On Thursday evening, Sean Hannity had some
very harsh words for CNN's Jim Acosta, who
the day before had his White House press credentials
repealed because he allegedly karate chopped
a White House intern's arm.
Here is what Sean Hannity had to say about
Jim Acosta on Thursday evening.
You call Trump derangement syndrome.
That's a mass psychosis, and without a doubt,
Acosta deserves to be banned from the White
House.
He's earned it.
He's unprofessional.
It's outrageous, it's insulting, he wants
to argue with the president.
He gets more airtime and even though claiming
to be an unbiased journalist, he always seems
to make the story about himself.
Rarely asking questions, treating his press
briefings as debates, he constantly accuses
trump and his administration of everything.
Racism, sexism.
Acosta is a self-serving liberal hack with
zero journalistic integrity, but don't take
my word for it, we've got some of his greatest
hits.
Watch him in action.
I'm not sure this press conference was ever
on the rails.
As you heard numerous times during this news
conference, the president was just not in
touch with reality.
The people here who work at this White House
all the way up to the president evidently
believe that journalists are the enemy of
the people.
Literally, the enemy of the people.
I'll say that the press is not the enemy of
the people.
Maybe we should make some bumper stickers,
make some buttons.
[inaudible]-
The wall could be different than border security,
so our border security can be-
[crosstalk] No actually, I don't.
No.
It could mean agents, it could mean more fencing.
It doesn't necessary mean a physical wall
that the president-
And that's part of the negotiation that we
expect congress to have, and-
But you can-
Bumper stickers?
Okay.
A shameful act.
He's supposed to be a journalist?
That's a charade.
You do a disservice to real journalists in
the press corps, and it's a disservice to
the American people.
All right, let's get several things out of
the way with that clip before we do anything
else.
First and foremost, Sean Hannity ... Sean
Hannity is attempting to lecture someone about
ethics, saying that this man is doing a disservice
to journalism.
Sean Hannity says someone else in the country
is hurting journalism, and I know Sean Hannity
has said in the past he is not a journalist.
He is not.
He didn't even have to tell us that, we can
tell he is not a journalist.
But as such, as somebody who's done so much
damage and presented yourself as a journalist
even when you say you're not, you've done
far more damage to journalism in this country
than Jim Acosta could ever even dream of.
Secondly, somebody adjust that man's teleprompter
because the first five to 10 seconds of that
clip, he is reading off a screen and not even
looking at the camera.
Could we please have somebody go adjust that
so he's looking in the dead center instead
of off to the side reading?
That was absolutely distracting, but that's
also not part of the issue here.
The third thing, and this is the funniest
part of the whole thing other than Sean Hannity
trying to lecture another human about ethics,
none of those clips, none of the clips that
you showed of Jim Acosta showed him doing
anything wrong, or anything rude, or anything
that would allegedly damage journalism here
in the United States.
You took a shot, you showed multiple clips,
and you struct out with every single one.
If those were literally the worst you could
find of Jim Acosta, then I think he's doing
a damn good job as a journalist in the United
States, and I'm not the kind of person that
readily praises anything from the corporate
media.
But, if that's the best you got, then I suggest
you go back to the well and you try to find
some real clips of Jim Acosta doing damage
to journalism by asking questions in an arena
where he's supposed to be asking questions.
Because, that's your real problem Sean.
It's not that you think he's damaged journalism,
it's that he's being hard on your boss, because
Trump is your boss, or you're his.
I don't quite know how that disgusting relationship
works, but one of you is calling the shots
for the other one, and you can't stand anybody
talking bad or being mean, or God forbid in
Acosta's case, being inquisitive about what
a horrible administration this truly is.
