The selective poutrage of the left
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CNN is not even news; it's DNC propaganda
CNN reporter Jim Acosta slammed Kim Kardashian West’s meeting with President Trump regarding prison reform on Wednesday as “not normal,” but media watchers quickly pointed out his hypocrisy by pointing to Acosta's sitdown with singer John Legend's in 2015 during President Obama’s administration to talk about the exact same subject.
“She shouldn’t be here, talking about prison reform, it’s very nice that she is here but that’s not a serious thing to have happened here at the White House,” Acosta said on CNN.
However, in 2015 Acosta sat down with Legend for a lengthy feature on mass incarceration and the criminal justice system. Legend and his celebrity wife, Chrissy Teigen, visited the White House several times during the Obama administration and once hinted that they had sex at an “Obama thing.”
Acosta never objected to any of Legend’s meetings with Obama.
Last month, Acosta was forced to do damage control after he was accused of taking personal shots at Trump supporters, saying “their elevator might not hit all floors.” He defended his comments, claiming that his words were “twisted by some outlets.”
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/05/31/cnn-star-jim-acosta-rips-kim-kardashians-prison-reform-meeting-with-trump-but-lauded-john-legends-activism-on-same-during-obama-years.html
CNN reporter Jim Acosta slammed Kim Kardashian West’s meeting with President Trump regarding prison reform on Wednesday as “not normal,” but media watchers quickly pointed out his hypocrisy by pointing to Acosta's sitdown with singer John Legend's in 2015 during President Obama’s administration to talk about the exact same subject.
“She shouldn’t be here, talking about prison reform, it’s very nice that she is here but that’s not a serious thing to have happened here at the White House,” Acosta said on CNN.
However, in 2015 Acosta sat down with Legend for a lengthy feature on mass incarceration and the criminal justice system. Legend and his celebrity wife, Chrissy Teigen, visited the White House several times during the Obama administration and once hinted that they had sex at an “Obama thing.”
Acosta never objected to any of Legend’s meetings with Obama.
Last month, Acosta was forced to do damage control after he was accused of taking personal shots at Trump supporters, saying “their elevator might not hit all floors.” He defended his comments, claiming that his words were “twisted by some outlets.”
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/05/31/cnn-star-jim-acosta-rips-kim-kardashians-prison-reform-meeting-with-trump-but-lauded-john-legends-activism-on-same-during-obama-years.html
I don't recall any liberal poutrage when this happened
In her gray sweater dress, perched confidently on a chair in the waterfront apartment she uses as office space, Candace Owens is the picture of poise.
She leans in when speaking, making direct eye contact, and has a polished disposition that belies her age. At 26, she doesn’t seem like someone who, only a few years ago, was plagued by bitterness over a traumatic bullying incident when she was a senior at Stamford High School.
But that, Owens said, is the course her life took. In 2007, she accused a classmate of leaving threatening voicemails threatening to kill her and spewing graphic racist epithets.
The boy who was ultimately charged in the case was in a car with several other kids — including the then-14-year-old son of then-mayor, now Gov. Dannel Malloy (DEMOCRAT). The role of Malloy’s son was never clear, but his simple presence made the story go viral.
Up until the phone incident, Owens said, her high school career was uneventful. She ran track, participated in cheerleading and socialized with friends.
One night her cell phone rang. “I kept getting calls,” she said, but they were from a blocked number, and she ignored them. She listened to the messages later that night and heard a barrage of vitriol.
“You better not (expletive) be there, because you might get a bullet in the back of your (expletive) head,” proclaimed one message. In another one, the caller announces he’s going to kill Owens because “you’re (expletive) poor and you’re black, OK?”
Said another: “Martin Luther King had a dream. Look at that n—-, he’s dead.”
The calls were terrifying, Owens said, but looking back they also seem really juvenile.
“The kids were largely stupid and really mean,” she said. “They probably just used everything they could think of that would hurt a black person. It’s like they went through their entire social studies curriculum.”
Owens’ family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, claiming the city didn’t protect her rights. Eventually, the board paid $37,500 to settle the case.
https://m.ctpost.com/local/article/We-were-children-I-wasn-t-the-only-6872580.php
In her gray sweater dress, perched confidently on a chair in the waterfront apartment she uses as office space, Candace Owens is the picture of poise.
She leans in when speaking, making direct eye contact, and has a polished disposition that belies her age. At 26, she doesn’t seem like someone who, only a few years ago, was plagued by bitterness over a traumatic bullying incident when she was a senior at Stamford High School.
But that, Owens said, is the course her life took. In 2007, she accused a classmate of leaving threatening voicemails threatening to kill her and spewing graphic racist epithets.
The boy who was ultimately charged in the case was in a car with several other kids — including the then-14-year-old son of then-mayor, now Gov. Dannel Malloy (DEMOCRAT). The role of Malloy’s son was never clear, but his simple presence made the story go viral.
Up until the phone incident, Owens said, her high school career was uneventful. She ran track, participated in cheerleading and socialized with friends.
One night her cell phone rang. “I kept getting calls,” she said, but they were from a blocked number, and she ignored them. She listened to the messages later that night and heard a barrage of vitriol.
“You better not (expletive) be there, because you might get a bullet in the back of your (expletive) head,” proclaimed one message. In another one, the caller announces he’s going to kill Owens because “you’re (expletive) poor and you’re black, OK?”
Said another: “Martin Luther King had a dream. Look at that n—-, he’s dead.”
The calls were terrifying, Owens said, but looking back they also seem really juvenile.
“The kids were largely stupid and really mean,” she said. “They probably just used everything they could think of that would hurt a black person. It’s like they went through their entire social studies curriculum.”
Owens’ family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, claiming the city didn’t protect her rights. Eventually, the board paid $37,500 to settle the case.
https://m.ctpost.com/local/article/We-were-children-I-wasn-t-the-only-6872580.php