Remember how Jim Acosta stood next to Putin and said he believed him over our intel agencies?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Remember how Jim Acosta once stood up and urged Russia to hack the emails of US citizens?

Remember when Jim Acosta had his closest associates and family members set up a meeting with Russian agents in his own office building on the promise of getting dirt on opponents?

Remember Jim Acosta meeting behind closed doors with Russian officials and handing off classified intel from our allies to them like it was candy from a candy dish?

Do you remember any of that? Because I sure as shit don't.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-reporter-jim-acosta-heckled-by-cnn-sucks-chants-at-trump-rally-2018-7

CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta was loudly heckled by supporters of President Donald Trump at presidential rally in Tampa Bay on Tuesday.

As Acosta — a sharp questioner of the president and a frequent target of his ire — reported live from the event, a crowd of rally attendees surrounding him chanted "CNN sucks" and shouted, "traitor," and "you're a liar."

Several reporters on the ground documented the incident.

Behold your traitor, Trumpsters.

[DeminPennswoods]

1. It's all a show and the crowd knows it

Tweet:

Link to tweet

OP-ED comparing pro wrestling to Trump rallies: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/opinion/wrestling-explains-alex-jones-and-donald-trump.html

[nolabear]

8. So they think 45's presidency is pro wrestling then.

Boo the bad guy until because that’s what your role is. Makes perfect sense. It’s breadless circuses.

[ALBliberal]

2. I worry about all journalists' safety but mostly Jim Acosta's safety nt

[peggysue2]

3. Yes, I think part of this is a show but when . . .

you whip a mob into a frenzy you're playing with fire. Acosta's tweet last night about the tenor of the crowd, the danger of inciting rage and hate is spot on.

This is a tragedy waiting to happen. And the Trumpster simply doesn't care; he's too addicted to the attention and the roar in his ear.

Enough is enough. This is too often where populist movements end up--mob mentality.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. After the show, the linked tweet reports

many in the crowd up to Acosta to shake his hand and get their picture taken with him.

[peggysue2]

5. I'm happy to hear that but . . .

you only need one nutwad in the crowd to take the Trumpster's words to heart. And then act on them.

And that is what's worrisome.

[DeminPennswoods]

6. That's true with any crowd

The point is, these rallies are just show biz performance art. They aren't important.

What's really important are the polices being enacted while most media are following Trump around reporting on the latest inane sideshow.

We need to focus on what the minions like Carson and Mnuchin and Perry and Mulvaney and Ross and Wheeler/Pruitt, etc are doing to undermine all the gains we've made in the past 50 years toward fairness and equality while the sideshow is happening.

[peggysue2]

7. Sorry, but standing up for a free press is important, even

fundamental to a free society. Did we witness this tenor in President Obama's crowds, the hate and rage against the press?

Not that I recall.

I have no argument with your latter comments because I think that it's all true. Yes, this crew is in a frenzy to dismantle as many progressive policies as they possibly can. The only way we're going to able to address that damage and heal/correct once we take back majorities is by protecting our institutions, free press included.

I take your point on not being distracted. Or as Rachel Maddow frequently says: pay attention to what they do, not what they say. Shiny objects.

But continuous attacks on our press is not a shiny object or a distraction to dismiss as trivial circus acts. Because each repetition of Fake News and Enemy of the People and yada, yada is part of the Big Lie technique. Repeat it enough times and people will believe it true or think it makes sense.

It's worked quite nicely elsewhere.

[oasis]

9. Kool aid guzzling Deplorable dipshits.

[nolabear]

10. Think it gives "our side" a similar response?

I know there’s real danger and this kind of mob response is horrifying but do we keep our own emotions high by taking them so seriously? It’s certainly a human tendency we aren’t free of. Politics is sports is entertainment in the spectacle. The problem in the equation is when it prevents people from having sense enough to back off and do the actual business of governing and being governed.