CNN’s Jim Acosta did not mince words when he called out Fox News on Saturday.
“We need to hit the pause button and address what has been another mind-boggling week in disinformation,” Acosta said.
“That tale from the border didn’t just border on BS, this was USDA Grade-A bullsh*t. And the (NY Post) reporter who wrote the story resigned, claiming she was forced to make it up. But the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves at the bullsh*t factory also known as Fox News,” he explained. “”Remember, lies, big lies can have terrible consequences. Just four months ago we all witnessed the fallout about the ‘Big Lie’ about the election…and it should’ve served as an a lesson on how lives can kill.”
Acosta was praised for calling out Fox. Here’s some of what people were saying:
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) received a cold welcome from Utah Republicans at the party’s state convention on Saturday.
“Sen. Mitt Romney was lustily booed by the more than 2,100 Republican delegates who packed into the Maverik Center on Saturday for the party’s state convention,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported Saturday. “Accusations that Romney was a ‘traitor’ or ‘communist’ flew from the crowd like so many poison darts.”
Supporters of Donald Trump have been angry with Romney since he voted to convict Trump of inciting the January 6th insurrection during the former president’s second impeachment trial.
“President Trump attempted to corrupt the election by pressuring the Secretary of State of Georgia to falsify the election results in his state. President Trump incited the insurrection against Congress by using the power of his office to summon his supporters to Washington on January 6th and urging them to march on the Capitol during the counting of electoral votes. He did this despite the obvious and well known threats of violence that day,” Romney said in February. “President Trump also violated his oath of office by failing to protect the Capitol, the Vice President, and others in the Capitol. Each and every one of these conclusions compels me to support conviction.”
The vote put Romney on defensive at the convention.
“You can boo all you like,” said Romney. “I’ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”
The newspaper noted that “Sen. Mike Lee drew a standing ovation as he took the podium.”
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CNN anchor Jim Acosta warned viewers of the danger posed by Fox News continuing to lie to push extremist politics.
“We need to hit the pause button and address what has been another mind-boggling week in disinformation,” Acosta said.
The host played clips of Fox News reporter John Roberts, Fox Business anchor Larry Kudlow, and Fox anchor Jesse Watters lying about President Joe Biden seeking to limit meat consumption.
Acosta noted the story had been debunked.
“But that didn’t matter to some on the far-right, the same bad-faith actors who are always peddling this bogus red meat,” he explained.
“What’s really sad is that even prominent Republicans are still repeating this even after the story was debunked. The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy repeated the lie on Fox News after Biden’s speech to Congress.”
Acosta also noted lies against Vice President Kamala Harris pushed by the far right.
“That tale from the border didn’t just border on BS, this was USDA Grade-A bullsh*t. And the (NY Post) reporter who wrote the story resigned, claiming she was forced to make it up. But the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves at the bullsh*t factory also known as Fox News,” he explained.
“Now you may want to laugh this off, as the old saying goes, while the truth is still lacing up its boots but the lies these days are moving at the speed of light while spreading so much darkness,” he explained.
“Remember, lies, big lies can have terrible consequences. Just four months ago we all witnessed the fallout about the ‘Big Lie’ about the election…and it should’ve served as an a lesson on how lives can kill,” Acosta reminded. “They travel at the speed of light and spread too much darkness.”
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One day after Newsmax admitted there was “no evidence” to back up their election fraud conspiracy theories, former Trump acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney appeared on the far-right cable network to complain about mainstream media organizations.
Mulvaney complained that fact-checks of Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address lowered public opinion of the speech.
“President Trump’s State of the Union speech once again was chock-full of stretched facts and dubious figures. Many of these claims have been fact-checked repeatedly, yet the president persists in using them. Here, in the order in which he made them, are nearly 30 statements by the president,” The Washington Post reported at the time.
Mulvaney resented the coverage.
“Most media is not in the news business anymore, it’s in the entertainment business and it’s really hard to do,” Mulvaney said, while on Newsmax.
“I think what it comes down to is people need to critically think about everything they see and know that if the see something come off of CNN or The Washington Post it’s going to be biased towards the left,” Mulvaney argued. “That’s just the world we live in.”
“By the way, biases exist all across the spectrum, but it is hard and it’s really going to be a challenge for us as a republic to try and figure out a way to get good information, cause it’s getting harder and harder to find,” Mulvaney said.
“That’s why we’re here at Newsmax — you can download the Newsmax app, it’s been done 5 million times already,” host Joseph Pinion replied.
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