Trump pulls CNN Whitehouse Credentials after this incident

[Captdon]

Come on Capt; she touched him and that's plain and simple. the "per procedure" is to reach for the mic and receive it when the person hands it over to you.

Come on, She reached for the mic and he pushed her arm away. His immediately shutting up and handing her the mic is procedure. He in a showboat and not a true reporter. When you are called on you ask a question and then someone else gets to. He wants it to be the Acosta & Trump Show or the Acosta & Sanders Show.

I realize that the left-wing press is supposed to get away with everything but some of us don't buy into that.

I'm sure CNN has another dumbass to send.

[Captdon]

The free press was under assault during the Obama administration. Just ask Jim Risen. Obama was threatening to put him in jail for refusing to name one of his sources. JAIL. But Trump takes away one CNN reporter's access to the White House press pool, and suddenly the free press is in peril?

Yea but Rosen worked for Fox.

[Cletus]

Neither. Trump doesn't like being asked the hard questions so whats the solution? Eliminate the questioner.

Nonsense. Trump didn't turn down any questions by any of the other reporters present and Acosta was far from being the smartest one in the room.

Acosta was being an ass and being deliberately disruptive, refusing to give up the mic to other reporters. Trump didn't shut Acosta down because he was afraid of being questioned. He shut him down because Acosta was being unprofessional, rude, and combative. In other words, his usual punk ass self.

[ripmeister]

It looks like the first thing to go was your reasoning power.

My reasoning power is just fine thank-you. My prostate on the other hand..........

[ripmeister]

Acosta is free to print or say anything he wants. That is his 1st A guarantee. That is all the 1st guarantees.
There is no Right to be present at WH briefings. If there is, show us the fine print in this:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

That quote is fully intact and nothing has been changed.
Now before you have a meltdown, show any mention of the WH press and briefings apart or even together.

Technically you are correct. That doesn't change the optics though of Trump banishing one of his toughest questioners.

[Cletus]

Trump and Sarah Sanders made him right when they chose to blatantly doctor video footage of the incident and then lie about it. They lost any moral high ground they had left.

More bull$#@!. Did the video depict anything that did not happen? Do you think they used CGI to show Acosta pushing the intern's arm down?

[ripmeister]

and how do we no longer have a free press? Tyranny is also enabled by government run media. You have no issues with NPR. And PBS, right?

Yes, the vast conspiracy.

[ripmeister]

The free press was under assault during the Obama administration. Just ask Jim Risen. Obama was threatening to put him in jail for refusing to name one of his sources. JAIL. But Trump takes away one CNN reporter's access to the White House press pool, and suddenly the free press is in peril?

And the Obama admin was wrong, as is Trump.

[MisterVeritis]

My reasoning power is just fine thank-you. My prostate on the other hand..........

LOL. Aging, are we?

I laughed at a part of a book I read a while ago. It involved aging Monks. One after another they got up in the night for the long walk to the toilet. At first, it was once a night. For the oldest, it was three and four and on the longest nights five times.

Aging is not for sissies.

[ripmeister]

Acosta is an annoying little brat. Trump has nothing to account to little brats for, including you.

Yes. He is a fly in the ointment. Thank-goodness.