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.”
After claiming “the highlight of my career at CNN” wasn’t sparring with Donald Trump, but returning to Cuba in 2016 as the son of refugees and questioning then-dictator Raul Castro. Pompously, he said it reminded him that “[i]t is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant.”
He turned the smugness all the way up to a 10 out of 10:
I’ve always believed it’s the job of the press to hold power to account. I’ve always tried to do that here at CNN, and I plan on going — doing all of that in the future. One final message: Don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope. Even if you have to get out your phone. Record that message. I will not give in to the lies. I will not give in to the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too.
He closed by saying he’d share “more...about my plans in the coming days, but until then, I want to thank all of you for tuning in. It has been an honor to be welcomed into your home for all these years. That’s the news. Reporting from Washington. I’m Jim Acosta.”
Pamela Brown — who will team with Wolf Blitzer to take The Situation Room to mornings, jettisoning Acosta — opened the next hour by saying she “wanted to wish my buddy, my colleague” the “very best” and that he’d “be greatly missed.”
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.
Needless to say, the divisive, hair-on-fire, we’re-all-gonna-die mentality has been his modus operandi.
If you recall, he published perhaps the most pompous book known to man, The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America. We went through it in great detail, dubbing it a “Narcissistic Book of Hogwash.”
Acosta more recently stooped to this low as, the day after Darcy reported Acosta was given his overnight ultimatum by CNN boss Mark Thompson, he declared journalists like him “democracy” itself and heralded an eight-year-old sign celebrating Acosta that a woman allegedly carried at the Women’s March.
In 2021, we counted out 15 of Acosta’s worst moments from the Trump presidency, including a bizarre invoking of the Statue of Liberty, his proclamation of journalists ending up “dead on the highway,” claiming the presence of Trump supporters has killed America itself, and said media criticism is a “virus.” This included one instance when then-Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told Acosta to “work on your internal cohesion.”
Acosta has spent the first three years of the Biden presidency as a guest on CNN shows and in the wilderness as a weekend afternoon/evening CNN Newsroom host.
There, we found plenty of doozies, such as declaring Fox News a “bullshit factory” consumed by “brainless” Republicans, called Tucker Carlson a “human manure spreader” and member of the “American Taliban,” deemed Virginia a “Soviet-style police state” because of Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin’s opposition to critical race theory, and touted a guest claiming the Hunter Biden laptop had no “validity.”
And, of course, he peddled the lies about Biden’s cognitive impairment, silenced conservatives, and said there needed to be a “discussion” about the validity of Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO.
In the end, Acosta molded himself as a brave journalist charging into war like he was a brave infantryman whose gallantry would yield him the Medal of Honor. Instead, he came off like an eight-year-old charging at a nemesis on the playground with scissors to only trip and fall, stabbing himself in the hand.
