Fox News’ James Rosen effectively told CNN’s Jim Acosta to put a sock in it.
Rosen set the CNN anchor straight after Acosta whined in a tweet about how CNN was being treated at Thursday’s White House press briefing.
Acosta has repeatedly complained about the press briefings, has had meltdowns over President Trump calling CNN “fake news” and over the decision to ban cameras from the daily gatherings.
On Thursday, he sarcastically tweeted another complaint.
Shocker! WH back to playing games and refusing to call on CNN at WH briefing.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 24, 2017
But when he followed up claiming the Obama administration had not treated Fox News as unfairly as CNN was being treated by the Trump administration, he was owned by Rosen.
Also worth noting… and not to belabor the issue… but the Obama WH always called on Fox at WH press briefings.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 24, 2017
.Except when they tried to shut us out of a pool round-robin w/ Geithner and did so for the pivotal first Benghazi backgrounder. @danmsnyder
— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) August 25, 2017
Acosta quickly responded, clarifying that he was only referring to the daily press briefings.
James.. that’s unfortunate. But as you know I’m talking about the daily briefing.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 25, 2017
Rosen then did a little clarifying himself.
.And as you know the @POTUS44 administration’s conduct toward @FoxNews far exceeded anything the Nixon administration did to @washingtonpost
— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) August 25, 2017
The Chief Washington correspondent for Fox News had been labeled by the Obama administration as a “criminal co-conspirator and a flight risk” for reporting on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and became the target of surveillance in 2013. Rosen did not learn that he was being spied on until four years later.
“Not even Neil Sheehan, who is the New York Times reporter back in 1971 who published the Pentagon Papers, 7,000 classified documents, was designated by the Nixon administration as a criminal co-conspirator in a violation of the Espionage Act,” Rosen said back in March. “So that was an honor I had all unto myself.”
Although Obama administration did accuse James Rosen of being a coconspirator and tap his parents phone, so there’s that.
— ?? Lisa McMAGA ? (@LisaMcGov) August 24, 2017
Acosta is a big baby. Don’t forget the wiretapping of Rosen and his parents by obama.
— ?CNN Fake News (@acosta_trump) August 24, 2017
Rosen’s lesson to Acosta was not met with a reply from the CNN host, but plenty of Twitter users enjoyed the takedown.
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BOOM!!!! SCHOOLED!!
— Byrd (@Yomamafl) August 26, 2017
@Acosta is so out of his league! https://t.co/kPHtPSHTyG
— MyThoughts (@SouthernOpine) August 26, 2017
Trump has nothing on Obama when it comes to dealing with negative media. Obama simply declared negative media criminal conspirators
— Johannes Malgas (@jmalgas) August 26, 2017
Haha!! Put that in your pipe and smoke it @Acosta
— Jana Cook (@DRLGirl65) August 25, 2017
@JamesRosenTV Awesome takedown of @Acosta. Keep up the great work Mr. Rosen!
— William Bighouse (@WilliamBighouse) August 25, 2017
My money is on James with this battle. True professional.
— Susan Fatale (@Susandp3) August 25, 2017
Looks like someone bought the entire whinery
— off2paradise (@off2paradise) August 25, 2017
Boom! Mic drop.
— Ex-GOP Greg (@Flying59Vette) August 25, 2017
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