With Jim Acosta’s impending departure from CNN, the Media Research Center has less reason to engage in its usual fits of Acosta Derangement Syndrome. So it made to squeeze in as much Acosta derangement as it could before he left. Curtis Houck spent a Jan. 17 post chortling that, according to former CNN correspondent Oliver Darcy, Acosta might get exiled to an overnight shift, but Houck oddly denied that the idea from CNN chief Mark Thompson could be considered a bone thrown to Donald Trump:
Yes, dear readers, Thompson wants to keep Fake News Jim on the sinking ship that is CNN, but stash him away in what Darcy dubbed the “Siberia of television news,” seen live only by cogent west-coast viewers, those stuck abroad with CNN as one of the lone English-language channels in your hotel room, and news junkies unable to sleep.
Whwen Acosta’s departure became official, Houck chortled further in a Jan. 28 post:
On Tuesday morning, longtime CNN carnival barker and rodomontading fool Jim Acosta announced he’d be leaving the network after 15 years in a litany of roles, most infamously chief White House correspondent during the first Donald Trump presidency in which he molded himself into far-left martyr sacrificing himself at the public altar of politics in the name of journalism.
Acosta addressed viewers at the end of his 10:00 a.m. Eastern weekday CNN Newsroom (which he held for less than a year), saying “after giving all of this some careful consideration and weighing an alternative time slot CNN offered me, I’ve decided to move on.”
[…]This conclusion was inevitable. Acosta’s buddy, former colleague, and fellow deranged political arsonist Oliver Darcy was the first to share the news Monday night in his paywalled newsletter, Status. Back on January 16, Darcy also first revealed Acosta would lose his place amid a CNN schedule shake-up and would be banished to midnight to 2:00 a.m. Eastern if he wanted to stay.
Houck falsely claimed that Acosta “rage quit” CNN, citing no evidence that Acosta ever expressed such purported rage.
About 12 minutes later, Geoffrey Dickens served up a worst-of compilation:
CNN’s cantankerous anti-Donald Trump anchor Jim Acosta is FINALLY leaving the network. He formally announced his departure on Tuesday’s show.
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to kick him on the way out.
As is customary at NewsBusters we like to send off these leftist journalists with a reminder of their obnoxiousness over the years. We just did one for CBS’s Norah O’Donnell (They’re dropping like flies out here!)
The MRC archive is full of Acosta’s disgusting attacks on conservatives during the Donald Trump era. The following are just a few of them.
Thre MRC thinks any criticism of conservatives, no matter how deserved, is “disgusting.”
Houck ramped up his derangement level in his Jan. 29 review of Acosta’s final show:
Tuesday was the end of an era with Jim Acosta’s 18 years at CNN coming to an end with the showboater choosing to avoid a demotion to weekdays at midnight Eastern and jumping ship with a cartoonish commentary about not “bow[ing] down to a dictator” and not “giv[ing] into the lies.” In the roughly minutes before that, Acosta was unapologetically partisan and went full Homer Simpson dropping a match on the bridge while driving away in a convertible.
[…]The nuttiest block was with purple-haired Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) where, on the spending pauses, he declared “say it ain’t so — well, it is so” and mocked voters for making the 2024 election about the economy as “smart people out there” when they’re actually getting policies that “tak[e] food off the table”[.] […]
Acosta only briefly dialed back to cheer a drop in consumer confidence on Trump’s watch before resuming the fear-porn with a block on tuberculosis in Kansas.
Prior to his snotty sign-off, Acosta used his final two segments to carry a snippet of a press conference from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and then a softball-filled interview with an illegal immigrant advocate and how it’s sad “there is a huge level of anxiety” “in the migrant community” that will “drive people into the shadows” and away from America as “a beacon of hope”[.]
Jeffrey Lord spent his Feb. 1 column taking his own shots: “So there goes Jim Acosta. The question is: what else -and who else – in the liberal media is headed out the door right behind him. And is the Acosta departure yet another signal of the collapse of the ‘mainstream’ liberal media?”
Of course, Lord, Houck and the rest of the MRC folks want to completely censor any views that aren’t as far-right as they are.