a single anonymous source claimed that the President had been “upset with” Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Since Hall is simply cribbing from Breitbart, he can’t be bothered to find out whether Acosta and CNN still stood by the story that Sims claims had been “completely made up” (since Breitbart didn’t either).
Scott Whitlock tried his hand at hurling invective at Acosta in a Feb. 15 post, claiing that the “self-agrandizing” Acosta “offered a typically attention-grabbing question” at President Trump’s press conference declaring a national emergency over the southern border, and that he was “lectur[ing]” and being “condesending” toward parents whose children had been killed by illegal immigrants. In reality, Acosta accurately pointed out that Trump doesn’t “stick to the facts” on illegal immigration and asked the “angel moms” to respond to the declaration.
Yes, the MRC spends this kind of time to personally attack a journalist.